The Dunwich Horror / The Happy Man [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

H. P. Lovecraft (Author), Gerald W. Page (Author)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Sunset Productions (November 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564312038
• ISBN-13: 978-1564311276
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,038,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction--three short novels and about sixty short stories--has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this brings a new twist on evil twin plot, July 7, 1997

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This review is from: The Dunwich Horror / The Happy Man (Audio Cassette)

Madness gave birth to twins...one of them not quite there. A family isolated from town and from this world. One twin try to bring the other in this world, and reading of the Necromicon.A world where whipperwills are a cacophany of sounds, where vegetations are decaying and a mountain that has a monument older than the inhabitations of the local Native Americans.This is one of Lovecraft's best works. Tom Bougha

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ham-it-up Horror, January 26, 2001

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Derek Kosky (Minneapolis, MN, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dunwich Horror / The Happy Man (Audio Cassette)

hmmmmmmm interesting, totally overacted. although it does cheer me up at times. Although I have to admit, if I want to get rid of people at the end of an evening, then this is the tape that will do it! Listening to this version is sure to set any shivers down your spine, than any un-namable, amorphous, writhing mass of tentacles (choose your preference) that any of Lovecraft's creations possess. If you're a lover of Lovecraft's work, then I would advise getting hold of the version read by Robert M. Price, which is produced by Necronomicon Press

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Version of a Horror Classic, August 7, 2000

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Daniel J. Fawcett (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Dunwich Horror / The Happy Man (Audio Cassette)

Where is it written that all dramatizations of Lovecraft have to be done by overacting, community theater rejects? I tried listening to this ridiculous excuse for a radio drama, and I had high hopes. Instead, I heard over-acting that made me cringe! The adaptation was scatter-brained and thin. It was far too short to properly handle this story, which is one of the greatest Lovecraft stories. If you love Lovecraft, as I do, STAY AWAY FROM THIS VERSION! I have gotten rid of my copy of this horrible tape, but I still can't get the bad taste out of my mouth.