
The Weird Company
The Secret History of H. P. Lovecraft’s Twentieth Century
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Narrated by:
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Oliver Wyman
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By:
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Peter Rawlik
About this listen
Shoggoths attack in this adrenaline-pumping novel set in the world of H. P. Lovecraft, where the horrors of the cosmos know no limits.… It was in a way humanoid, as it stood on two legs and possessed two arms that ended in delicate digits that I would dare to call hands. Its skin was a pale blue, like the eggs of a robin, and curiously dry looking. The head was massive with a huge bulbous cranium, a large lipless mouth, and three blood red eyes that stared out at the world with nothing but hate. When it opened its mouth to speak it issued forth the most horrendous of sounds, something empty and hollow, like the wind blowing through a dead tree, and it made me cringe to hear it.… The story of Dr. Hartwell (Reanimators) continues, but now he has company. Weird company: a witch, a changeling, a mad scientist, and a poet trapped in the form of a beast. These are not heroes but monsters… monsters to fight monsters. Their adventures rage across the globe, from the mountains and long-forgotten caves of Antarctica to the dimly lit backstreets of Innsmouth that still hold terrifying secrets. The unholy creatures released upon the world via the ill-fated Lake expedition to Antarctica must be stopped. And only the weird company stands in their way. Continuing in the fashion of Reanimators, The Weird Company finds Lovecraft expert Pete Rawlik taking some of the most well-known of H. P. Lovecraft’s creations and creating a true Frankenstein monster of a story - a tale more horrific than anything Lovecraft could have imagined…
©2014 Peter Rawlik (P)2014 Audible Inc.seamlessly continues on with some of HPs greatest
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fantastic
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You must have a working knowledge of Lovecraft.
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thoroughly enjoyed it.
I liked the twist on Lovecrafts Mythos
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the narrator is really good aswell, I'm a fan of his wide range of accents to differentiate between all the different characters.
Definitely worth a listen
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sadly this is a middling book
author loves Lovecraft, but....
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Very enjoyable
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As such, it creates a canvas around those elements and tends to give an explanation to almost every cosmic horror invented by Lovecraft and his followers.
The Cthulhu Mythos is the very opposite of what this book represents, it's supposed to be vague, inconsistent, and rife with mystery. Even in Lovecraft's own stories, he constantly changes the nature of the Old Ones, he uses certain names in more than one context, and he purposefully leaves many mythical elements vague so as to emulate the way myths evolve and are forgotten over long periods of time...
Instead of adding to the collective work that is the "mythos", Peter Rawlik actively destroys it (albeit with finesse and style) with this book.
The one redeeming feature of this audio book is the quality of the narration: Oliver Wyman gives a stellar performance and the speech patterns of the main character is absolutely marvellous!
Deconstructing Lovecraft's work?!
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continuity in chaos
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Really for hardcore HPL fans who want to hear more of the same. Stylised but if I'm really honest, slightly tedious. But very good for running in the background. Personal opinion only ofc
Hmmm
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