The city of Providence, Rhode Island, mostly celebrates the legacy of author H. P. Lovecraft – one of the fathers of horror fiction and, increasingly, a pop culture icon. But there’s a lot to grapple with – and his bleak, wordy prose about incomprehensible interstellar monsters is far from the most difficult thing about Lovecraft. 

Excerpt from Nyarlathotep read by G.M. Danielson, music by Kevin MacLeod.

 

Davis Dunavin produced this piece for the podcast, “Off the Path,” which can be found at wshu.org.