Considered to the be one of most influential American authors, Howard Philip Lovecraft is synonymous with some of the best fantasy and horror fiction of the 20th century, second only to Edgar Allan Poe. Innsmouth is a dilapidated seaside town with secrets as a hybrid race of half-human and half-amphibian creatures worship the gods of Cthulhu and Dagon. Written in 1931, and published by the Visionary Publishing Company some five years later. “It’s a genre blessed with many great stylists, H. P. Lovecraft’s baroque imagination and outrageous use of language still manages to stand head and shoulders above the rest. A timeless master of the macabre and the true connoisseur of dread.”—Michael Marshall-Smith
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— Donald, 12/30/2007H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant twentieth-century authors in his genre. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. His relatively small corpus of work consists of three short novels and about sixty short stories.
Phil Reynolds is an experienced stage actor whose credits include Lt. Sam Weinberg in A Few Good Men and Freddy in Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Phil has recently recorded a series of H. P. Lovecraft short stories, several volumes of The Darker Side of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and a couple of audio plays in Fantom Film’s House of Horror series. He has also done voice recordings for radio commercials, “on hold” systems, computer games, educational videos, and even a theme park ride! He lives with his partner in Leamington Spa, England.