The Welcome everyone to our brand new show,

1,001 ghost stories and tales of the Macabre.

We have a lot of HP Lovecraft fans out there,

and you're in for a treat with tonight's story,

The Lirking Fear, which Lovecraft wrote in November of 1922.

In this story, a monster hunter,

actually a wealthy bachelor with an obsessive taste for the weird,

after hearing tales of a massacre upon Tempest Mountain in the Catskills, decides to sleep

over at a ruined mansion, which was the scene of the massacre along with his two

trusty pals. Also I wanted to let you know that soon we will be announcing the

arrival of a new 1001 podcast called

1001 Ghost Stories and Tales of the Macabre

in which Lovecraft will be, as you might guess, a regular feature.

And now to our story, it's going to be a hard night in the neighborhood.

And now, the lurking fear by H.P. Lovecraft. I was thunder in the air on the night I went to the deserted mansion atop Tempest Mountain to find the lurking fear.

I was not alone, for foolhardiness was not mixed with that love of the grotesque and the terrible,

which has made my career a series of

quest for strange horrors in literature and in life. With me were two faithful men

for whom I'd sent when the time came.

Men long associated with me and my ghastly explorations because of their peculiar fitness.

We had started quietly from the village because of the reporters who still lingered about after the Eldridge panic of a month

before. The nightmare creeping death. Later I thought they might aid me but I did not want

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