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The Broken Hours
- A Novel of H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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The Broken Hours
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Publisher's Summary
In the cold spring of 1936, Arthor Crandle, down-on-his luck and desperate for work, accepts a position in Providence, Rhode Island, as a live-in secretary/assistant for an unnamed shut-in.
He arrives at the gloomy colonial-style house to discover that his strange employer is an author of disturbing, bizarre fiction. Health issues have confined him to his bedroom, where he is never to be disturbed. But the writer, who Crandle knows only as "Ech-Pi", refuses to meet him, communicating only by letters left on a table outside his room. Soon the home reveals other unnerving peculiarities. There is an ominous presence Crandle feels on the main stairwell. Light shines out underneath the door of the writer's room, but is invisible from the street. It becomes increasingly clear there is something not right about the house or its occupant.
Haunting visions of a young girl in a white nightgown wandering the walled-in garden behind the house motivate Crandle to investigate the circumstances of his employer's dark family history. Meanwhile, the unsettling aura of the house pulls him into a world increasingly cut off from reality, into black depths, where an unspeakable secret lies waiting.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-12-2022
Dark and intriguing
I really enjoyed my time with this book i was always wondering what was around the corner
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- Kristie_Loves_Cats
- 22-04-2023
Waste of time
What was the point of this story. It tried so hard to be mysterious and Lovecraftian, and failed miserably. The narrator mispronounced words, and seemed to be, from the Christopher, Walken school, of speaking. The story was meaningless babble dragging in many Lovecraft tropes and not using them for any real story elements. I hated this whole story, it didn't go anywhere, and seemed to fall into the "It was just a dream" story line genre.
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