The Thing on the Doorstep by H.P. Lovecraft (Audiobook)
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🗓️ 31 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | The Thing on the Doorstep by H.P. Lovecraft. |
| 0:07.3 | Chapter 1 |
| 0:08.5 | It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to |
| 0:16.4 | show by this statement that I am not his murderer. |
| 0:21.5 | At first, I shall be called a madman, madder than the man I shot in his cell at the |
| 0:27.1 | Arkham Sanitarium. |
| 0:30.0 | Later some of my readers will weigh each statement, correlated with the known facts, and ask |
| 0:36.4 | themselves how I could have believed otherwise |
| 0:39.2 | than as I did after facing the evidence of that horror, that thing on the doorstep. |
| 0:47.1 | Until then, I also saw nothing but madness and the wild tales I have acted on. |
| 0:53.6 | Even now, I ask myself whether I was misled, or whether |
| 0:57.1 | I am not mad after all. I do not know, but others have strange things to tell of Edward |
| 1:04.5 | and Azaneth Derby, and even the stolid police are at their wits end to account for that last terrible visit. |
| 1:13.8 | They have tried weekly to concoct a theory of a ghastly jest or warning by discharged servants, |
| 1:21.1 | yet they know in their hearts that the truth is something infinitely more terrible and incredible. |
| 1:31.1 | So I say that I have not murdered Edward Derby. Rather, have I avenged him, and in so doing purged the earth of a horror |
| 1:38.9 | whose survival might have loosed untold terrors on all mankind. There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, |
| 1:49.0 | and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. |
| 1:54.0 | When that happens, the man who knows must strike |
| 1:58.0 | before reckoning the consequences. |
| 2:05.8 | I have known Edward Pickman Derby all his life. |
| 2:11.8 | Eight years my junior, he was so precocious that we had much in common from the time he was eight and I-16. |
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