Gruselkabinett, Folge 138: Die Ratten in den Wänden

Geschrieben von H.P. Lovecraft

Erzählt von Hans Bayer, Jonas Baeck, Dagmar von Kurmin und Horst Naumann

Der Amerikaner Delapore entschließt sich im Jahr 1918, den Stammsitz seiner Familie in Südengland zurückzukaufen und aufwendig zu restaurieren. Zu Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts ist dort, bis auf ein Familienmitglied, unter mysteriösen Umständen die gesamte Familie zu Tode gekommen

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Titania Medien
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31. Aug. 2018

H.P. Lovecraft

Renowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and lived most of his life in Providence, Rhode Island. Among his many classic horror stories, many of which were published in book form only after his death in 1937, are ‘At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror’ (1964), ‘Dagon and Other Macabre Tales’ (1965), and ‘The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions’ (1970).

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[mirekluza · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

This audio adaptation of the Lovecraft's "Rats in the walls" starts well, but it suffers from rushed ending (I think it was also changed a bit, the events are not so clear in the book). It could earn 4 or 5 stars if only the play was lengthened and slowed down. Lovecraft's stories work by slowly inducing feeling of dread and also by not spelling horrors in details, but rather leaving space for imagination. Here it looks like there was specified time limit to squeeze in and rush to fit in it.