Mr. Munchkin - H. P. Lovecrafts Schriften des Grauens, Folge 11 (Ungekürzt)

Geschrieben von Howard Phillips Lovecraft und Arthur Gordon Wolf

Erzählt von Markus Pol

Wir befinden uns in einer nicht mehr fernen Zukunft, in der global agierende Megakonzerne die Regierungen als Exekutive abgelöst haben. Einer der größten Konzerne ist die UMC (United Merchandise Company). Den Hauptumsatz generiert UMC mit humanoiden und tierischen Replikanten, künstliche biomechanische Geschöpfe, die von ihren biologischen Ebenbildern kaum zu unterscheiden sind. In einer der zahllosen Tochterfirmen der UMC arbeitet Nora Hollister als Designerin für intelligente Damentaschen. Ihr bislang sorgenfreies Leben ändert sich dramatisch, als sie eines Tages ein Reparaturteam für ihre defekte Replikanten-Katze ruft. Die seltsamen Weißen Männer, die erscheinen, kommen allerdings nicht von der UMC. In Wahrheit sind sie Gefolgsleute einer uralten Gottheit, die durch milliardenfach gespielte Virtual-Reality-Spiele aus ihrem Schlaf gerissen wurde.
Die Geschichte Mr. Munchkin spielt einige Monate nach der Novelle Die Weißen Männer.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: BLITZ-Verlag Audio
• Erscheinungsdatum: 8. Apr. 2022
• ISBN: 9783991097365

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.