Cool Air

Written by H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), better known as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame for his brilliant and highly influential works of horror fiction.

"Cool Air" is the story of a mysterious, reclusive doctor who appears to be suffering from a peculiar illness which involves him cooling his rooms to extremely cold temperatures and taking strange chemical baths.

Then one day the pump system which refridgerates his apartment breaks down...and a sequence of events unfolds which is truly horrific.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Jun 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781467698955

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was born in New England, a landscape that he turned into a stage of fiction. His stories inherited the tradition of gothic horror tales from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, but Lovecraft set his own standards. His first stories appeared in Weird Tales, a pulp magazine. “The Call of Cthulhu” (1926), a short story about a monstrous deity that inhabits the Earth, is the base of the myths related to the Cthulhu Mythos, a genre of horror fiction launched by Lovecraft. In its world, populated by beings of other dimensions, the laws of humanity are worthless. But man is incapable of understanding its insignificance in the face of the magnitude of the cosmos.

Reviews for Cool Air

[altheaann · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Forced by circumstances to take lodging in a cheap rooming house, the narrator is delighted to discover that one of his neighbors is a well-educated doctor - a man of 'quality,' even if he's a bit eccentric. The most obvious oddity is that he's a recluse, never leaving his rented rooms - and he keeps those rooms air-conditioned to a shockingly low temperature. However, it will eventually be revealed that there was a reason for his 'madness.'