Der Verlag hat mit diesen rumdum gelungenen Hörspiel Maßstäbe im Genre gesetzt, die für andere Hörbuch/spiel- Produzenten eigentlich Pflicht sein sollten. Perfekte Inzsenierung, gut aufgelegte Sprecher, solide Dramaturigie. Unverzichtbar. ( )

Über den Inhalt will ich hier mal nicht so viele Worte verlieren. Hier soll es mir mal mehr um die Übersetzung gehen. Da sind den Verlag so viele Fehler bei den Jahreszahlen unterlaufen, das mich wundert, das kein Aufschrei durch die Reihen der Leser ging. Katastrophal. Und das beste ist: Die gleichen Fehler finden sich in allen späteren Ausgaben des Verlages. Wenn das mal keine Leistung ist! ( )

This was the second Lovecraft story I read, after At the Mountains of Madness, so at the time I knew next to nothing about Lovecraft's mythos and other writings. (That didn't last long, though.) Now with two volumes of his work under my belt, this is still the story that has stuck with me the most. It takes a while to get into, and the old-fashioned, stuffy prose doesn't help the slow start, but once things start picking up with terrible revelations and horrible implications, there's no putting it down. I find it fascinating how Lovecraft is able to pull off such a terrifying story with no gratuitous visuals. Everything is implied rather than shown directly. When describing a monster, in this story at least, Lovecraft doesn't go into actual physical descriptions, but instead simply describes how terrifying in appearance the creature is. And the genius of it is, it works. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is easily the masterpiece of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. ( )

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HP Lovecraft was a Rhode Islander and a Providence native. His settings are invariably the towns and countryside of New England and especially the imaginary area around Arkham, Massachusetts. But in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward he used his beloved Providence to give this tale a very real backdrop.

This story is really a novella issued in a single volume by Del Rey back in 1982 (it’s assuredly still in print, but I’ve still got the Del Rey edition on my shelf). It tells of young Charles Dexter Ward who takes a deep interest in genealogy, much to everyone’s regret. It seems Ward is a descendant of a certain Joseph Curwen, an old RI settler of dubious and disturbing repute. The reader is led through Curwen’s biography and Ward’s descent into madness with a chillingly clinical precision, heightened by the loving references to Providence landmarks (my brother and sister live in Pawtuxet which Lovecraft describes as the site of Curwen’s farm, check your basement kiddies!).

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is H.P. Lovecraft's only Cthulhu novel. It is written in the voice of someone examining the case of the poor Charles succumbing to the ancient horrors. The odd writing style is off-putting at first, but as the story deepens, seems more and more fitting.

The book is not a mystery, as the reader knows early on what is happening (if the reader has any knowledge of the Cthulhu mythos...). This may irritated me at some point, but soon I became enchanted about the way the mystery unfolded to the characters. ( )