When the terror increases, it’s augmented with electric guitar and Mellotron choirs, making for an amazing journey within the nine-minute runtime of this revenge tale, sure to delight all fans of things feline. Anima Morte’s music is wonderfully folk-inspired, resplendent with finger cymbals, acoustic guitar, and bodhrán hand drum.

Leman’s narration is quite calm, and matter-of-fact in how all of this came to be. While Dagon is a breathless recitation of eldritch horrors, this second tale is a straightforward story of vengeance against those quite deserving of it. The Cats of Ulthar is a full reverse in tone from that which precedes in almost every way. The story as performed here sets the tone for the record as a whole, as narrator Leman’s quiet madness reflects the morphine-blunted panic of his revery, while Anima Morte’s music feels as though it, too, has come “crawling and floundering” out of the sea. In a wonderful bit of synchronicity, these stories also come from Lovecraft’s own early years of work, all dating to the first five years of the author’s work written as an adult, with the first tale, Dagon, having been composed all the way back in 1917. Lovecraft’s Dagon, The Cats of Ulthar, and The Music of Erich Zann, “brought the spoken arts to a whole new level,” as Cadabra label head Jonathan Dennison aptly put it. Featuring brand new talents at the time in the music of Anima Morte and voice actor Andrew Leman, the collection of H.

In 2019, Cadabra Records released one of their finest productions.

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