Lazarus ♦ By Leonid Andreyev ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook

Lazarus  ♦ By Leonid Andreyev ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Famous Modern Ghost Stories



Title:  Lazarus



Author:  Leonid Andreyev



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Kathy Jacobs



Librivox Recording



Lazarus was published in Weird Tales magazine in the March 1927 edition.

A rather awe-inspiring piece of sacrilege. Had to ignore my status as a God-lover to enjoy it, but hey these are godless times so that didn't turn out to be so difficult. Sorry, God. I will make it up to You later.



The author posits the raising of the dead man Lazarus by Jesus as a return of the living dead. But more than that: the returned Lazarus is not just dead-alive, he deadens those he casts his gaze upon. This Lazarus emits a field of entropy. To meet Lazarus is to be consumed by the realization that life is futile and meaningless; to meet Lazarus is not to meet Death, it is to meet the emptiness of Life, of existence itself.



Profoundly pessimistic and chilling in its disillusionment. A refutation of Christian ideals and goals. All your joys become ashes in the mouth, dust in the wind. There is no escape because there is nothing to escape to. And yet its nihilism does not bore, it excites. This is horror, gorgeously written and beautifully challenging horror.



Examining the often bitter and ultimately sad life of its Russian author, the once highly-praised Leonid Andreyez, considered the father of Expressionism in Russia



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