A rather good professional-quality reading of “The Shuttered Room“, the Derleth posthumous collaboration of 1959.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdarfZFLdeM&w=420&h=315]
The Shuttered Room
11 Wednesday Sep 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc.
11 Wednesday Sep 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc.
A rather good professional-quality reading of “The Shuttered Room“, the Derleth posthumous collaboration of 1959.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdarfZFLdeM&w=420&h=315]
That’s one of ye few tales by Derleth that I utterly abhor. I keep thinking I’ll return to it and try to read it with an open mind, but I hate it, I tell ye, HATE IT! It is one of ye few times where he totally rips off E’ch-Pi-El. I know, I’m not one to make such a judgment, being that I borrow heavily from Lovecraft myself–but I find “The Shuttered Room” gets under my flesh in a bad way. But now–now I don’t have to read the damn thing, I can listen to it & save my eyesight & sanity as I scream profanity to ye cosmic void! Ia!
I have to confess that it didn’t grab me after some minutes, despite the strong reading. I lost interest and gave up shortly after the protagonist unlocked the shuttered room. I could already see were it was going from there… Derleth’s Lovecraft is not for me.