New on LibriVox as part of a new Librivox story collection, recordings of Frank Belknap Long’s “The Sea-Thing” (1925) and “The Dog-Eared God” (1926). The SFFaudio podcast also has the discussion episode Reading, Short And Deep #267 – “The Sea Thing” by Frank Belknap Long, from a year ago. At about the same time PseudoPod 742 also had a reading of “The Sea Thing” by Andrew Leman on their podcast. But the new LibriVox recording is Public Domain, which makes it more useful for re-use.

For some reason Librivox decided to put the Lovecraft juvenile story “The Beast in the Cave” first in this overall collection of stories. It seems to be becoming a subtle leftist tactic to push newbies to Lovecraft’s earliest and lacklustre stories, such as “The Alchemist” or “Beast”, as their very first experience of Lovecraft. Presumably with the vague hope that readers will go “ugh, not very good” and avoid Lovecraft stories in future.