In the latest short-poetry collection from Libivox, a public-domain reading of the poem “The Dark Pool” by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright, published as by ‘Francis Hard’ in the April 1925 edition — along with the Lovecraft/Eddy collaboration “Deaf, Dumb and Blind” and “The Wind That Tramps The World”.

Did the editor pop other poems in, when there was a page to fill? No. This seems to be his only one during the Lovecraft years. But he did have two in the magazine in early 1923, before his editorship…

* “The Closing Hand” in Weird Tales (March 1923).

* “The Snake Fiend” in Weird Tales (April 1923).

“The Dark Pool” runs to two minutes in a fine and well-paced reading.

Meanwhile, over in Canada… Lovecraft’s “At The Mountains of Madness” in an hour, on stage.