Category Archives: Podcasts etc.

Lovecraft’s Influences and Favorites

18 Wednesday Dec 2019

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Now released in the final public version, Librivox’s audiobook anthology Lovecraft’s Influences and Favorites. Not complete, and there appear to be a couple of “an early critic once suggested he could have been influenced by this…” items. But it looks like a good starting point, and it’s free.

As it’s Librivox one could add to this with one’s own additional readings, and other free readings, and thus build on it. While also weeding out the items with a shakier claim to influence.

It’s also mirrored at Archive.org where there’s a handy .torrent file.

Audiobook: H.P. Lovecraft – The Collaborations

06 Friday Dec 2019

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New to me and seemingly to Google, H.P. Lovecraft – The Collaborations in unabridged audiobook from the Historical Society…

The HPLHS is pleased to present the first original audiobook of Lovecraft’s collaborations and revisions, covering 32 stories and comprising more than twenty-three hours of professionally recorded audio. The stories are read by HPLHS founders and trained actors Sean Branney and Andrew Leman, from texts prepared by Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi. … Two years in the making… These are NOT dramatizations like our Dark Adventure Radio Theatre.

No Eddy collaborations, though…

The Eddy estate does not wish for any of C.M. Eddy’s stories to appear in any collections of Lovecraft collaboration tales.

The Web page is currently rather confusing, mentioning the “The Collected Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft Audiobook” and also having a link to the purchase page for that, rather than H.P. Lovecraft : The Collaborations.

Once at that page, what you have to do to solve this apparent conundrum is to spot the hidden drop-down of descending delight, and it will reveal the well-concealed eldritch wisdom within…

This then reveals the Collaborations as a £23 download for the UK.

Conan in free audio – links updated

27 Wednesday Nov 2019

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I’ve updated the links on my 2014 post on R.E. Howard audio books. That post put Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories in story-world chronological order, and linked to free audio which had reasonably good narrators.

Currently missing:

“Black Colossus”.

“The Pool Of The Black One”.

“The Black Stranger”, aka “Treasure of Tranicos” after de Camp’s reworking.

Strange Tales

21 Thursday Nov 2019

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I haven’t listened to it yet, but World’s Deadliest Podcast popped up on ListenNotes. A new podcast, and Episode 7 is “Strange Adventures with Illustrator and Comic Book Expert Jesse White”. White appears to be a special expert on the art and working methods of John Buscema (Conan and others)…

Jesse has a new Kickstarter for a 1970s style pulp bagazine titled Strange Tales, which will feature an number of adventure stories told in the classic comic-book style. We also discuss John Buscema’s contribution to comic books, and we contrast the differences between the world views of Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft.

Voluminous

02 Saturday Nov 2019

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The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society are posting Lovecraft letters, as audio readings. The first in the “Voluminous” ongoing podcast is his short opening letter to Robert Barlow, which runs 24 minutes with additional discussion before and after by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman of the Historical Society. The actual letter starts at 9:50 minutes in, if you want to skip introductory stuff you already know, and is from the book O Fortunate Floridian: H. P. Lovecraft’s Letters to R. H. Barlow.

There’s a handy RSS feed for the show, which should give you a drop-down by which to download the source .MP3 file.

No listing for the podcast on ListenNotes yet, but I know that one has to have five episodes before you get an iTunes listing for any new podcast. Once on iTunes it will presumably percolate through to other pod-catching services and apps.

Lovecraft Geek Podcast – new series, #2

23 Wednesday Oct 2019

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I’m pleased to see that Robert M. Price’s The Lovecraft Geek Podcast – Series 2, #1 has returned. It had vanished, at least for me.

And now it’s also just now been joined by #2 of the new series.

You can download an .MP3 file from ListenNotes by clicking the cryptic “…” over on the right-hand sidebar, and then right-clicking the “Download” link…

My thanks to ‘Governmentdrone’ for the heads-up on appearance of this new podcast.