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Category Archives: Podcasts etc.

Speaking of Lovecraft…

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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Fascinating Nouns has a new podcast interview with S. T. Joshi on Lovecraft. The interviewer is a newcomer to Lovecraft, so I expect Joshi spends a lot of time covering the Lovecraft 101 basics.

Joshi’s latest blog post reports that according to John Trimble “an elderly science fiction fan”, the SF ur-fan Forrest Ackerman once owned a tape of Lovecraft reading one of his stories…

He [Trimble] said things we all know — Lovecraft’s voice was high pitched, he pronounced Cthulhu oddly, and added that HP was a lousy reader (as a dramatist).

I would note that Ackerman was a correspondent from 1931 and that the Ackerman archive is as yet unprocessed. Is a Kickstarter needed, to pay for someone to process it, and perhaps find the tape?

Eldritch Tales in audio book form

24 Friday Oct 2014

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I hadn’t realised that the Gollancz doorstopper collection of less well-known Lovecraft, titled Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre, now has a professional quality audio book version available.

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It contains readings of a lot of the more obscure Lovecraft items, which I suspect Wayne June may never get around to recording. The items include, among others:

History of the Necronomicon
The Alchemist
A Reminiscence of Dr Samuel Johnson
Memory
Despair
Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme
The Nightmare Lake
Poetry and the Gods (with Anna Helen Crofts)
Ex Oblivione
The Crawling Chaos (with Winifred Virginia Jackson)
The Horror at Martin’s Beach (with Sonia H. Greene)
Hallowe’en in a Suburb
The Green Meadow (with Winifred Virginia Jackson)
Nathicana
Two Black Bottles (with Wilfred Blanch Talman)
The Last Test (with Adolphe de Castro)
The Wood
The Ancient Track
The Electric Executioner (with Adolphe de Castro)
The Trap (with Henry S. Whitehead)
In a Sequester’d Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walked
The Evil Clergyman

Only “‘Afterword’: Lovecraft in Britain, by Stephen Jones” seems to be omitted, though apparently it’s in the printed volume.

The Scarlet Citadel

22 Wednesday Oct 2014

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Added “The Scarlet Citadel” (and part 2 3 4 5 6 and 7) to my listing of free R.E. Howard original Conan audio readings given by good readers.

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“Shadows in the Moonlight”

21 Tuesday Oct 2014

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Added “Shadows in the Moonlight” (and part 2) to my listing of free R.E. Howard original Conan audio readings given by good readers.

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Atlantis and the pulps

16 Tuesday Sep 2014

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A clearly-delivered 30-minute video lecture on the influence of the myth of Atlantis on R.E. Howard, by pulp history scholar Jeff Shanks. Including discussion of the Atlantis fringe authors, who Lovecraft eventually got around to reading circa the mid to late 1920s.

Lovecraft had of course written an early Atlantis story in “The Temple” (1920), in which the Prussian narrator suggests the sunken city was the forerunner of Ancient Greece.

He commented to Clark Ashton Smith in June 1926 about his reading of The Story of Atlantis (1896)…

[he writes that he is undertaking new reading] of vast interest as background or source material — which has belatedly introduced me to a cycle of myth as developed by modern occultists and sophical charlatans … I only wish I could get hold of more of the stuff. What I have read is The Story of Atlantis [1896]… by W. Scott Elliott.

He then attempted the germ of an Atlantis-meets-Roman Britain story in his fragment “The Descendant” (c.1927)…

Gabinius had, the rumour ran, come upon a cliffside cavern where strange folk met together and made the Elder Sign in the dark; strange folk whom the Britons knew not save in fear, and who were the last to survive from a great land in the west that had sunk, leaving only the islands with the raths and circles and shrines of which Stonehenge was the greatest.

But this would have rather improbably placed Atlantis somewhere just off his beloved ancestral Cornwall and Devon. One suspects that even Lovecraft balked at the task of turning the homely Isles of Scilly into the evil-haunted remnant mountain-tops of a sunken Atlantis.

R.E. Howard audio books

15 Monday Sep 2014

Posted by asdjfdlkf in Odd scratchings, Podcasts etc., REH

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Update: link-rot repaired, August 2023.
Update: added mention of a book of Conan tales by Lin Carter / de Camp, October 2018.

If you can’t afford the excellent Tantor audio books of Conan, there are now some free R.E. Howard unabridged audio stories with semi-pro and listenable narrators…

Howard’s Conan stories in free audio, ordered in story-world chronology:

* “The Frost Giant’s Daughter”

* “The Tower of the Elephant” (abridged, semi-dramatised)

* “The Tower Of The Elephant” (unabridged, narrated)

* “The God in the Bowl” (unpublished during his lifetime)

* “Rogues in the House”

* “Black Colossus” (the story text at Project Gutenberg)

* “Queen of the Black Coast” (also on YouTube)

* “Shadows in the Moonlight” (and part 2)

* “A Witch Shall Be Born”

* “Shadows in Zamboula”

* “The Slithering Shadow” (aka “Xuthal of the Dusk”)

* “The Devil in Iron”

* “The People of the Black Circle”

* “The Vale of Lost Women” (unpublished during his lifetime)

* “The Pool Of The Black One” (no longer online as free quality audio, see the full text at Project Gutenberg)

* “Red Nails”

* “The Jewels of Gwahlur” (aka “The Servants Of Bit-Yakin”)

* “Beyond the Black River”

* “The Black Stranger” (unpublished during his lifetime, aka “Treasure of Tranicos” after re-working by de Camp, to have it fit better between “Beyond the Black River” and “The Phoenix on the Sword”)

* “The Phoenix on the Sword”

* “The Scarlet Citadel” (and part 2 3 4 5 6 and 7)

* The Hour of the Dragon (aka Conan the Conqueror, a novel)


“The God in the Bowl” and “The Vale of Lost Women” — unpublished during his lifetime — don’t show Howard writing at his best. And “The Slithering Shadow” and “The Devil In Iron” are said to be far from the best of the Conan stories.

There is also a Books for the Blind audiobook of the collection of stories Conan the Swordsman (1978). This collection of briskly-plotted gap-fillers for the Conan chronology is from Nyberg / Lin Carter / de Camp. Their stories successfully mimic Howard, only lacking some of the small telling details that he carefully wove into his stories. Their book has, in the book-order:

~ “The People of the Summit” (after “Rogues in the House”) (begins at 1 hour 12 minutes into the book reading) (good)
~ “Shadows in the Dark” (after “Black Colossus”) (good)
~ “The Star of Khorala” (after “Shadows in Zamboula”) (a long story, but a lesser one – very skippable)
~ “The Gem in the Tower” (between “The People of the Black Circle” and “The Pool of the Black One”) (excellent)
~ “The Ivory Goddess” (before “Beyond the Black River”) (mediocre)
~ “Moon of Blood” (after “Beyond the Black River”) (excellent)



For those who can afford them, Tantor’s audio book collections of R.E. Howard’s original Conan and others use the modern Del Ray texts and are read with excellence:

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian.
The Bloody Crown of Conan.
The Conquering Sword of Conan (full free-sample story).

Also from Tantor:

The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane.
Kull: Exile of Atlantis.
Bran Mak Morn: the Last King.

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard.

Sadly it seems Tantor can’t sell into the UK, and nor are downloads available through Audible.co.uk. So Brits will have to go to eBay and pay a premium (the days of bargains on eBay are long gone, as are the days of cheap trans-Atlantic shipping), or have an American friend buy them for you and send them over.


Also by Howard in audio…

The collection Solomon Kane: Red Shadows and three Solomon Kane poems read by a Shakespearean actor.


NecronomiCon 2013: Providence Art Club lecture

29 Friday Aug 2014

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Not linked here until now, NecronomiCon 2013: Providence Art Club lecture and discussion with Henry L. P. Beckwith…

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVv67JwvxI8?rel=0&w=560&h=315]

Still looking for MP3 or video recordings of the following core panels…

HPL: A LIFE

LOVECRAFT’S LITERARY INFLUENCES

HPL ALL-STARS [scholars]

LOVECRAFT’S ESSAYS & LETTERS

LOVECRAFT’S NEW ENGLAND: HISTORY AND SOCIETY

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: Imprisoned with the Pharaohs

27 Wednesday Aug 2014

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Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: Imprisoned with the Pharaohs audio dramatisation CD, with…

a huge cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music

Pre-ordering now, shipping early October.

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Six Foot Plus, NecronomiCon 2013 special podcast

22 Friday Aug 2014

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Late HPL birthday present…

In honor of H.P. Lovecraft’s birthday this week, we’ll put up this NecronomiCon 2013 formerly exclusive episode [of the Six Foot Plus horror music podcast] for one week only.”

Track list:

01. Zombeast, “Cthulhu”
02. Rudimentary Peni, “The Horrors of the Museum”
03. The 3-D Invisibles, “Dreams of Poe”
04. Sebadoh, “Calling Yog Soggoth”
05. White Flag, “Cthulhu Calling”
06. Dayglo Abortions, “The Spawn of Yog Soggoth”
07. Gwar, “Horror of Yig”
08. The Red Hook Horrors, “The 5-Point Plan of the Pentagram”
09. The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, “Going Down to Dunwich”
10. Moon Ra, “At The Mountains of Madness”
11. The Dagons, “You Kill The Dream”
12. Lustmord, “Dreams of Dead Names”
13. The Difference Engine, “The Floods of Vermont”
14. Alex K. Redfearn and the Eyesores, “The Way of All Flesh”
15. Hellbilly Club, “The Village of Insmouth”

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On H.P. Lovecraft’s 124th birthday

20 Wednesday Aug 2014

Posted by asdjfdlkf in Lovecraftian arts, New books, Podcasts etc., Scholarly works

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Lovecraft has inadvertently become rather fortunate, posthumously, in the timing of his birthday. The rush to Halloween now comes so early that, at least in terms of new commercial products and their ever-bubbling pot of publicity, it now seems to start around 1st Sept — a full two months before the actual date. So one wonders if we’re moving toward a situation where the 20th of August will effectively serve as the “starting gun” for Halloween?

But here we are for 2014. Happy 124th birthday HPL, wherever your dark shade lurketh in Providence. What free presents or cool tributes have pitched up on ye Great Interwebs, so far today?

* Pete von Sholly has painted a very handsome new triptych portrait in oils…

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* A big Lovecraft Readathon at the Providence Public Library. Also a big slide-show ‘sitting tour’ of Providence which is… “a joint production of Hamilton House, The H.P. Lovecraft Archive, and The Lovecraft Arts and Sciences Council”.

* The city of Phoenix, Arizona stages a big arty Lovecraft party. Play ‘Pin the tentacle on the shoggoth’, anyone?

* 2014 Second Life H.P. Lovecraft Festival, in the online world of Second Life.

* Queen City Gallery, Buffalo, USA, has a Lovecraft themed art show to celebrate the 124th birthday.

* A free tabletop role-playing game adventure for HPL’s birthday, ‘The Serpent Ring’ for the Unbelievably Simple Roleplaying (USR) game system.

* Geoff Gillan’s “The Machine King” is a free “Chaosium Dreamlands book”, launched for the birthday under Creative Commons, that has not seen the light of day until now. It’s for the Cthulhu by Gaslight role-playing game…

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* The Voice Before the Void has completed an audio reading of “Bothon” by Henry S. Whitehead with H.P. Lovecraft (published Amazing Stories, 1946).

* Very possibly a fake, but a nice birthday fake if that’s the case…

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Update:

* Dakota Rodeo visits the Arthur H. Goodenough house with her sister and friend, for H.P. Lovecraft’s birthday, and makes interior photos.

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Update:

Jason S. Voss of Arizona made a new portrait for the birthday, “Lovecraft: Explorer of Strange Worlds”, which seems to me to capture the flinty side of HPL’s character.

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Update:

NecronomiCon 2015 announced with guest details and more for this major Lovecraft convention of scholars and fans.

Vaults of Yoh-Vombis: full audio reading

05 Tuesday Aug 2014

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Full free audio reading of Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis” (Weird Tales, May 1932), read by Iker Rivercast. Commonly said to be Smith’s most Lovecraftian story. The Double Shadow, the Clark Ashton Smith podcast, also has a discussion and partial audio reading from “The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis” which would be a good follow-up Iker’s reading.

Lost Continent podcast

23 Wednesday Jul 2014

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The latest Stuff TBYM science podcast is the first of a two-parter, on the abiding notion of a Lost Continent.

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