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26 Saturday Oct 2013
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New England Vampire Panic
22 Tuesday Oct 2013
Posted in Historical context, Podcasts etc.
“New England Vampire Panic” history podcast. Starts at 2:46. The first instance sounds similar to “The Shunned House”, in terms of the run of deaths in a family. The second instance in Exeter also recalls the town of Innsmouth, in terms of the depopulation and the accusations of inbreeding.
“But oh! If only they would make some sound”
07 Monday Oct 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
CthulhuWho1 has built a huge Lovecraft audio links gateway…
“correlates all of the over 1,050 known links to audio readings, and dramatizations of H. P. Lovecraft’s works that are freely available to listen to (most with just one click); and to download if desired.”
Landscapes in the works of H.P. Lovecraft
21 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
New podcast lecture from Durham University, in the north of England, UK. “Such Terrifying Vistas of Reality’: lunatic landscapes in the works of H.P. Lovecraft”…
“David Varley takes a tour through the uncanny landscapes of H.P. Lovecraft. This lecture was recorded as part of the Late Summer Lecture Series given by Ph.D students to bring new research to a public audience.”
Sadly it’s posted on some crappy Flash player system called MixCloud, rather than as a simple mp3 — and MixCloud doesn’t seem to want to work on my system
Update: Thanks to Read Durham for an alternative MP3 link: http://bit.ly/1f67k4D The long ‘Lovecraft for beginners’ preamble ends 23:28, when the landscape bit starts.
The Crawling Chaos – free audio reading by Wayne June
18 Wednesday Sep 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
Wayne June reads “The Crawling Chaos” (.mp3 link)…
The Opener of the Way
14 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc.
Free audio reading of “The Opener of the Way” (Weird Tales, Oct 1936), a non-Mythos tale of Ancient Egypt by Robert Bloch. It was the title story of Bloch’s first book collection, from Arkham House in 1945.
The Shuttered Room
11 Wednesday Sep 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc.
A rather good professional-quality reading of “The Shuttered Room“, the Derleth posthumous collaboration of 1959.
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20th Aug 2013: Lovecraft’s 123rd Birthday
20 Tuesday Aug 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New discoveries, Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
Happy Birthday, Mr. Lovecraft! Some of the presents, so far, that have been given away for Lovecraft’s 123rd Birthday:
* Axel in Germany has today launched the ArkhamInsiders podcast. It’s a new German-language Lovecraft podcast (first edition here) which…
“in the future [plans] to do interviews with international Lovecraft scholars, writers and so on.”
* My own birthday gift is a new The annotated “The Lurking Fear” as a free PDF, with 8,000 words of new scholarly annotations. The PDF is set up so it can be printed as a 46-page booklet on a home laser printer (use the likes of the FinePrint software to print a PDF as booklet-sheets).
* Fangoria has an interview with Bryan Moore, the maker of the Lovecraft Bronze Bust set to be unveiled at NecronomiCon Providence 2013.
Hounds abound
11 Sunday Aug 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
A perfectly-delivered free reading of Lovecraft’s near-hilarious over-the-top story “The Hound” (1922), courtesy of Lawrence Santoro at Tales to Terrify.
Above: from “The Hound” adaptation by Steve Beach.
Could be neatly followed by the free reading of Frank Belknap Long’s “The Hounds Of Tindalos” (1931) by Lewis Morgan.
Lovecraft Country
05 Monday Aug 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc.
A new free Arkham Gazette pilot issue #0… “dedicated to the Lovecraft Country setting for [the RPG game] Call of Cthulhu“, with a focus on the roads, which might inspire fiction writers as well as gamers. To celebrate there’s also a shakily-recorded MU Podcast 037 — Graveyards, Turnpikes, and Lovecraft Country.
Being Cold
30 Tuesday Jul 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc.
A recent BBC Radio 3 documentary, relevant to Lovecraft’s fear of the cold: A Cultural History of Being Cold, available online (44 mins, 20th Jan 2013).
Archive photo of heavy snowfall in Prospect Park, New York City.
The Dreams in The Witch House – free audio book
29 Monday Jul 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc.
A complete free audio book of Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in The Witch House”, read by Charly Crawmer in a fine laconic American voice. Plus complete readings of Arthur Machen’s Novel of the Black Seal; Novel of the White Powder; Great God Pan; Red Hand; Shining Pyramid; The Terror; and The White People.