An amusing review of the amazing Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge device.
Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge
27 Wednesday Sep 2023
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The Loved Dead
25 Monday Sep 2023
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Just the thing for a damp Monday, a new and listenable human reading of “The Loved Dead” by C.M. Eddy Jr. & H.P. Lovecraft.
PulpFest 2023 presentations
04 Monday Sep 2023
Posted in Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
A useful round-up of the presentations at PulpFest 2023. Including, among others…
* Weird Tales on radio – old-time radio expert Karl Schadow looks at radio adaptations of stories that appeared in Weird Tales.
* Weird editors – a panel celebrating the magazine and anthology editors of the weird. There’s a recording.
* Doc Savage and his offspring – Doc Savage had “several imitators who would follow him to the newsstands”. Who knew Doc had babies? There’s a recording.
“Sweet Ermengarde”
01 Friday Sep 2023
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A new reading of “Sweet Ermengarde or, The Heart of a Country Girl” by H.P. Lovecraft.
“Through the Gates of the Silver Key”
31 Thursday Aug 2023
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New on Librivox, a public-domain audio reading of the brilliant “Through the Gates of the Silver Key”. This being the joint sequel, written with E. Hoffmann Price, to Lovecraft’s “The Silver Key”.
Price supplied the core plot outline, and some of the Necronomicon quotes, Lovecraft then went to work on a massive makeover which left less than 50 words of Price’s original standing. Price’s original can be found in Crypt of Cthulhu #10 (1982, not online, aka ‘Ashes And Others’). There used to be paid digital downloads of the old Crypt issues, but it looks like the store has now gone. This loss appears to have wiped out not just the older issues, but also the 2017-2022 run.
However, Price’s original can be seen in decipherable scans at the Brown Digital Repository.
Bloch’s “Before Egypt”
21 Monday Aug 2023
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New and free on Librivox, an audiobook of Robert Bloch’s “Before Egypt” in 95 minutes. Looking at the issue, the author in Amazing Stories for January 1957 was Bloch writing under the pen-name “E. K. Jarvis”.
Those counted as “slim thighs” in 1957.
Enhanced audiobook of Lovecraft’s “Vermont”
20 Sunday Aug 2023
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For Lovecraft’s Birthday, my little enhanced audiobook of his “Vermont – A First Impression” (1927), with music and sound FX in 12 minutes. So far as I’m aware, this is the first free audiobook version. Enjoy.
“… considerable variations in vowel sounds have been permitted”
01 Tuesday Aug 2023
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The unabridged audiobook of “The Shadow Out of Time”.
In Our Time
13 Thursday Jul 2023
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A quick look at relatively recent ‘In Our Time’ episodes, picking out those of possible interest to Tentaclii readers…
Megaliths, the ancient stones and stone-circles in the landscape of the British Isles and Brittany.
The Death of Stars, how they die but also give life to new planets. The ideas have changed a lot since Lovecraft was a boy.
Polidori’s The Vampyre. The first vampire.
Fritz Lang and his modernist-gothic films.
The Decadents in literature. For many years Lovecraft considered himself to be their late heir.
A bumper Librivox release
12 Wednesday Jul 2023
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The new Librivox public domain Short Ghost and Horror Collection 068 leads with Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Abominations of Yondo”. There’s also Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright’s “The Closing Hand”; “The Curse of Yig” which is said here to be by Zealia Brown-Reed Bishop (Lovecraft goes un-credited, though he wrote in a letter that “this story is about 75% mine. All I had to work on was a synopsis”); and also Robert E. Howard’s “The Lost Race”.
The Sound of Tolkien Metal
11 Tuesday Jul 2023
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“The Sound of Tolkien Metal”. A curated 22-hour playlist of what I assume to be the best Tolkien-inspired heavy metal music, in its many varieties.
Also a lesser 14-hour Lovecraftian Metal Madness playlist. Though I can’t believe there’s more Tolkien metal than Lovecraft metal.
“This Tolkien guy has more metal than me…?? Arrggh!! Grrr!!!”
New from Librivox and the HPLHS
25 Sunday Jun 2023
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The public domain Short Science Fiction Collection 093, new from Librivox. Includes new free-to-reuse audio readings of the original “The Silver Key” from Lovecraft, and “The Miniature Menace” (1950) by Frank Belknap Long. The latter appearing to be Long trying his hand, for Future magazine, at a two-fisted space thriller with a jut-jawed hero.
Also, in paid media the download for Dark Adventure Radio Theatre’s adaptation of “The Shunned House” is now available. There’s also the final cover-art…
