{"id":23599,"date":"2019-03-11T05:44:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T02:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=23599"},"modified":"2019-03-11T05:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T02:44:55","slug":"dream-quest-in-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/03\/11\/dream-quest-in-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Quest in audio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lovecraft’s The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath<\/a><\/em>, in an unabridged 2014 reading made by Martin Reyto and kindly made available as a free Public Domain recording.<\/p>\n

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It’s the best free reading I could find, though slightly sibilant when heard with good headphones. That can be cured in AIMP thus…<\/p>\n

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You may also want to boost the Bass, and I ramped it up quite a bit. The MP3 doesn’t take kindly to real-time pitch shifting, though.<\/p>\n

There’s another fairly good one I’ve heard, which is to be found in the Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany<\/a><\/em> audiobook, although this is paid and appears to only be available in the USA. There’s also a reading of Kadath<\/em> in the $20 USB stick from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society<\/a>, from the Joshi corrected text and apparently with some music. Unlike Amazon, the Society seem willing to ship Kadath<\/em> around the world.<\/p>\n

It would be great to crowd-fund to pay someone like Phil Dragash to tackle this as a semi-dramatised unabridged reading with his voices, full sound effects, environmental ambience and music.<\/p>\n

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The zebra seen on the book cover above only appears for a short while, but is ridden by Carter. Later he takes to a yak. I wonder if this was a reflection of Lovecraft’s boyish desire to ride on some of the animals seen at Roger Williams Park in Providence, during his boyhood?<\/p>\n

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But perhaps it more likely reflects the boy Lovecraft’s ardent desire to get the zebra at the Roger Williams Park merry-go-round, rather than one of the more mundane horses…<\/p>\n

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Lovecraft’s The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, in an unabridged 2014 reading made by Martin Reyto and kindly made available …<\/p>\n

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