Well, this isn't an H.P. Lovecraft story. It's "based" on a few notes left by Lovecraft after his death, written by August Derleth. The work put into this story is mainly Derleth's work.
tfw you'll never have some feral distant relative mysteriously cark it and bequeath to you a centuries old dilapidated hamlet in the middle of bumfuck nowhere
August Derleth had an interesting fixation on the characters preparing meals, often makeshift meals, in abandoned houses to be explored, also other housekeeping choirs. "Light lunch of cheese and bread and coffee" and such. Somewhat reminiscent of Enid Blyton.
I’ve picked up on the same thing! Have had trouble describing it. There is a certain comfort in normalcy surrounded by hostility. Monsters are around, but not close enough to hurt you. You’re asleep and well hidden, you’re breaking your fast within dark but mostly safe walls
Wish there were more of these August Derleth stories. They are remarkable similar to the original H.P. Lovecraft work. There should be lots more....awesome.
the collaborations were parts unfinished by Lovecraft before his death , and derleth finished them to print via arkham house. It is disputed as to whether derleth was acting purely for gain, or as an homage to his friend.The fact remains he was given those pieces from Lovecraft's estate.
wakenbakeruk alldaylong Yes I know, I have some of Derleth's own work (Not Long For This World) but there are more tales by Derleth in the Cthulhu Mythos. Would love to hear them all.
Given the giving of the unfinished works to Derleth, and the friendship, let us give him charity of appraisal as to his motivations, or, better, applause for his worthy efforts.
Fascinating! I am an avid and ravenous fan of the works of H.P. Lovecraft (have been for nearly two decades); and yet I had never heard of THIS tale. It hasn't been in ANY of the numerous compilations of his work that I have acquired. Yet here it is; and the style/phraseology is unquestionably that belonging to the man himself. Yes, Lord Funkbottom, "Arkham" figures prominently in both Batman AND the works of Lovecraft. Bob Cane unashamedly having borrowed that named township, or at least its infamous asylum.
I was also curious about this story, as I hadn't heard of it before, either. As it turns out, it was actually one of the tales written by August Derleth in 1967 using some notes and ideas left behind by Lovecraft himself.
Actually, it was Denny O'Neil who added Arkham Asylum to the Batman milieu. This was a later addition, during the 70s, and was, as you may have guessed was a deliberate Lovecraft reference. Although that leads us to an interesting point of trivia. The editor during his run was one Julius Schwartz, who, years before, was the agent of one H.P. Lovecraft...
Phil Smith He must not have been a very good agent. Lovecraft, a literary genius, died penniless and in agony and throughout his life he destroyed a lot of his work.
Kinsman! My grandmothers maiden name is Nurse, after Rebecca Nurse, the Salem witch hung during The Burning Times. Her house was burned down. She was a healer. People know this shit actually happened right....? Good to know the Blood of Old Salem still runs through the veins of humanity 😉 lovecraft mentions us a few times
So she wiggled her nose and you were... I wonder how many times you've been subjected to that comparison to Darrin from Bewitched. Probably more than 13.
I've read quite a few of the stories August Derleth completed from H.P Lovecraft's unfinished pieces (or those he wrote using Lovecraft's notes), and while many of them are very good, virtually all of them have the final pay-off paragraph written in italics, which, once you spot it, can be a bit annoying. The good thing about an audiobook reading is you can't hear them!
depending on when this story was first published it seems Batman creator Mr Bob Cane was a fan of Lovecraft they both use Arkham as a frequent plot device and the phrase cowardly superstitious lot I know it's not much but crazier things have been true
Who else is here after they found a lead sarcophagus under the floor at Notre Dame Cathedral. Which was discovered after a fire damaged the roof and it came crashing down.
What I have noticed with many other Lovecraft narrators on UA-cam is this belief that a brooding slow methodical reading somehow is required. I find most of Lovecrafts writing to be the opposite, much of his writing conveys unease and urgency, downright panic in some case. This narrator is excellent, speaking a pace that you could almost believe at time the narrator had to catch their breath, far superior to the Ian Gordons and Wayne June who I find the treatment of Lovecraft to be extraordinarily tiring, as if to say come the hell on already, that's how slow they narrate. Dudley Nights reading of Whisper in The Darkness is a great example of how Lovecraft should be read, you can almost imagine it is how he would have sounded himself.
Ian is really amazing in my humble opinion... I couldn't believe that he was so young when I finally actually saw a picture... for so young a man he is an extraordinarily gifted narrator.
I really liked Dudley Knight's reading, as well as Conrad and Gould's style of delivery. June is too plodding for my taste, and I cannot stand the delivery of Ian Gordon.
Carlin Durfee i think there was a relation between the narrator’s ghouly great uncle’s disappearance & the destruction of the bridge over the Miskatonic River. The running water hemmed in the bad spirits or something?
the townspeople put the evil uncle into the middle span, covering him up with cement and rocks. They put a small elder sign into the building material to hold him in place, and as a further measure drew the star that was on the elder sign into the cement. The cement was very weathered, and the flood was able to wash it away.
Sadly hpl was a less than happy person most of his life, there is a good biography on youtube i think on him. Sickly and unloved he died mostly in obscurity.
Kinda sucks that Derleth put Lovecraft's name on this... work. The story itself isn't horrible, but it is very plainly NOT a Lovecraft story. It was only inspired by notes and story ideas Lovecraft had written down, if I remember correctly. Derleth is a great publisher, but not a great author.
Agreed. At his best, Derleth was a poor man's Lovecraft.. a Lovecraft without prose. At his worst, he betrayed the Lovecraft mythos by ignorance of its nature.
NOT an H. P. Lovecraft story. August Derleth, writing as "Lovecraft" after Howard Lovecraft's death. It's clumsy story telling and lacks the subtile genius of true H. P. Lovecraft literature.
True. Lacks that tense moment when the protagonist realizes they're way-to-damn-close to strange and unspeakable horror. Instead he just follows the horror into a secret tunnel with relative nonchalance.
I love that each of HP Lovecraft's tales can stand on their own. Yet they are all intertwined. Such an amazing author with such a fantastic mind.
Well, this isn't an H.P. Lovecraft story. It's "based" on a few notes left by Lovecraft after his death, written by August Derleth. The work put into this story is mainly Derleth's work.
* Outsider walks into shop *
Grandpa Wately: "Here we go again..."
his voice is perfect for hp lovecraft stories... :)
Enzo Noneya sounds like a young orson Welles
Homage to Orson Welles.
I could listen to him read all day
It really is. So much so that any other voice isn't up to snuff and I usually would rather not listen to it at all.
“I could not believe the evidence of my own senses”, just picturing his face in this moment cracks me up
tfw you'll never have some feral distant relative mysteriously cark it and bequeath to you a centuries old dilapidated hamlet in the middle of bumfuck nowhere
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I hear bum feck is lovely in the spring
August Derleth had an interesting fixation on the characters preparing meals, often makeshift meals, in abandoned houses to be explored, also other housekeeping choirs. "Light lunch of cheese and bread and coffee" and such. Somewhat reminiscent of Enid Blyton.
I’ve picked up on the same thing! Have had trouble describing it. There is a certain comfort in normalcy surrounded by hostility. Monsters are around, but not close enough to hurt you. You’re asleep and well hidden, you’re breaking your fast within dark but mostly safe walls
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Wish there were more of these August Derleth stories. They are remarkable similar to the original H.P. Lovecraft work. There should be lots more....awesome.
Thanks for listening!
the collaborations were parts unfinished by Lovecraft before his death , and derleth finished them to print via arkham house. It is disputed as to whether derleth was acting purely for gain, or as an homage to his friend.The fact remains he was given those pieces from Lovecraft's estate.
wakenbakeruk alldaylong Yes I know, I have some of Derleth's own work (Not Long For This World) but there are more tales by Derleth in the Cthulhu Mythos. Would love to hear them all.
Given the giving of the unfinished works to Derleth, and the friendship, let us give him charity of appraisal as to his motivations, or, better, applause for his worthy efforts.
Cool loved your colour out of space and the mountain of madness
Fascinating! I am an avid and ravenous fan of the works of H.P. Lovecraft (have been for nearly two decades); and yet I had never heard of THIS tale.
It hasn't been in ANY of the numerous compilations of his work that I have acquired.
Yet here it is; and the style/phraseology is unquestionably that belonging to the man himself.
Yes, Lord Funkbottom, "Arkham" figures prominently in both Batman AND the works of Lovecraft. Bob Cane unashamedly having borrowed that named township, or at least its infamous asylum.
I was also curious about this story, as I hadn't heard of it before, either. As it turns out, it was actually one of the tales written by August Derleth in 1967 using some notes and ideas left behind by Lovecraft himself.
Bob Kane.
Actually, it was Denny O'Neil who added Arkham Asylum to the Batman milieu. This was a later addition, during the 70s, and was, as you may have guessed was a deliberate Lovecraft reference.
Although that leads us to an interesting point of trivia. The editor during his run was one Julius Schwartz, who, years before, was the agent of one H.P. Lovecraft...
Phil Smith He must not have been a very good agent.
Lovecraft, a literary genius, died penniless and in agony and throughout his life he destroyed a lot of his work.
Well, really, it was only for one story. Schwarz got At the Mountains of Madness accepted by Astounding Stories.
The Bishop Family of Salem, Mass. was persecuted during the 1692 Witch Trials. Wife is a descendant.
Kinsman! My grandmothers maiden name is Nurse, after Rebecca Nurse, the Salem witch hung during The Burning Times. Her house was burned down. She was a healer. People know this shit actually happened right....? Good to know the Blood of Old Salem still runs through the veins of humanity 😉 lovecraft mentions us a few times
Wait, for real?
My father was cthulhu...no really
So she wiggled her nose and you were...
I wonder how many times you've been subjected to that comparison to Darrin from Bewitched. Probably more than 13.
I've read quite a few of the stories August Derleth completed from H.P Lovecraft's unfinished pieces (or those he wrote using Lovecraft's notes), and while many of them are very good, virtually all of them have the final pay-off paragraph written in italics, which, once you spot it, can be a bit annoying. The good thing about an audiobook reading is you can't hear them!
Lovercraft's stories interact
In obe hell of a web and I love it.
+raziel11 Thanks for listening!
Great reading of the story! Amazing voice
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depending on when this story was first published it seems Batman creator Mr Bob Cane was a fan of Lovecraft they both use Arkham as a frequent plot device and the phrase cowardly superstitious lot I know it's not much but crazier things have been true
Arkham Asylum was named after Lovecraft's Arkham.
Who else is here after they found a lead sarcophagus under the floor at Notre Dame Cathedral. Which was discovered after a fire damaged the roof and it came crashing down.
Cool story.
The narrator does seem to have a voice suited for Lovecraft though I.never heard Lovecraft . Strange story. Ends rather abruptly.
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Loved it !
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he went to far dug to deep which easilt happens in all of lovecrafts stories :)
How many stories are in this plot line of dunwich
+Kevin dunwich horror color out of space
"The Dunwich Horror"
"The Horror from the Middle Span"
"Witches' Hollow"
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
"The Shuttered Room"
my favorite Lovecraft narrator. Too bad i cant find his audiobooks for sale or download. Audible has someone else:/ Librivox is nogo 2
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Does anyone happen to know the name of this narrator
anonymous No it's Conrad Feininger
Nope,..Your Momma,?...I give.....
Strangely Brown. The third.
Conrad feinigner
Wayne June
What I have noticed with many other Lovecraft narrators on UA-cam is this belief that a brooding slow methodical reading somehow is required. I find most of Lovecrafts writing to be the opposite, much of his writing conveys unease and urgency, downright panic in some case. This narrator is excellent, speaking a pace that you could almost believe at time the narrator had to catch their breath, far superior to the Ian Gordons and Wayne June who I find the treatment of Lovecraft to be extraordinarily tiring, as if to say come the hell on already, that's how slow they narrate. Dudley Nights reading of Whisper in The Darkness is a great example of how Lovecraft should be read, you can almost imagine it is how he would have sounded himself.
Ian is really amazing in my humble opinion... I couldn't believe that he was so young when I finally actually saw a picture... for so young a man he is an extraordinarily gifted narrator.
I really liked Dudley Knight's reading, as well as Conrad and Gould's style of delivery. June is too plodding for my taste, and I cannot stand the delivery of Ian Gordon.
I liked the old thumbnails better
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thank you marty
So did the kid end up getting buried in the middle span too?
Yeah I often wondered about that too
I didn’t understand the ending Someone explain please?
Carlin Durfee i think there was a relation between the narrator’s ghouly great uncle’s disappearance & the destruction of the bridge over the Miskatonic River. The running water hemmed in the bad spirits or something?
the townspeople put the evil uncle into the middle span, covering him up with cement and rocks. They put a small elder sign into the building material to hold him in place, and as a further measure drew the star that was on the elder sign into the cement. The cement was very weathered, and the flood was able to wash it away.
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It's a shame Lovecraft fell for the old "scared-villagers-who-wont-say-jack-shit-but-act-like-dicks" trope.
...I bet he invented that trope.
Who is this great narrator?
Conrad Feininger.
Who's the narrator?
Ambrose Bishop
Ian Gordon
Wayne June
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the photo is less than happy-go-lucky.
LOL. :D
Sadly hpl was a less than happy person most of his life, there is a good biography on youtube i think on him. Sickly and unloved he died mostly in obscurity.
I want that demon chick
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Is it just me or does the narrator sound a little like Brit Hume?
Kinda sucks that Derleth put Lovecraft's name on this... work. The story itself isn't horrible, but it is very plainly NOT a Lovecraft story. It was only inspired by notes and story ideas Lovecraft had written down, if I remember correctly.
Derleth is a great publisher, but not a great author.
Agreed. At his best, Derleth was a poor man's Lovecraft.. a Lovecraft without prose. At his worst, he betrayed the Lovecraft mythos by ignorance of its nature.
NOT an H. P. Lovecraft story. August Derleth, writing as "Lovecraft" after Howard Lovecraft's death. It's clumsy story telling and lacks the subtile genius of true H. P. Lovecraft literature.
True. Lacks that tense moment when the protagonist realizes they're way-to-damn-close to strange and unspeakable horror. Instead he just follows the horror into a secret tunnel with relative nonchalance.
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