Harper Audio was founded in 1952 under the name “Caedmon.” Harper Audio still occasionally publishes under its Caedmon label but its real heyday was in the late 1970s. Uniquely, the back of each album featured unique liner notes typically written specifically for the LP. Witness this vintage magazine ad (from Unearth, Spring 1978):
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Alternate World Recordings was a record company releasing spoken word vinyl LP albums and cassettes, featuring SFF authors reading (or interpreting) mostly their own works. Here’s a magazine ad from a mag published in late 1977 (Unearth, Winter 1978):
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The Canal by H.P. Lovecraft is a short 1932 poem usually published as a part of the “Fungi from Yuggoth” sequence. Some printings mistakenly change the last word from “clay” to “day.”
The Canal by H.P. Lovecraft
Somewhere in dream there is an evil place
Where tall, deserted buildings crowd along
A deep, black, narrow channel, reeking strong
Of frightful things whence oily currents race.
Lanes with old walls half meeting overhead
Wind off to streets one may or may not know,
And feeble moonlight sheds a spectral glow
Over long rows of windows, dark and dead.There are no footfalls, and the one soft sound
Is of the oily water as it glides
Under stone bridges, and along the sides
Of its deep flume, to some vague ocean bound.
None lives to tell when that stream washed away
Its dream-lost region from the world of clay.
There was a very very loose comics adaptation of The Canal found in Richard Corben’s Marvel Max series H.P. Lovecraft’s Haunt of Horror (issue 2):
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Fred Greenhalgh, of Final Rune Productions (and Radio Drama Revival podcast) moderates this “virtual panel” entitled The Future Of Audio Drama – and though this thing needs serious editing, (not everybody has headphones) it does have the virtue of being brand new, recorded live from 3pm-4pm EDT, August 30th, 2013.
Participants include: Clare Eden (Minister of Chance), Christof Laputka (Leviathan Chronicles), Monique Boudreau (Aural Stage Studios), Joel Metzger (Hothouse Bruiser)
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Harlan Ellison, host of Hour 25, talks to D. Scott Rogo and David Alexander about psychics, spoon benders, séances, and other bunk paranormal phenomena. From October 31, 1986.
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Hour 25, hosted by Harlan Ellison, October 24, 1986 – guest Robert Silverberg.
[via SFSignal.com]
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