“I keep forgetting to post this damnable thing, but here’s the complete Roddy McDowall Lovecraft reading…”
Roddy McDowall Reads The Horror Stories Of H.P. Lovecraft:
The Outsider / The Hound
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Roddy McDowall
1 LP – Approx. 42 Minutes [UNABRIDGED?]
Publisher: Lively Arts (Prestige Records)
Published: 1962? or 1963?
Product #: LA 30003
Includes: The Outsider |MP3| and The Hound |MP3|
Necronomicons: The Scariest Book in the World
By Dan Harms
1 |MP3| – Approx. 79 Minutes [LECTURE]
Provider: Yog-Sothoth.com
Recorded: May 28th, 2009 The Necronomicon was once the most famous book that never existed – until a few decades ago, when the first copies appeared on the market. From Lovecraft to Grant to… well, you name it! This is the story of their non-existence, their existence, and their secret stories. Dan Harms reveals the history of these books, their relevance in the broader current of the grimoire tradition, and their impact upon magical practice. Recorded at Treadwell’s bookshop, London.
Congratulation Julie! 19 Nocturne Boulevard is a podcast audio drama anthology series. Among the episodes are several dramatized H.P. Lovecraft adaptations. These are Chillin’ (a modernization of Cool Air), Within the Walls of Eryx, and The Temple. Julie also hints of several more Lovecraftian pieces in the works.
And for those who like me, were wondering, here’s the hidden podcast feed for the show:
A short video of city lover China Mieville talking about H.P. Lovecraft’s The Horror Of Red Hook (which is set in New York City). Lovecraft didn’t like living in NYC.
Lovecraft spelled out his inspiration for The Horror At Red Hook in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith:
“The idea that black magic exists in secret today, or that hellish antique rites still exist in obscurity, is one that I have used and shall use again. When you see my new tale The Horror at Red Hook, you will see what use I make of the idea in connexion with the gangs of young loafers & herds of evil-looking foreigners that one sees everywhere in New York.” -from H. P. Lovecraft, Selected Letters Vol. 2
Lovecraft’s wife, Sonia Greene, wrote of her husband’s xenophobia:
“Whenever we found ourselves in the racially mixed crowds which characterize New York, Howard would become livid with rage. He seemed almost to lose his mind.”
-From Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos
And here is a reading of the story itself…
The Horror Of Red Hook
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by April Sadowski
1 |MP3| – Approx. 45 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Broken Sea Audio Productions
Podcast: October 2008 Red Hook is a mysterious slum in New York City, full of gangs, crime, and just perhaps a terrible cult. Detective Malone had a case that had tendrils extending into Red Hook. It seems that one Robert Suydam, a corpulent and scruffy recluse, has been looking younger, more radiant and prosperous. What does that have to do with the recent spate of kidnappings? First published in the January 1927 issue of Weird Tales.
Over the past few years I’ve bought more than a dozen of DVDs featuring episodes of Masters Of Horror. MOH was a cable TV show that brought together Horror stories and Horror filmmakers in hour-long formats. Several of these shows were rather lame – but a few were very good or even excellent.
Three episodes that were rather good were adapted from public domain stories…
The Dreams In The Witch House
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by MorganScorpion
2 MP3 Files – Approx. 90 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Provider: Archive.org
Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3|
Written in January/February 1932, it was first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales. Apparently this story was “heavily influenced by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s unfinished novel Septimius Felton.”
The Damned Thing
By Ambrose Bierce; Read by Greg Elmensdorp
1 |MP3| – Approx. 21 Minutes
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: September 4, 2006
First published in 1893.
The Black Cat
By Edgar Allan Poe; Read by Ralph Snelson
1 |MP3| – Approx. 27 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: April 11, 2008
First published in the August 19th, 1843, issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
The Bradford Players present Lovecraftian Tales from the Table
This DVD-ROM contains hours and HOURS of entertainment. Listen as the Bradford players play the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. I haven’t heard all of this yet, but it is PACKED with features – 8 Gigabytes!
* Both HotOE & Masks games at the highest quality MP3s available. Many hours of entertainment audio.
* Interviews with the game and adventure developers including Sandy Petersen (author of Call of Cthulhu), Greg Stafford (founder of Chaosium), Charlie Krank (Head of Chaosium), Larry DiTillio (author of Masks of Nyarlathotep) and members of the Cthulhu Conglomerate (authors of Horror on the Orient Express).
* Quick Start Start Guide to Call of Cthulhu and PDF character sheets.
* Music by Alex Otterlei (HotOE) and Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.
* Photo Gallery and Player & Keeper interviews.
* Prop Documents by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
* Artwork by Earl Geier, Eric M. Smith, Francois Launet and others.
* “Best of” Yog Radio (including interviews with Robin “Wicker Man” Hardy & Bob “Dr. Phibes” Fuest).
* Post-game discussions by the players of both HotOE and Masks.
* Videos, handouts, previously unreleased extras and easter eggs!
* The Freeport Trilogy and Cults of Freeport gaming supplements by Green Ronin Publishing.
* 8 page full colour DVD booklet designed by the HPLHS.
Roddy McDowall Reads The Horror Stories Of H.P. Lovecraft:
The Dreams In The Witch House
