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LibriVox: Collected Public Domain Works of H.P. Lovecraft

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Now here is a surprise! A brand new collection of public domain H. P. Lovecraft stories read by a devoted team of LibriVox readers. Many of these have been released by LibriVox before, in various collections, and with different readers. This will be handy for podcast listeners who want to have quick access to stories that will freak their heads off. 24 tales by the master of the mind-blasting macabre. No podcast feed is up yet, but I expect that will change shortly.

Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by various
25 Zipped MP3 Files – Approx. 7 Hours 40 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: October 17, 2008
H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. This collection contains 24 Lovecraft works that are in the public domain. You’ll find more versions of these stories throughout LibriVox’s short story collections and short horror story collections.

The Alchemist
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by: Keith Worrell
1 |MP3| – Approx. 19 [UNABRIDGED]

The Beast In The Cave
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Scott Carpenter
1 |MP3| – Approx. 14 [UNABRIDGED]

Beyond the Wall of Sleep
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by D.E. Wittkower
1 |MP3| – Approx. 33 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Cats of Ulthar
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by jpontoli

1 |MP3| – Approx. 9 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Celephais
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Garrett Fitzgerald

1 |MP3| – Approx. 20 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Crawling Chaos
1 |MP3| – Approx. 17 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Joseph Canna

Dagon
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Michael Sample
1 |MP3| – Approx. 15 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Doom That Came to Sarnath
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by: Matt Bohnhoff
1 |MP3| – Approx. 18 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Ex Oblivione
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by jpontoli
1 |MP3| – Approx. 5 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by: Victoria Horsman
1 |MP3| – Approx. 34 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Herbert West: Reanimator
2 MP3s – Approx. 80 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by: Matt Bohnhoff
Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3|

Memory
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Varra Unreal
1 |MP3| – Approx. 3 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Music of Erich Zann
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Cameron Halket
1 |MP3| – Approx. 19 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Nameless City
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Scott Carpenter
1 |MP3| – Approx. 28 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Nyarlathotep
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Durant Haire
1 |MP3| – Approx. 8 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Picture in the House
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Sandra Zera
1 |MP3| – Approx. 24 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Polaris
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by jpontoli
1 |MP3| – Approx. 10 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

A Reminiscence Of Dr. Samuel Johnson
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Cameron Halket
1 |MP3| – Approx. 12 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Statement of Randolph Carter
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Joseph Canna
1 |MP3| – Approx. 13 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Street
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Sarah Jennings
1 |MP3| – – 00:14:31 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Terrible Old Man
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Keith Worrell
1 |MP3| – Approx. 7 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Tomb
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by jpontoli
1 |MP3| – Approx. 26 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Tree
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Michael Sample
1 |MP3| – Approx. 11 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The White Ship
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by D.E. Wittkower
1 |MP3| – Approx. 20 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Posted by Jesse Willis

“Re-Animator” in a “Conan” situation

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The io9 blog has a story related to our Broken Sea vs. CPI stories |LINK 1|Link 2| we’ve been running. A corp named Re-Animator LLC has sent a Cease and Desist order, and claimed trademark protection on, the word “Re-Animator” and “is fighting comic book companies from publishing anything having to do with the term.” Re-Animator LLC trademarked the word in 2005. Which is several years after the first two Re-Animator movies were released and nearly 90 years since it was first written by H.P. Lovecraft.

[via Lost Carcosa]

Posted by Jesse Willis

HPLHS has more Lovecraft audio drama coming

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Carsten Schmitt has some interesting news about the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society‘s Dark Adventure Radio Theatre:

After publishing “The Dunwich Horror” quite recently, the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s “Dark Adventure Radio Theatre” has announced the publication of yet another (audio) dramatization of one of the Grandmaster’s stories. “The Shadow Out of Time” will be available from October 1st 2008 on CD and as an MP3 download. As usual, it can be expected that the CD will not only feature the audio drama but also a host of goodies, like “authentic” (i.e. fake) newspaper clippings and photos. And its getting even better! Already announced is an adaption of probably one of the most popular and well-known stories of Lovecraft, “The Shadow over Innsmouth“. To prove that this not only a Cthulhuists wet dream DART have put up a production diary, including a seven minute “behind the scenes video”, which not only shows the actors in the recording studio but also provides some glimpses into the dialogue for the coming “The Shadow over Innsmouth“. Seems like times are looking good for Lovecraftian audio theatre. Fhtagn!

Cool, and Carsten promises a review of the “The Dunwich Horror” too!

Posted by Jesse Willis

BBC7: The Scarifyers – The Nazad Conspiracy

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The Scarifyers: The Nazad Conspiracy (2006)
3 episodes beginning on Sunday, September 7 at 1800GMT
Starring Nicholas Courtney and Terry Molloy
Written and directed by Simon Barnard
Produced by Cosmic Hobo Productions

Detective Inspector Lionheart, veteran (don’t say old!) crime-fighter based at Whitechapel police station, and Edward Dunning, professor of Ancient History at London University (and prolific writer of ghost stories), become, somewhat unwittingly, paranormal investigators for the “very new” MI-13.

Dunning & Lionheart Aided by, among others, Aleister Crowley, “the wickedest man in the world,” Lionheart and Dunning must follow enigmatic and often ghastly clues, infiltrate mysterious secret cults and foil the darkest of diabolical plots against England and humanity.

But not without a grand sense of British humor. The Scarifyers, set in the late 1930’s, combines deadpan wit and Lovecraftian themes with the result being nothing short of hilarious. The writing is charming, delicious, surprising and never cornball, and the character performances are superb. Indeed, it’s my favorite audio play series in years.

The Nazad Conspiracy is the first Scarifyers adventure.

Christmas 1936.

Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy) doesn’t believe in the supernatural. So he’s more than surprised when an invisible winged demon appears in his drawing room.

The Metropolitan Police’s longest-serving officer, Inspector Lionheart (Nicholas Courtney), doesn’t believe in the supernatural either, wings or no wings. So he’s less than impressed when Russian emigres begin dying impossible deaths all over London.

Together, Lionheart and Dunning must face quarrelsome Generals, sinister clowns and Russian demons as they unravel THE NAZAD CONSPIRACY.

The first episode of The Nazad Conspiracy will air on Sunday, September 7 at 1800GMT in the 7th Dimension time slots. Episodes 2 and 3 will follow on consecutive Sundays. Listen to the trailer for the show here.

The Scarifyers is produced by Cosmic Hobo Productions and stars Nicholas Courtney as Lionheart and Terry Molloy as Dunning. Many will remember Courtney as Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (The Brigadier), and Molloy as Davros (creator of the evil Daleks), both from the Doctor Who TV series (and the occasional Big Finish production). Also, David Benson, “man of a thousand voices,” appears as the reoccurring character, Aleister Crowley, always giving a memorable and “spirited” performance.

For more information about The Scarifyers, including actor bios, character and story info, announcements, downloadable content, and series ordering info –3 adventures so far: The Nazad Conspiracy, The Devil of Denge Marsh (2007) & For King and Country (2008)– be sure to stop by the Cosmic Hobo Productions website.

And if you want to hear the best radio show theme song since Dick Barton: Special Agent, check out The Scarifyers theme by Edwin Sykes here!

Posted by RC of RTSF

New Releases – Lovecraft, Pohl, Williamson, del Rey, Smith

New Releases

[editor’s note-A slew of releases from my audiobook company, Wonder Audio. A nice range of titles that I’m proud to present. Vintage Stories+Classic Authors+Great Narrators=Massive Goodness :) ]

Preferred Risk
By Frederik Pohl & Lester del Rey; Read by Mark Douglas Nelson
7 hrs. – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Wonder Audio
Availiable at Audible and iTunes

The Company was a powerful, efficient, and monstrous insurance organization that controlled the entire world, scientifically regulating everything in life: war, epidemics, one-a-day food pills and test-tube sex…all through the use of its patented, terrifying human deep-freeze vault.

Claims Adjuster Wills, a great believer in the Company, begins to have second thoughts when he meets beautiful and sorrowful Rena, whose radical father lies in a frozen subterranean vault.

Scanner Live in Vain
By Cordwainer Smith; Read by Jeremiah Costello
1.5 hrs. – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Wonder Audio
Availiable at Audible and iTunes

Man has conquered space, but not without costs. To maintain the space lanes, Scanners have to undergo an operation in which their brain is severed from their sensory inputs to block the Pain of Space. Martel has made this sacrifice. He must monitor his vital functions via implanted dials and instruments in his chest. His only respite from this isolated existence is his ability to occasionally “cranch” and return to some sort of normalcy with his wife, Luci. But now a man named Adam Stone has claimed that he has a found a way to travel in the deep of space without the use of the Scanners. Through the twisted logic of the community of Scanners, it is decided that Adam Stone must die. Martel, while cranched, realizes the madness of that solution and that all Scanners live in vain!

Wolves of Darkness
By Jack Williamson; Read by William Coon
3 hrs. – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Wonder Audio
Availiable at Audible and iTunes

When Clovis McLaurin receives an urgent letter from his father, Dr. Ford McLaurin, he rushes in the dead of winter to his father’s ranch. Clovis arrives to find the local townspeople being attacked and killed by a pack of wolves. As he journeys to the ranch of his father, a scientist who has been doing revolutionary experiments, he is also attacked.

But wolves are not the only thing running with the pack. Stella Jetton, the daughter of his father’s assistant, is running with the wolves, dressed in only a silk slip in the bitter cold. Clovis recognizes the blood-stained face of the girl he loves, but not her eyes. How could his father’s experiment have untapped the unimaginable horror that Clovis is about to confront?

The Colour Out of Space
by H.P. Lovecraft; read by Mark Douglas Nelson
1.5 hrs- [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Wonder Audio
Availiable at Audible and iTunes

As a man surveys the countryside for the construction of a reservoir, he comes across a stretch of barren farmland leeched of life. An aged survivor of the town tells him the tale of a rural farmer’s family and their path to madness and unspeakable horror.

Lovecraft considered “The Colour Out of Space” to be the best of all his stories. Originally appearing in the September 1927 issue of Amazing Stories, it is one of his most frequently anthologized tales.

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AUDIO REALMS: Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft

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By all the demons of the sea, I have stupendously wondrous news!

Audio Realms has begun its long awaited podcast!

I don’t think there has ever been a podcast I’ve been more excited about. Each week the AR podcast will present tales from their truly awesome audiobook catalogue. Future releases, all in unabridged form, will also include “interviews, related news and preview clips of upcoming productions.” Expect to hear short stories and “full length productions in serialized segments.” Authors in the Audio Realms catalog include: H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Andre Norton and Lin Carter! Check out the first podcast, taken from The Dark Worlds Of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2. I’m of the opinion that it will forever be the DEFINITIVE reading of…

Dagon
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Wayne June
1 |MP3| – Approx. 16 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Audio Realms Podcast
Podcast: August 12th 2008
The testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide over an incident that occurred early on in World War I when he was a merchant marine officer.

Subscribe to the podcast feed:

http://www.audiorealms.com/audiorealmspodcast.rss

Posted by Jesse Willis