Of all the Lovecraft crowd, this narrator ,to me, reads the Nuance and Brilliance of the Authors words...almost as if HP was reading it back to himself..
Fantastic book for imaginative minds! When reading or listening to this you'd serve yourself well to picture it in your minds eye. It's best if you listen to the audiobook or have some read it to you because it allows you to close your eyes and let your imagination paint the pictures for you. Each time you hear the story, the more the pictures get completed with the detail that is given. If your comprehension is quick then you'll have a more accurate look at the picture than most, especially the first time hearing it. My pictures get more complete the more I listen to the story until I can almost paint it....if I could paint lol
Something about the low-quality almost vintage sound really ads a lot to the atmosphere imo feels like you're listening on an old radio during a thunder storm way back when
It kinda does. As it happens, I know where this is from. It's from a tape made by the braille library, and the dubbing to digital was done with a program that tried getting rid of any tape hiss, thus the older sound. The braille library does have a much clearer version of this collection, but this is kinda neat, it feels slightly decayed.
As a blind listener I love his voice it is so clear in every sentence! Lovecraft is my favorite horror writer and I wish authors today would write such good tales as these!
I don't mean to pry, but I am curious. Lovecraft's stories typically get their horror from things that are beyond comprehension or impossible to physically define. Does that make the stories particularly accessible to a blind reader/listener?
@@afterthefiction6302 Yes because we do not have a way to understand the world except through our 4 senses. I should be clear I have limited sight in my right eye but for me hearing is more important then seeing.
As a registered blind listener myself Stephen King and a wonderful tale from the anthology Night Shift called Jerusalem’s lot. This is a prequel to Salem‘s lot. It’s on RU-vid. The narrator is Colin Fox who does a outstanding excellent job of reading this fantastic tale. It’s about an hour and 29 minutes long and it is pure perfection. Every nuance syllable is perfect. I can’t remember the name of the channel. But just put into The search box upper right hand corner Jerusalem’s lot and it will come up and I think you will not disagree with my assessment of the Lovecraftian style of writing and the Shakespearean like delivery.
i don't mean this as a knock against the narrator, but i can't help but feel like some of the monstrous alien-speech is far better left in print than it is spoken aloud. "ygnaiih....ygnaiih..." becoming "nay... nay...." when spoken aloud ... i feel like something is lost in translation a bit.
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I have long since grown sick and tired of the mis-pronunciation of the name "Dunwich" by absolutely everybody. It is my pet peeve. This is an English name and it ought to be pronounced in the English manner. Lovecraft was English to the hilt and at his very core. It's "Dunnidge", not "Dunn-Witch". For Greenwich, we don't say "Green-Witch", but Grennidge.
@@ciaranlynch3757 Yes, but he strongly identified himself with England. He was an Anglophile. Also his ancestry was predominantly English, and so was everything about him. He felt like an "Outsider" in his place and time, as though he did not belong there, in North America.
@@superal68 Then why don't they pronounce Dunwich correctly, in the English way, as an English place name, the way it ought to be spoken? I did notice some Africans in America, though. As well as some Latinos. I saw some the other day, and they were categorically NOT of English ancestry.
@@alneu4436 HP love craft fit perfectly in the North East of Ancient America. His stories showcase how age of architectural history was so prevalent to where one lives. His technique in describing the lower cases of Appalachia uneducated man and woman compared to the coastal educated person who was always seeking to find his origin. When finding it they discovered they wish they haven’t. HP is pure American 🇺🇸
