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The HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast presents... readings of The Hound and The Temple.
posted by Artw (14 comments total) 23 users marked this as a favorite
 
Besides these neat readings these guys also do a really good job of making a high production values podcast. They are continents apart and (i guess) talk via Skype but there's none of the bad voice quality and no unprofessional pause - simultaneous speaking - pause stuff that other podcasts suffer from.
posted by patrick54 at 11:18 PM on March 29, 2012


Thanks for that!
posted by New England Cultist at 2:54 AM on March 30, 2012 [1 favorite]


Softheaded Rhinelanders will doubtless descend into gibbering madness at this production. But I, and my superior Prussian blood, do greatly appreciate this.
posted by Kandarp Von Bontee at 4:40 AM on March 30, 2012 [4 favorites]


Fantastic! I see there are a couple of other new (to me) readings since the last time I looked. Really good stuff.
posted by usonian at 5:49 AM on March 30, 2012


patrick54, I think that's because they record both ends individually and then edit them back together for the actual podcast.
posted by scolbath at 6:25 AM on March 30, 2012


They're just about done with working their way through the Lovecraft canon. I'm actually interested in seeing how they'll continue the podcast. It's become a staple of my drives to work on Thursdays.
posted by KingEdRa at 6:34 AM on March 30, 2012 [1 favorite]


I love the production values of their readings--they do top-notch work, especially with the sound design/background. Subtle, haunting, creepy. And Andrew Leman is my favorite reader of theirs...I could listen to him for hours. Oh wait, I guess I have.
posted by theatro at 7:41 AM on March 30, 2012




They're just about done with working their way through the Lovecraft canon. I'm actually interested in seeing how they'll continue the podcast. It's become a staple of my drives to work on Thursdays.


They should do Robert E Howard, or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle next. There's so much great pulp from the beginning of the twentieth century.
posted by Stagger Lee at 7:56 AM on March 30, 2012 [1 favorite]


Lord Dunsany! They should do Lord Dunsany!
posted by drezdn at 8:58 AM on March 30, 2012 [2 favorites]


While other pulp authors might not be bad, I think Lovecraft is their particular area of interest. Maybe they could be convinced to do other Cthulhu Mythos works? They're not afraid to say when a story doesn't work for them, and it might be nice to get their take on, say, August Derleth and his faults.
posted by JHarris at 9:26 AM on March 30, 2012


Working through Derleth's 1969 Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos anthology might be more interesting than working through the entirety of Derleth's stodgy output - it's a good cross section of post-Lovecraft writing, it introduces a bunch of secondary Mythos beasties and doodads that have become establishing in the RPG and elsewhere, and has some great stories by Frank Belknap Long, Robert Bloch and Colin Wilson. Plus Derleth's contributions pretty much epitomise what he was about, for better or worse.
posted by Artw at 10:51 AM on March 30, 2012 [1 favorite]


The reverse tack I guess would be to go through Lovecraft's Supernatural Horror in Literature and cover his influences. I tried to put together some links to them here, but there's loads more, it'd keep them going for some time.
posted by Artw at 11:46 AM on March 30, 2012


Did someone say Andrew Leman?
(Had to)
posted by whorl at 9:34 PM on March 30, 2012


Cacodaemoniacal ghastliness, Old School:
Roddy McDowall Reads The Horror Stories Of H.P. Lovecraft: The Outsider / The Hound
posted by 0rison at 12:31 PM on March 31, 2012 [2 favorites]


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