Hello listeners, Dave here again and welcome
to another installment of Literary Listening,
a project in which I select a work of literature
from the public domain, for now I’m choosing
American short stories, I record and publish
a reading of it, and preface it with a post
like this one. Until now, I’ve chosen from
what could be called the canon of American
literary classics. This time, I’m venturing
into the strange, taking a look at the founder
of the “Cosmic Horror” genre. Oddly enough,
I never encountered any work by H.P. Lovecraft
throughout my education, notwithstanding the
fact that I had taken a course entitled “science
fiction literature”, back in college. It
was only quite recently that I was convinced
by some friends that he merited some attention,
some of my attention--that I would like him.
I wonder what that says about the company
I keep? Or about what they think of me? To
start with Lovecraft, I’ve chosen The Cats
of Ulthar. It’s Lovecraft light, and it
seems to me that it’s not a bad place to
get your feet wet with him. Regarding name
pronunciation, I’m just reading out what’s
intuitive to me. This is a very short story
and doesn’t seem to involve naming of the
major standing figures in his mythology. There’s
a link to the full text in the description
here and on the next video (the reading of
the story). Click the card on the screen to
jump right to it or it should be the next
in auto-play if you used the playlist link.
I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for listening!
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