Tag: H.P. Lovecraft

New Radio Theatre by HPL Historical Society

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

HPLHS - H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror - audio dramaThe H.P.Lovecraft Historical Society (HPLHS) has posted an announcement that they are producing the Dunwich Horror as an audio drama:

“An all-new 1930s-style radio adaptation, complete with the kind of excellent bonus features you’ve come to expect from HPLHS! It’s coming. Really. Soon.”

This will be a follow up to their adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness (which was one of the prizes in the 2nd Annuall SFFaudio Challenge). There is not much more info yet but we’ll keep you apprised.

[Vielen dank Carsten]

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Maria Lectrix podcasts: The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

I seem to easily fall for Catholic podcasters of the female persuasion. For evidence of this witness the recent addition of Julie D. (of the Forgotten Classics podcast) to the SFFaudio staff. More evidence comes in the form of my many missives about Maureen O’Brien (AKA Maria Lectrix). Maureen’s been podcasting SF, Fantasy, and Horror for even longer than Julie! The last project of hers that attracted my capricious ears was her unabridged reading of Despoilers Of The Golden Empire by Randall Garrett (read all about that awesome podcast audiobook HERE). But Maureen’s latest project will likely garner even more attention, if only for the name attached to it! Maureen writes:

“The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath isn’t much like a typical Lovecraft story. It starts with a scene that’s pretty, not soul-shattering, eerie, or rugous and tentacular. But Lovecraftian elements (the Other Gods from Outside) are present, the main character is also the hero of other stories, the cats of Ulthar make their presence felt, and so forth. You get a lot of Dunsany-inspired writing (and sly side-remarks), too; but this isn’t a story that Dunsany really would have told. (Especially not the friendly and heroic cat parts).”

podcast audiobook - The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. LovecraftThe Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Maureen O’Brien
Podcast – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Maria Lectrix
Podcast: May 2008 – ????
Randolph Carter dreams three times of a majestic sunset city, but each time he is abruptly snatched away before he can see it up close. When he prays to the gods of dream to reveal the whereabouts of the phantasmal city, they do not answer. Undaunted, Carter resolves to go to Kadath, where the gods live, to beseech them in person. However, no one has ever been to Kadath and none even knows how to get there. In dream, Randolph Carter descends “the seventy steps to the cavern of flame” and speaks of his plan to the priests Nasht and Kaman-Thah, whose temple borders the Dreamlands. The priests warn Carter of the great danger of his quest.

Part one is already in the podcast feed, no word on when it’ll wrap up, but you can keep apprised by subscribing to the podcast via this feed:

http://marialectrix.wordpress.com/feed

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The Classic Tales Podcast: The Lurking Fear by H.P. Lovecraft

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

The Classic Tales PodcastThe Classic Tales Podcast, and its host B.J. Harrison, feature unabridged classics you’ll be sure to dig. All the standouts, Poe, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Hawthorne, Stevenson, and Hardy are present, but there are lesser known authors represented too. The latest two podcast feature one sure to please SFFaudio readers: H.P. Lovecraft’s The Lurking Fear!

You can subscribe to the podcast via this feed:

http://classictales.podshowcreator.com/feed.aspx?feedid=1258

The Lurking Fear by H.P. LovecraftThe Lurking Fear
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by B.J. Harrison
2 MP3s – Approx. 68 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: The Classic Tales Podcast
Podcast: May 2008
The Lurking Fear. The Silent Death. Thunder calls it forth. It moves without detection. It kills without mercy. It terrorizes a mountainside. No one knows why, and no one knows exactly how, but when the heavens bellow their thunder, human lives are lost. Is it the ghost of an unavenged man? Is it a wolf beast, obeying the primal call of heaven? One diligent reporter finds out, and the knowledge drives him to delirium.

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Audio Realms an update

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Audio RealmsThough fairly quiet of late, Audio Realms has been busy recording some classic SF, Fantasy and Horror that we’ll be telling you a lot more about very soon. The ringleader there, Fred Godsmark, says he’ll be following up the recently released Andre Norton novel “Voodoo Planet” (details of which have just been added to our ANDRE NORTON author’s page) with an unabridged release of Norton’s The Time Traders!

Audio Realms recently won accolades for their 2007 release called Little Fuzzy. That’s H. Beam Piper’s best loved novel! The acclaim came from none other than Publisher’s Weekly magazine! Little Fuzzy won “Best Fantasy AudioBook for 2007!”

Currently available from this Audio Realms are classics like:

The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Out of Time’s Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Further, a new “urban horror” imprint of Audio Realms saw the release of two sure fire hits:

Hide And Seek by Jack Ketchum and
The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon

And their popular Dark Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft series is up to Volume 6 now too! But it doesn’t all end there. The near future portends even more goodies:

The Rising by Brian Keene
The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Things That Are Not There by C.J. Henderson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
People Of The Dark by Robert E. Howard (this includes a Conan story, Queen Of The Black Coast)

And even a Weird Tales collection!

Fred’s going to be sending review copies of a lot of these. That will make some serious internecine fighting in the SFFaudio review clubhouse. Which reminds me, I need to add some more obsidian shards to the end of my club.

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Stories by H.P. Lovecraft and Amelia B. Edwards

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Gisburne.comNick Gisburne, author and YouTuber, is posting self-read audiobooks to his website. Among them, two Lovecraft shorts!

The Beast in the Cave
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Nick Gisburne
1 |MP3| – [UNABRIDGED?]
Never stray from the path. If you do, you might find you’re not alone.

The Cats of Ulthar
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Nick Gisburne
1 |MP3| – [UNABRIDGED?]
Always be kind to animals. If you’re not, anything could happen.

The Phantom Coach
By Amelia B. Edwards; Read by Nick Gisburne
1 |MP3| – [UNABRIDGED?]
While lost in a snowstorm, a man is picked up by a mysterious coach. – A classic Victorian ghost story.

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BBC7 – Asimov, Lovecraft, Follet, Chesterton

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

BBC Radio 7 - BBC7Re-runs don not suck at all when they are this good! Today and for the week coming there starts a new batch of terrific old shows on BBC7. And remember there is a promise of ahead of some Arthur C. Clarke too…

“Gimmicks Three” and “Light Verse”
By Isaac Asimov; Read by William Roberts
1 Part – [UNABRIDGED?]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Saturday at 6pm and midnight
A mild mannered elderly lady behaves completely out of character when her house-guest goes behind her back and fixes Max – her malfunctioning robotic manservant.

An oldie but a goodie (if goodie means Eldritch)…

The Tomb
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Ryan McCluskey
1 Part – [UNABRIDGED?]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Sunday at 6.30pm and 12.30am
First published in 1917, this is a disturbing and Gothic tale by the influential horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft. Jervas Dudley narrates his story from an asylum, describing the sinister events leading up to his incarceration.

A 1978 BBC Radio 4 production…

The Destruction Factor
By James Follett; Performed by a full cast
5 Parts – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Monday to Friday at 6pm and midnight
This ecological sci-fi tale, very much ahead of its time, is written by the man behind Earthsearch, novelist James Follet. Ralph Exon has created a new strain of plant for an international fertiliser corporation. It’s hoped that this “mutation” will bring relief to the famine ridden countries of the world. In itself, the plant looks quite innocent, but within it, there lurks…. the Destruction Factor.

And a complete novel, in its entirety…

The Man Who Was Thursday
By G.K. Chesterton; Read by Geoffrey Palmer
5 Parts – [UNABRIDGED]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Monday to Friday at 6.30pm and 12.30am
Written in 1908, is an extravaganza presuming the existence in Edwardian London of a secret society of anarchists sworn to destroy the world. There are seven members of the Central Anarchists Council who, for reasons of security, call themselves after the days of the week. Events soon cast a doubt upon their real identities, however, for Thursday is not the passionate young poet he appears to be, but a Scotland Yard detective. Who, and what, are the others then? The author unravels this surreal part-fantasy, part-thriller in his own inventive and exuberant way, using the nightmare of paradox and surprise to probe the mysteries of human behaviour and belief.

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