The Hound by H P Lovecraft
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Lovecraft writes a deliciously Gothic tale in the style of Edgar Allen Poe. We have all Lovecraft's over-the-top, ornate vocabulary, never picking an ordinary word when three weird ones will do. It's well done though and was fun to read out in an overly dramatic manner. Beware all ye! Doom cometh in the shape of a gigantic hound!
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I find Lovecraft's repetition of favourite adjectives kind of mood-creating like the discordant note in horror theatre that builds a kind of anticipation. I think his stuff is brilliant 😃
'They just need a slap' 🤣🤣🤣👍🏼❤️
I am lying in the dark, eyes closed, smiling at the words. I may not be in the mood for gothic, but the story is actually secondary to the words for me. What a contrast with popular language of today! And Walker's vocal lyricism makes it doubly delightful to my ears. I think I'm going to start calling my church "Sinjuns." And practice reading aloud so that I might thrill my grandchildren as I am thrilled.
One of the lasting things of Lovecraft's work is that on some level it's convincing. When you read something like the Shadow over Innsmouth, you can almost imagine it happening in some weird place which has not seen humankind, or some place deep in the mountains in a community that civilization has not really touched. Maybe it's because I've seen some of the kinds of places he writes about deep in Kentucky and Tennessee, and in the Catskill mountains; small out of the way places where the people are unfriendly, secretive and living in tin shacks and the roads are bristling with men with shotguns as soon as you take that wrong turn and enter that street. I can see some of his stories actually occurring there; in fact, maybe they have :)
It sounds very scary the way you describe it
@@ClassicGhost it actually was; I used to do sales in that area about 35 years ago, and my job entailed going from one small 1 horse town to another and approaching every business; there were many areas and neighborhoods where I was warned either not to go after dark or not to go at all (by natives)...not because of crime or gangs, but because these places were just "off". There was just something not right about them. I have been chased off of property by dogs though, and pulled onto roads by accident and been escorted back to the main road by men with guns (that was in the Catskill Mountains in N.Y.)
Lovecraft’s descriptive prose is unparalleled. If not for the pulp magazines we would have been deprived of his gift but having to format his writing to suit that genre was tragic. I’m so glad when writers of supernatural tales, yourself included, forgo the use of crude profanities coming from the unlikeliest of sources to enhance the gore. I’m far from prudish but this has become too common following Stephen King’s success. It’s no secret that his best work carries more sentiment. For every Shawshank, Greenmile, Stand by Me ( The Body) there are many turkeys consisting of failed adaptations of commercially successful novels, Thank you for your uploads I truly do appreciate them.
I was going back trying to find more stories you've narrated, Tony, and found this one I had somehow missed. It was creepy and dramatic and I loved it. You really have the perfect voice for it and your sense of timing when you read really adds to the creepiness. I anxiously await your new reads each week.
You say nice things. Thank you. Yes I like this story because it’s so over dramatic. It doesn’t get many views really though. I do t know why
Lovecraft is just over the top. If he was around current days you know he would be making gory videogames like Doom. What I like about him though is that he does something that most writers didn't. He tried to use the reader's imagination against themselves. Having the story vague does help with that but his own descriptions are a bit of his undoing with his repeated expressions.
Appreciate the UK pronunciation of St. John. I never phonetisized the name when I read it, and the first spoken version I ever heard was Roddy McDowall. The Americanized version (Saint John) sounds odd to me even now. I'm sure HP would approve, Anglophile that he was.
I'm sure that HP would say Sinjen. I used to work with a man called Christopher St John Bird, known as Kit of course. HP uses UK spellings too.
For an American he had a very firm grasp of the English pronunciation of the English language.....he was very fine tuned into what made people click & his works exemplify that very very well
HP Lovecraft is without a doubt 1 of the best horror writers to ever have lived this? #audiobook is a very good example of his works my favourite is....at the mouth of madness.....truly spine tingling
Sometimes we read these past imaginative tales without remembrance of time and illumination. For the lovely candle lit room brought humanity to it’s knees; oh, how I worship the flame, the fire.
I think this is one of Lovecraft’s stories that echoes Poe pretty closely. Lovely! It reminds me of The Fall of the House of Usher.
Fantastic, many thanks :)
Actually, the part of the story that I find particularly sad is the death of his friend. The narrator dies before this becomes a question, but where are you going to find another friend who also enjoys dead bodies and grave robbing? Once his friend dies, he is all alone.
It’s true. though if he lived today there would be a group on facebook he could join
Steal’s headstone 🪦 and calls himself an artist 😂
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As someone with 2 suicides in my immediate line-I find the reference to ‘blow out my brains’ which appears in under the first minute-disturbing. Will not listen to anymore.
Cry 😭
less is more
You tell old H P L that