Reading: "The Festival," H.P. Lovecraft
Happy New Year, cats and kittens! Here's a recording of me reading a story for you.
"The Festival," by H.P. Lovecraft. It's 28 min 54 sec, link goes to my Soundcloud page.
Notes:
I'm hoping to record more short stories for public consumption in the near future, so I would LOVE some feedback. Tell me what didn't work for you and what you want me to fix, and/or what you liked and want more of.
I'm taking requests. If you want me to read a short story and post it here, this is the time to comment and say so. It has to be in the public domain, and I reserve the right to turn down stories with subject matter I find distasteful. Other than that, I'm up for anything.
OH--also, I'm actively looking for stories by women writers of weird fiction and horror, with an eye towards similar readings. Please recommend your favorites to me. Again, I'm most interested in public domain stories for this purpose. The ones whom I know best are Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Shirley Jackson, and I intend to explore their work first. There must have been additional women writing supernatural horror and weird fiction in the past few hundred years.
So, "The Festival," by H.P. Lovecraft (1923). Read the story in print here:
www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/f.aspx
Intro and closing music: a tiny excerpt from "Drive the Cold Winter Away," performed here by the Rose Ensemble, used without permission. The tune appears in John Playford's 1651 publication "The English Dancing Master." Listen to the full song here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcvyiP3YL…uz7WwV6O0nJ1mxbkw
The accompanying image is from the Wikimedia Commons images of Marblehead, MA, showing an anonymous picture postcard view of that city.
"The Festival," by H.P. Lovecraft. It's 28 min 54 sec, link goes to my Soundcloud page.
Notes:
I'm hoping to record more short stories for public consumption in the near future, so I would LOVE some feedback. Tell me what didn't work for you and what you want me to fix, and/or what you liked and want more of.
I'm taking requests. If you want me to read a short story and post it here, this is the time to comment and say so. It has to be in the public domain, and I reserve the right to turn down stories with subject matter I find distasteful. Other than that, I'm up for anything.
OH--also, I'm actively looking for stories by women writers of weird fiction and horror, with an eye towards similar readings. Please recommend your favorites to me. Again, I'm most interested in public domain stories for this purpose. The ones whom I know best are Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Shirley Jackson, and I intend to explore their work first. There must have been additional women writing supernatural horror and weird fiction in the past few hundred years.
So, "The Festival," by H.P. Lovecraft (1923). Read the story in print here:
www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/f.aspx
Intro and closing music: a tiny excerpt from "Drive the Cold Winter Away," performed here by the Rose Ensemble, used without permission. The tune appears in John Playford's 1651 publication "The English Dancing Master." Listen to the full song here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcvyiP3YL…uz7WwV6O0nJ1mxbkw
The accompanying image is from the Wikimedia Commons images of Marblehead, MA, showing an anonymous picture postcard view of that city.