There’s no opening sentence more revealing to Lovecraft’s self than: “Life is a hideous thing.”

This narrator has a great voice and way of speaking, almost like an old radio announcer. Does Mr HPL justice.

@TheRecluseeee

4 жыл бұрын

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@user-th2xy9zy9s

3 жыл бұрын

Gordon Gould is old radio announcer

@nathankish9962

3 жыл бұрын

I like the effect the old audio has, the slight radio distortion gives it that feel of listening to an old radio drama

"Life is a hideous thing..." Oh, Howard, how could I not fall in love with your fiction?!

‘Jermyn killed himself. But it wasn’t because he was ugly ok, it was because he was cursed”

I've been doing hours of yoga to H.P. readings. It's been a wonder

This is one of my favorites stories by Lovecraft. Pretty underrated.

@TheRecluseeee

6 жыл бұрын

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Samuel Seaton: I have a bunch of notes on Africa for you! Robert Jermyn: I'm about to end this man's whole career

@tacofingerz7247

4 жыл бұрын

Lol for real

One has to admire the uncouth and gangling countenance of Arthur Jermyn. A unique and unseemly breed of questionable origin and certainly arcane interests.

@DavenH

4 жыл бұрын

A man made curious with antiquity by problematical relations to beings of hideous form and proportion.

Elements of Haggard and Kipling and Crichton to this tale. An under appreciated one.

@TheRecluseeee

5 жыл бұрын

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This seems nearly autobiographical. Lovecraft was told at a young age by his mother that he had a ghastly appearance. He shunned himself away from society in shame. Overtaken the the passion of writing he surely did consulate his life with the flame of the will. The more I learn about the man the more I appreciate his works. Greater piece.

@TheRecluseeee

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Paul His mother was surely morbid.

@ishtarian

7 жыл бұрын

A few misconceptions here. That his mother ever said this to Lovecraft is dubious. She apparently did say it to a neighbor, who disputed the term, receiving a "pitying" look from Susie Lovecraft (his mother). This was also said long after he was an adult. He certainly did not secrete himself away most of his life; if you read his biography (or his letters, or the many memoirs of friends and acquaintances) there was only one period where he tended to shun society, and that was following a severe breakdown from 1908-13. After that, he gradually re-entered social contacts (and even during that time, he didn't entirely shun them, delivering speeches to various clubs and the like), and once he entered the world of amateur journalism, he was attending conventions, meetings of other sorts, and visiting his amateur colleagues on an increasingly frequent basis -- even visiting with quite new members in other states... and enjoying it immensely. He went with groups to various activities, including at least one to an amusement park (where he greatly enjoyed the roller-coaster and the like), took part in mock blackmail schemes (where he was the blackmailed -- by another amateur and his later wife, Sonia), etc. He later visited friends and correspondents from all over the eastern part of the country, down to St. Augustine, FL., often spending weeks or even months there at their insistence. He was known on more than one occasion as the "life of the party" because of his generous, and sometimes broad, sense of humor, his kindliness, and ability to quickly overcome his natural reserve and meet people with good will and warmth. He even tells in some letters of a visit to the South where, on a bus, a few people struck up a sing-along, and Lovecraft (who, according to his former wife, had a "sweet tenor" singing voice) joined in quite unselfconsciously and had a marvelous time, somewhat bemoaning the fact that New England had too much reserve to participate in such a thing....No, Lovecraft was not the "eccentric recluse" he has so often been called. That he was unique, even odd, in certain respects may well be true, but that he was a complete social misfit and/or saw himself as such simply isn't supported by the evidence. A fascinating and complex figure, and certainly one of the most important voices in the fields of horror and fantasy of the past century....

@mikeramirez2356

5 жыл бұрын

@@RamekGreen Pretty sure that's how we all originated tho lolol

@jerrycornelius6335

4 жыл бұрын

@@ishtarian Wow, a pretty good monograph. Full marks. Also, Robert e Howard was post mort called mad (alleged). possibly by jealous lesser writers. It is true that there are many repeats of misinformed stories without having being fact checked(As you have). And I am always sad that these guys were cut short when I would love so much to hear more. In fact, I have noticed of late, what was in my dim mind, 5 books of letters, a few of which I will be getting soon, Thanks.

@balazsvarga1823

4 жыл бұрын

Compared to today's average US man, he was not at all ugly.

This was great. Predictable, but still gripping. I never heard of this Lovecraft short story until today.

@TheRecluseeee

9 жыл бұрын

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@Pjotrr

8 жыл бұрын

predictable..?! explane dear traveller

@Never_heart

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think it was written to be a twist to the reader. It seems far more to be slowly providing info that leads the reader to see the truth before the narrator comes to the revelation.

@scottbreon9448

4 жыл бұрын

p *EXPLAIN

I'm going to recommend Lovecraft to my horror-loving fiance. See how she likes this! Eat your heart out, Stephen King!

@TheRecluseeee

6 жыл бұрын

You have a great taste. Stephen King cannot touch Lovecraft! ;)

@tacofingerz7247

4 жыл бұрын

Oh boy

@nicholashurst780

2 жыл бұрын

Update: she was horrified by the racism

@stickyy_fingaas

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicholashurst780 i bet you uploaded a black square on instagram

@GentlemanLife-Beyotch

Жыл бұрын

I would rather have my manhood struck by a rubber hammer than read anything by King. Far too stale.

This story was inspired by H.P.s own revelation that his ancestors where... WELSH!!! OH HORROR

@thetelic

4 жыл бұрын

Where??

@markusnavergard2387

3 жыл бұрын

that must have hurt him ddeply

@GentlemanLife-Beyotch

Жыл бұрын

The West Virginia of that area, undoubtedly.

The Sinking City reference of Throgmorton

@thompsonm1a1

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

"Never be born by mortal veins."

@TheRecluseeee

6 жыл бұрын

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@aminedhahri8339

6 жыл бұрын

Elaborate, please.

@blackmetalmagick1

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry what he said is "never been born by mortal brains" and i have heard in another story "never been born by mortal minds" which i like better

Poor Arthur. I knew that was going to be his gram grams🙁

Who is here after playing the sinking city and seeing Robert thogmorton Who is a reference to the character in this book. Well I’ve never been a fan of this Lovecraft story I do have a bit more appreciation for it now

@woohoo1551

Жыл бұрын

I especially enjoyed the giant guerrillas standing on human skulls, statues outside of his mansion.

The bare truth can crush the most sensitive mind

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If Arthur Jermyn would have been more like Robert Throgmorton.😑

They're only a handful of writers in each century gifted such as lovecraft.

One might wonder if Michael Chrichton was inspired by this HPL tale.

"M Verhaeren, Belgian agent at a trading post on the Congo..." The things the Belgians did in Africa...

@markusnavergard2387

3 жыл бұрын

a tale of horror more gruesome than any Lovecraft to tell

👍👍

Life is a hideous thing

All of Lovecrafts storys are really predictable, and probably not just to the modern reader. I've always tended to think that this was deliberate and one reason for their power. We already know the protagonist's inevitable doom, while they probably still think they can get away.

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

3 жыл бұрын

In the Dunwich Horror the good guys win for once.

@ishtarian

Жыл бұрын

Fritz Leiber cited Henry Kuttner's formulation "confirmation rather than revelation" for this technique of Lovecraft (see "A Literary Copernicus").

@arealhumanbean3058

5 ай бұрын

​@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 Technically, in Call of Cthulhu they win too

"Life is a hideous thing"

Is it ok if i dont listen to these audio books for intellectual excercise?

@TheRecluseeee

7 жыл бұрын

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Lovecraft's fear of inherited abnormality comes over very clear in a lot of his writing, none more so here I think. But if I am being perfectly honest, his whole thing of the abnormal being so strange that acceptance of it equates to madness and loss of morality and decency strikes me as little more then mental weakness and cowardice. Now I'm not knocking on lovecraft for what are obvious deep mental issues he was dealing with, I myself deal with such issues, but I can not help but reject the very notion and premise of his writings; mans inability to adapt to and accept the different without going insane

@dragonlordthekingofdragons6373

5 жыл бұрын

@Dan Cthulu is based off of H.P Lovecraft's fear of the unknown

@balazsvarga1823

4 жыл бұрын

Fear of the unknown is natural, and propably helped our ancestors avoid many a hungry predator. Bear-thulu if you will. What the op considers cowardice, another may call prudent caution that evolved for a reason. There are people without it, and they tend to have sad ends while trying to tale selfies on train tracks, for example.

Disturbing tale of madness.

another cool story from mark zuckerberg

There you have it. Madness is in all the Germans.

@TheRecluseeee

6 жыл бұрын

Madness is in everyone. They just don't know it yet. ;)

@austencobine864

6 жыл бұрын

ia Azathoth lol

@krmdfan4067

5 жыл бұрын

Stimmt!

@Fireblaze15

5 жыл бұрын

It's sad they were on the "wrong side" since WW1. They have a rich culture. I read the brothers Grimm faery tales. Magical stories, very Pagan-like.

@MAUREENALLEN79

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fireblaze15 Certainly the current state of occupied Germany is on "the right side" then? 🤣

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This is one of H.P. L's more racist ones

I see no one wants to be like number 667 on this video

To many adjectives in his work.

@thetelic

4 жыл бұрын

What exactly are you granting to the adjectives? I love grammatical errors in komints lyk yers. It maikes riting letters more funner.

@anthonyfrias5533

4 жыл бұрын

@@thetelic i don't get it

@nicholashurst780

2 жыл бұрын

Fairly common criticism. Makes him easy to parody, just make sure there's something really really old and really really big under a moon that isn't quite full

@artmoss6889

Жыл бұрын

@@anthonyfrias5533 He's referring to your mistaken use the preposition "to" when what you should have used is the adverb 'too." It's a common error that often goes undetected and which rarely causes significant ambiguity.