The Beast in the Cave - H P Lovecraft
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- Опубликовано: 29 янв 2011
- The Beast in the Cave
by H P Lovecraft
Read by Nick Gisburne
Full text (but which differs slightly from the version I used):
www.hplovecraft.com/writings/t...
Apparently HPL wrote this when he was 14 years old (jaw drops in awe).
I recorded this in January 2008 and recently re-edited it to remove background noise and various clicks and pops. I then noticed that the audio is slightly different from the version I found to check it. This is not uncommon - stories were often published in various different publications or anthologies, and revised over the years. I'm not sure which version I used, but I have a book of HPL stories so perhaps I read from that.
There were also a couple of mistakes in the 2008 recording, so I've had to re-record a few words and slot them in. Let me tell you, trying to match the tone of my voice at different times of the same DAY is hard enough, but this was three YEARS ago! I've done my best but you may hear the join. I'll probably re-record the whole thing one day in my better-practiced voice, but that's low priority now - there are so many other stories to get through first!
Lovecraft's prose was written although from the1820s,a century before him, and now it is a century after him, and his prose still holds up really well
The first Lovecraft story I ever read. What I love about Lovecraft's writing is his rich descriptions. The man is one of the greatest literary masters for creating descriptively rich atmosphere. Despite figuring out the twist at the end of the story I still enjoyed it because the writing is fantastic.
This was also my first Lovecraft story read. It took me about 20 minutes to finish it but when I was done I felt like I had watched an entire movie. He is so very descriptive in his story telling, not a word is wasted.
If you start learning how to write professionally, you'll quickly run into an endless wall of people telling you that being too descriptive is a bad thing. Those people are the kind that probably hate Lovecraft, London, etc.
Thank-you the reader holds you to listen. I look on the readings of H. P Lovecraft's stories as a gift.. Again Thank-you .
Anyone every watched "The Descent"? I guarantee it took inspiration from this tale.
I believe you may be right. I found that a very frightening film.
I was thinking the same thing
Lovecraft wrote this when he was fifteen. Just let that sink in. I'm aware that this isn't on par with his later work - especially not with his final pieces - but it's still a damnably good story. Hail Lovecraft.
Beautiful descriptions, love the language. I don't care if ppl think this one is amateur next to his later works, it still rocks. The end gave me chills... brilliant, totally knew what was coming though. Movies like the Descent and Bleeders, totally drew inspiration from this.
Word to that.
Many several horror movies are total rip offs of old Lovecraft stories.
Thing is all of his stuff is in the public domain so they can be ripped off by anyone.
Bleeders is actually based on the lurking fear.
I recorded this in 2008 but re-edited it to iron out the glitches in the original. See the description box for more details.
This is an amazing first Eldritch horror story for anybody that wants to start.
@painterQjensen It's the resonance of my vocal chords - they are tuned to channel the Great Old Ones at the perfect frequency. When I say 'doooom' I really do mean it :o)
Nicely done! Thank you, Nick.
He holds and maintains the suspense nicely.
that was spook as fuck
Please do more, Gisburne! I cant get enough of these.
Your readings are boss, dude. Keep it up.
"Ejaculation" used to mean loud vocal cursing exclamations.
It still does. The Mastermind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs uses the term. Talk about some kickass books. Synthetic men of Mars from a grocery store in 198? started a whole bookcase, I was around 11 or so. So did Robert E Howards Conan saga. Found H.P. in the late 90's
Good to know.
One of my favourites
I wonder if the film "The Descent" was based on this story.
12:13 ya gotta love how language has changed over time :P Dr. Watson would be proud XDDDDD
@Heathenfidel The edits I made took out all the glitches, so not noticing them was the result I was aiming for :o)
love the dead poet society reference at the end of the first one.
I love this series.
Chills...Thank you.
@qwer58j Keep checking my channel description. I am just removing the dead wood and will then make all my videos visible again. A few days, max. Thanks for your support.
nick seems to turn my brain to mush with great ease not a task done before by any man nor beast
thankyou?
yes, i do
How soon before you heard him say it did you realize it had been a man at one time? I think it was when I heard it walked on two feet at times. That was a hint, but I was certain when he said the toes were not prehensile.
I loved your new videos
From the Horror to the poetry
I had even favourited 3 of them
So its sad to see you go
Though I do understand.
When and if you come back I’ll subscribe to you again.
Awesome.
Behold! A Man!
good story!
boss is the perfect words
So they killed gollum
I didn't notice the edits.
4:44
It was so namelessly unspeakably unutterably horrific with anthropoid attributes as well as... Try taking some psychedelics and read this guy. You'll be laughing for days!
Nick where are you???😐
Over here:
gisburne.blogspot.com
www.deviantart.com/gisburne
This is considered to be Lovecraft's juvenile writing. You can tell it's early work. He has good knowledge of vocabulary, but tries too hard to be descriptive. Still, I'm sure there are a lot of English teachers that would have wanted a teenager like this in their classrooms.
It's a shamed that half of the descriptive words used in this would become scribbled over for being "archaic", or using archaic sentence structure, that is no longer considered correct. I Grew up reading stories of this era, as such I learned all those words that are no longer "acceptable" to use.
Paradigm Storytime They were actually archaic back when he was using them. He was a big fan of "conscious archaism" as am I.
Is this the second half of something?