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Definitely one of Ligotti's more "traditional" accessible tales. Very straightforward. Most of his stuff is (not in any way a criticism) much more dense and cerebral.

Hi. I am an English speaker but very interested in S. Albert Kivinen, his music and his writing. Is there anything in English about him or any translations you know of?

32:11 This scene in the park is one of the most horrifying surreal imagery I've experienced and the best part of this story. It's straight out of a nightmare.

the narrator injected hashish laced with mescaline

Men of culture we meet....wait wtf.

Let's be honest here, Lovecraft is great fun, but not at all scary - his unpronounceable horrors and ensuing madness are all held at arms length. Ligotti tears all this up and plunges you right in with it. The end of this story is utterly chilling.

And this is how furries are made.

Great story and narrator !

Best version but it's the BEST version at 1.25×

You know, I did marxist analysis of cartoons here where I live in Serbia: We have alternative/antifascist youth culture centers and making events is easy. Analized Adventure Time, The Simpsons, Ed Edd and Eddy and Courage The Cowardly Dog. I also do stand-up Marxism :D , using marxist philosophy to spice up the comedy. . Was looking forward for your take on it, marxist philosophy on video games, but I guess you are not into it as much. No surprise, I don't play games anymore either, other stuff became more important. I started implementing marxism in my photography, sort of came spontaneously after developing both of those fields separately at first, only to let them unite. So it made me question the applicability of marxism on other things. Turns out it can be used almost everywhere! (except in language for example, Stalins ~"Marxism and the questions of linguistics" says that language is older than philosophy and it is not possible to use it).

Robertson Dean. Great narrator. Great story.

Thanks!!

Great story

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A fabulous reading. What a delight to find this undiscovered treasure, 7 years after you placed it to be found by the right aficionados. Keep up the fine work.

This is dark poetry, and absolutely the right way to perform and communicate true Cosmic Horror. Bravo!

Mä haluan kertoa sulle…

One of my favorite readings. A few stumbles on word pronunciation but given the narrator's state of mind it fits. Actually bought the book containing the story on Audible and much prefer this to the "professional" reading on that.

"Robert eeeeeeeee Howard" this narrator is not good.

Very good. This is you?

🎶 Rogues in the house there's some Rogues in the house 🎶

Is there a reason Zothique is pronounced three different ways here? Zo-theeck Zo-teek Zoth-teek

I liked your video but then saw it was the "Leninist" Better dead than red HH

Thank you for keeping REH alive!

Ligotti makes other horror writers look like stupid amateurs unaware of how limited and predictable their imagination is. He really takes the cliches of horror literature to their most evident ridiculousness and then reconstructs the genre over whatever few fundamental truths it holds. The GOAT of postmodernist horror, for sure. Please read more Ligotti. You delivered a very good performance.

Does anyone know if there's a transcript of this? it's absolutely impossible to listen to because of something loudly interfering with the mic. It's a huge pity, the lectures themselves are great

What a writer he was.

I doubt anyone would see this but basically; Hastir was a decent deity, Lovecraft loved the character and implemented Hastur into his pantheon. Both authors along with another author worked on their characters along with Lovecraft.

What is with the narrative? Dude just read it regularly.

The pathos...

His point on music in Book III is quite fascinating

My third personal favorite of Ligotti's work.

Love Howard, hate communism 🇺🇸

Sweet escape. The performance really engaged me 🌛3 am Seattle

Have mixed feelings. I think the story and characters are good and I liked everything but I don’t think this works as. Sherlock Holmes story at all and all the characters are wildly OOC if they are meant to be the same Sherlock, Watson and Moriarty from the books.

A C.A.S. story about a hero going in search of his love who has been kidnapped by an evil being? Yeah, this is going to end badly.

Your reading is actually great, but you’ve got to let up on the vocal fry. It doesn’t make the voice sound lower or more menacing, it just makes it difficult to hear. The timbre is more pillow talk than horror reading. But the emotive quality, tempo, are enunciation are all great.

poetry is a dead art, thanks for keeping the word alive. I try to do the same

👏👏👏 more along this vein please!

Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 - August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the "The Last of the Great Romantics" Smith's was praised by contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures" one of "the big three of Weird Tales, with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft" The fantasy critic L. Sprague de Camp said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse." A member of the Lovecraft circle and his literary friendship from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. "My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation." Clark Ashton Smith stated. Smith's self-education was to read the complete 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica at least twice. Smith retained most or all of whatever he read. After leaving formal education, he embarked upon a self-directed course of literature, Smith later taught himself French and Spanish to translate verse out of those languages, including works by Gérard de Nerval, Paul Verlaine, Amado Nervo, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and all but 6 of Charles Baudelaire's 157 poems in The Flowers of Evil. A fan letter from H. P. Lovecraft, which was the beginning of 15 years of friendship and correspondence. Smith and Lovecraft borrowed each other's place names and the names of strange gods for their stories, so different is Smith's treatment of the Lovecraft theme. Smith was poor for most of his life and often did hard manual jobs such as fruit picking and woodcutting to support his parents. He was an able cook and made many kinds of wine. He also did well digging, typing and journalism.

WHY are so many of the stories in this collection whispered? Unlike this one, they becomes so tedious to sit thru because of the whispering that it leaves one raw just after one reading. This guy reads so well, yet the whispered versions are too tiresome to finish.

I just opened CZcams and there was this channel and story apparently waiting for me. I am a Lovecraft lover so I got to listening, pausing halfway to subscribe, then back to the story where I had a good laugh at the thought of 2 adult males shrieking and leaping down the stairs🤣🤣. Really!

This channel is so good.

most of your weird fiction audiobooks are gone is this due to copyright bs

At least he restrained himself and didn't say: "...imperialist running dogs." The cup is half full? ; )

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The greatest story teller of them all

The fact that the term _”m e m e p e r f o r m a n c e”_ hasn’t come back into common parlance is its own form of ironic comedy.

Excellent narration or the great C.A.S..♥️

Followed, I'm reading aloud a lot of CAS myself