[COMPLETE] Ghost and Horror Story Collection Vol. 038 - rap

Post by **Rapunzelina** » April 29th, 2020, 2:34 am

Hi, Lisa! Indeed I feel it would be a better fit in the Children Stories Collection, viewtopic.php?f=19&t=78191
A little bit of horror for the children

weezer · Post by **weezer** » April 29th, 2020, 12:31 pm

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor_keshsonofkesh_wm_._.mp3

weezer · Post by **weezer** » April 29th, 2020, 6:35 pm

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor038_crownedwithonecrest_atherton_wm.output_.mp3

Post by **Rapunzelina** » April 29th, 2020, 7:17 pm

Hi Weezer! Welcome to Librivox! I can't check the recordings just now, but it would really help me if you posted some more information about the stories you selected:
Title and author, text source URL, duration of recording and last but not least, how you'd like to be credited in the catalogue of Librivox.

Post by **Rapunzelina** » April 30th, 2020, 7:23 am

I had a chance to listen to your recordings, Weezer. Such wonderful reading, full of expression, totally engaging. I lived the story through your reading!

"Keesh, son of Keesh" can be included in the collection, it has quite the horrific ending.
"Crowned with one Crest", even though contains the word 'ghost', I feel it lacks the supernatural element to be considered a ghost story. I feel it would fit better in the Short Story Collection here: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=79286 with some changes in the filename. What do you think? If you do offer it there, you can point them to this post and mention it has been proof-listened by me, checked and PL OK, though they could listen to it again if they wanted, as I'm sure they'd greatly enjoy it!

For now, I have entered both in the Magic Window, until we figure it out.

rafeball · Post by **rafeball** » May 1st, 2020, 9:40 am

Hi Rapunzelina,

I enjoyed reading Walter de la Mare's "Out of the Depths" for the last collection, so thought I'd do another of his weird tales for this one!

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor038_thetree_delamare_rb_128kb.mp3

Text: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030934106&view=1up&seq=495
Author: Walter de la Mare
Title: "The Tree"
Duration: 50:39

- Rafe

InArcadia · Post by **InArcadia** » May 2nd, 2020, 11:32 am

Hi!

I have always loved this story and I was so happy to record it

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor038_reanimatorone_lovecraft_fr_128kb.mp3

Herbert West - Reanimator: Part One - From the Dark, by H.P Lovecraft

Link to Text used: https://archive.org/stream/HerbertWestReanimator/Herbert_West_-_Reanimator_-_Lovecraft_djvu.txt
(P.S - There were a couple of little typos in the text which I did my best to correct)

Length of recording - 15:48

Thank you so much

In Arcadia

Post by **Rapunzelina** » May 4th, 2020, 7:53 am

"The Tree" is brilliantly narrated and PL OK! Thank you, Rafe!

"From the Dark" is perfectly read. It shows that you have a connection to the story.
If you decide to read more parts, you can use this text if it's easier to read, hopefully no typos: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herbert_West:_Reanimator

InArcadia · Post by **InArcadia** » May 4th, 2020, 8:48 am

Rapunzelina wrote: ↑May 4th, 2020, 7:53 am "The Tree" is brilliantly narrated and PL OK! Thank you, Rafe!

"From the Dark" is perfectly read. It shows that you have a connection to the story.
If you decide to read more parts, you can use this text if it's easier to read, hopefully no typos: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herbert_West:_Reanimator

Great! Thank you for the text. I will use this one from now on. More parts to follow shortly

rafeball · Post by **rafeball** » May 4th, 2020, 1:13 pm

Rapunzelina wrote: ↑May 4th, 2020, 7:53 am "The Tree" is brilliantly narrated and PL OK! Thank you, Rafe!

Thank you, Rapunzelina - much appreciated

InArcadia · Post by **InArcadia** » May 5th, 2020, 12:59 pm

Hi there!

Here is Part Two of Reanimator - The Plague Demon

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor038_reanimatortwo_lovecraft_fr_128kb.mp3

Title: Herbert West - Reanimator: Part Two - The Plague Demon
Author: H.P Lovecraft
Link to text used: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herbert_West:_Reanimator/Part_II
Length of recording: 15:23

Thanks so much. Really having fun with it

In Arcadia

mycatmissesme · Post by **mycatmissesme** » May 5th, 2020, 1:54 pm

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor038_truthwholetruth_broughton_ae_128kb.mp3

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth, by Rhoda Broughton, 26:04

I read this one as well from a print copy of Victorian Ghost Stories, Ed Cox and Gilbert

I see there are several of her novels in Gutenberg--I wonder if they are as good as this story.

rafeball · Post by **rafeball** » May 5th, 2020, 5:31 pm

mycatmissesme wrote: ↑May 5th, 2020, 1:54 pm https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor038_truthwholetruth_broughton_ae_128kb.mp3

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth, by Rhoda Broughton, 26:04

I read this one as well from a print copy of Victorian Ghost Stories, Ed Cox and Gilbert

I see there are several of her novels in Gutenberg--I wonder if they are as good as this story.

I think that’s a recent anthology from the 1990s? Hathitrust has the story in 1873’s “Tales for Christmas Eve” which would be Public Domain:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t6f18w863&view=1up&seq=11

helenmiddlerasen · Post by **helenmiddlerasen** » May 5th, 2020, 11:09 pm

Hi, could I do HP Lovecrafts The shunned House? It's listed on project Gutenberg - I've just done my test recording and it's OK, so this will be my first proper go!

Post by **Rapunzelina** » May 6th, 2020, 3:26 am

InArcadia wrote: ↑May 5th, 2020, 12:59 pm

Thanks so much. Really having fun with it

In Arcadia

That's the key to the continued existence of Librivox! When we have fun, we come back for more

Another great recording! Now entered into to Magic Window, and marked PL OK!

rafeball wrote: ↑May 5th, 2020, 5:31 pm
I think that’s a recent anthology from the 1990s? Hathitrust has the story in 1873’s “Tales for Christmas Eve” which would be Public Domain:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t6f18w863&view=1up&seq=11

Thank you! That was helpful and I managed to find it in archive.org, which for me is a bit easier to navigate than hathitrust
https://archive.org/details/talesforchristma00brourich/page/n9/mode/2up
The text is the same with the recorded audio, so everything is cool!

mycatmissesme wrote: ↑May 5th, 2020, 1:54 pm
I see there are several of her novels in Gutenberg--I wonder if they are as good as this story.

Her wikipedia article has a quote from Robert S. Hadji, saying that this was her cleverest story! It was quite chilling at the end, I got goose-bumps!
Thank you for your recording! Now added in the MW marked PL OK!
I will use the archive scan as text reference for our catalogue: https://archive.org/details/talesforchristma00brourich/page/n9/mode/2up

helenmiddlerasen wrote: ↑May 5th, 2020, 11:09 pm Hi, could I do HP Lovecrafts The shunned House? It's listed on project Gutenberg - I've just done my test recording and it's OK, so this will be my first proper go!

Yes, please! You can definitely do that for our collection! However, it will be quite a long recording. More than an hour final result, which might mean more than 4 hours of recording and editing work, depending on how flowing you read (I personally stumble quite a lot, have to do a lot of editing, that's why I don't record that much

)
Would you like to choose a short one as your first proper go? Just so that you don't fall in deep. But if you're a confident swimmer, then, yes, by all means! I will be looking forward to it!