The author is new to the catalogue. I don't know that there's a wikipedia page, but perhaps just the bare bones from the story itself would work:
F. G. Loring was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy.
Thank you, Erin! Nice to think of me when dealing with a sexy vampire lady
Well, I enjoyed it! It's PL OK and in the MW
Oooh, that's exciting, and thanks! When I first started prepping this story I didn't spot the author's wiki page. I don't know how I missed it, but at least it's there now!
And thank you Rapunzelina. That was very fast. Of course I thought of you - after all, you're the only person who I know for certain will listen!
I was excited to find a story that hadn't been read before. Since the copyright expirations are coinciding with some peak years for Lovecraft story publications, I think a lot of the upcoming Ghost/Horror compilations are going to have Lovecraft in them! The 20s was a great period for spooky stories.
I gotta say, I read some Lovecraft as a kid/teen when I'd read all the horror I could get my hands on and had no notion yet of "time periods" when it came to stuff, and a lot of the anthologies were a weird mix of very old (public domain) stories and new stuff so I would read his stories in the mix with Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Manly Wade Wellman and the like and not really realize that he was influencing the newer writers. It's easier to see now.
Then the 70s and 80s were another great period for contemporary horror so there was plenty to read and more appearing all the time, and it was easy to get snobbish about the "hokey old stuff" -- then all of the unpleasant stuff about Lovecraft was getting publicized (racism, anti semitism etc) and made it feel more distasteful to bother with him...and then I read this story and was like, oh yeah, this is why he is fun ... so over the top, the melodramatic vocabulary, I mean, I hit the line about the "star winds" and was like, yeah, gotta record this, it's too fun not to.
I discovered King as an early teen and devoured his early books, especially the short story collection "Night Shift" -- read and re-read til my paperback copy was falling to pieces, and I have some of those stories practically memorized, so as I was reading this I was definitely seeing how those early stories were heavily influenced by Lovecraft, especially in his love of using Lovecraftian words like eldritch and miasma and gangrenous, lol.
Colleen
Colleen McMahon
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
aeheckett wrote: ↑May 16th, 2020, 12:01 pm
Hi there!
I'm brand new to LibriVox, and I'm very excited to start recording. I would absolutely love to contribute to your Spooky Collection! Would it be alright if I recorded Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart? It's one of my favorites, and I would love for it to be my very first contribution. In full disclosure, I just posted my test recording in Listeners Wanted, so I don't know yet if my equipment is up to snuff, but once it passes I would love to contribute
Welcome to Librivox, Ash! And thank you for joining us in this Collection! Whenever you're ready, the collection will accept your recording of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart with open arms
Fantastic! I just got a new mic and re-recorded my 1-minute test. As soon as my equips are cleared, I'll be recording Tell-Tale Heart!
The story seems to be a retelling and more finished version of "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains," which has been anthologized several times but is itself lifted from a longer novel that Capt. Marryat wrote called "The Phantom Ship".
"The Were-Wolf" is just over 6K words and I think I could have it read within the next day or two, if it's not too late for this collection. I can also hold off, if this collection is about done.
Good morning, Daniel! No reason to hold off or speed up. Just record whenever you feel like it and if, by the time you're ready, another collection is open, it's just a matter of filenaming Thank you!