Supernatural Horror in Literature

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(first published 1927)

H.P. Lovecraft (1890 – 1937)
Language: English

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“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927 and revised in 1933-1934. The author follows the development of the weird fiction genre, starting from Antiquity until the first decades of the 20th century and concludes by in-depth description of four writers whom he considers “Modern Masters” (Summary by Piotr Nater and Wikipedia)

Total running time: 3:10:05 – Read in English by Piotr Nater

01 – Introduction – 0:09:48
02 – The Dawn of the Horror Tale – 0:10:11
03 – The Early Gothic Novel – 0:14:00
04 – The Apex of Gothic Romance – 0:11:44
05 – The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction – 0:18:15
06 – Spectral Literature on the Continent – 0:13:59
07 – Edgar Allan Poe – 0:16:15
08 – The Weird Tradition in America – 0:31:34
09 – The Weird Tradition in the British Isles – 0:22:23
10 – The Modern Masters 1 – 0:23:12
11 – The Modern Masters 2 – 0:19:04

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Catalogued 16. May 2012

The Island of Sheep

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(first published 1936)

by John Buchan (1875 – 1940)
Language: English

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This is the last of Buchan’s ‘Richard Hannay’ novels. It’s cast of Characters, in addition to Hannay himself, includes from earlier novels, Sandy Clanroyden and the villain D’Invraville. Buchan also introduces a merchant banker ‘Lombard’ and Hannay’s son Peter John. The action takes place in England, Scotland and the ‘Norland’ Islands, (presumably the Faroes) where a neurotic Norland millionaire who has a claim on Hannay’s protection and owns an island is under attack.
Even the Buchan Society (http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk) concede that this is not one of his best novels ‘occasionally charming and amusing, but no more’ but it is a perfectly good read and those who like Buchan’s style will enjoy having the series properly rounded off.
The title was previously used by Buchan for a political novel, never reprinted and now very rare. (Summary by AJM)

Total running time: 8:35:04 – Read in English by Andy Minter

01 – Lost Gods – 0:16:15
02 – Hanham Flats – 0:31:34
03 – The Tablet of Jade – 0:24:51
04 – Haraldsen – 0:48:41
05 – Haraldsen’s Son – 0:32:10
06 – Sundry Doings at Fosse – 0:38:32
07 – Lord Clanroyden Intervenes – 0:30:13
08 – Sanctuary – 0:38:31
09 – Lochinvar – 0:38:04
10 – The Dog Samr – 0:25:50
11 – We Shift Our Base – 0:31:57
12 – Hulda’s Folk – 0:43:02
13 – Marine Biology – 0:34:31
14 – The Way of the Pink-Foot – 0:30:58
15 – Transformation by Fire – 0:44:27
16 – The Riddle of the Tablet – 0:15:17

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Catalogued 26. April 2012

The Prophet

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(first published 1923)

by Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931)

Language: English

The text of this recording was published in 1923 and is in the public domain in all countries which observe copyright protection for 70 years after the author’s death. Its USA copyright has been renewed in 1951, and it thus remains in copyright in the USA until 2019. Please verify the copyright status of this text in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws.
This recording is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA)*.

The Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.

The poetic prose of The Prophet has delighted readers for generations, and the book became particularly popular in the 1960s. Al-Mustafa the prophet, who has lived abroad for many years, is about to board a ship home when he is stopped by a group of people with whom he discusses many aspects of life and the human condition, including love, children, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge and death. (Summary by Ruth Golding and Wikipedia)

Total running time: 1:31:58 – Read by Ruth Golding

  1. Part 1 – 47:22
  2. Part 2 – 44:36

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Dedicated Proof-Listener: Leni

* It may be distributed and adapted freely for non-commercial purposes in countries where the original text is in the public domain, as long as Legamus is credited and any new creation is licensed under the same terms.

Catalogued 16 January 2012

Kurt Tucholsky – Sammlung kurzer Werke

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(first published 1923 – 1935)

by Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935)

Language: Deutsch

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Kurt Tucholsky war ein deutscher Journalist und Schriftsteller. Er schrieb auch unter den Pseudonymen Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger und Ignaz Wrobel. Tucholsky zählte zu den bedeutendsten Publizisten der Weimarer Republik. Als politisch engagierter Journalist und zeitweiliger Mitherausgeber der Wochenzeitschrift Die Weltbühne erwies er sich als Gesellschaftskritiker in der Tradition Heinrich Heines. Zugleich war er Satiriker, Kabarettautor, Liedtexter, Romanautor, Lyriker und Kritiker. Er verstand sich selbst als linker Demokrat, Sozialist, Pazifist und Antimilitarist und warnte vor rechten Tendenzen – vor allem in Politik, Militär und Justiz – und vor der Bedrohung durch den Nationalsozialismus.

(Zusammenfassung von Wikipedia)

Total running time: 0:44:28

  1. Augen in der Großstadt – 0:01:55 – gelesen von Hokuspokus
  2. Blick in ferne Zukunft – 0:02:36 – gelesen von Nadine Eckert-Boulet
  3. Worauf man in Europa stolz ist – 0:01:49 – gelesen von Hokuspokus
  4. Wo kommen die Löcher im Käse her? – 0:11:57 – gelesen von Karlsson
  5. Zehn Gebote für den Geschäftsmann, der einen Künstler engagiert – 0:03:34 – gelesen von PatrickLondon
  6. Zur soziologischen Psychologie der Löcher – 0:05:01 – gelesen von muede
  7. Man sollte mal … – 0:06:27 – gelesen von muede
  8. Kurzer Abriß der Nationalökonomie – 0:07:38 – gelesen von Hokuspokus
  9. Die armen Luder – 0:01:30 – gelesen von Hokuspokus
  10. Eine Frage – 0:01:57 – gelesen von Nadine Eckert-Boulet

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Catalogued 12. December 2011

Widziadła

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(first published 1936)

by Bolesław Prus (1847-1912)

Language: Polski

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Trzech mężczyzn odwiedza kawiarnię w pobliżu warszawskiego Starego Rynku, gdzie są świadkami niezwykłego pokazu.
Three men stop by a cafè by Warsaw’s Old Market where they witness a strange spectacle. (Summary by Piotr Nater)

Total running time: 0:13:47
Read in Polish by Piotr Nater

  1. Widziadła

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Catalogued 02. December 2011