This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page:
http://legamus.eu/blog/?p=123
Text source: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601181.txt (please only read from this text!)"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)
Prooflistener: Hokuspokus
Magic Window - Google.doc
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