COMPLETE Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3 - cr

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Piotrek
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COMPLETE Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3 - cr

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Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft vol. 3 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft (*1890- † 1937)

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://legamus.eu/blog/?p=505
The third part of a collection in which the readers narrate their short stories of choice....
(Summary by Piotr Nater)
Text source: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600031.txt (please only read from this text!)

Prooflistener: Rapunzelina

How to claim a chapter?
Choose a chapter that has no reader assigned yet. Click on POSTREPLY at the bottom of this page to answer to this topic.

Magic Window


Intro, Outro and Disclaimer for CC0:
At the beginning of each file please say:
[Section number] of Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft vol. 3 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. This Legamus recording may be distributed and adapted freely for any purpose.
(if you wish: Read by Piotr Nater**)
[Chapter title]

At the end of each section please say:
End of [Section number]
(if you wish: Read by Piotr Nater**)
At the end of the project please say additionally:
"End of Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft vol. 3 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Legamus.eu"

**Please add your name at the beginning or the end, not in both places.

About recording:
Set your recording software to:
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz

Please leave 5 seconds silence at the end of your recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes!

Save files as:
128 kbps MP3
shortstories3_##_lovecraft.mp3 (**Don't use special chars (i.e. ä,ü,á,è...) for the filename!)
(all lower-case) where ## is your section number.

Add the following tags to your .mp3 file (how you do this depends on which software you use - if you are unsure about ID3 tags, please ask). Please mind upper and lower case!

Title: ## - [Section title]
Artist: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Album: Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft vol. 3
Genre: Speech
Track Number: Section Number (if sections are numbered from 1, section +1, if sections are numbered from 0)

How to upload your file:
Use http://upload.legamus.eu/ (MC/BC will provide login-info for you).
When your file is uploaded, you will get a link. Please post the link here.

And now?
Please check for new posts in this thread until your section has been prooflistened.

Happy recording :)

------------for your MC -----------------------------------
Wiki author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Phillips_Lovecraft
Wiki translator:
Wiki book:
published: / [language: English]
category: horror supernatural / Tags: ###
username: Piotr Nater / no homepage
Section: 8 / preface: 0 / License: CC0
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Piotrek
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Re: Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft vol. 3

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Here comes part 3 of the project :)

The stories that were read for part 1: "The Festival", The Nameless City", "He", "Cool Air", ":The Very Old Folk", "Pickman's Model", "In the Vault", "The Alchemist".
The stories that were read for part 2: "Rats in the Walls", "From Beyond", "The Hound", "The Strange High House in the Mist", " The Unnamable", "Hypnos", " The Quest of Iranon"

The rules for this collection:
1. The reader selects the story they want to read.
2. Don't worry if your chosen story has already been read. Multiple versions are welcome :)
3. Please take a look at the list below (compiled by Rapunzelina) to select a post-1922 story
4. There's no limitation as to the number of stories one person can read
5. A story shouldn't be longer than 2 sections

A list of conveniently-sized post-1922 stories (including those already read) together with word counts:
Memory ~350 words
Azathoth ~460 words (unfinished)
What the Moon Brings ~700 words
The Book ~1200 words (unfinished)
The Descendant ~1500 words (unfinished)
The Evil Clergyman ~1700 words
Poetry of the Gods ~1900 words
The Other Gods ~1900 words
The Horror at Martin's Beach ~2400 words
The Outsider ~2600 words
The Quest of Iranon ~2700 words
The Transition of Juan Romero ~2700 words
The Unnamable ~2700 words
From Beyond ~2750 words
Hypnos ~2800 words
The Hound ~3000 words
The Moon Bog ~3420 words
The Strange High House in the Mist ~3650 words
The Silver Key ~4850 words
The Temple ~5400 words
The Rats in the Walls ~7900 words
The Lurking Fear ~7350 words in 4 chapters
The Horror at Red Hook ~8200 words in 7 chapters
The Shunned House ~10750 words in 5 chapters
The Thing on the Doorstep ~10750 words in 7 chapters
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs ~10800 words in 2 chapters
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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MW up and running
I'll be your MC if you can stand me, again? :) Is Rapunzelina DPL again?
PW for MW via PM. As usual.
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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Let's see what Rapunzelina will say.

Oh, and the first two sections are claimed by Martin. I'll fill in the MW when I'm back from work.
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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moved us to Readers Wanted
Happy reading!

edit: adjusted textsource (none given until now) - and shortened the file name
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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Thanks, crowwings. I forgot about it.

Martin's claims are in the MW.
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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Hi, thank you for cataloguing volume 2 and setting up volume 3. The first two stories are almost ready to go. I'll upload them in the next day or two. I'm still fiddling around with ways to make them sound better, so I'm curious to see how these will go over with listeners.

Just a couple of minor issues:

- In the catalogue entry for volume 2, the textsource is given as "Gutenberg Austria" ...s/b Australia?

- in the MW for volume 3, could you please switch the stories around so that "The Temple" is Section 1 and "The Moon Bog" is Section 2? I've already recorded the stories in that order, and this would get me out of having to re-record the intros ;)

Cheers,
Martin
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Yes, you are right, it was Australia ... just set it right.
Thanks for pointing out!
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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mreyto wrote: in the MW for volume 3, could you please switch the stories around so that "The Temple" is Section 1 and "The Moon Bog" is Section 2? I've already recorded the stories in that order, and this would get me out of having to re-record the intros ;)

Cheers,
Martin
Done.
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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Here are the first two stories:

"The Temple"
Link to file: http://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/f ... ecraft.mp3
Length: 35900940 bytes (34.238 MB) — Duration: 2243 seconds (0:37:23) — Bitrate: 128 kbps
uploaded on Wed May 21 2014 21:24:53 GMT-0400 (EDT)

"The Moon Bog"
Link to file: http://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/f ... ecraft.mp3
Length: 22543800 bytes (21.499 MB) — Duration: 1408 seconds (0:23:28) — Bitrate: 128 kbps
uploaded on Wed May 21 2014 21:28:41 GMT-0400 (EDT)
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Hello!
Yes, please, consider me the DPL!
I'll download the first two stories and I'll enjoy listening to them some time tomorrow :D
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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@Rapunzelina
I added you.

I thought about reading "The Descendant" but it turned out that the story is unfinished. Which is a pity, because the surviving fragment has many makings of an interesting story.

By the way has any of you noticed how Lovecraft always makes a point of how rare a book "The Necronomicon" is (kept only in 4 or 5 museums around the world under lock and key, or something like that) and yet somehow a great number of his protagonists have at least read a fragment of it :D
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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I thought about reading "The Descendant" but it turned out that the story is unfinished.
Same with "The Book" :roll: (EDIT: I edited Rapunzelina's list to make people aware that some stories are unfinished).

I'll read "The Evil Clergyman".
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Piotrek wrote: By the way has any of you noticed how Lovecraft always makes a point of how rare a book "The Necronomicon" is (kept only in 4 or 5 museums around the world under lock and key, or something like that) and yet somehow a great number of his protagonists have at least read a fragment of it :D
I noticed that. It is on some sort of red list, not available to order at regular shops. Quite difficult to get at Lovecraft's era, I guess. but nowaday not much of a problem anymore. Thanks to the internet.
I actually read it about 15 years ago.
Not half as interesting as Lovecraft is measuring it, :twisted:
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I enjoyed the stories! :D
(The first one had be thinking how big a bottle must have been which contained the manuscript! :lol: )
They are both PL OK! And our Magic Window updated!
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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Here are stories for sections 4 and 5:

Section 4: "The Horror at Martin's Beach"
Link to file: http://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/Z ... ecraft.mp3
Length: 17817100 bytes (16.992 MB) — Duration: 1113 seconds (0:18:33) — Bitrate: 128 kbps
uploaded on Wed Jun 04 2014 06:06:51 GMT-0400 (EDT)

Section 5: "The Silver Key"
Link to file: http://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/Z ... ecraft.mp3
Length: 33325058 bytes (31.781 MB) — Duration: 2082 seconds (0:34:42) — Bitrate: 128 kbps
uploaded on Wed Jun 04 2014 06:12:10 GMT-0400 (EDT)
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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Your sections are in the MW, Martin. Thanks :)
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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I've uploaded "The Evil Clergyman".
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All three newly uploaded sections are PL OK!
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Re: GROUP/ENG Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft v.3

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Thanks, Rapunzelina.

I'll read "The Transition of Juan Romero".
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