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Selected Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft vol. 2 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=468

The second part of a collection in which the readers narrate their short stories of choice....
(Summary by Piotrek)

Text source: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600031.txt (please only read from this text!)

Prooflistener:____

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. 2 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. 2 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
shortstories2_##_lovecraft.mp3 (**Don't use special chars (i.e. ä,ü,á,è...) for the filename and/or shorten the shorttitle part!)
(all lower-case) where ## is your section number.
(shorten the first part of the filename if too long!)

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. 2
Genre: Speech
Track Number: Section Number (if sections are numbered from 1, section +1, if sections are numbered from 0)

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

Happy recording

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Welcome to part 2 of our collection
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 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 for part 1. Multiple versions are welcome
3. Please take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Love ... bliography which contains a list sortable by publication date. Try to select a piece published after 1922 to avoid overlap with LibriVox
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

Also a question to the prospective MC: can I request an extra section if there's such a need?

I will claim it as an MC, if you want me. The MW is activated. You can add or delete sections just by your own!
Happy recording!

Just moved us to "readers wanted".

OK, I'll start by reading "Rats in the Walls". It will take 2 sections.

We don't have a DPL yet, but I would volunteer to check your recordings as interim ... since you can't check them yourself!
Regards

I neglected to mention this. Rapunzelina said she would continue as the DPL for this part also. I didn't want to put her in in the first post until she would post here herself, but I guess I should have.

Okay, fine with me!

I did some word counts of what can be recorded in Legamus from http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600031.txt
and hasn't yet been recorded, and if I didn't make any mistakes here are the word counts, in ascending order:
Memory ~350 words
Azathoth ~460 words
What the Moon Brings ~700 words
The Book ~1200 words
The Descendant ~1500 words
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


and the rest of Lovecrafts works that haven't been recorded but are devided in chapters or would be considered long for a short story:

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
The Call of Cthulhu ~11800 words in 3 chapters
Through the Gates of the Silver Key ~14400 words in 8 chapters
Dreams in the Witch-house ~14800 words
Medusa's Coil ~16700 words
The Dunwich Horror ~17300 words in 10 chapters
The Whisperer in Darkness ~26400 words in 8 chapters
The Shadow over Innsmouth ~26800 words in 4 chapters
At the Mountains of Madness ~40900 words in 12 chapters
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath ~42600 words
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward ~51100 in many chapters

Thanks That's very helpful. I assume these are only post-1922 works? That would explain why I at first thought that were surprisingly few of them

Also, seeing as I'm now recording "Rats in the Walls", some of the longer ones should be admissible too.

Yes, only those post 1922 The rest I think can already be found at librivox!

Brilliant work, Rapunzelina. Feel free to put a copy of that list in the Book Suggestion area, so that it can serve for the next projects. Lovecraft seems to have a lot of fans here!

Good idea, Victor! I'll do that!
Happy Valentine's Day!

Hi folks,

I have a couple of stories for HPL2

From Beyond:
Link to file: http://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/U ... ecraft.mp3
Length: 22760530 bytes (21.706 MB) — Duration: 1422 seconds (0:23:42) — Bitrate: 128 kbps
uploaded on Fri Apr 04 2014 05:42:44 GMT-0400 (EDT)

The Hound:
Link to file: http://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/U ... ecraft.mp3
Length: 18689607 bytes (17.824 MB) — Duration: 1168 seconds (0:19:28) — Bitrate: 128 kbps
uploaded on Fri Apr 04 2014 05:38:50 GMT-0400 (EDT)

Martin

Thanks, Martin. This reminds me that I have to finish recording Raths in the Walls.

That was magical...! Thank you for these stories Martin!
They are PL OK alright!

(My personal tendency would be to do a pass of noise-cleaning, but that's just me and my obsessive–compulsive tendencies )

rapunzelina wrote:That was magical...! Thank you for these stories Martin!
They are PL OK alright!

(My personal tendency would be to do a pass of noise-cleaning, but that's just me and my obsessive–compulsive tendencies )

Thanks, Rapunzelina. What you're hearing isn't real noise. I turned up the "Ambience" dial on my recording software this time; its purpose is to make it sound more like a real room. Not much, only about 20% of max. It could be turned still lower though if needed. I also added a tiny bit of reverb for a subliminal hint of creepy, this being Lovecraft after all. I personally like the effect, as I think it makes the recording sound more three-dimensional along the lines of what old-time audiophiles often point to as the difference between analogue (vinyl) and digital (CD) musical recordings (they claim digital sounds "flat" by comparison).

The room I read in, while ideal in some ways, is small with thick walls, thick carpeting on the floor, and a fair quantity of sound-absorbing books and furniture, so my "dry" recordings sound kind of dead and even muffled, to me at least. So I've begun to try this and that. But all this is experimental for me, so I seriously welcome, even seek feedback. What works, what doesn't, how it could be made better, other effects or techniques I could try.

Thanks again,
Martin

Aah! I see what you did! Yes, in that case the effects you applied were very, well, effective!
The result was as I said magical! A magical journey to the Lovecraft world...
Limiting the "Ambience" might work as a compromise for those like me that are used to the digital flat sound

Here's another one for Vol. 2, "The Strange High House in the Mist"

Link to file: http://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/K ... ecraft.mp3
Length: 26505481 bytes (25.278 MB) — Duration: 1656 seconds (0:27:36) — Bitrate: 128 kbps
uploaded on Mon Apr 21 2014 22:49:26 GMT-0400 (EDT)

I dialed down the Ambience a bit this time, does it sound better?

Also, the other two stories haven't been marked PL OK in the MW yet, even though Rapunzelina has said they are. Should I change the Ambience on those too?

Cheers,
Martin

mreyto wrote: Also, the other two stories haven't been marked PL OK in the MW yet, even though Rapunzelina has said they are. Should I change the Ambience on those too?

That was my fault! I forgot about the Magic Window! I will listen to your newest upload and then update the MW all together.
Thank you!