Dread Readings — Granddad’s Gifts
Dread Readings — No Rez For The Weary
Dread Readings — The Thing on The Doorstep
Dread Readings — The Wind in the Willows
Dread reading — To Build A Fire
Dread Reading — Robert W Chambers’ The Court Of The Dragon
A shout out to Jeb Wrench for reminding me of this wonderfully readable tale of Carcosa.
Dread Reading — Edgar Allan Poe’s The Mask Of The Red Death
No silly accent this time.
Dread Readings — HP Lovecraft’s The Cats
Dread Readings: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
The original text of this Henry James story is from Wikimedia Commons. You can read along and make fun of how I slip up on words like constance.
Dread Readings: A Citizen of Carcosa
Ambrose Bierce wrote A Citizen of Carcosa, creating a city that would become permanently part of the horror mythos of modern English. The story captured the imagination, and inspired the use of the narrator in future horror and fear writers, and was done at a time in Bierce’s life between fighting confederate soldiers, shaking down millionaires for railroad taxes, and fighting in the Mexican civil war.
Dude was interesting.
Dread Readings: The Music of Erich Zann
What would Dread Month be, without a little dash of Howard Phillips ‘Jesus Christ What A Racist’ Lovecraft?
Content warning: There’s an unvoiced person in this story who is referred to with pretty typical cruel terms.
Dread Readings: The Raven
Last year, my sister told me that Edgar Allan Poe was from southern Virginia, and so he should not have a posh, British-style accent, but a southern one.
Lovecraft Readings #4: The Statement of Randolph Carter
This month I’m going to take some time to read to you my ””’favourite””’ Lovecraft stories, then talk to you a little bit about them afterwards. Because this is Lovecraft, each of these stories deserves a content warning for general horror, but in this one specifically, uh
Huh
Actually, this one’s not actually super racist?
Neat!
Lovecraft Readings #3: Nemesis
This month I’m going to take some time to read to you my ””’favourite””’ Lovecraft works, then talk to you a little bit about them afterwards. Because this is Lovecraft, each of these stories deserves a content warning for general horror. In this one, because it’s a poem, it’s surprisingly, slur free!
Lovecraft Readings #2: The Colour out of Space
This month I’m going to take some time to read to you my ””’favourite””’ Lovecraft stories, then talk to you a little bit about them afterwards. Because this is Lovecraft, each of these stories deserves a content warning for general horror, but in this one specifically features cosmic horror, ego death, loss of children, loss of parents, general sanism, some things that I think are going to be kinda trypophobia-inducing like people ‘crumbling’ and a lot of animal endangerment. There is also some mild racism, like, no slurs, and there’s a bunch of just casual sneering at poor people.
Lovecraft Readings #1: Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn
This month I’m going to take some time to read to you my ””’favourite””’ Lovecraft stories, then talk to you a little bit about them afterwards. Because this is Lovecraft, each of these stories deserves a content warning for general horror, but in this one specifically, content warning for suicide, self-immolation, beastiality, racism, racism, racism, racism, racism and racism. I bleep the slur ‘g*psy’ in my reading, and am occasionally unable to contain my exasperated amusement at just how stunningly racist this is.
In the notes on the reading, I mention Atun-Shei Films, and a statement he made in this video.