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Beat me to it! “Sleepy Hollow”, by Washington Irving. Free, excellent audiobook!
Via the good people at Librivox, a complete – and extraordinarily well done reading of Sleepy Hollow. The original story, you know. Without the extras we seem to need today to make literature...
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More Goethe: “Der Erlkönig”, this time.
More famous nowadays for its comic potential, Der Erlkönig is one of the most famous German horror ballads, a textual form we know many English Romanticists read with great ardor. I had meant to keep...
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A dramatic reading of “Count Magnus”, by M. R. James, and the Deftones, for...
One of the biggest revelations during my work on Coleridge has been, oddly enough, ghost story writer M. R. James. I enjoy his fiction, as sort of an easy read – or easy listening, for that matter –...
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A fan reads “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”– superbly!
I keep wondering which of Lovecraft’s novelette’s can be considered his most famous one: The Shadow Over Innsmouth, or, indeed, The Call of Cthulhu. For me, personally, both rank equally high, though...
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“Nightmare Lake”, by H. P. Lovecraft.
Another of my favorite Lovecraftian poems, another one that I feel that I will have to take a closer look on, for Coleridgian connections – but later. As we reach 200 posts with the blog, I am looking...
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Ben Manning reads “The Ancient Turtle and the Boy who loved him…”
Remember that charming Roald Dahl/Coleridge mashup that Friend of the Blog Ben Manning shared with us a few months back? Well, here’s a recording from a public reading of the poem that Ben did a while...
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“Der Knabe im Moor”, Part II: Musical treatments.
Like many Romantic poems, Der Knabe im Moor (“The Boy in the Bog”) works as a song, and even to this day, the poem is, at least with some fringe musicians, popular enough to receive an arranged...
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Keats’“The Nightingale”.
Benedict Cumberbatch is certainly the man of the moment, but besides that, he really is a man of extraordinary talent. I am not thinking so much of his recent work on Sherlock, or even Parade’s End...
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“The Apparition”, by Guy de Maupassant.
I wanted to save this one for the gloomy season, but I decided I liked the story to much to hold it back. Courtesy of http://www.librivox.org. – Also, I am testing the Publishing Schedule feature....
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I will be honest…
…Something irreplaceable just died within the chasms of my very soul. ;) NO. Just NO.
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