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This is one of my favorite of the shorter HP Lovecraft stories.

Here after all these years still playing this

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Who can tell , 23:59 to what red hell his sightless soul may stray.

Wow 😢

I'm surprised no one has ever made an adaptation of this story! This would be perfect for anthology film/series!

Where for art thou? 😮

This was beautiful!! So many memories! ❤

My favorite poem of all time and you solidify that status

I've got a black cat, I don't understand the mindset of saying I'm only a dog person. I've never heard somebody who had a cat or cats who said they weren't dog people.

This is the best reading of The Ballad of Reading Gaol. I have literally listened to it at least 50 times over the years. Well done.

One of my favorites.

Probably my favorite Lovecraft story.

Rod Sterling, Night Gallery ruined me as a kid with this story. The Music, Art. Thanks Mr. Sterling.

Must be' where robert jordan got the idea, for ruidein. Of the jenn' ail.

11 years in the future and I'm listening now. Wild progression as a channel. Release more Readings!

Good reading. Not too affected or fake. And better yet there's no cliched soppy music.

this is the voice that ancient tales warrant

Just dropping by. Still love this.

Finally, very well done thank you

Near to 2024 and your narrations still pull me back. Been listening for about 10 years. Takes a real good voice to keep me coming back after all this time.

his voice hunting me

Brilliant. I love it.

Why did you stop at this point? You have a wonderful reading voice that offsets Pope heroic couplets very nicely. You should continue.

Goodness. I love this... Thank you- The snow imagery, even, serves beautifully.

Magnificent work

Is this one where he explores the ancient city/caves? It's my absolute favorite

Nicely done! Thank you, Nick.

This is such a beautiful reading. 🖤🤍

Quite suitable for the time we live in this day. Ha.

Splendid!

Best voice ever!

This is horrible... I don't mean to be a d*ck, no disrespect intended really, but this feels like some automaton or A.I reading... way too monotonous, emotionless and robotic. I swear it feels like my car GPS is reading me some Lovecraft. Other people seem to like it so hey, I guess to each their own, but I dunno this doesn't work one bit for me sorry.

You do a service to the treasures of darkness...

Very sad. Another good poem on the subject of a soldier left disabled by a wound in the 1914-18 War, except told from the point of view of the wife who has to nurse him, is 'The Pensioner' by GA Studert Kennedy, who was an army chaplain in that war and was once well-known, although his poems are mostly forgotten and left out of the anthologies of war poems now. However, his so called 'dialect' poems, at least, are good. One of my grandfathers lost his foot in the First World War. Long after, my father, who despite coming from quite a lowly home, was accepted by Oxford University to read law, felt so stressed by the pressure of preparing for his final exams that he had a mental breakdown. He wrote home to tell his parents that he was sorry to disappoint them but he would be unable to cope with taking his final exams and would therefore not properly graduate and would leave University without a degree. My grandfather wrote back that when he was a young man, he 'stuck it out in the trenches in the First World War', and could not accept that my father could not 'stick it out at Oxford to pass the exams.' My father did take his exams, and he did pass.

After 300 years, Pope's verse Homer is still the best English translation. A window into a World thousands of years ago, when customs and values were often very alien to ours. Even the description of the animal sacrifice, a part I would often skip as of no interest, with this translation in this reading, I felt some hint of what it may have felt like in Homer's day, a vivid mixture of literal butchery and holy piety, that is completely different from most religions practiced today, although would have been familiar to the Hebrew priests of what most of us call Old Testament times. Unfortunately, like Milton's Paradise Lost, for modern readers it can be hard to concentrate on more than a little at a time.

That was fantastic sir!

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Great story and narration. As a wise person once said, "Some people get what they deserve, and some people deserve what they get."

Stull is one of my favorites.

Sorry, but this clunky northern English accent with about as much inflection as Hungarian and about as much emotional range as my sump pump... It's like listening to a police report being read into the record.

Top notch

Thank U for your reading😺

Eleven years later and going strong, such a good recording here.

Love this story.

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True love 😘