The Shuttered Room

[@amazinghayes1]

I looooove this guys voice. So appropriate for the subject matter.

[@TheRecluseeee]

+Andrew PF Haze Indeed!

[@tootsmagoots9523]

Conrad Feininger.. I may have botched the spelling

[@datatsushi2016]

Nobody beats Gordon Gould though

[@FrankMonday]

Agreed

[@Danthehorse]

Conrad, Dudley Knight and Gordon Gould are IT for lovecraft. I do love Bronson Pinchot reading the Randolph carter stories though.

[@yogi2.057]

Great stuff as always! I like to listen to these H.P. yarns late at night with my eyes closed near the well of sleep. The raccoons and opossums are out now, making their clean-up rounds. Such night raiders roam the dark for goodies, while local cats watch in silence.

[@AdmCornFlake]

Yes! Near the wells of sleep. Doubt anyone else around me would understand this. The words transform into hypnogogic imagery, and I have seen some seriously vivid representations of the alien beings and environments described with the combination of sleepiness and this audio.

[@colemarie9262]

The narrator's part as the elderly man is so absolutely perfect- a creepy, revealing, warning narrative in a difficult accent that doesn't even exist anymore and probably didn't at the time of recording. And he does such an incredible job of Zebulon even with all that in mind. I love this narrator for Lovecraft anyways, but that part really gets me in this story.

[@grazianarobufo7796]

His name is Conrad Feininger, and I agree that he is the ideal Lovecraft narrator.

[@colemarie9262]

Thank you! I’ve wondered who he was and how to find out.

[@FIONA21ful]

I still feel so sorry for Saras love monster! Poor thing! ..and it was even worse hearing it read aloud as it cried for Mama, I always tell myself it made its way into the sea and was reunited with Great Grand Daddy Dagon and the froggy clan ;-)..makes me feel better! .. Thankyou for the opportunity of hearing this read to me. Very relaxing. I enjoy August Derleths stories on Lovecrafts themes.

[@FIONA21ful]

Sonny Crockett Wheres the fun in that!! Its escapism , i go for total immersion into every world I read.

[@herselfjeannemacmccarthy7991]

fiona cahill Ha,That's why I listen to this stuff!

[@scottthompson-ez1hz]

Fiona Cahill I felt the same way when I read red dragon by Thomas Harris. Francis dolarhyde the family murdering psychopath was horribly abused by his grandmother after his bitch mother gave him up because he had a cleft pallet.

[@charumathis5029]

@@scottthompson-ez1hz I cannot imagine feeling sorry or empathetic for a psychopath (even one with a horrible past) but the 'monster' in this this story is just a poor creature formed out of a human mistake and if it had been released to the ocean, instead of being shuttered because of the heartless grandfather, would have simply lived its life in the sea. However, it had missed its chance because of that grandfather and now only had the house for a home and had to become a 'monster' killing cattle and men for sustenance. Death could be its only fate by the time the protagonist saw it and that is sad.

[@charumathis5029]

@Howard Lovecraft it's called empathy, the greatest thing about humans, and it doesn't differentiate between reality and imagination. Otherwise media wouldn't exist.

[@taylorhale5927]

Flawless. True preservation. Things like this keep literary art relevant. Thank you.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening!

[@chrismaclean3108]

I have read all these long ago. And live in Chelmsford, Massachusetts so I love these audio versions of Lovecraft's art. This and the others who offer such tales are my 'go to' choices. Thanx! And yes I've visited the Lovecraft family burial plot in Providence, RI.

[@DizGuys]

Great narrator and no ads...top post!

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@kristykreme9915]

THAT LAST LINE! He always does that, reveals a new side of the protagonist that’s you wouldnt think they’d have

[@thrashpondopons2776]

I LOVE this story! Lovecraft wrote approx a century ago... yet it's amazing how well they stand-up today! This is reinforced by the periodic elements which lack cultural relevance. People now-a-days would have enough trouble envisioning wall phones... let alone party-lines. In many areas at this time (when there was still localized operators) they would buzz an extended ring to all phones in the area to signal folks to pick-up for an important message! Also... did anyone else pick-up on the amphibian people's family name as 'MARSH'???

[@MrDoctorColossus]

Of course.. you "stay away from the marshes" haha... I mean back when last names were being made up, they had to do with what you or your clan were known for.. uh, American slave names notwithstanding haha. But yeah, like my own last name has to do with the Scottish word for a shoemaker or a tailor or something, I frankly forget, but something like that. Not quite as exciting as Conjurorfield or Demonsmith or something but it'll do haha.

[@BertramShord]

@@MrDoctorColossus Conjurorfield or Demonsmith realy made my day. Meeting people thus named would be great. "Ah yes the gentleman over there. May i introduce the honorable Mr. Archibald Loreseeker and Misses Loreseeker, born Sealbreaker.

[@sergeantsilly-pantsjackson1942]

I first heard this in the background of a Halloween LoFi mix. I’m glad I found it the full thing.

[@cheshirecat882]

I read this one before Dunwich Horror and Shadow Over Insmoth. I would highly suggest you read those before this one for Shuttered Room has many call backs to the other two and does not have the same impact without.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Cheshire Cat Thanks for your input! :)

[@Happaning_tube]

Cheshire Cat I find having heard some love craft call backs both before and after reading the text to witch they refer that both yelled there own rewards.hearing a call back before reading the reference gives a since of the wider world of strangeness while having read the reference yields satisfaction for you dedication to the author. myself I enjoy not understanding the references until I read the reference.

[@colemarie9262]

I agree in some ways, and in most other authors I would totally agree.... but I also oddly love coming across hearing a Dunwich reference I don't know yet. Like the commenter above me, I feel like it adds another layer of mystery and context to this very messed up place to live.

[@badasunicorn6870]

But part of the lovecraft experience is to get everything in the wrong order! It's part of what makes thw mythos feel real!

[@colemarie9262]

This channel is just too perfect. Whoever you are, we'd probably get along well in real life.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thank you so much for your very kind words! Have a great weekend!

[@Mi-yc3oy]

wow. here it is. the story from my 1st HPL "experience" back in.... 1994(?) Never remembered the title and NEVER came across it again until now. i barely remembered anything from the story but a "sealed room" and a certain animal. how nostalgic. thanks!

[@TheRecluseeee]

My pleasure! Glad that you found this story again!

[@岩倉玲音-z4g]

@@TheRecluseeee Please take Lovecraft's name off of any of these August Derleth posthumous collaborations. These were written 22 years after Lovecraft's death, and each one based on a fragment from Lovecraft's commonplace book. Manny comments here suggest people think this is by Lovecraft, though his style is singularly absent.

[@frankleescarlet8881]

The movie scared the livin' shat out of me when I was just a kid. I just found it here on KZbin and it still gives me the heebee jeebees. A genuine cult classic fo sho!

[@TheRecluseeee]

FRITHJOF MOELLER Indeed!

[@CthulhuWho1]

This is a great reading, but I'd take Lovecraft's name off of it, because it was actually written by August Derleth, and first published in 1959 (22 years after Lovecraft's death), inspired by looking at notes in Lovecraft's Commonplace Book. This was one of Derleth's many "Posthumous Collaborations" with Lovecraft; but not something actually written by H. P. Lovecraft.

[@ValosarX]

William Hart thanks for this, I thought I had missed a Lovecraft Story lol. I'm kind of confused by this story, if I remember correctly grandfather was the one who summoned the horror

[@SandraudigaVali]

God the narrator did an absolutely fantastic job

[@garybobst9107]

H.P's tales would make wonderful bed-time stories for little kids! Bwahahaha.....(evil laugh)

[@allenkent6547]

If that is the case we must find the appropriate spell to summon him, I have no desire to hear anyone else read audio books...please tell me he did more than the few on this list

[@TheRecluseeee]

Allen Kent All the recordings he did, I uploaded on my channel.

[@xthe_nojx5820]

Allen Kent Wayne June is another great voice for Lovecraft.

[@lore1st]

Free Audio Books for Intellectual Exercise j

[@assimonem1189]

Great story and also re-animator.Thanks, Audio- books

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening!

[@thegreatburt9005]

Great reading of a great story, thank you.

[@VildhjartaFanGurl]

One of my favorites simply for the way it's written.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting and listening!

[@azillionbytes9312]

8:24 Errrmmm…was that an shadow over insmouth reference??

[@KeithDec25]

As some others have stated great reading/dramatics! THANKS

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening!

[@crmtheanimefan]

ive herd this from a halloween lofi mix and i was wondering where it came from and this is intresting.

[@michaelsmyth6296]

From my first reading of this, so many decades ago, to this very listening, Abner was very slow on the beam. Though the ending is one known, I always wish for Abner to have joined his Cousin there at the end of the creature's tormented existence. Unholy, or perhaps rather, otherworldly progeny feature prominently throughout the history. Some folks never learn. Well off to the basement. The morning light shines right through to the front of the water room, cloudy the last couple days...

[@kevinbell5674]

Where is this from? I know Canrad Feinninger did Tales of HP Lovecraft: Major Works, but this isn't in that collection. The Shunned House is, but for some reason isn't here.

[@AdmCornFlake]

It's from The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces, an anthology with various horror stories by Lovecraft and others collected by August Derleth, who wrote this story and is the title of the collection. This piece isn't actually Lovecraft's own (the third person narration is somewhat a giveaway).

[@lennydale92]

Listening to this at 0.2 speed is like listening to a drunk slurring xD

[@TheRecluseeee]

LOL. Thanks for a fun tip! :D

[@RolandWieffering1]

I wonder why there is no audio version of "The Horror in the Museum", these Cthulhu Mythos stories (writen by others) are great as well. I have the Book of Cthulhu 1 and 2 in audiobook version. There are some awsome stories in there as well.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Roland Wieffering Yeah, there are several great tales that never recorded.

[@slacknhash]

+Roland Wieffering Few commercial recordings, perhaps, but with more microphones, more laptops, and KZbin, some might say it's up to the readers to supply readings of HPL's revisions. That said, Jim Campanella of Uvula audio did some fantastic readings of The Curse of Yig and The Mound, HPL's efforts for Zealia Bishop.

[@chriswolfe5367]

Lovecraft was a man of his time, and while is commonly remarked as a "racist", was more of a classist. You were educated, of western European lineage, or you were of low bearing and upbringing. That being said, I thought it was a beautiful mention in this story by his friend August Derleth, writing Lovecraft's universe posthumously for his collaborator, of the unfortunate occurrence of racial prejudice. I like to think this was a kind poultice on the ugly sore of his dead friend's writings. Perhaps not an issue of the period, but an issue for Derleth. Using his unique position as the entitled inheritor of the Lovecraft stories, he applies some broader philosophies and understanding to the universe, and is a credit to his predecessor.

[@higherground711]

Excellent! ^_^ Thanks.

[@TheRecluseeee]

My pleasure!

[@davidturney2975]

Lovecraft is still the man when it comes to describing events and telling stories

[@Davidlee37101]

Does anyone know if narrator has done the audio of 50 shades of grey?

[@Oakleaf700]

For ''Frog Baby'' maybe he had 'inspiration' from the sad cases of anencephalic babies that are illustrated in medical books at the time. It is a neural tube defect caused very early in pregnancy...

[@larissashen4874]

Could be. But why turn them into monsters?

[@Oakleaf700]

@@larissashen4874 It is a shame..I agree. {why turn them into 'monsters'......deformed babies and animals were actually termed 'monsters'.In the past} Such infants were thought {incorrectly} to be caused by Witchcraft, or by the mother consorting with animals. {as if the mother wouldn't be distressed enough...to be accused of this would make matters worse} Often these deformities are due to the mother's lack of essential vitamins {specifically folic acid}, or exposure to toxins in the very early weeks of pregnancy.

[@larissashen4874]

Oakleaf700 It is sad how much of Lovecraft’s stories could be interpreted as enforcing old superstitions. I got the impression that old Howard himself was too smart to believe a lot of that stuff. But you can’t deny the similarities.

[@Oakleaf700]

@@larissashen4874 Well observed..you are right.

[@SycrosD4]

I thought this was written by August Derleth, not Lovecraft

[@岩倉玲音-z4g]

@Dr. Hannibal Lester This is a posthumous collaboration by August Derleth based on a fragment from Lovecraft's commonplace book. Lovecraft was dead 22 years when they collaborated.

[@chrismaclean3108]

Intro in The Dunwich Horror, "the ruins of the mill at the falls....."

[@Oakleaf700]

Very different to the 1960's film ..almost a different story altogether. Ought to be seen as two separate stories. Good reading/story though :)

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening!

[@thomasjefferson5191]

Checkmated Him Bohemian Style.

[@rebeccacarter1914]

I feel so sorry for the multitudes who will never know this wonder. Poor things watching movies full of screams, buckets of blood and endless profanity, deceived that it is entertainment.

[@universumaeternalisfirmus]

Umm you should know there isn’t only one form of entertainment

[@johntaylor4803]

almost as good as The Dunwich Horror by the sunset players on internrt archive-- the main actor sounds like donald sutherland--------great listen

[@TheRecluseeee]

+john taylor Thanks for listening!

[@belacy87]

Anybody else end up here from some spoopyspooy lofi mixes?

[@violetfemme411]

RIBBIT! Sorry...yes sad indeed (:-(

[@jonbaird8835]

Bud..... Weis..... Errrrrrrrr

[@oliverd-s6495]

Violet Femme bullywugs

[@larissashen4874]

Eldritch pollywogs!

[@allenkent6547]

Who is the reader, I must know,please?

[@TheRecluseeee]

Allen Kent An anonymous dweller from the sunken city of R'lyeh. He visited us and recorded some of forbidden manuscripts and books and then went back to the sunken city.

[@TheRecluseeee]

9digitNo Will do so when the stars are right. Wait and see my friends. :)

[@ter8413]

he says theres no clues but theres plenty... so far theres 2 theories.. gene manipulation or cult stuff .. perhaps both

[@glowingunknown5625]

37:21 … Now that's irony. Lovecraft, known to be very racist, condemning uneducated racists.

[@joannewatts6501]

Jared Frost I'm a racist , racist of the human race . 👾🐙🦑🐜 ;-)

[@gaylordeshiddik4403]

@@joannewatts6501 I am too but I was raised orthodox jewish so its OK

[@joannewatts6501]

@@gaylordeshiddik4403 OK 🙄🐿️ :-)

[@chrismaclean3108]

Not racist. Racially Conscious.

[@ulyssesnorth6843]

Lovecraft was a creepy dude.

[@howardlovecraft750]

Maybe but he could write.

[@babyirene3188]

Music's real loud.

[@babyirene3188]

My bad. Pls. scratch that.

[@TheRecluseeee]

No worry. Thanks for listening!

[@julesbrunton1728]

Haha. Dr. Gillman 🤣

[@itzboony]

Look up H.P. Lovecrafts cats name

[@gaylordeshiddik4403]

Conrad > anyone else

[@SanguineBlackBlood]

The guy in the story isn't very smart.

[@badasunicorn6870]

I just want to make sure people know that Howard himself was a racist, homophobic, xenophobe and basically a dick. Great works, terrible person. Supposedly he got better at the end of his life though, so that's good, but don't expect insightful commentary on how to treat people. Ok, have a good day❤️

[@julesbrunton1728]

Yeah this is an audio book written by a different author and read by a different narrator but thanks for the highly irrelevant information. Be sure, we know.