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+TheADPHI Agreed. "The Walls of Eryx" I prize, because of its very outer space science fiction nature. Also in the sense of the wide spread neo-colonial imperialist spirit of its time of pre-WW II Earth, it makes the kind of social justice commentary that contributes to advances in pro human rights thinking.

+Tony Smith Lovecraft may voice ideas of the sort but he openly hated migrants and men of color.

+Andrew Paul Of course he hated them. Their cultural inferiority bred contempt in his heart.

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Through a callous mirror; I wonder whether you could also conclude that those dispairing and lost fall to these "empathic thoughts"?

@@user-xf2qt5il7n Or that this "enlightenment" is merely the voice of exhaustion. "Don't mess with it, it's too much work and will probably bite us in the end".

kentekent Indeed!

Check out the classical film "voyage to the prehistoric planet" you can find it here on yt,it is like a prequel to this story's spirit.

​@@badas45 even MST3K can barely make that watchable.

These I believe were created by the Library of Congress for the blind. More recent than one may think. Conrad Weninger(?) recorded the other half of this collection. I honestly don't know who does it better, both outstanding. Cheers!

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darkmountain1 I don’t find his vocabulary in the horror stories particularly excessive. He uses a lot of synonyms. Though he does tend to digress and go off on tangents quite often. But I think his style suits his subject matter.

thats because he co wrote it with a 15 year old

Antimony Cup My pleasure!

On venus ... not quite as current

2022 says hold my beer...🤔

It is highly likely that there are closing "doors" that the protagonist wasn't aware of.

The narrator said he thought the paths were changing

Never really occurred to me that the walls might actually be moving, I just took it as him not noticing subtle differences in the heights of the doors or something like that... I'm thinking that the strange gestures the lizard-men made could've been magic used to somehow control the movements of the walls, so they could be more tactical in sealing off passages, changing hallways, etc. It's hinted that the walls are moving, but it's also possible that they're not moving, one of those interesting bits.

that would make it even more interesting as in the end they find a passage right behind the guy. so the aliens WANTED them to find him

It strikes me that Lovecraft made an error. The protagonist tries digging under the walls, but for various reasons can't get beneath them. But walls, even invisible walls, can not occupy the same space as the dirt which surrounds them. The space occupied by the walls would appear as a clearly visible void space extending down to the depth of the walls themselves. But what the hell...

It's rude to leave anything on the plate. 🍽️

NICE.

+Ken Viers awesome, I will finish rolling at that point :D

Kenspiracy a like to think hp's drug of choice would be a hallucinogen or opium...

@@Tadesan likely weed and opium, what id have done back then. now just weed, opium is dirty these days.

IronBahamut this story is co-written by Kenneth Sterling, I think the idea for it was more his than HPL.

@@sunray4389 Yes, Kenneth Sterling wrote the original draft - so the scenario and story outline are his - and Lovecraft then entirely re-wrote it for him, turning it into a finished piece and doubling the word-count. Sterling was a 16 year old high-schooler - and had been firiends with Lovecraft for a couple of years when they collaborated on this story. Lovecraft must've recognised that Sterling was a seriously bright kid. Indeed, Sterling got into Harvard and published his first scientific paper aged just 19. He went on to become a noted scientific researcher and medical doctor, making discoveries in treating thyroid problems. Unfortunately Sterling's first draft is lost so we can't be 100% sure how much of it is Sterling and how much of it is Lovecraft's revision / extension of Sterling's story. Lovecraft certainly added many of the colourful environment details, like the "farnoth flies," "ugrats," "wriggling akmans" and "efjeh-weeds" - all of which are cheeky puns based on the names of real-life people who Lovecraft didn't like very much ... so he turned them into Venusian pests :) The name of the main narrator character (Kenton J. Stanfield) seems to be a play on Sterling's name (Kenneth J. Sterling) so it seems likely that Lovecraft basically re-wrote the whole thing to amuse Sterling and himself, making Kenneth the (doomed) hero of his own story.

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And isn't something supposed to be 'eldritch'? ;)

+Devo Davis hah!

I bet the walls supported a gambrel roof...but it was invisible :)

No blasphemous abnormalities either!

The base totally should have been in New Arkham!

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JMG71586 I know! I love that the insanely advanced science of older sci fi stories is always tempered with the guy using like, a paper calender or something lol. It is pretty impressive that without those small clues, most sci fi stands up to current reading, like it could have been written recently or fifty years ago.

@@colemarie9262 I watched some really old Sci-Fi once - I forget what exactly- but the guy was flying around in his spaceship and had to send an urgent message to Earth. He got on his "intergalactic space phone" or something- and the device was as big as a dining room table and had a cord! lol

Hand-written notes are still used in field surveys on Earth, mostly because it's more reliable than carrying a tablet around.

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The start of this story sounds like the Spanish colonization of Central America in space, just swap "crystal" for "gold". Edit: Avatar didn't steal the invisible labyrinth.

@@ingold1470 first thing I thought of as well

@@Beastlybeast71 same

And to back you up! Think about that for a minute. RADAR astronomy! We shoot beams of light at planets and record signals bouncing off of their terrain, and we do it with what amounts to enormous one pixel "cameras". It's staggering how clever scientists can be!

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But way better.

+Avraham Ish Shalom Thank you so much! Cheers!

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Hey +Free Audio Books for Intellectual Exercise, thanks for all these Lovecraft stories. I enjoy them very much!

My pleasure!

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it was good, i shed a tear

Fear and Loathing in Las Venus. Lol.

It happened to me as well while watching other video. :D

Gordon Gould.

I particularly like his reading of "The Temple" (although that one should logically be a German accent)

Story and first draft by Sterling, re-written (and expanded) by Lovecraft. Yes, you can tell the sci-fi setting didn't come from Lovecraft because (iirc) he showed no interest in spaceships and astronauts anywhere else in his own stories. HPL was "sweetening" a friend's attempt at writing weird fiction, basically, and maybe went a bit above and beyond :)

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@@TheRecluseeee been listening to much of late, very good stories.

+wtfdudekk hes voice is awsome

wtfdudekk gordon Gould

Planets don't twinkle 👍

@@guileweaver1574 Do some actual research and then come back.

@@Kazuma11290 Here you go earthsky.org/space/why-dont-planets-twinkle-as-stars-do/

@@guileweaver1574 Oh, so you're just splitting hairs. Adorable.

@@Kazuma11290 Just a quick question before I go. If Venus twinkles in your world, what color is the sky ?

Yep. The story dates from 1936 and that was a popular and acceptable way of saying it back then, considered to be more refined (i.e. posh) than the slightly awkward-sounding "a hundred." It has fallen out of fashion since, but you do sometimes hear people today saying "an hotel" - same concept.

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Kenith Sterling. He says it at the beginning.

Kenneth Sterling was the co-author of the story with Lovecraft. The reader is Garret Brubaker, who may also be heard reading "The Strange High House in the Mist."

Milan Smidt you have little imagination and and an unsavory self righteous attitude.

Except the mud did not stick to the wall. Soy idiots can not even recall the events in the literature they try to criticise. Also, one could take this as a less normie avatar. Except instead of switching sides, the protagonist dies and the company greed wins.