Chambers's The King in Yellow, some of which had previously been borrowed from Ambrose Bierce. Where Machen mentions "strange shapes gathering fast amidst the reeds, beside the wash in the river," Lovecraft tells of "certain odd stories of things found floating in some of the swollen rivers." Price suggests that Machen's reference to accounts of people "who vanished strangely from the earth" prompted Lovecraft to imagine people being literally spirited off the Earth.Īs noted by critics like Price and Lin Carter, "The Whisperer in Darkness" also makes reference to names and concepts in Robert W. Lovecraft hints at "a hidden race of monstrous beings which lurked somewhere among the remoter hills". Price points out parallel passages in the two stories: Where Machen asks, "What if the obscure and horrible race of the hills still survived.?" Wilmarth remains behind to tell the tale, like Machen's Miss Lally. t is Akeley, not the Professor, who eventually disappears into the clutches of the elder race. Lovecraft splits the role of Machen's Professor Gregg between Professor Wilmarth and the scholarly recluse Akeley. He is lured by a curiously engraved black stone which seems a survival from an elder prehuman race now hidden in those mysterious hills. In both cases we have a professor, an antiquarian, following his avocational interests in what most would dismiss as superstition on a dangerous expedition into a strange region of ominous domed hills. "I would go so far as to make Lovecraft's tale essentially a rewriting, a new version of Machen's," Price writes. Price argues, is an acknowledgement of the debt Lovecraft's story owes to Machen's " The Novel of the Black Seal" (1895). Not alot see that.In "The Whisperer in Darkness", narrator Albert Wilmarth initially dismisses those who believe that nonhuman creatures inhabit the Vermont hills as "merely romanticists who insisted on trying to transfer to real life the fantastic lore of lurking 'little people' made popular by the magnificent horror-fiction of Arthur Machen." Pretty fookin' brilliant~ You know something. Wow! Don't play this on Halloween! I hear a wild boar hunter in here! with big teeth?!! Help! Comment by Karin-Maria Brunner If Alfred Hitchcock and Little Red Riding Hood were running from snaggle tooth wild boars in the forest, this certainly would be their escape music! Comment by Lynda Faye (The Illinois Harmony Connection) Comment by Lynda Faye (The Illinois Harmony Connection) This is one of the most deeply thought-out emotionally arousing pieces I've ever heard. This ones' going to my classical violinists friends! Comment by Lynda Faye (The Illinois Harmony Connection)Īdriano's Whisperer ought to meet up with Irina Minakova's " Night!" Comment by Lynda Faye (The Illinois Harmony Connection)Ĭatch me if you can I'm here now. This is really going to be refreshing on a hot night in August, yes ?!! Comment by Lynda Faye (The Illinois Harmony Connection) Got to play this at midnight when I can't sleep! Then check for burglars and lock both doors again?! Comment by Lynda Faye (The Illinois Harmony Connection) LyndaFaye says "Play this at midnight, when you can't sleep, then go lock both doors and look for strangers lurking around outside ? But don't go out to find them ha ha ha! Comment by Lynda Faye (The Illinois Harmony Connection) Great orchestration, great soundtrack! Comment by Lynda Faye (The Illinois Harmony Connection) Genre Soundtrack Comment by Anibal Seminara A soundtrack, in a progressive-classical-rock style, of the famous tale by H.P.Lovecraft.
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