What are you reading?

[General Ceel]

Two Black Bottles (H.P. Lovecraft): https://youtu.be/bqI408qjAw8?si=u_kgbvjivR6NsYY9

[Danster]

Popped to my local library with the intention of borrowing a book but was too indecisive to choose so left empty-handed.

[General Ceel]

Its a library. No need to hesitate.

[General Ceel]

The Last Test: https://youtu.be/oKK_voudObQ?si=S5MKtZpY9IkjJ_QP

""The Last Test" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro that appeared under de Castro's name in the November 1928 issue of Weird Tales. It is a revision of de Castro's "A Sacrifice to Science," which had been published in 1893. "The Last Test" is notable as the first story in writing order to mention the Cthulhu Mythos entity Shub-Niggurath."

[General Ceel]

The Curse of Yig: https://youtu.be/mFTYcdEwHDg?si=LwrfUPS_UqCo4uIt

"The Curse of Yig" is a 1929 short story co-written by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop in which Yig, "The Father of Serpents", is first introduced.

Bishop supplied the story idea and some notes, paying Lovecraft to flesh it out in 1928. Bishop then sold the story under her own name to Weird Tales magazine. It was published first in the November 1929 issue (volume 14, number 5) on pages 625–36.

It was the first of three tales Lovecraft wrote with Bishop, the others being The Mound and Medusa's Coil.

In 1889, upon arriving in Oklahoma, a couple learn about local legends surrounding a "snake god" called Yig, which takes vengeance on anyone who kills a serpent by either killing them or turning them into a half-snake monster. The husband has an intense fear of snakes, and his wife kills a nest of rattlesnakes at one of their campsites. The husband is horrified by the thought that Yig will take vengeance. After building their cabin, the husband is insistent on practicing various rituals from the native tribes to keep Yig away, grating heavily on his wife's nerves. In fear, the woman kills her own husband in the dark, thinking he is Yig. She is taken to an asylum, and dies there ... but not before giving birth to four half-snake creatures."

"Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England."

[General Ceel]

The Electric Executioner: https://youtu.be/jQXzMd513bA?si=77l3t801nAthFq_8

"The Electric Executioner" is the name of H. P. Lovecraft's revision of Adolphe de Castro's "The Automatic Executioner" previously published in 1893 in In the Confessional and the following."

[General Ceel]

Medusa's Coil: by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop.

I also recorded a review of the story, but that's the one currently rendering in the background as I make this post. The story is considered to be highly racist, and Lovecraft himself is usually remembered only as a racist to his critics (though he did marry a Jewish woman.) I won't deny that he was a racist during his lifetime in the late 1800s and early 1900's, but it was also a different world then, and I choose to judge literature as it appears on the page, rather than making it about the author... but that's another discussion for the pet peeves thread someday.

[General Ceel]

The Trap: By H.P Lovecraft
https://youtu.be/dsL_UyjhQ-A?si=b0th9xWjs9DsH_e5

A schoolboy becomes trapped inside a mirror connected to the Fourth Dimension.

[General Ceel]

The Man of Stone by H.P. Lovecraft
https://youtu.be/fqkz44wdm4o?si=GkWDIZA7Ij_qOwuQ

"The story describes the narrator's search for the missing sculptor Arthur Wheeler, who disappeared in the Upper Adirondacks of New York State. Inspired by the discovery of lifelike statues of a dog and a man in Wheeler's style, Ben Hayden persuades the narrator to travel with him to the small, secretive village of Mountain Top."

[General Ceel]

Out of the Aeons by: HP Lovecraft
https://youtu.be/06zTmzkmV5E?si=quqw2Q6fOmjOibh4

"Out of the Aeons" is a short story by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, a writer from Somerville, Massachusetts. First published in the April 1935 issue of Weird Tales magazine, it was one of five stories Lovecraft revised for Heald. It focuses on a Boston museum that displays an ancient mummy recovered from a sunken island. The story is told from the point of view of the curator of the Cabot Museum in Boston."