In a wonderful bit of synchronicity, these stories also come from Lovecraft's own early years of work, all dating to the first five years of the author's work written as an adult, with the first tale, Dagon, having been composed all the way back in 1917. Lovecraft’s Dagon, The Cats of Ulthar, and The Music of Erich Zann, 'brought the spoken arts to a whole new level,' as Cadabra label head Jonathan Dennison aptly put it. Featuring brand new talents at the time in the music of Anima Morte and voice actor Andrew Leman, the collection of H. In 2019, Cadabra Records released one of their finest productions. * Printed on a deluxe heavy weight gatefold tip-on jacket

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Lovecraft's, Dagon, The Cats of Ulthar & The Music of Erich Zann LP - Read by Andrew Leman, Score by Anima Morte LP Image by flickr user felinest and used under the terms of the creative commons license.H. … Is this a remembrance of Nigger-Man and all that lone pet meant to Lovecraft?” In A Life, Joshi says what we're all thinking: “One wonders whether Lovecraft was thinking of himself when he wrote with unexpected poignancy of the orphan Menes. “The entire scenario is probably inspired by the many tales of elementary revenge in The Book of Wonder.” It ends, “.and in the end, the burgesses passed that remarkable law which is told of by traders in Hatheg and discussed by travellers in Nir namely, that in Ulthar no man may kill a cat.”ĮTA: On reflection, this circular structure reminds me of the parody limerick written by the comedian John Clarke:Īn H P Lovecraft Encyclopedia doesn't have much to say about it, except to note a number of names borrowed from Dunsany. When the inevitable happens, the child curses the the oldies, the caravan leaves town, and there is cat-based revenge. Well, I think we can all see where this is going. A band of gypsies comes to town, including the boy Menes, a tragic orphan whose only friend in the world is a delightful black kitten.

Once upon time (as it might as well start) their lived in Ulthar two ugly old people who hated cats and would happily kill them when they wandered into their garden.

It begins, “It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the River Skai, no man may kill a cat,” and goes on to explain why. Sarnath had a certain austere dignity about it, but this one is as syrupy as a bad ballet, and feels very self-indulgent. This one is really leaden – it's HPL trying to sound just like some other writer he loves and doing it badly. Well, I've had enough of the “Dunsany” style for now.

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