The Call of Cthulhu By H.P. Lovecraft, Narrated by Garrick Hagon"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories, first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928. It is the only story penned by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative.
The story is of Keno, a poor fisherman who finds a great, luminous pearl. Although he is sure the fortune it represents will solve all his problems, Keno eventually realizes that the pearl has marked his life forever. The Pearl is a moving tragedy, written in language that is simple yet eloquent. Narrator Frank Muller adds a dramatic intensity and urgency to this timeless work from one of the greatest authors of the 20th century.
Full cast dramatisation from BBC Radio 7 starring Jonathan Firth, Kelly Reilly, Elizabeth Spriggs and T P McKenna, with John Hurt as the narrator Dramatised by Graham White
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 27 August 2011
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Final Jeopardy
The crusading longtime chief of Manhattan's Sex Crimes Prosecutions Unit brings to her exciting first novel the same passion and insights into the criminal and crime-busting minds that marked her memoir, Sexual Violence (1994). Fairstein also brings herself to the novel-or at least an alter ego of a narrator, Alexandra Cooper, who's also a middle-aged blonde heading the borough's prosecution of sex offenders.
