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The Book Blabberer
Book Reviews! Thoughts on Writing! Other assorted odds and ends about the written word and the layers of discourse that surround it! Huzzah!
Review: Let's Split Up, by Bill Wood
Rating: 🔍🔍🔍🔍🔍 Initial Reaction: Y'all, this book was adorable. One Sentence Summary: A couple of teenagers get murdered in a...
Oct 1, 20253 min read
Free Audiobook: The Tree, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/tr.aspx I'm not sure what to make of this story. It's about a...
Feb 26, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: The Picture in the House, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/ph.aspx I'm gonna let you in on a secret. This post says it was...
Feb 20, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: The Terrible Old Man, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/tom.aspx Hey, remember that story about the Cats of Ulthar, where...
Feb 19, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: The Crawling Chaos, by H.P. Lovecraft with Winifred V. Jackson
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/crc.aspx This story details an opium fever dream the narrator has....
Feb 17, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/faj.aspx This story is about the family history of Arthur Jermyn,...
Feb 16, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: The Street, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/s.aspx This story is different from most of Lovecraft's other works in...
Feb 15, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: Ex Oblivione, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/eo.aspx This story might be depressing, and features themes of drug...
Feb 15, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: Nyarlathotep, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/n.aspx It's pronounced "nee-are-LA-tho-tep." The 'th' in 'tho' is...
Feb 13, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: Polaris, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/p.aspx This story is somewhere between the 'dream narratives' and...
Feb 13, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: The Cats of Ulthar, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cu.aspx Hey, you remember that documentary that came out a few years...
Feb 12, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: Poetry and the Gods, by H.P. Lovecraft and Anna Helen Crofts
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/pg.aspx This story... is fine. It's not really weird (in the...
Feb 11, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: Memory, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/m.aspx This short story is really more of an atmosphere study. It...
Feb 10, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: The Doom That Came to Sarnath, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/ds.aspx This story features a lot of names that will recur in...
Feb 10, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: The White Ship by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/ws.aspx This is another "dream narrative," this time featuring a...
Feb 10, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: The Statement of Randolph Carter, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/src.aspx This story features an amateur necromancer who bites of a...
Feb 10, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: The Beast in the Cave, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/bc.aspx This is a short story about a man who loses his tour group...
Feb 10, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/rdsj.aspx This story's a little weird in the grand scheme of...
Feb 10, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: Beyond the Wall of Sleep, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/bws.aspx This story is the first of Lovecraft's "dream narratives,"...
Feb 10, 20251 min read
Free Audiobook: Dagon, by H.P. Lovecraft
Read Along Link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/d.aspx We've reached a milestone in our Lovecraft catalog! BEHOLD!...
Feb 10, 20251 min read
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