The Whisperer in Darkness [novella]
by H. P. Lovecraft
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H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories..
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"Viskningar" var aldrig min favoritberättelse ur Lovecrafts produktion. Jag minns att jag tyckte den var mekanisk och stel i jämförelse med hans andra verk (ja, även "vansinnets berg").
När jag läst denna översättning måste jag dock erkänna att den skrämde mig en hel del: Miljöerna, den isolation som beskrivs och den hjälplöshet som beskrivs fick mig den här gången att rysa ordentligt. Om det är den nya översättningen som har förändrat saken eller om det är min grundattityd som har förändrats vet jag inte, men jag kommer framöver att se på texten med ny respekt.
Att översätta Lovecraft är verkligen ingen lätt uppgift, men Isfelt klarar det till största delen galant, och om någon enstaka pekoral skymtar show more fram så beror det troligen på att även originalmaterialet balanserar nära sådan ibland. show less
När jag läst denna översättning måste jag dock erkänna att den skrämde mig en hel del: Miljöerna, den isolation som beskrivs och den hjälplöshet som beskrivs fick mig den här gången att rysa ordentligt. Om det är den nya översättningen som har förändrat saken eller om det är min grundattityd som har förändrats vet jag inte, men jag kommer framöver att se på texten med ny respekt.
Att översätta Lovecraft är verkligen ingen lätt uppgift, men Isfelt klarar det till största delen galant, och om någon enstaka pekoral skymtar show more fram så beror det troligen på att även originalmaterialet balanserar nära sådan ibland. show less
Jul 16, 2010Swedish
Solide Lesung einer nur mässig spannenden Erzählung. Den Hörer erwarten hier keine Überraschungen, man wird allerdings auch nicht enttäuscht. Allerdings halte ich die Wahl der deutschen Stimme Snipes für Mr. Akeley nicht unbedingt für die beste Wahl, da sich beim Hören doch sehr leicht die Figur "Blade" in den Vordergrund drängt. Ansonsten aber gute Hausmannskost für die Ohren. Nicht mehr und nicht weniger. Die Scheibe mit den Extras - Erinnerungen an Lovecraft- fällt hier auch nicht weiter ins Gewicht, da sie im Gegensatz zum Bonus des Hörbuches "Schatten über Innsmouht" bestenfalls mäßig interessant ist.
Apr 2, 2009German
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 1890 - 1937 H. P. Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother was Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft and his father was Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a traveling salesman for Gorham & Co. Silversmtihs. Lovecraft was reciting poetry at the age of two and when he was three years old, his father show more suffered a mental breakdown and was admitted to Butler Hospital. He spent five years there before dying on July 19, 1898 of paresis, a form of neurosyphillis. During those five years, Lovecraft was told that his father was paralyzed and in a coma, which was not the case. His mother, two aunts and grandfather were now bringing up Lovecraft. He suffered from frequent illnesses as a boy, many of which were psychological. He began writing between the ages of six and seven and, at about the age of eight, he discovered science. He began to produce the hectographed journals, "The Scientific Gazette" (1899-1907) and "The Rhode Island Journal of Astronomy" (1903-07). His first appearance in print happened, in 1906, when he wrote a letter on an astronomical matter to The Providence Sunday Journal. A short time later, he began writing a monthly astronomy column for The Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner - a rural paper. He also wrote columns for The Providence Tribune (1906-08), The Providence Evening News (1914-18), The Asheville (N.C.) Gazette-News (1915). In 1904, his grandfather died and the family suffered severe financial difficulties, which forced him and his mother to move out of their Victorian home. Devastated by this, he apparently contemplated suicide. In 1908, before graduating from high school, he suffered a nervous breakdown. He didn't receive a diploma and failed to get into Brown University, both of which caused him great shame. Lovecraft was not heard from for five years, re-emerging because of a letter he wrote in protest to Fred Jackson's love story in The Argosy. His letter was published in 1913 and caused great controversy, which was noted by Edward F. Daas, President of the United Amateur Press Association (UAPA). Daas invited Lovecraft to join the UAPA, which he did in early 1914. He eventually became President and Official Editor of the UAPA and served briefly as President of the rival National Amateur Press Association (NAPA). He published thirteen issues of his own paper, The Conservative (1915-23) and contributed poetry and essays to other journals. He also wrote some fiction which titles include "The Beast in the Cave" (1905), "The Alchemist" (1908), "The Tomb" and "Dagon" (1917). In 1919, Lovecraft's mother was deteriorating, mentally and physically, and was admitted to Butler Hospital. On May 24, 1921, his mother died from a gall bladder operation. While attending an amateur journalism convention in Boston, Lovecraft met his future wife Sonia Haft Greene, a Russian Jew. They were married on March 3, 1924 and Lovecraft moved to her apartment in Brooklyn. Sonia had a shop on Fifth Avenue that went bankrupt. In 1925, Sonia went to Cleveland for a job and Lovecraft moved to a smaller apartment in the Red Hook district of Brooklyn. In 1926, he decided to move back to Providence. Lovecraft had his aunts bar his wife, Sonia, from going to Providence to start a business because he couldn't have the stigma of a tradeswoman wife. They were divorced in 1929. After his return to Providence, he wrote his greatest fiction, which included the titles "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926), "At the Mountains of Madness" (1931), and "The Shadow Out of Time" (1934-35). In 1932, his aunt, Mrs. Clark, died; and he moved in with his other aunt, Mrs. Gamwell, in 1933. Suffering from cancer of the intestine, Lovecraft was admitted to Jane Brown Memorial Hospital and on March 15, 1937 he died. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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H. P. Lovecraft, Gesammelte Werke: Gebunden in feingeprägter Leinenstruktur auf Naturpapier aus Bayern. Mit Goldprägung (Anaconda Gesammelte Werke 45) (German Edition) by H. P. Lovecraft (indirect)
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- Canonical title
- The Whisperer in Darkness [novella]
- Original title
- The Whisperer in Darkness
- Original publication date
- 1931
- People/Characters
- Albert N. Wilmarth; Henry Wentworth Akeley; Mi-Go; Albert Wilmarth
- Important places
- Vermont, USA
- Related movies
- The Whisperer in the darkness (2011); The Whisperer in Darkness (2011 | IMDb)
- First words
- Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end.
- Quotations
- Two or three fanatical extremists went so far as to hint at possible meanings in the ancient Indian tales which gave the hidden beings a nonterrestrial origin; citing the extravagant books of Charles Fort with their claims th... (show all)at voyagers from other worlds and outer space have often visited the earth. Most of my foes, however, were 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.
I knew I was entering an altogether older-fashioned and more primitive New England than the mechanised, urbanised coastal and southern areas where all my life had been spent; an unspoiled, ancestral New England without the fo... (show all)reigners and factory-smoke, bill-boards and concrete roads, of the sections which modernity has touched. There would be odd survivals of that continuous native life whose deep roots make it the one authentic outgrowth of the landscape - the continuous native life which keeps alive strange ancient memories, and fertilises the soil for shadowy, marvellous, and seldom-mentioned beliefs.
Never was a sane man more dangerously close to the arcana of basic entity -- never was an organic brain nearer to utter annihilation in the chaos that transcends form and force and symmetry. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley.
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- This is a short story, do NOT combine with the collection.
This is a short story. DO NOT combine with any collections.
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