The Weird of Hali: Innsmouth Audiobook

[ecosophia]

I'm delighted to report that The Weird of Hali: Innsmouth, the first volume in my fantasy epic with tentacles, is now available in audiobook format, and has finished percolating through the distribution channels. Audiobooks being audiobooks, there's no single source I can point you to, but if you check your favorite audiobook supplier, they should have it in stock. In case you're wondering what the story is, here's the back cover blurb: 

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There Are Two Sides To Every Story

 

Like every other grad student at Miskatonic University, Owen Merrill knows about the Great Old Ones, the nightmare beings out of ancient legend that H.P. Lovecraft unearthed from archaic texts and turned into icons of modern fantasy fiction. Then a chance discovery—a lost letter written by Lovecraft to fellow Weird Tales author Robert Blake—offers a glimpse into the frightful reality behind the legends, and sends Owen on a desperate quest for answers that shatters his familiar world forever.

 

As he flees across the witch-haunted Massachusetts landscape toward the mysterious seaside town of Innsmouth, Owen finds himself caught up in a secret war between the servants of the Great Old Ones and their ancient enemies, a war in which yesterday's friend may be tomorrow's foe and nothing is as it seems. The history of the world is not what he has been taught—and the tentacles reaching out for him from the shadows of a forbidden past may hold not only his one chance of escape from the terrifying forces closing around him, but the last hope of life on Earth...
 

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The remaining volumes of The Weird of Hali will be appearing in audiobook format over the next year or two. In the meantime, if you missed out on the print edition, why, you can find it here.

Comments

[tresbla]

Congratulations, John! I hope this brings you a wider audience. A little disappointed you're not reading it yourself though... not something that interests you or the publisher preferred to use a 'pro'?

[ecosophia]

It takes a lot of time and a lot of practice to read aloud well. If you've heard my podcasts you know that there's a lot of um, ah, you know, and other verbal static in my speech, so I decided that it was better to have somebody more practiced do it.

Sheldrake

[(Anonymous)]

JMG

This is off topic but I was just reading thru the MM comments when I came upon the thread ref. R. Sheldrake. I know that someone posted a transcription of the talk but its much more fun to watch him speak. This is from the Electric Universe conference which he has spoken at at least three times I believe. The EU is something that I've been an adherent to for many years. Sheldrakes work on premonition and cognition have been rankling science for years. He had a Ted Talk that was banned, I believe called the "The Delusion of Science". It's available to watch now. He was a contemporary of Terrence McKenna and they have some interesting conversations that were recorded in the 70's. Mostly psychedelic related but McKenna was a treasure trove of knowledge. You remind me of him actually. But checkout Sheldrakes channel here.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz8XNwQXIAejAaDmEaPNmIA

Very interesting character. He has many books on I guess you could say para-psychology. He's debated Richard Dawkins on several occasions.

Les

Re: Sheldrake

[ecosophia]

I'm not a fan of videos, but I've made a note to check out his recent books -- it's been a while since I've followed his work. Thank you!

[kayr]

Yeah! I love audio books and it will be a treat to collect all these to listen to while I sew. Thanks.

[ecosophia]

Enjoy!

calligraphy

[(Anonymous)]

totally off topic but I thought you should see this, somebody wrote out some Bruno in exquisite calligraphy: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calligraphy/comments/gkfeyc/textura_quadrata_w_versals_latin_from_brunos_on/

Re: calligraphy

[ecosophia]

Oh my. Absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for this!