THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE by H.P. LOVECRAFT
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 25 October 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome back everyone to |
| 0:24.8 | to one thousand one ghost stories and tales of the Macabre. This is your |
| 0:28.2 | host John Haggadorn and today's story the picture in the house by H.P. Lovecraft. |
| 0:37.0 | Searchers after horror haunt strange far places. |
| 0:41.1 | For them are the catacombs of the Ptolemy and the Carvan |
| 0:44.5 | Mausolia of the nightmare countries. They climb to the moonlit towers of ruined |
| 0:50.7 | Rhine castles and falter down black cobweb steps beneath the scattered |
| 0:55.3 | stones of forgotten cities in Asia. |
| 0:58.8 | The haunted wood and the desolate mountain are their shrines and they'd linger around the sinister monoliths on |
| 1:04.6 | uninhabited islands. But the true epicure in the terrible, to whom a new thrill of |
| 1:10.2 | unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence, |
| 1:15.0 | esteems most of all the ancient lonely farmhouses of Backwoods New England. |
| 1:20.0 | For there, the dark elements of strength, solitude, grotesqueness, and ignorance combined |
| 1:27.0 | to form the perfection of the hideous. |
| 1:30.4 | Most horrible of all sights of the little unpainted wooden houses remote from traveled ways, |
| 1:35.7 | usually squatted upon some damp grassy slope or leaning against some gigantic outcropping of rock. |
| 1:43.0 | 200 years and more they've leaned or squatted there |
| 1:46.0 | while the vines have crawled and the trees have swelled and spread. |
| 1:50.0 | They are almost hidden now in lawless luxuriances of green and guardian shrouds of shadow. |
| 1:56.6 | But the small pained windows still stares shockingly, as if blinking through a lethal stupor which |
| 2:02.1 | wards off madness by dulling the memory of unutterable things. |
| 2:09.0 | In such houses of 12 generations of strange people whose like the world is never seen. |
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