{"id":3091,"date":"2023-01-17T23:46:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T23:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thoughtaudio.com\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2023-01-17T23:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T23:48:19","slug":"ta0127-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nu5nf0i4.myutilitydomain.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com\/index.php\/ta0127-he\/","title":{"rendered":"TA0127: HE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"He by H.P. Lovecraft - Full Audio Book\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yBcgaKnl13o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\"><span class=\"Text-Head\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HE<\/span><\/b><\/span><b><\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"Text-small\">WRITTEN BY:<\/span><span class=\"RegularNospread\"><br \/>\n<strong>H.P. Lovecraft<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Text-small\">NARRATED BY: <\/span><span class=\"RegularNospread\"><br \/>\n<strong>Michael Anthony Scott<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>HE<\/em> is a short story by American\u00a0horror\u00a0writer\u00a0H. P. Lovecraft, written in August 1925, and first published in\u00a0<em>Weird Tales<\/em>, in September 1926. The story <em>HE<\/em> was written after an all-night tour of the remnants of\u00a0Old New York. By 7 a.m. the next morning, Lovecraft had reached\u00a0Elizabeth, New Jersey by ferry, where he bought a dime composition book and wrote the story in Elizabeth&#8217;s Scott Park. The court off\u00a0Greenwich Village&#8217;s Perry Street actually exists. Lovecraft learned of its existence in a\u00a0<em>New York Evening Post<\/em>\u00a0article of August 29, 1924. The stranger&#8217;s house is apparently based on a mansion on the block bounded by Perry,\u00a0Bleecker, Charles, and West 4th streets, built as early as 1744 and demolished in 1865.<\/p>\n<p>Lovecraft had moved to New York City in March 1924 for his short-lived marriage to Sonia Greene. He moved back to\u00a0Providence, Rhode Island\u00a0in April 1926, having developed a thorough aversion to New York. The opening paragraphs of <em>HE<\/em> are believed to be largely autobiographical, expressing Lovecraft&#8217;s own feelings about the city.<\/p>\n<p>A suggested literary model for &#8220;He&#8221; is\u00a0Lord Dunsany&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Chronicles of Rodriguez<\/em>, in which a wizard displays visions of past and future wars in successive windows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodySpread\" align=\"left\">________________<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>ThoughtAudio PDF Transcript: <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/TA0127-_He_HPLovecraft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TA0127_He_HPLovecraft.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">_______________<\/p>\n<p class=\"RegularNospread\" align=\"left\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3023 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thoughtaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/HPLovecraft-196x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thoughtaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/HPLovecraft-196x300.png 196w, http:\/\/thoughtaudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/HPLovecraft.png 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>H.P. Lovecraft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Howard Phillips Lovecraft<\/strong>\u00a0(August 20, 1890 \u2013 March 15, 1937) was an American writer of\u00a0weird,\u00a0science, fantasy, and\u00a0horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the\u00a0Cthulhu Mythos.<\/p>\n<p>He became active in the speculative fiction community and was published in several pulp magazines. and later became the center of a wider group of authors known as the &#8220;Lovecraft Circle&#8221;. They introduced him to\u00a0<em>Weird Tales<\/em>, which would become his most prominent publisher. Lovecraft&#8217;s literary corpus is based on the idea of cosmicism, which was simultaneously his personal philosophy and the main theme of his fiction. Cosmicism posits that humanity is an insignificant part of the cosmos, and could be swept away at any moment. He incorporated fantasy and science fiction elements into his stories, representing the perceived fragility of anthropocentrism. This was tied to his ambivalent views on knowledge. His works were largely set in a fictionalized version of New England.<\/p>\n<p>Civilization\u2019s decline also plays a major role in his works, as he believed that the West was in decline during his lifetime. Lovecraft&#8217;s early political opinions were conservative and traditionalist. Following the Great Depression, Lovecraft became a socialist, no longer believing a just aristocracy would make the world a fairer place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HE WRITTEN BY: H.P. Lovecraft NARRATED BY: Michael Anthony Scott HE is a short story by American\u00a0horror\u00a0writer\u00a0H. P. Lovecraft, written in August 1925, and first published in\u00a0Weird Tales, in September 1926. The story HE was written after an all-night tour of the remnants of\u00a0Old New York. 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