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"Hypnos" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, penned in March 1922 and first published in the May 1923 issue of National Amateur.
"Hypnos" is a first-person narrative, written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent and later London, England. The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is resolved to write his story down lest it drive him further mad, regardless of what people think after reading it. - The narrator, a sculptor, recounts meeting a mysterious man in a railway station. The moment the man opened his "immense, sunken, and widely luminous eyes", the narrator knew that the stranger would become his friend--"the only friend of one who had never possessed a friend before." In the eyes of the stranger, he witnessed important knowledge of the mysteries he always sought to learn…
© 2020 Bookstream Audiobooks (Lydbog): 9783991162421
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"Hypnos" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, penned in March 1922 and first published in the May 1923 issue of National Amateur.
"Hypnos" is a first-person narrative, written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent and later London, England. The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is resolved to write his story down lest it drive him further mad, regardless of what people think after reading it. - The narrator, a sculptor, recounts meeting a mysterious man in a railway station. The moment the man opened his "immense, sunken, and widely luminous eyes", the narrator knew that the stranger would become his friend--"the only friend of one who had never possessed a friend before." In the eyes of the stranger, he witnessed important knowledge of the mysteries he always sought to learn…
© 2020 Bookstream Audiobooks (Lydbog): 9783991162421
Release date
Lydbog: 26. oktober 2020
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Niklas
16. jul. 2021
Historien i sig selv er ikke videre interesant og udfolder hverken persongalleri, plot eller komponenterne i dybden. Indeholder for en gangs skyld ingen reaktionære eller racistiske elementer.Største problem her er dog den lydbogsudgave jeg hørte som bl.a. er fyldt med tekniske fejl. Den indledte med et synopsis der afslørede hele historien før den gik i gang, og som i øvrigt springer ind midt i en sætning i den biografiske introduktion, en sætning der så fortsætter efter synopsisen (biografien i øvrigt hylder ham og undgår at nævne et ord om Lovecrafts racisme). Dertil var lydkvaliteten af indtalingen dårlig. Værst, så er optagelsen kunstigt lang da den mange gange lige pludselig gentager flere minutter af optagelsen så man nærmest høre hele historien to til tre gange i én indspilning.
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