Lovecraft was also kind of seclusive in terms of publicity. There are plenty of photos taken of him during his lifetime, but I don't think he really wanted to get involved with the media a great deal.
1) if you intend to place fake into a certain era, consult other recordings of the same era on how the distortion and audible wear&tear would sound. it wouldn't be just white noise filter as heard here. 2) apply every filter used to everything heard. it's kinda telling when voice 1 is vastly superior sounding than voice 2. 3) for the love of god, actually research into the subjects mannerism's and guy himself. i think you didnt even get the age right.
There are two physiognomies of HPL that I see in photographs. One is a younger HPL ( around 30 ) with more hair, sort of looking like Steve Carrell. The other is the lantern-jawed look with less hair (mid-forties) and resembled James Woods in the mid-1980s. The physiognomies are vastly different which kind of amazes me. Either Frank Belknaop Long or Robert Barlowe does the talking. For cinematic tastes, HPL liked the comedies of Charlie Chaplin and interestingly did'nt like Horror movies.
The guy that posted this video hasn't been on YouTube for over a year -- probably has no idea how many people have watched this. That's kind of awesome.
@MrWilum Look at the video stats. The number of views has been steadily rising since it was posted. Last time they checked it was nearer 100,000 than 150,000.
For some reason, I don't imagine his voice like that. Anyway, I don't know a lot about accents and such things to notice all those details you're pointing. English isn't my first language.
I can't say if it is a fake or not, but he looks different in photos. And it is true that he looks too young to be 42. But I don't agree with you about the video quality. If you search 1933 movies here in youtube, you'll notice the video/sound quality wasn't so bad.
@jayhayes2007 Actually his friends', especially the Moe's, well the Moe's father, described his voice as high and nasally. I'd trust their description rather than any one elses, even S.T. Joshi's. Because the difference is, unlike us and S.T., they actually knew and hung out with Mr. Lovecraft. I guess if you mix a high, nasally voice with a New England accent then you may get a fair idea of how H.P.L sounded. But alas, none of us will ever know.
Semplicemente perchè il volto non è di H.P. Lovecraft anche se gli assomiglia!
Poi, per vari particolari trovati anche dagli altri utenti: quel microfono nel 1933 non ancora esisteva, HPL era povero ed a malapena accettavano i suoi racconti sulle riviste: pensate se lo accoglievano in televisione!
Ho trovato che nelle foto di quegli anni HPL non indossava occhiali o mi sbaglio?
Non ho letto da nessuna parte, neanche su Wikipedia che HPL fosse stato intervistato in televisione.
one of my favorite negro haters!!! he is Providence! this is fake but it rules! it is a shame blacks ghettos destroyed a good part of his and many other white man cities.
poor poor Lovecraft. he is surely rolling in his swan lake grave. he seen it coming but we jew loving fags allowed it and even welcomed the mud hordes.
@raynard88666 I recently visited the "old gents" home in providence, and yes it is coming down with races that Mr. Lovecraft despised. Plus, they are tearing many spots down to modernize it. Lovecraft, as well as fans of his and Providence history itself would be disappointed.
This looks real and would be consistent with what I have read from his letters to friends. I can only hope that it is real because I want to believe that it is the voice of the greatest American author; including Twain, Faulkner, Hemingway, Kerouac and Robbins. A genius.
Looks like H. P. Lovecraft died a young man. His work like a cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. He didn't like the idea of Hollywood making films out of his stories. One of his works I remember being made into a movie was in 1969. It was The Dunwich Horror.
He wasn't that young in '33. Is it fake? His voice is really lighty. But good!! Cthulhu the movie! But anyway, he looks almost like Luveh-Kerapf. Sumo Sacerdote Ech-Pi-El
@TheVinesMx Thanks to ST Joshi and all the accounts he has collected in his long research on Lovecraft, we know that Lovecraft had a very high pitched voice, similar to the gentleman on this video. Now, in regard to the accent... that's something else.
Maybe the most disturbing thing is the picture quality. It would have to date from the 1930s. Films from that period are still sometimes shown. It looks more like the experimental television in Britain and Germany of that period. Have we really lost touch with the real past that much? In a few years will kids believe that TV and computers were invented in 1980?
holy crap, this is a slap in the face of any genuine Lovecraft fan, never once did he write to "fill the gap that science has left", he never endorsed the the cinema, the acting sucks, and tats not even a good Lovecraft imposter, his facial bone structure is completely different. the movie it advertises was a poor excuse for a film maker to try and use a popular title to broadcast their political views.
hope not to offend anyone, simply stating my opinion.
I like that you attempt to say that you know a ton about lovecraft , yet you say he never endorsed the cinema.
Except, HE DID. He said he believed film had a great amount of potential, he went to the cinema fairly often for his time, and he even wrote reviews for some of the films he saw.
I hope I didn't offend you by pointing out your failure.
@rolandofgilead100 I agree with but, except on one minor point: Lovecraft DID enjoy the cinema, at least according to De Sprague in his biography of Loveraft.
This footage is of course fake and was used as an early filmmaker promo for the 2007 film Cthulhu which is loosely based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
The audio is WAY too high quality for the period and his voice had an english lilt not a southern one. Nice try though. Well done with the aging effect though.
@ksol1460tv That's why I said ALMOST falsetto. As for Joshi, I realize that he is, in many ways, an authority - but unless he actually spoke with HPL or listened to actual recordings of him speaking, I have to go with the opinion of people who actually knew the man.
@ksol1460tv No, I disagree. Frank Belknap Long has said it and even the father of one of Howard's childhood friends, Mr. Moe I believe it was, confirmed it as well. Joshi is a genius, but all the information he got was written primarily by people who knew him personally or through correspondence. So in a way he is repeating what was already known by them at least. Plus, if you ask two or three people the exact same question each one's response will be a bit different from the last.
bah, I believed in this and thought the ending talk about adapting his movies to to the big screen in a distant future was funny. Though I thought his voice was too wrong. Ofc he could have had any voice but there are limitations, this guy looked too young and had too high pitched a voice. Still I believed it.. but I believe everything.. bah
@meNtor890 Actually, thanks to accounts analyzed and colligated by S.T Joshi, we know that Lovecraft had a higher pitched voice similar to the gentleman in this video. Lovecraft died relatively young, so the gentleman's physical appearance is also suitable.
the quality of this audio does not reflect the type of audio recording mechanisms used at the time this piece was supposedly created. An obvious fake.
This is a fake. HPL was gloomy and dark only in his writing, in his stories. In real life he was a funny guy with a great sense of humor, kinda like Robert Bloch.
The real mystery is: What on earth has happen's to SGToshi!!?? Into what realm, what Audient Void, hath he been sucked into. He has not been active for two months! Perhaps the Elder Forces, seeing this video, has stolen him into what H. P. Lovecraft hath call'd "blackness illimitable"....
I've known people who knew Lovecraft when they were young men, and they said he had a very high, nasal voice -- so this might be vaguely similar to how he sounded. The guy is wearing eyeglasses here, and Lovecraft wore them only when he was in his late teens/early twenties -- so he is too young here to have garnered enough attention to be interviewed.
I know and am good friends with someone who, as a young man, visited Lovecrafts friend Clark Ashton Smith. He is 71 today. CAS died in 1966. His name I won't reveal but he is one of the most intelligent, cultured and well mannered people living. And he shares a lot about CAS with me and it makes me feel as though even I knew him. Clark loved cheap burgundy, a drink he shared with guests who visited him in his family cabin up in Auburn, CA.
I was finally able to meet the poet, Donald Sydney-Fryer, at World Fantasy Con in San Jose. I believe he knew CAS slightly. Donald is, I think, the most authentic poet I have ever met. His reading voice, his personality -- everything about him is almost other-worldly, like he has stepped out of an elder and more refined era. Do you have the three volumes of Smith's Collected Poetry publish'd by Hippocampus? Superb! They may yet be reprinted in soft cover.
I am a Lovecraft collector (Postcards etc..etc..) but I am trying to increase my CAS collection. It is cool that you met Donald. Since we are both unfortunate enough to not have met such legends in their time, meeting someone who knew them is the next best thing. A real blessing. I can imagine your awe at meeting, like me, a member of a dying breed. It is truly awesome. As I am 26, a very young man, these guys continue to encourage my writing endeavors.
@MrWilum There are very few poets like that, but when you meet one you instantly know what a real poet is, and can never be satisfied with some pale, scholarly imitation again.
This is clearly fake. The lighting is bad. The setting is bad. The sound quality between "Lovecraft" and the host is quite disparate. "Lovecraft" does not have a Rhode Island (or even remotely New England) accent. Additionally, Lovecraft was not a big enough celebrity in 1933 to warrant a WPA reel of him.
Actually Lovecraft was well educated. He taught himself by constantly reading the thousands of books in his grandfathers, Whipple Van Buren Phillips, library. HPL knew a variety of different languages, math and science and history. He is smart, probably more smart than all of us here put together. He could, as Frank Belknap Long once said, "Talk a Harvard professor under a table". Though because he didn't have the piece of paper, sadly, even today, he couldn't get very far.
It wasn't proven that he had syphilis. I have his death record and it says on there, well I don't have it on me now, but its some sort of intestinal cancer. Some fancy word. Wouldn't surprise me as his eating habits were terrible. He ate merely 2 meals a day and his mother didn't help by letting him eat whatsoever he desired.
Lovecraft was also kind of seclusive in terms of publicity. There are plenty of photos taken of him during his lifetime, but I don't think he really wanted to get involved with the media a great deal.
obnoxiousoboe 5 hours ago
Recently discovered footage my ass
Vildasnaga 2 days ago
I can also tell this was fake because the WPA did not exist until 1935.
obnoxiousoboe 2 weeks ago
What... The... Fuck??
ZALCAL001 2 weeks ago
Lovecraft wasn't a fag. This guy and the people that made this are.
salemhorror 3 weeks ago
SO fake!
PabloJalan 3 weeks ago
It can't be real. Lovecraft didn't have a southern accent, for God's sake.
MrAcarine 3 weeks ago
fake and not gay enough
ACLNM 4 weeks ago 2
Fake
ellocia 1 month ago
Is this authenticate?
mozdonny 1 month ago
Huge Penis Hatecraft lol Respect i am Big Fan
ThisisAliFareedshow 2 months ago
few tips for the next fake:
1) if you intend to place fake into a certain era, consult other recordings of the same era on how the distortion and audible wear&tear would sound. it wouldn't be just white noise filter as heard here. 2) apply every filter used to everything heard. it's kinda telling when voice 1 is vastly superior sounding than voice 2. 3) for the love of god, actually research into the subjects mannerism's and guy himself. i think you didnt even get the age right.
somberlight 2 months ago
it would have been nice if this was Lovecraft...but he is not! This guy is talking like a bad actor reading a script from a screen...
sofiabaklatzi 2 months ago
ITs a really good fake, but it definitley isnt Lovecraft.
3ntomology 2 months ago
You can tell its face just by his voice.
Bluehawk2008 2 months ago
An amusing fantasy. Well done.
Nyarl3 4 months ago
If this guy is Lovecraft so I am Niarlatotep
uzonphoto 4 months ago
i don't know whether this is real or not. Is the interview Dr Dexter?
It does look like photos of HP, the writer, not the sauce, though the sepia color is a bit like that tasty ssauce.
calabiyou 4 months ago
Howard Phillips Lovecraft is not to be vulgarised by modernity idiots standards.My respect to a great writter and his family.AlwaysX
meriembarratt 4 months ago
Uploaded a single video?
xFLYBATx 5 months ago
fake! Lovecraft is 1937 die. .. ..
k4RS4i 5 months ago
@k4RS4i Yes, it is fake, but not based upon the year, which the video states is 1933. In that year, Lovecraft was 43 years of age.
JeffersonDinedAlone 5 months ago
there is a mobile phone sound footage at 00:42 seconds. Thats normal in 1933 ?
Its not the Lovecraft face, this one is moore small, hands quality video at 1:36 are very very clean for an old footage, and on...
fake
MrThredziii 5 months ago
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nice try - but fail
Interfect727 6 months ago
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abarrathemaster 6 months ago
0:42 - sounds like a mobile phone to me xD
Mrselfdestruct8341 6 months ago
Wonderful!
meriembarratt 6 months ago
Don't speak for the great mind.
JEKAZOL 6 months ago
There are two physiognomies of HPL that I see in photographs. One is a younger HPL ( around 30 ) with more hair, sort of looking like Steve Carrell. The other is the lantern-jawed look with less hair (mid-forties) and resembled James Woods in the mid-1980s. The physiognomies are vastly different which kind of amazes me. Either Frank Belknaop Long or Robert Barlowe does the talking. For cinematic tastes, HPL liked the comedies of Charlie Chaplin and interestingly did'nt like Horror movies.
TheJameslehr 7 months ago
this is nice filter set for making H.P.L. movies, but damn...wtf.
xoen6 7 months ago
This guy can't be Lovecraft . He doesn't even look close enough to Lovecraft .
rolandcisco 7 months ago
just sounds way more like modern American English than I'd expect.
uptohisneck 8 months ago
The guy that posted this video hasn't been on YouTube for over a year -- probably has no idea how many people have watched this. That's kind of awesome.
MrWilum 8 months ago
@MrWilum Look at the video stats. The number of views has been steadily rising since it was posted. Last time they checked it was nearer 100,000 than 150,000.
poodychulak 8 months ago
FAKE
alejledesma 9 months ago
i would respect the video more if they uploader wouldve atleast put that this wasnt actually him... but a reenactment
PrickledMantis 9 months ago
For some reason, I don't imagine his voice like that. Anyway, I don't know a lot about accents and such things to notice all those details you're pointing. English isn't my first language.
I can't say if it is a fake or not, but he looks different in photos. And it is true that he looks too young to be 42. But I don't agree with you about the video quality. If you search 1933 movies here in youtube, you'll notice the video/sound quality wasn't so bad.
PolarisTNW 10 months ago
assholes!
WyrmvaterGlaurung 10 months ago
wow... that's awefully good sound quality for 1933 i must say. Not even 1960's movies are as crisp as that
gamemaster014 10 months ago
Horror novel see video book trailer
dltanner99 11 months ago
fuckwits made this garbage...
BARCACROSSESTHEALPS 11 months ago
Cool story bro
Mitsyrules 11 months ago
How old is that "HP Lovecraft" 14? 15?
KrankesHirn 11 months ago
I found it amusing.
kesinpa 11 months ago
kretenski
Rosendrache 1 year ago
please do your homework before you do something like this again and embarass yourself further.
baz1019 1 year ago
Wow, what a shitty job. Did you even try to get the contemporary accent down?
Ozarkeree 1 year ago
Lovecraft didn't support FDR until 1936. Get your facts straight, eh?
BurningThreeLobedEye 1 year ago
it's true there is a cellphone interference, and to someone with the genious of howard is not possible that have so much hesitation
esalinasa 1 year ago
..............
tiger135775 1 year ago
Fake or not, he's given some clever lines, like when he says his stories are "too arcane and I hope too frightening" for film.
Oppledeldoc 1 year ago
ya pe ke chucha
GoNoRdEaTh 1 year ago
I LOVE THIS GAY!!!
PrincesaSerenity100 1 year ago
@PrincesaSerenity100 i love gay people to but not sexulle more like a careing about a person way.
andrew49848 1 year ago
@PrincesaSerenity100 LOL @ GAY xD
GivenchyParisFr 1 year ago
I refuse to believe he sounded anything like that, he should sound like a gravel-throated genius. Not a prepubescent school boy!
jayhayes2007 1 year ago 2
@jayhayes2007 Actually his friends', especially the Moe's, well the Moe's father, described his voice as high and nasally. I'd trust their description rather than any one elses, even S.T. Joshi's. Because the difference is, unlike us and S.T., they actually knew and hung out with Mr. Lovecraft. I guess if you mix a high, nasally voice with a New England accent then you may get a fair idea of how H.P.L sounded. But alas, none of us will ever know.
thechaz83 9 months ago
This is FAKE. It was filmed to promote a movie adaptation.
Fulltonic 1 year ago
@Fulltonic Exactly. And it was a poor, pathetic movie at that.
thechaz83 9 months ago
Please, someone can translate this video to spanish language. My english is poor, so i can't understand what it said. Thanks from Argentina!!
MrMnicolas 1 year ago
I don't know if Lovecraft would be this analythical about his own work...
Wowbagger86 1 year ago
Gostei. Foi para promover o filme, parece que ninguém entendeu a brincadeira. Anderson - Brasil.
absoza 1 year ago
no way
rastababy333 1 year ago
@rastababy333
Fulltonic 1 year ago
E' un falso.
Semplicemente perchè il volto non è di H.P. Lovecraft anche se gli assomiglia!
Poi, per vari particolari trovati anche dagli altri utenti: quel microfono nel 1933 non ancora esisteva, HPL era povero ed a malapena accettavano i suoi racconti sulle riviste: pensate se lo accoglievano in televisione!
Ho trovato che nelle foto di quegli anni HPL non indossava occhiali o mi sbaglio?
Non ho letto da nessuna parte, neanche su Wikipedia che HPL fosse stato intervistato in televisione.
ZioFranzy 1 year ago
fuck this.
SundayFunday666 1 year ago
Who knew a man born and raised in Providence would have such a lovely New Orleans accent.
StuffedMannequin 1 year ago
lame
o so lame
aldovogelfrei 1 year ago
false es muy chanta
jajajaja
conscupisencio 1 year ago
Poor research on speech patterns of the early part of the last century.
lewissacer 1 year ago
one of my favorite negro haters!!! he is Providence! this is fake but it rules! it is a shame blacks ghettos destroyed a good part of his and many other white man cities.
poor poor Lovecraft. he is surely rolling in his swan lake grave. he seen it coming but we jew loving fags allowed it and even welcomed the mud hordes.
raynard88666 1 year ago
@raynard88666 I recently visited the "old gents" home in providence, and yes it is coming down with races that Mr. Lovecraft despised. Plus, they are tearing many spots down to modernize it. Lovecraft, as well as fans of his and Providence history itself would be disappointed.
thechaz83 9 months ago
@raynard88666 ( lol ) One of the most amusing comments I've read on this site.
ManilaSyndicate 1 month ago
so fake I died
paperchasin23 1 year ago
fake and gay
bman462 1 year ago
This looks real and would be consistent with what I have read from his letters to friends. I can only hope that it is real because I want to believe that it is the voice of the greatest American author; including Twain, Faulkner, Hemingway, Kerouac and Robbins. A genius.
Hauntedjoe 1 year ago
The microphone is too new for 1933.
VictrolaJazz 1 year ago
his voice sounds like someone who got castrated by accident in surgery
IntoTheFace 1 year ago
Looks like H. P. Lovecraft died a young man. His work like a cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. He didn't like the idea of Hollywood making films out of his stories. One of his works I remember being made into a movie was in 1969. It was The Dunwich Horror.
Lurvy1963 1 year ago
Lovecraft sounds nothing like that when he speaks to me...
Markofsatan 1 year ago
The aging effect is exceptionally well done, but you can still recognize the underlying quality.
pewbeng 1 year ago
Fake. But cool.
gutembergveloso 1 year ago
bullshit
GoNoRdEaTh 1 year ago
pretty cool. not real, but cool.
alphaotakux 1 year ago
recently discovered fail
NineLegend 1 year ago
Temporal warping, lol.
LovecraftianEntity01 1 year ago
He wasn't that young in '33. Is it fake? His voice is really lighty. But good!! Cthulhu the movie! But anyway, he looks almost like Luveh-Kerapf. Sumo Sacerdote Ech-Pi-El
Sumo Sacerdote H. P. L. My biggest hero.
TheVinesMx 1 year ago
@TheVinesMx Thanks to ST Joshi and all the accounts he has collected in his long research on Lovecraft, we know that Lovecraft had a very high pitched voice, similar to the gentleman on this video. Now, in regard to the accent... that's something else.
RetroGamerSoul 1 year ago
Maybe the most disturbing thing is the picture quality. It would have to date from the 1930s. Films from that period are still sometimes shown. It looks more like the experimental television in Britain and Germany of that period. Have we really lost touch with the real past that much? In a few years will kids believe that TV and computers were invented in 1980?
Saiaton 1 year ago
Fake!
hojerijah 1 year ago
Por poco caigo, a primera vista el video parece ser verídico; sin embargo este actor es algo distinto a nuestro sumo sacerdote echi pi eli.
Y bueno, el audio... es bastante bueno, aunque en un inglés menos arcaico que el que nuestro amigo solía emplear
sickhorror 1 year ago
y'know.......... More to come.
BeavisNacho 1 year ago
Why does it seem like the audio quality is so much better than the video.
daven58100 1 year ago
holy crap, this is a slap in the face of any genuine Lovecraft fan, never once did he write to "fill the gap that science has left", he never endorsed the the cinema, the acting sucks, and tats not even a good Lovecraft imposter, his facial bone structure is completely different. the movie it advertises was a poor excuse for a film maker to try and use a popular title to broadcast their political views.
hope not to offend anyone, simply stating my opinion.
rolandofgilead100 1 year ago 47
@rolandofgilead100
I like that you attempt to say that you know a ton about lovecraft , yet you say he never endorsed the cinema.
Except, HE DID. He said he believed film had a great amount of potential, he went to the cinema fairly often for his time, and he even wrote reviews for some of the films he saw.
I hope I didn't offend you by pointing out your failure.
ShadowArtistTXL 11 months ago
@rolandofgilead100 I agree with but, except on one minor point: Lovecraft DID enjoy the cinema, at least according to De Sprague in his biography of Loveraft.
Bregowald 9 months ago
@rolandofgilead100 Fuck it, DON'T WORRY TO OFFEND WHOEVER NEEDS TO BE OFFENDED, man. You got it totally right. This video is insulting.
ChemicalBalam 3 months ago
This footage is of course fake and was used as an early filmmaker promo for the 2007 film Cthulhu which is loosely based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
KF4ZMB 1 year ago
If a fake a brilliant one,If real it shows a very human face of the 20th century's master of the macbre!...'nuff said!
GanarfGeorgie 1 year ago
there's video quality behind all of the effects. Use film if you hope to convince anyone of anything
Wesleytron 1 year ago 6
Footage is fake, this is a known fact. Lovecraft was never famous in his time. Also he looks too young for 1933 when he was about 42 years old
lurch558 1 year ago 2
You all are crazy. This is real! REAL!
Theotherotherother 1 year ago
love craft wil get you!!!
zeo1182 1 year ago
The audio is WAY too high quality for the period and his voice had an english lilt not a southern one. Nice try though. Well done with the aging effect though.
TheCaptainLulz 1 year ago
fake and gay
lol
In my mind H. P. Lovecraft had a ruggedly sexy voice of dark and epic magnitude.
lordmahan11 1 year ago
@lordmahan11 Sorry to disappoint you - those who knew Lovecraft have mentioned that he had a high-pitched, almost falsetto voice.
DrDespicable 1 year ago
@DrDespicable - Tenor, not falsetto. Think FDR, not Tiny Tim. Joshi says the "high-pitched" thing has been exaggerated.
ksol1460tv 1 year ago
@ksol1460tv That's why I said ALMOST falsetto. As for Joshi, I realize that he is, in many ways, an authority - but unless he actually spoke with HPL or listened to actual recordings of him speaking, I have to go with the opinion of people who actually knew the man.
DrDespicable 1 year ago
@DrDespicable Finally a smart answer. Good job DrDespicable. :)
thechaz83 9 months ago
@thechaz83 Thanks!
DrDespicable 9 months ago
@ksol1460tv No, I disagree. Frank Belknap Long has said it and even the father of one of Howard's childhood friends, Mr. Moe I believe it was, confirmed it as well. Joshi is a genius, but all the information he got was written primarily by people who knew him personally or through correspondence. So in a way he is repeating what was already known by them at least. Plus, if you ask two or three people the exact same question each one's response will be a bit different from the last.
thechaz83 9 months ago
Brilliant, How stupid do ou take me for?
bleachsanchoblastk 1 year ago
I imagine that Lovecraft sounded and behaved much like the physicist Edward Witten.
ToxicWastoid 1 year ago
@ToxicWastoid - I can hear that, yeah!
ksol1460tv 1 year ago
What a horrible accent you gave him. Sounds more like a mentally challenged bayou dweller than someone from New England.
doodletard 1 year ago
films are way better then books. you ever make a film of your self reading a book out lowd its fucking boring.
thehourcup 1 year ago
@thehourcup nothing you just said qualifies as an actual thought, or sentence.
p.s. What is a "lowd"?
doodletard 1 year ago
@doodletard suck a dick bicth.
thehourcup 1 year ago
@doodletard fuck you do you understand that you fucking retard.
thehourcup 1 year ago
@thehourcup it's funny how you're the one who sounds retarded.
doodletard 1 year ago
@doodletard drop it like its hot!!!!!!!!!
thehourcup 1 year ago
I'll be interview the REAL S. T. Joshi on my channel to-morrow, and we will discuss HPL and ye Mythos.
MrWilum 1 year ago
if only this were real. Sadly, there is no known footage of HP. His letters to pen pals will have to suffice.
KingBizarre 1 year ago
bah, I believed in this and thought the ending talk about adapting his movies to to the big screen in a distant future was funny. Though I thought his voice was too wrong. Ofc he could have had any voice but there are limitations, this guy looked too young and had too high pitched a voice. Still I believed it.. but I believe everything.. bah
meNtor890 1 year ago 2
@meNtor890 Actually, thanks to accounts analyzed and colligated by S.T Joshi, we know that Lovecraft had a higher pitched voice similar to the gentleman in this video. Lovecraft died relatively young, so the gentleman's physical appearance is also suitable.
Zapatista2010 1 year ago
Good ol' H.P.L., A very human touch of the master of inhuman horrors.
GeorgieGanarf 1 year ago
Fake, yes, but also pretty cool.
femoman 1 year ago
How fascinating! I never imagined I'd be able to see Lovecraft move and hear him speak. He sounds rather like Truman Capote.
jamesjeffreypaul 1 year ago
100% crap.
ForgettMePlease 1 year ago
the quality of this audio does not reflect the type of audio recording mechanisms used at the time this piece was supposedly created. An obvious fake.
D76straight 1 year ago
fake
xerxesmv 1 year ago
Is this a film school thing or just some nerds with too much free time?
TheDarrell 1 year ago
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2:45
man he sure does manage to be creepy even in death <3 1
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private420 1 year ago
actually, this is NOT
TheHero4YourMom 1 year ago
I hadn't really imagined what his voice would be like, but that was not it.
AmphetaminePsych0sis 1 year ago
se me imagina a una esena de harry pother jeje 5*****
shaoranGAO 1 year ago
it is real idiots!
chaotic13000 1 year ago
Not interesting, as the film must be.
zafanabbotta 1 year ago
What a great promo for a movie site! :)
LauraSeabrook 1 year ago
Lol - I take it the cellphone interference at 0:42 was created by temporal warping?
oneillkza 1 year ago 44
@oneillkza Good catch. It is a known fact that Lovecraft used AT&T.
Carterofmars 1 year ago
my two biggest heroes are called howard. lovecraft & stern!
dontleademsomuch 1 year ago
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what a piece of shit
zathael1 1 year ago
lol fake
eltheniol 2 years ago
WOW, i got my hopes up when i clicked on this video for absolutley nothing!
Leadfoot99Z28 2 years ago
sick loser, will never have an NFL team named after his works...
HRMOKeefe 2 years ago
^^ douche bag
maserati1990 2 years ago
You dont even get the pun (_0_)<===8
HRMOKeefe 1 year ago
well yeah, it has absolutely no context and i don't follow gay-fl. sorry haha
maserati1990 1 year ago
This is a fake. HPL was gloomy and dark only in his writing, in his stories. In real life he was a funny guy with a great sense of humor, kinda like Robert Bloch.
DemonSkullStudios 2 years ago
Of course it's a fake, but I think it's pretty good myself.
MrLemex 2 years ago
So when are they gonna get Mike D to play him..I'm gonna go ahead hold my breath for that one.
EightyPredatorsWide 2 years ago
EPIC FAKE
tunicaroja86 2 years ago
The real mystery is: What on earth has happen's to SGToshi!!?? Into what realm, what Audient Void, hath he been sucked into. He has not been active for two months! Perhaps the Elder Forces, seeing this video, has stolen him into what H. P. Lovecraft hath call'd "blackness illimitable"....
MrWilum 2 years ago
If you look at someone's photo, without ever meeting that person, you can hear what their voice sounds like in their voice.
I never imagined Lovecraft sounding like this though.
I do like how much time you put into this :)
but yea, I'm weird and shit
Tighen31305 2 years ago
I've known people who knew Lovecraft when they were young men, and they said he had a very high, nasal voice -- so this might be vaguely similar to how he sounded. The guy is wearing eyeglasses here, and Lovecraft wore them only when he was in his late teens/early twenties -- so he is too young here to have garnered enough attention to be interviewed.
MrWilum 2 years ago
I know and am good friends with someone who, as a young man, visited Lovecrafts friend Clark Ashton Smith. He is 71 today. CAS died in 1966. His name I won't reveal but he is one of the most intelligent, cultured and well mannered people living. And he shares a lot about CAS with me and it makes me feel as though even I knew him. Clark loved cheap burgundy, a drink he shared with guests who visited him in his family cabin up in Auburn, CA.
thechaz83 2 years ago
I was finally able to meet the poet, Donald Sydney-Fryer, at World Fantasy Con in San Jose. I believe he knew CAS slightly. Donald is, I think, the most authentic poet I have ever met. His reading voice, his personality -- everything about him is almost other-worldly, like he has stepped out of an elder and more refined era. Do you have the three volumes of Smith's Collected Poetry publish'd by Hippocampus? Superb! They may yet be reprinted in soft cover.
MrWilum 2 years ago
I am a Lovecraft collector (Postcards etc..etc..) but I am trying to increase my CAS collection. It is cool that you met Donald. Since we are both unfortunate enough to not have met such legends in their time, meeting someone who knew them is the next best thing. A real blessing. I can imagine your awe at meeting, like me, a member of a dying breed. It is truly awesome. As I am 26, a very young man, these guys continue to encourage my writing endeavors.
thechaz83 2 years ago
@MrWilum There are very few poets like that, but when you meet one you instantly know what a real poet is, and can never be satisfied with some pale, scholarly imitation again.
For me it was BF Mays...
c1arknova 2 years ago
He dont even look like Lovecraft!
kisarakaibagirl 2 years ago
This is clearly fake. The lighting is bad. The setting is bad. The sound quality between "Lovecraft" and the host is quite disparate. "Lovecraft" does not have a Rhode Island (or even remotely New England) accent. Additionally, Lovecraft was not a big enough celebrity in 1933 to warrant a WPA reel of him.
KasimirMaser99 2 years ago
@KasimirMaser99 Of course it's fake! it was made as a promo for the more recent film "Cthulhu", with Jason Cottle!
lalungenuictdestens 2 years ago
ya cthulu ya dagon
TheDeadDeadsons 2 years ago
it might have been beleivable if not for the anouncer voice.
johnsonbynight 2 years ago
Fake, you dishonour Lovecraft legacy.
omegavalderrama 2 years ago
LOL he's a Democrat.
PAINTANK 2 years ago
This is fake the audio is all wrong.
Zombiebushi 2 years ago
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the audio is always 'wrong' in 1930s recordings, this guy was a siphlitic high school drop out, from whom you seek inspiration...God save us all
HRMOKeefe 2 years ago
Actually Lovecraft was well educated. He taught himself by constantly reading the thousands of books in his grandfathers, Whipple Van Buren Phillips, library. HPL knew a variety of different languages, math and science and history. He is smart, probably more smart than all of us here put together. He could, as Frank Belknap Long once said, "Talk a Harvard professor under a table". Though because he didn't have the piece of paper, sadly, even today, he couldn't get very far.
thechaz83 2 years ago
It wasn't proven that he had syphilis. I have his death record and it says on there, well I don't have it on me now, but its some sort of intestinal cancer. Some fancy word. Wouldn't surprise me as his eating habits were terrible. He ate merely 2 meals a day and his mother didn't help by letting him eat whatsoever he desired.
thechaz83 2 years ago
that's because he had spend more on writing than his own health issues.
PatrickLars 2 years ago
I would love to like this, as the visuals are great and the concept is fun, but the accents are just too wrong.
Megaflow 2 years ago
Where you not able to find someone with a more 21st Century accent to do the introduction? Perhaps a surfer dude or an emo kid?
Chippergold 2 years ago 18
@Chippergold / What you noted was done by Cthulhu to fool us... :)
cmsahe 1 year ago
this aint real at all , they had a diff accent back then
mralanv 2 years ago
Lovecraft was (still is actually) Great.
LastVeteran 2 years ago