"Through the Gates of the Silver Key", Chapters 1 & 2, by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price

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This story was written as a sequel to "The Silver Key". If you haven't listened to that one yet, you might want to go there first.

Chapter 1 also references the events in the story "The Statement of Randolph Carter", so that would be another one to give a listen, whether before or after this narration.

Apparently the sequel was Price's idea, and Price wrote the first draft of the story. Lovecraft didn't keep much of Price's works, it appears he retained Price's basic plot and themes but rewrote the whole thing in his own style.

I am always amazed at how many words have obscure pronunciations and nobody seems to agree on how to say them. You'd think with the Internet, things would be made clearer and move towards convergence, but no, that is rarely the case. In today's reading, we have 'olibanum', a synonym for frankincense. I decided to drag out my old (1984!) physical-book dictionary on this one. Only to discover just how awful my vision is getting... But I do have a magnifying glass. Anyways, the pronunciation I used in the reading corresponds to what my dictionary says it should be. If you don't like it, you can take it up with Random House. Oh wait, it's now Penguin Random House. Which is owned by Bertelsmann. There's probably nobody left any more with which to take up any complaints over such an old edition :-P

The pictures used are:

Chapter 1: A crop from the cover page spread from "Weird Tales", volume 5, number 2, published in Feb 1925, for the story "The Statement of Randolph Carter".

Chapter 2: The Silver Key, created by Gage Prentiss for Propnomicon, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).

To follow along: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/tgsk.aspx