First published at 19:14 UTC on February 14th, 2021.
Selected tales of Edgar Allan Poe, read by the late, great Christopher Lee. This is the EMI / Listen For Pleasure audiobook from the early 1980s, originally released on two cassettes but never made available since, either physically or digitally. Th…
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Selected tales of Edgar Allan Poe, read by the late, great Christopher Lee. This is the EMI / Listen For Pleasure audiobook from the early 1980s, originally released on two cassettes but never made available since, either physically or digitally. This is a conversion from the tapes, so audio quality is variable but it sounds okay to my ears. Clearly I don't own the copyright to this, but since Lee is sadly no longer with us, the stories are in the public domain, and EMI has done nothing with this recording for almost 40 years, I'm hoping nobody will mind. I'm not making any money here. This just seems as good a way as any to preserve my old tapes.
The stories are Hop Frog, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Unusually for LFP, Poe's stories are short enough that abridgement wasn't necessary, so these are the full texts. I'll pin the time each story begins in the comments below.
00:00:00 Hop Frog
00:23:24 The Raven
00:33:42 The Masque of the Red Death
00:52:38 The Tell-Tale Heart
01:07:34 The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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