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[Peter Why]

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The King In Yellow, Part Two.

The King in Yellow, Part One can be found here: http://librivox.org/king-in-yellow-by-robert-w-chambers

I have already recorded the first part of The King In Yellow. That part contains the rather strange and creepy stories which gave the collection its name. However, in the second part of the book, the author moves away to more realistic situations, set in France. Would you be able to read from these later stories?

The book is available at Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8492

Ideally, readers will need to be able to differentiate at least a little between the two sorts of accents, those of Americans and French people speaking English; should be able to pronounce the occasional French phrase ... and also be able to have a go at dialogue like this:

[kri]

I'll MC this project for you Peter Of course you know the drill. Have fun!
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[GordMackenzie]

This is a great story... really eerie ... I look forward to listening!
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[Peter Why]

Thanks; it's going to be fun to raise the hairs and roil the stomachs.

Peter
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[Cade]

I hope you don't mind but I am planning on doing the Repairer of Reputations portion of the King in Yellow.
I don't want to step on your toes and take away any of your thunder...

[kri]

[Peter Why]

Yes, go for it, Cade. I've started on The Repairer of Reputations with the fragment I've uploaded but, as I said, won't be continuing with it for a few weeks. The more the merrier ... or perhaps not "merrier", with this particular book!

Peter
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[gToon]

Good luck on the project. I plan on doing an Arthur Machen story this fall for Halloween.

[Peter Why]

Here's the next section (Part Two of The Repairer of Reputations):

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=632453325F224508

Comments welcome ... well, of course, some might not be, but I'll just have to take that chance!

Peter
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[Shepherd]

Damn, man, I love your voice and how you're reading this. Is that your natural accent? It gives me a bit of a disconnect with the New York setting, but there's a languid, unhurried quality to your reading that has this undercurrent of uncertainty when the narrator gets to the "crazy bits." It really captures the feeling of TKIY, in my opinion.

My only negative note is that I think you were snagging a mic cord or something closer to the end -- around the 25-minute mark, I started noticing a "tinging" noise that I often get when I start absentmindedly tapping a mic stand with my finger, or bumping a cord that then taps something else.
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[Peter Why]

... and here's part three of The Repairer of Reputations. This really is a rather horrible story. I'm looking forward to the next in the series; a little love story.

It was interesting letting the suppressed insanity of the narrator gradually come to the surface, with it showing in little flashes.

And, yes, this is approximately my voice, but a bit more precise in pronunciation than I am casually. I usually take the narrator or main character as my own voice to make it simpler to read. In fact, because I have trouble remembering more than a couple of characters' voices, I've taken to recording stories with just the narrator plus one voice (and including any very minor incidental characters), and leaving gaps for the other main characters, which I then fill in, one character at a time. .... so I'm desperately looking for ghost stories without any conversations in them!

Thanks for the compliments (I've also done a few other ghost stories in the short story collections, if you really do want more!) and for the sound quality check; I'll listen and correct it if I can.

Oh and The Parenticide Club was recorded before I got a sound card, so there's an uncomfortable level of background noise if you listen through headphones. I'm planning on re-recording it sometime soon.

Link:

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=59DA07D33E16871C

Peter
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[Peter Why]

Shepherd,

I've listened to Part Two of The Repairer of Reputations with 'phones on and have caught the noise you spotted .. on and off over about three minutes (I usually edit by listening through speakers rather than phones, and it wasn't audible heard that way - a bad habit). Although the sound *is* an irritation, I'm afraid I'm going to leave it ... unless I get a cascade of complaints (say, another one): it's the thought of converting the new file to mp3 and the long upload that's off-putting. My microphone is wedged rather crudely near my mouth on a music stand: the noise came from me brushing against the stand and not having enough padding around the mike.

For me, the worst part of that recording is the sudden shifts in volume ... they come from either me re-recording bits I'm not satisfied with and pasting them in, or me moving my head away from the mike and having to amplify small sections of the recording. Solution: I'm just going to have to blow some money on the USB mike that so many people seem to be happy with, plus I'll have a look at a better editor than Audacity.

Thanks for the impetus.

Peter
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[kri]