Halloween Watchlist
It's darker earlier, the nights are a bit more chilly, the neighbors are putting up all sorts of weird decorations in their yards, and it's time for the Halloween watchlist. And as I was going through spooky stuff to watch and listen to, I unearthed an old favorite: David McCallum reading H.P. Lovecraft's "Haunter of the Dark." And boy, did McCallum get into reading that one! The man had a lovely voice, and wonderful delivery, even when Lovecraft's prose goes a little over the top. (Or a lot over the top. It takes a fine artist to deliver some of those lines with the audio equivalent of a straight face). Other Halloween favorites in the audio line (I listen to audio books while doing physical therapy exercises): Dan Starkey reading Wm Hope Hodgeson's "The Whistling Room." I don't know the name of the fellow who reads my audio version of Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost," or Poe's "Masque of the Red Death." I think i...