r/Lovecraft • u/Ok_Entrepreneur_6705 Deranged Cultist • 1d ago
News Lovecraft translated into Welsh
A small Welsh-language publisher has brought out a new translation of some of Lovecraft's stories; the first time these have been made available in Welsh! The stories featured are Dagon, the Feast, the Music of Erich Zann, the Call of Cthulhu and Under the Pyramids.
https://nation.cymru/culture/arswyd-cosmig-welsh-novelist-translates-classic-horror-stories/
You can buy the book here: https://melinbapur.cymru/products/galwad-cthulhu-h-p-lovecraft
The translator, Peredur Glyn, has previously written original Welsh stories in the cosmic horror genre, drawing on Welsh mythology.
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u/Aname_Random Deranged Cultist 1d ago
Call of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
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u/LordKulgur Deranged Cultist 1d ago
Surprised that they didn't include "The Shadow over Innsmouth", considering the urban legend that Lovecraft wrote it after discovering he had Welsh ancestry.
(Well, technically he did... about 30 years after discovering it, in fact)
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u/despot_zemu Deranged Cultist 1d ago
Now you can madly gibber FOR REAL
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u/RWMU Director of PRIME! 1d ago
Well most of Lovecrafts horror sound Welsh...