"The Battle that Ended the Century" by H. P. Lovecraft with R. H. Barlow

(MS. Found in a Time Machine)

The names are all code - it might be entertaining to re-record this with the names below substituted in for what is in the text.

But regardless, this is extremely esoteric and not very impactful as a result, at least not to me. I'm not very happy with my recording here, but given how unsatisfying this story is anyways, I can't be bothered to redo it, even allowing that it is so short.

Glossary of Names-Ed.

Two-Gun Bob-Robert E. Howard
Knockout Bernie, the Wild Wolf of West Shokan-Bernard Austin Dwyer, of West Shokan, N.Y.
Bill Lum Li-William Lumley
Wladislaw Brenryk-H. Warner Munn
D. H. Killer-David H. Keller
M. Gin Brewery-Miles G. Breuer
A. Hijacked Barrell-A. Hyatt Verrill
G. A. Scotland-George Allan England
Frank Chimesleep Short, Jr-Frank Belknap Long, Jr.
The Effjoy of Akkamin-Forrest J. Ackerman
Mrs. M. Blunderage-Margaret Brundage (artist for Weird Tales)
Mr. C. Half-Cent-C. C. Senf (artist for Weird Tales)
Mr. Goofy Hooey-Hugh Rankin (artist for Weird Tales)
W. Lablache Talcum-Wilfred Blanch Talman
Horse Power Hateart-Howard Phillips Lovecraft
M. le Comte d'Erlette-August Derleth (author of Evening in Spring)
J. Caesar Warts-Julius Schwartz
H. Kanebrake-H. C. Koenig (employed by the Electrical Testing Laboratories)
H. Wanderer-Howard Wandrei
Robertieff Essovitch Karovsky-Robert S. Carr
Teaberry Quince-Seabury Quinn
Malik Taus, the Peacock Sultan-E. Hoffmann Price
Sing Lee Bawledout-F. Lee Baldwin
Ivor K. Rodent-Hugo Gernsback
Rev. D. Vest Wind-Unknown
Klarkash-Ton-Clark Ashton Smith
Windy City Grab-Bag-Weird Tales
W. Peter Chef-W. Paul Cook
Smearum & Weep-Dauber & Pine
Samuelus Philanthropus-Samuel Loveman
Mr. De Merit-A. Merritt (author of The Dwellers in the Mirage)
Wurst's Weekly Americana-Hearst's American Weekly

The pictures used is from the 1971 match-up of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, i.e. The Fight of the Century!

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