I'm so looking forward to this! I actually tried to do the project of reading as many of the things mentioned in Supernatural Horror in Literature as possible myself a while ago and failed miserably (though not before reading some awesome stuff by F. Marion Crawford that I hope you'll be covering).

And yeah, I would be on board for Chris and Chad Go Back to School too!

The Superman vibrating his face thing is "true" and utterly ludicrous. The sad part? It's from the 1980s, when John Byrne did a full reboot of the character.

I got through this by imagining Bugs Bunny as the protagonist and Elmer Fudd as the madman.

"Now hold on a minute, Doc! Let a fella write his will first!"

"Well okay...but I weally am gonna ewectrocute you after that!"

Almost made it readable. Almost.

It's funny that Lovecraft said he identified with Armitage. I've been working my way through Joshi's I Am Providence and one thing that struck me about Wilbur is that his childhood has some strong parallels with HPL's:

-Absent, strange (even monstrous) father
-Mother with rapidly decaying mental state
-Grandfather who takes over the father's role
-Introverted childhood, spent mainly in the company of adults
-Education outside of the school system, primarily through dusty old books and grandfather's instruction

It's obviously a bit of a stretch, but not a completely ridiculous one.

Just finished Frank Belknap Long's "Horror From the Hills," which incorporates the basic details of "The Very Old Folk," as part of a dream sequence no less. The story has a certain fun madness to it but I can't really recommend it: ancient oriental idol turns out to be alive and a partial manifestation of a hyperdimensional being that has existed on earth for billions of years and can only be destroyed by using an entropy reversing ray developed by a psychic. You know, that old cliche.

This one had its moments, but overall it reads like the novelization of a grade Z Karloff picture. One of those 72 minute forgettable ones that are heavy on talk and low on action.

When I read The Very Old Folk I had to fight to keep my entire brain from glazing over. I mostly lost. You guys still succeeded in making it interesting though.

Arkham House's four volume hardcover collection includes most of the collaborations in a collection called "The Horror From the Museum". The current dust jacket illustrations aren't to my taste, but the books themselves are well made and the texts used are definitive:

http://www.arkhamhouse.com/
 

Sounds great Paul!

Great episode. I'm going to have to give Yog Radio another go: I'm not terribly interested in the RPG stuff, but it sounds like they cover other Lovecraft/weird stuff too, which is intriguing.

Speaking of intriguing, the next episode's selections ("The Very Old Folk" and "The Thing in the Moonlight") are very novel, especially after a few months of Lovecraft's more well known "A material." Not a lot of meat in the pieces themselves, but both have interesting back stories (and I'm now trying to hunt down a copy of Frank Belknap Long's "Horror From the Hills" before the ep runs).

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer. There is a funny scen in this book where the title character confronts a dime-store Joseph Curwin and the results are laughable.

I'm vaguely remembering a reference to The Statement of Randolph Carter in here too. Something about finding a coil of telephone wire in the cemetery where one of the characters is first encountered?

I believe that's Chad's "Ghost Disco" first heard in episode 2: The Tomb. Or maybe it was The Outsider. One of those two. It's also on the soundtrack CD that the guys offered last year.

In regards to the sekrit ghoul passmeep: I suppose it's possible that Pickman told it to Carter during their first encounter within the story. That would have been between the two encounters with the night gaunts, wouldn't it?

So is the plan to cover The Dream-Quest in one episode or are you going to break it up into parts? I've been enjoying reading along with you guys, but I don't know if I have time to get through the whole thing again before Thursday.