Episode 118 - Lovecraft's last days and legacy

[Genus Unknown]

Castro deserves much better.

Did you read "The Electric Executioner?" I've read better cereal boxes than that pile of crap.

[fubarinpittsburgh]

I have listened to nearly every episode of the show (since Dagon at least) the moment it downloaded from itunes.

I put off listening to this show for two days.

I listened to it, with a lot of melancholy in my heart.

It's been a long strange road through the work of Lovecraft, with Chad and Chris.

I look forward to future projects from this duo. They are talented, knowledgeable, and funny as hell.

So long, and thanks for all the horror stories about fish.

[Yojimbo]

I have to say, right in the middle of listening, I got a little dust in my eye. Was hard to see clearly for a few seconds, but I blinked it out.

<sniff>

[Bob Lovecraft]

This is a late response to this episode simply because listening to it depressed the hell out of me, and I went off-forum for a bit to sort out real life crap. I felt about this episode the same way I felt about the final episode of "Babylon 5": it is simply the best episode of the series, but you will have had to experience every episode in order to really feel it. I am glad that the guys were ably to shed some more light on Lovecraft's final days. I've always been both curious and too lazy to research any of that myself.

I'm also impressed that they didn't just toe the party-line about Derleth being the best thing that happened to keeping Lovecraft's legacy alive (although mot everyone admits the guy butchered some of HPL's ideas). I had no idea that Derleth had been so cut-throat in his attempts to absorb all of HPL's work. As the mythos continues to gain pop-culture exposure, I can see the possibility of Derleth getting a much more negative spin on his life and career, all-be-it posthumously.

Thank you again, Chad and Chris, for this labor of love. I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the ride.

Robert Whipple Lovecraft

[old book]

[Clangador]

That guy woke me up many times after I had dozed off watching some cheesy horror or sci-fi movie.