Member Introductions

[Ming]

Hi everyone!

My name's Andy.  A few years ago, in an attempt to better understand what the big deal was behind this "Cthulhu" guy that I kept hearing about, I decided to pick up a copy of "Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre".  Now, I'm completely hooked!  I'd say that my favorite stores so far have been Rats in the Walls (my first HPL story), From Beyond, the Shadow Over Innsmouth, and The Music of Erich Zahn.

My best friend turned me on to the podcast a few months ago, which I've been listening to ever since.  Aside from serving as an excellent companion to trying to read all of HPL's work, it's served as a great time passer on long commutes and early morning dog walking!  I've trolled the forums a few times, and finally decided that it was time to sign up.

I'm really sad to see that the Lovecraft content for the podcast will be coming to an end in the next few months, but I guess better late than never!

[exospawn]

Hello I'm a fan of HPL and of the HP Podcraft, not a bot

[LambethWarp]

Hello I'm a fan of HPL and of the HP Podcraft, not a bot

Exactly the sort of thing a bot would say... o_0

Calling the Botfinder General!

[Whataitai]

Hi!

I'm 37, originally from Somerset in the West of England, now living in Wellington, New Zealand (hence the username). I've been an HPL fan since my early teens when I first played the RPG. The first HPL story I read was The Music of Erich Zahn which I found in a compendium in the school library - it was like finding a copy of the Necronomicon itself! I remember thinking "Maybe all this stuff is real!!!?" My church youth club leader was very concerned that my friends and I were getting into the occult; nowadays I can enjoy HPL without worrying about that kind of thing. I've just got back from a month on the road in the States and while I was away I started listening to the HP podcast and rereading the books. I managed to scare myself silly on more than one occasion and since coming home I've downloaded an old edition of the RPG off the internet. I even bought my girlfriend a copy of 'Cthulhu 101' today but I'm not holding my breath!  I wanted to join this forum while the podcast is still going - anyone have any idea how much longer it's due to run for?

[Graf von Altenberg Ehrenstein]

Hey Whataitai (I `m sure that does means something?)!
Oh yes, Howie Philips the straight way to the most sinister cults! Hope you didn `t summon anything by accident...
The still upcoming stories/episodes you can count on your fingers. Certainly nor more than three months. Chad and Chris plan to keep up podcasting with something not entirely different, but there `s nothing specific yet.

[Whataitai]

Thanks for the welcome!

I'll explain the username: According to Maori, what is now Wellington harbour was once a lake cut off from the sea and Whataitai was the name of one of two taniwha who lived in the lake.  Taniwha are supernatural dragon or whale-like creatures - sometimes monsters, sometimes guardians - who live in dark places like deep caves or the sea. So far, so Lovecraft right? Well, apart from the guardian bit. The other taniwha, Ngake, was restless and wanted to escape into the ocean. He circled frantically around the lake and hurled himself at the rocks and smashed through to what is now called the Cook Strait. Whataitai tried to follow but he got stuck and his body dried out in the sun and formed an isthmus.  Last night I was sat on the sofa looking out at that isthmus trying to think of a suitable username for an HPL forum... well, its obvious really isn't!

I'm glad I signed up when I did and that I've caught up with the final few podcasts - I went to the library last week and took out a Arthur Machen collection - I'd love to hear Chris and Chad go through the stories which inspired HP, the ones that have been mentioned in the podcasts and notes.

[HeirophantX]

Greetings Programs,

Been a huge fan since discovering HPL at 13 (some time in the 80's...).  Fan of the books and the RPG.  I have also been known to manifest on the Yog forum.

[thebluestocking]

Hullo there--I've been listening to the podcast from the beginning--back when it was recorded in Santa Monica and I lived only a few miles away. Now I'm in rural Alabama, still listening. I love podcasts, but this is the only one I've listened to consistently over all those years. Chad and Chris have no idea how much housework they have gotten me through, and I've come to think of them as friends, in a way. (Which probably is creepy, since they have no clue who I am.)

I came to Lovecraft late: I was in college at UNC-Chapel Hill and working on a research paper on Southern writer Fred Chappell, who wrote a Dagon story in his early days. I got intrigued, then I got hooked, and my love for H.P. has only grown over the years. (I'm pleased to note, by the way, that there is--or at least was, back in the day--an entry for the Necronomicon by Abdul Alhazred in the UNC library catalog.)

Anyway, hi!

[mej]

Not sure if I'm doing this correctly, since I'm introducing myself, and not replying to anyone.  But if I end up as a reply to someone else's introduction, consider it a big, if unintentional, hello from me.

I am an attorney in upstate New York, but for many years I worked in the film industry in Los Angeles, having gone out there with Sam Raimi and the "Michigan Mafia" back in 1987, via Wadesboro North Carolina, where I was the assistant editor Evil Dead II. 

I just want to doff my hat (that is if I had a hat) to Chris and Chad for managing to put together a podcast that started well and only got better.  They were already remarkably polished in their first podcast (the advertising jobs and acting classes have paid off), but what I found so enjoyable throughout the past couple of years of listening is how the quality of the podcast, especially the lavishly mounted readings, have attracted so much high-caliber Lovecraft scholarship to a show which so prominently warns "We're not Lovecraft scholars."

Well, they may not be scholars, but they are far more than fanboys - so they are somewhere in new territory.   If Neil DeGrasse Tyson or Carl Sagan were popularizers of science... no that analogy doesn't work because they *are* scholars,  Chris and  Chad are popularizers of the fandom of the scholarship of H.P. Lovecraft.  Yes, that has a nice ring to it, and they can have it for free.

Thanks for all the fun, and  "Chad Fifer Is Old Hollywood"  made me howl, because there is a tiny subculture of three-fisted, young, old-school actors and writers in L.A. (which might still be found at Boardner's) that he tapped into perfectly.   And Heather Klinke was adorably creepy as the girlfriend wannabe whom one should never let near their bathroom. 

Best,

MEJ

[Carcosa]

Recently started listening to the Literary Podcast from the very beginning, so I imagine it will take some time for me to catch up to the live shows. You may see me over at Olde Yoggie as well by the same name. Started reading Lovecraft's stories at the age of 13 when a roleplaying friend introduced me to Call of Cthulhu. Been hooked ever since.

[Clangador]

Hello, I am Clangador, and I am a H.P. Lovecraft addict. 

[Chrizzie Frizzie]

Hi, I am CRIT. I discovered the podcraft more than two years ago around episode 30. It's weird to think that I have aurally followed Chad and Chris though weddings and continental relocations and pregnancy and birth - and of course from two friends having a lark to become the center of a new wave of Lovecraft-enthusiasm. My fascination with HPL himself is only matched by the energy and creativity that is sloshing around this community!

I read "Call of Cthulhu" when I was in my early teens and it scared me. I thought it was fer'reel. I got through Dexter Ward and even Mountains of Madness. My relationship with the man was ended after a few pages of "Dream-Quest" however, and it took me almost 20 years to make a second attempt. I think that I am not alone in my arc: a fascination with Cthulhu to a wider appreciation of HPLs work, to something of an obsession with HPL 'the man, the thinker, the writer' and now finally an overall appreciation of 'weird' and speculative fiction.

So... hello all! Nice to know you!

[Lupo]

Hi

I'm a real person not a bot, I just don't say much unless I have too. 

[abbazabba]

Hello to all!  I'm Jerrod I work for the Navy.  I've been indulging in HPL for many years.  I stumbled across the podcast looking for audiobooks.  I believe it was the Martin's Beach episode.  Loved it, and I have been listening in ever since.  It's great to have while I'm aboard the ship.  Chad and Chris are funny as hell, keeps me going through the crappy at sea time.  Thanks again guys.  Hope when you finish the HPL works you keep something going in the same arena.

[Robert W]

Hello,

My name is Robert. I like HPL, a lot.