Episode 309 – The Monster of Lake LaMetrie
We’re kicking off Creatures of the Black La-June with The Monster of Lake LaMetrie by Wardon Allan Curtis!
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What a remarkably awful story. A Hollow Earth, dinosaurs that survive without their brains, and trans-species brain transplants?!
This story sounded like Alejandro Jodorowski’s Barney the Dinosaur.
The most horrifying episode of Beanie and Cecil ever!!! No, seriously, that was one of the most entertaining shows you guys have done since Lair of the White Worm. I love the ones! It’s like Arthur Jermyn all over again!
And by the way, you were cool with Herbert West removing a head in a field tend with the aid of f*ing CROCODILE embryo but you object to a dude putting a brain inside a dinosaur. You guys really cherrypick when it comes to suspension of disbelief! It’s hypocrisy, I tell you ?
A gritty, scientifically accurate retelling of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLlibrF5DRM
Thanks for doing this one! It was the highlight of an otherwise so-so fantasy anthology I bought a few years back. It cracked me up, especially the part where the creature started singing. I’d love to know if the author was taking the idea seriously or just enjoyed letting his mind go to goofy places.
This was a…a new one. But I must say, given all the crazy things Lovecraft and superhero comics have asked me to entertain, this story wasn’t so much a case, “I can’t roll with this kind of thought” so much as “What?” Anyway, it’s always good to see sea monsters. Hope to see some more intriguing developments.
This story… it sure was a story.
Now I have this mental image of the guy riding his new dinosaur friend through the Inner Earth yelling “Woo hooooo!” while The Neverending Story plays in the background…