Episode 438 – The Canal | The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

We’re kicking off Creature Feature February with vampire tale The Canal by Everil Worrell!

Special thanks to our excellent reader Kari Goetz!

PLEASE don’t read versions of this story online, because they’ve all been man-edited by absolute D-BAG August Derleth.

Next up: The Kill by Peter Fleming

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Post Comment 4 comments on “Episode 438 – The Canal”

Ben sawyers on
February 11, 2019 at 2:19 PM

just looking for the link the the archived or directors cut version of the Night Wire
Ben sawyers on
February 11, 2019 at 2:25 PM

I just referred to the Night Wire, I meant The Canal
Jeff Wrench on
February 12, 2019 at 11:31 AM

Here’s a link to what I think is Everil Worrell’s original version of “The Canal” in Weird Tales (PDF):
https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV10N06192712/page/n69
David Malcolm Sommer on
February 13, 2019 at 3:35 PM

I once worked with a relative of August Derleth on a temp job; nice guy. He pronounced it “der-LEETH.”

I told him I was thankful to his relative for introducing Lovecraft to a wider audience. I didn’t tell him what I thought of August Derleth’s own writing!