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Episode 161 - The Body-Snatcher
Outstanding actor and Oscar nominee Chris Sarandon joins us this week to read Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Body-Snatcher!
Want to learn more about Burke and Hare? This is the internet - there's a web site dedicated to them!
Our opening sample was from the film The Body-Snatcher, an early Robert Wise flick and a tour-de-force by Karloff. Check it out!
We'll be back next week with The House and The Brain by Edward Bulwer Lytton. Subscribe to tune in!
(And don't forget to pick up our graphic novel Deadbeats while you're at it; or even a soundtrack!)
Episode 157 - Fishhead
Episode 157 - Fishhead
Swim out into the lake with us as we tackle the Irvin S. Cobb classic, Fishhead!
Special thanks to guest Matt Burriesci (with his own special guest, Violet) and reader Andrew Leman. There are always fishy things happening at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society!
Thanks so much to everybody who donated to the Kickstarter - there are still a few days to go!
We'll be back talking mummies next week!
Episode 150 – The Horla – Part 1
Join us as we take on the mysterious Guy de Maupassant story The Horla!
Special thanks to reader Erwann G. Marshall!
We’ll be back next week with Part 2.
In the meantime – check out Deadbeats! Or pick up a soundtrack!
Episode 145 - The Mark of the Beast
We're kicking off Werewolf History Month with Rudyard Kipling’s short story The Mark of the Beast!
Show Notes:
Thanks to reader Paul Maclean of Yog-Sothoth.com for reading our excerpts.
Although it's free online, this story appears in the anthology Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy, with the foreword by Neil Gaiman that we quote in the show.
Get a hold of up the rip-roaring Lovecraftian comedy-thriller Deadbeats before it gets a hold of you!
Or, even better, get a hold of Chris himself at the York Travelling Man, where he'll be hanging out and signing copies of Deadbeats with illustrator I.N.J. Culbard - February 9th at 1 pm!
THE SOUNDTRACKS ARE HERE! You can now download the podcast soundtracks Volume 1 and Volume 2, each with 3 bonus tracks, all newly-remastered, for only $7 a piece. That's 70 tracks total, over 2 hours of creepy goodness. Get into it!
Episode 144 – Lovecraft’s Juvenilia – Part 2
This week we’re out with that crazy teenage Lovecraft and his stories The Beast in the Cave and The Alchemist!
Special thanks to reader Kristofor Barnes!
What’s that? Deadbeats is still shipping worldwide FOR FREE?! Sold!
Episode 143 – Lovecraft’s Juvenilia – Part 1
Puzzle through some of Lovecraft’s first stabs at fiction with us and reader Hazel Holmes!
We’re covering The Little Glass Bottle, The Secret Cave, The Mystery of the Grave-Yard and The Mysterious Ship, most written before HPL was 10!
Don’t miss out on that free shipping for Deadbeats!
Episode 142 – The Lair of the White Worm
The Lair of the White Worm is terrible.
Special thanks to our reader Chris Tyler!
And if you need to cleanse your palate after all this White Worm madness, we’d recommend you pick up Deadbeats. Free shipping worldwide!
Next week we’re gonna have fun with some of Lovecraft’s juvenilia! Have a read of The Little Glass Bottle, The Secret Cave, The Mystery of the Grave-Yard and The Mysterious Ship, most written before HPL was 10!
Episode 138 – The Fall of the House of Usher – Part 1
Andrew Leman leads the charge as we enter The House of Usher!
Episode 134 – The Willows – Part 1
Join us as we voyage into The Willows by Algernon Blackwood.
We’re blessed once again by the talents of reader Lance Holt!
What’s that song Chris was singing? Check out Vienna.
Meet Chris at Thought Bubble the weekend of 11/17, where you can buy Deadbeats.
Episode 130 – The Great God Pan – Part 1
Tune in, pull away the veil and witness The Great God Pan!
Leman – you got skills, kid.
Some of that 20s music you heard was Kitten on the Keys.
Learn more about Arthur Machen.
Episode 129 - The Signal-Man
We're back with a classic tale by Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man!
Special thanks to reader Marty Jopson, science bloke!
Next up: The Great God Pan
Episode 127 – The Monkey’s Paw
Your wish has come true – we’re covering the W. W. Jacobs classic – The Monkey’s Paw!
Thanks to our reader, Paul Maclean of Yog-Sothoth.com!
We’ll be back next time with The Upper Berth!
Episode 126 – The Yellow Wallpaper
Join us and outstanding reader Heather Klinke as we creep on into The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman!
Special thanks to Innsmouth House Studios for graciously hosting Chris!
Next week: The Monkey’s Paw!
Episode 125 - Supernatural Horror in Literature - Part 2
Join us as we finish up the introduction to Supernatural Horror in Literature.
Special thanks to reader Michael Ford!
If you're in LA this September, you must freak out with us at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival!
What's up next?
Episode 124 - The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s Time Machine
Listen in as Andrew Leman of The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society sketches in an outline of the 1890s, then colours it in with YELLOW!
Tune in next week for more Supernatural Horror in Literature!
Episode 123 – The Yellow Sign
We’re joined by reader Andrew Leman as we try to get a purchase on The Yellow Sign!
Fifer feels like the watchman has this look.
Also check out Chris’s cool graphic novel Kickstarter project, Transreality!
Get back with us next week as Andrew takes us on a historical stroll through the 1890s!
Episode 122 – The Repairer of Reputations – Part 2
Come! Join us and be part of the American Dynasty as we return to Robert W. Chamber’s story The Repairer of Reputations from his book, The King in Yellow!
Also check out Chris’s cool graphic novel Kickstarter project, Transreality!
Thanks to our reader, J.P. Moore!
Next week, we stick with Chambers and The King in Yellow, but move on to The Yellow Sign!
Episode 121 – The Repairer of Reputations – Part 1
Welcome to the inaugural episode of the HPLLP Premium Feed! Holy cow, it’s hot!
Thanks to reader J.P. Moore!
Next week: Part 2 of The Repairer of Reputations!
Episode 120 – Supernatural Horror in Literature - Part 1
We dip our toe into Lovecraft's greatest essay!
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Want to know about how the world can be destroyed? Check out Phil Plait's Death from the Skies.
Next Episode: Robert Chamber's The Repairer of Reputations from his book The King in Yellow!
Original Fiction - One Small, Valuable Thing
One Small, Valuable Thing was written and read by Chad Fifer.
Warning: some language may be inappropriate for younger listeners.
This story, as well as Snack Time by Chris Lackey, will be available in the Lovecraftian-Pulp anthology Shotguns vs. Cthulhu, coming soon from Stone Skin Press. You can pre-buy through Stone Skin's Kickstarter project here!
Music for this reading was provided by The Human Aftertaste from the film Pickman's Song.
Production and additional scoring by Chad Fifer.
Please tune in next week for our first show covering Supernatural Horror in Literature!