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Episode 404 – Bartleby, the Scrivener - Part 1
Episode 404 – Bartleby, the Scrivener - Part 1
We’d PREFER that you listen to our show on Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville!
Episode 402 - Tsathoggua
Episode 402 - Tsathoggua
We're covering Tsathoggua by Michael Shea with special guest PATTON OSWALT!
It's a super-sized, hour-long FREE episode including the vocal stylings of Andrew Leman!
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Episode 398 - The Painted Skin, The Haunted House & Spitting Water
Episode 398 - The Painted Skin, The Haunted House & Spitting Water
Creep into April with The Painted Skin and other weird tales by Pu Songling! Various translations of these stories appear online - but they are also available in Penguin's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.
Special thanks to reader Andrew Leman - as always - check out the good stuff at HPLHS.org!
Next week: The Charnel God by Clark Ashton Smith!
Episode 394 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Part 1
Episode 394 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Part 1
We've got The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the only cure is to read MORE!
Jump in and support the last hours of Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics - or regret it in hell!
Special thanks to our reader Matt Young - please check out his metal band HeKz.
Next weekle, more Jekyll!
Episode 391 - Nightfall - Part 1
Episode 391 - Nightfall - Part 1
Join us for a night of infinite stars - it's Nightfall by science fiction legend Isaac Asimov!
Special thanks to reader Andrew Leman.
Also thanks to Dave Machin for suggesting this story!
Next week: THE STARS UNVEILED!
Episode 390 - The Fog Horn
Episode 390 - The Fog Horn
Listen up! It's The Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury!
Special thanks to reader Andrew Leman.Also thanks to Andrew Murphy for suggesting this story!
Check out this image from the Saturday Evening Post!
Next up: Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
Episode 387 - The Lurker at the Threshold - Part 1
Episode 387 - The Lurker at the Threshold - Part 1
Time to get a-lurkin'! We're jumping into the "H.P. Lovecraft" novel called The Lurker at the Threshold (which is actually by August Derleth).
Special thanks to our kick-ass reader, Anthony Tedesco!
Next up: More Lurkin'!
Episode 384 - Who Goes There? - Part 1
Episode 384 - Who Goes There? - Part 1
We're ringing in the holidays as we cover Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, the basis for John Carpenter's The Thing!
Special thanks to reader Andrew Leman! Don't forget to grab Dark Adventure Radio Theatre's The Rats in the Walls from the HPLHS store!
Want another perspective on the story? Check out The Things by Peter Watts.
Next up: More Who Goes There?
Episode 378 - All Hallows
Episode 378 - All Hallows
We kick off a week of Walter de la Mare with All Hallows - tune in!
Don't forget to grab your Cthulhu Christmas Cards at Kickstarter!
Special thanks to Wesley Slover for music from his album Impressions of the Miskatonic!
EXTRA special thanks to our reader, Rachel Lackey - check out Rachel Watches Star Trek!Next week: Out of the Deep
Episode 374 - The Werewolf of Paris - Part 1
Episode 374 - The Werewolf of Paris - Part 1
It's Werewolf History Month, and we’re taking on The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore!
Special thanks to our reader, Erwann G. Marshall!
We'll be back with more werewolf goodness next week!
Episode 370 - Ancient Sorceries - Part 1
Episode 370 - Ancient Sorceries - Part 1
Hey you crazy cats! We're back and covering Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood.
Special thanks to our reader - the one and only Greig Johnson!
Tune in to Rachel Watches Star Trek.
Get your hands on Fear Boys with Bugs.
Next week: MORE SORCERY!
Episode 366 - The Events at Poroth Farm - Part 1
Episode 366 - The Events at Poroth Farm - Part 1
We're winding up the summer with the T.E.D. Klein novella The Events at Poroth Farm - get into it!
Special thanks to our awesome guest, Ken Hite! Please check out and support his Kickstarter for Tour de Lovecraft: The Destinations!
Who was that reader? Why that was none other than Andrew Staton! Check him out in Clowntown!
We'll be back next week with more Poroth Farm - subscribe and tune in!
Episode 364 - The Thing on the Roof
Episode 364 - The Thing on the Roof
What's that you hear? It's The Thing on the Roof by Robert E. Howard!
Special thanks to our reader, Sean Branney! Check out the new Dark Adventure Radio Theatre production of The Haunter of the Dark, available now at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society website!
Check out the Hulk Out List!
Next week: People of the Dark
Reading 11 - The Yellow Wallpaper
Get creepy! It's a full-length reading of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, featuring Heather Klinke!
Reading 11 - The Yellow Wallpaper
Get creepy! It's a full-length reading of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, featuring Heather Klinke!
Music and production by Chad Fifer. Thanks to everybody who contributed to make this production possible!
Episode 358 - The Time Machine - Part 1
Travel along as we climb aboard The Time Machine by H.G. Wells! Special thanks to reader Greig Johnson – you can hear him fight the hordes of weird along with Chris at www.QuietAndBold.com
Episode 358 - The Time Machine - Part 1
Travel along as we climb aboard The Time Machine by H.G. Wells!
Special thanks to reader Greig Johnson – you can hear him fight the hordes of weird along with Chris at QuietAndBold.com!
Check out this Improv Everywhere time machine prank.
Next week: More Time Machine
Episode 354 - The Day of the Dragon
Folks don't know this, but THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD is a reference to The Day of the Dragon by Guy Endore! Special thanks to our reader, Wyatt S. Gray, reader of Shadows and Teeth.
Episode 354 - The Day of the Dragon
Folks don't know this, but THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD is a reference to The Day of the Dragon by Guy Endore!
Special thanks to our reader, Wyatt S. Gray, reader of Shadows and Teeth - check it!
Outro Music: The NeverEnding Story by Limahl, remixed by Juan 'sf@gnum' Rojas & cj Josh, music by G. Moroder.
Next up: The Derelict by William Hope Hodgson.
Episode 346 - Frankenstein - Part 1
March is for Frankensteins, y'all! Clasp our clammy hands as we dig into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein!
Episode 346 - Frankenstein - Part 1
March is for Frankensteins, y'all! Clasp our clammy hands as we dig into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein!
Special thanks to our reader, the phenomenal Greig Johnson.
Next week: MORE FRANKENSTEIN!
Episode 344 - Speech Sounds
Episode 344 - Speech Sounds
Listen in as we sample Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler!
Special thanks to our reader, Heather Klinke!
We'll be back next week with Po' Sandy by Charles W. Chesnutt!
Episode 342 - Bloodchild
Black History Month kicks off with the excellent Octavia E. Butler story Bloodchild!
Episode 342 - Bloodchild
Black History Month kicks off with the excellent Octavia E. Butler story Bloodchild!
Thanks to our reader, Andrew Weary!
Pick up Pulp Sonnets by Kate M. Sherrod! DO IT NOW!!
Next week: The Comet by W.E.B. DuBois.
Episode 338 - Gonna Roll the Bones
Let the games begin! We're kicking off 2017 with Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber!
Episode 338 - Gonna Roll the Bones
Let the games begin! We're kicking off 2017 with Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber!
Thanks so much to Patton Oswalt for recommending the story - we'll be doing listener suggestions all month!
Don't be a loser - buy or rent Beyond the Gates now!
Special thanks to our reader, Andrew Leman. The HPLHS Dark Adventure Radio Theatre production of Brotherhood of the Beast is available now and it is hot! SNAP IT UP!
Here's the Nicholas Whyte review of the story that we mention in the episode.
Next week: The October Game by Ray Bradbury