Episodes
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 6: Episode 4: Letters August-November 1930
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
In this podcast, I talk about the letters H. P. Lovecraft wrote to his friends and colleagues in the autumn of 1930. Topics include: "The Whisperer in Darkness, Quebec, Lovecraft's fictional world-building, witches, and the importance of dynamite in horror tales.
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 6: Episode 3: Letters February-August 1930
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
What do dinosaur bones, "clock-slavery", Charleston, and Hart Crane have in common? They all are discussed in H. P. Lovecraft's letters in 1930 (specifically February through August). I talk about this and more in this episode of this podcast.
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
H. P. Lovecraft's letters from the winter of 1929-1930 were written around the time he wrote "The Mound". So we should not be surprised to see him reflecting on civilizations, art, and geography. These letters also speak to his thoughts about erotic art. Highlight is a massive letter to Woodburn Harris.
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 6: Episode 1: Letters July-November 1929
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
So we are back to the "Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft" in this episode. Features correspondents include Maurice Moe, Elizabeth Toldridge, and James Ferdinand Morton. Topics include poetry, lost cultures, and machine culture
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 28: The Electric Executioner
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
In this second revision of a Adolphe de Castro story, "The Electric Executioner", we explore the supernatural power of electricity in a Mexican setting. A fun story, worth checking out.
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 27: The Last Test
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
"The Last Test" is by Adolphe de Castro, as revised by H. P. Lovecraft. I rather liked this story, with its exploration of deep history and hidden traditions. It is framed as a story about experiment and outbreak in the prison, although the truth is much more chilling.
Monday Feb 08, 2021
H.P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series5: Episode 26: The Thing in the Moonlight
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
So this story is based on a dream, detailed in a letter by Lovecraft to Donald Wandrei in 1927. Wandrei later revised this account into a the published story "The Thing in the Moonlight".
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Episode 453: Henry James: Confidence (2)
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
The second and final part of my review of CONFIDENCE by Henry James. This puts an end to this series on James' early novels.
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 25: Two Black Bottles
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
This short story, "Two Black Bottles", was written by Wilfred Blanch Talman, with an assist by H. P. Lovecraft. While not one of the revisions that is mostly done by Lovecraft, let's read it anyways. It is a pretty good story. Published in WEIRD TALES in 1927
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Episode 452: Henry James: Confidence (1)
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Like THE EUROPEANS, CONFIDENCE is a light and somewhat comedic novel about Europeans in America or Americans in Europe, or something. Another early novel by James that I found underwhelming but still probably worth checking out.