Episodes

  • Ep24: The Shadow over Innsmouth
    Nov 16 2021

    Innsmouth has a new book shop! We visit it and meet proprietor and new fellow guide Tim Mendees. There, we take a deep dive into HPL's classic The Shadow Over Innsmouth.


    We talk urban decay, frock coats, estate pub gigs, ancestral roots, colonialism and invent a new word! Plus news of upcoming bonus content for patrons and two new anthologies on the way...

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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Ep 23: The White Ship
    Nov 16 2021

    Ahoy, shipmates! Join us for a jaunt around Innsmouth Bay as we discuss HPL's The White Ship! We talk eidolons, Keates, missing time, HP Lovecraft the band and medieval shipwrecks.


    Then we disembark and visit the Gilman House for a chat with our guest Luke Tabram. Luke is the founder of Shadow Paranormal and we chat about investigations, possible explanations for ghosts, science vs theatre and more!

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Ep 22: Cold Print
    Nov 16 2021

    We take shelter from the storm in Innsmouth Library, where we read Cold Print by Ramsey Campbell. We talk urban grime, Lovecraft sex shops, the Revelations of Glaaki, Satanic buffets and the benefits (or otherwise) of being a cultist.


    Then it's a quick dash across the Square to the Gilman House for a chat with guest Ben Crawford. Ben is an author, musician and illustrator and we chat about fantasy world building, humour in horror, the Sword & Sorcery revival, band life on the road, southern gothic and Lovecraftian metal.

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    1 hr and 54 mins
  • Ep 21: The Aleph
    Nov 16 2021

    Our visit to a strangely sunny Innsmouth starts at the Picturehouse and the 1981 movie The Monster Club, Vincent Price's only vampire role! We confuse Lou Reed with Lou Grade, talk 80s Cold War, Max Wall, Swansong Records and the amazing artwork of John Bolton.


    Next, it's a saunter across to the Library to discuss Jorge Luis Borge's short story The Aleph. We discuss magical realism, outsiders and existentialists, magic mirrors and more.


    Plus news of a forthcoming "open world" project and the latest Pearl & Scream ad!

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Ep 20: Innsmouth Diner
    Nov 16 2021

    There's a new diner opened up in town! We visit it for a chat with owners Miguel Fliguer and Mike Slater. Both are renowned Lovecraftian culinary experts and we chat to them about Cooking With Lovecraft and The Necronomnomnom.


    We also discuss the continued appeal of the Mythos, social media, countering HPL's racism, how authors collaborate and the role of Nyarlathotep in HPL's fiction. We also get to try some tasty food and sample a couple of adult beverages - Tequila-li-li!

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Ep 19: Dreams in the Witch House
    Nov 16 2021

    We visit the Innsmouth Museum Brown Jenkin exhibit and talk original story and TV adaptation of Dreams in the Witch House. The discussion includes folkore and science, Dr Caligari, goldfish, Gene Rodenberry, Voronin, gnosticism, Jack Parsons Day, secret rooms and incontinent shoggoths!



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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Ep 18: In the Court of the Dragon
    Nov 16 2021

    We hop aboard the big yellow Arkham bus, first stop Innsmouth Library. There we discuss Robert Chamber's In the Court of the Dragon, from the King in Yellow collection.

    We talk decadence, phantasmagoria, Hawkwind, Carcosa and yellow...why is everything yellow...


    Then it's a stroll across the town square to the Gilman House. Author Tim Mendees is in residence in the Yellow Suite and we chat to him about writing cosmic horror, Amazon reviews, scary kids TV, knitted Cthulhus, Syd Barret, Lovecraftian films and more.


    Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • Ep17: Dreamlands
    Nov 16 2021
    Special guest Chris Karr, author of The Pnakotic Atlas, joins us as we descend the 700 Steps into HPL's Dreamlands! We talk ghouls, Dante, the holographic universe, Plato, Jung and the nature of reality. We also giggle at the word Uranus and wonder, are there vegan zombies?

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    1 hr and 14 mins