When Elvis Died Podcast 16--The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, Part 3

Movie Poster from the 2007 film Cthulhu, courtesy of horrorcultfilms.co.ukWe've arrived at the thrilling (really!) conclusion of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".  I hope you've enjoyed it--it's one of my favorite Lovecraft stories, and I had a great time reading it!  

The music underneath my intro and conclusion is "Riding" by Palace Brothers from the wonderful album "There is No One What Will Take Care of You."

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Have a happy halloween!

The Shadow Over Innsmouth Part 3

When Elvis Died Podcast 15--The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, Part 2

Here's part 2 of my reading of "The Shadow over Innsmouth" by H.P. Lovecraft.  You can find the podcast of part 1 here.

This is another in my series of Halloween readings of Lovecraft stories, and you can find the rest of them here.

This podcast features music by Better than the Pentagon, and I thank them for allowing me to use their tunes. 

The Shadow Over Innsmouth Part 2

When Elvis Died Podcast 14--The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, Part 1

Hello All--as per halloween tradition, I welcome you to another annual reading of H.P. Lovecraft.  This year, I've chosen "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (1931), one of my favorite Lovecraft stories.  I hope you like it as well.  

Cover of the original printing of Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shadow_over_innsmouth.jpg. Music this time around came from two creepy blues tunes:  "Devil Got my Woman" by Skip James, and "See that My grave is Kept Clean" by Blind Lemon Jefferson.  

WED-14-The Shadow Over Innsmouth Pt 1

When Elvis died Podcast halloween bonus: Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft

Surprise--one more quick story for Halloween week!  Dagon is an early Lovecraft story, where he's feelling out the Cthulhu Mythos, but hasn't quite articulated it out yet.  It's also a nice companion piece to last week's "The Temple".  Both are last testaments of dying men, and both have WWI naval combat as the central plot device, and both rely on the ocean and it's mysteries for their crowning horror.

It also has some of the great literary tics that Lovecraft would become known for--particularly the suicide note feverishly scrawled and cut off in the last sentance.  This has been parodied many times, but perhaps not so well as Patton Oswalt's Onion AV Club review of KFC's Famous Bowl.

Have a great Halloween!

Enclosure

When Elvis Died Podcast #12: The Temple by H.P. Lovecraft

Happy Halloween!  It's that time of year again, and continuing my tradition of revelling in H.P. Lovecraft's fantastical and horrific worlds every time October 31st rolls around, I've decided to read his short story "The Temple" this year.  It's a great story, full of mystery and claustrophobic terror, not to mention WWI era sea combat for all you history buffs out there. 

If you want to revisit them, you can listen to my previous entries The Colour Out of Space and The Horror at Red Hook by clicking the titles. 

As with last year, music is provided by those legendary purveyors of post-rock, Slint from their 1991 album Spiderland. 

Enjoy everyone!

The Temple by H.P. Lovecraft