The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 145 - The Mark of the Beast Listen on Patreon 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 141 - What Was It? Listen on Patreon Tag in as we wrestle with What Was It? - a mystery by Fitz-James O'Brien! Special thanks to reader Fred Cross. You can check him out January 8 on Spike in The Joe Schmo Show! Read Thomas Ollive Mabbott's article: The Books in the House of Usher. Extra gratis to Jerry Drake for providing the info! And don't forget to pick up Deadbeats. Free shipping worldwide!

Episode 137 - The Masque of the Red Death Listen on Patreon Have a listen to our live coverage of  The Masque of the Red Death! Or heck - actually watch it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaOC1Gx6pNQ Special thanks to Mike Davis from the Lovecraft eZine for including us on his weekly video chats and introducing us to Google Hangouts. Subscribe now to hear our coverage of The Fall of the House of Usher!

Episode 133 - The Great God Pan - Part 4 Listen on Patreon It's our thrilling conclusion to The Great God Pan! Special thanks to reader Andrew Leman - don't forget to pick up the new Dark Adventure Radio Theatre presentation of The Call of Cthulhu! Our graphic novel Deadbeats is available for preorder now - grab it here! Or why don't you swing by Thought Bubble in Leeds and buy a copy from Chris in person?! Next up, The Willows!

Episode 129 - The Signal-Man Listen on Patreon 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 125 - Supernatural Horror in Literature - Part 2 Listen on Patreon Join us as we finish up the introduction to Supernatural Horror in Literature. Special thanks to reader Michael Ford, frequently seen creeping about the fabled Bronte Blues Club! If you're in LA this September, you must freak out with us at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival! What's up next? The Yellow Wallpaper The Monkey's Paw The Upper Berth

Episode 123 – The Yellow Sign Listen on Patreon 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. Wanna see a great HPL imitator live out Poe’s greatest fear? Here you go, from Vampyr. 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 Listen on Patreon 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 Listen on Patreon 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 Listen on Patreon We dip our toe into Lovecraft's greatest essay! This is our free episode for the month of August. Become a subscriber August 8th! Come back to this site and we'll tell you all you need to do! 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 Listen on Patreon 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!

Episode 119 - Special Thanks & Future Plans Listen on Patreon We end this chapter of the podcast by answering some listener questions, reminiscing about the last three years and announcing what's next! We'll be off next week and releasing a full reading of a Lovecraftian pulp story by Fifer on July 27th. We kick off the next chapter of the podcast on August 2nd! THANK YOU EVERYBODY!

Episode 118 - Lovecraft's Last Days and Legacy Listen on Patreon Join us as we close out H.P. Lovecraft's personal story. Most of the information in this show is from S.T. Joshi's H.P. Lovecraft: A Life. Thanks so much to Joshi for all of his research. You can also watch Pickman's Song here. Tune in next week when we talk about this show and preview what's up next!

Episode 117 - The Haunter of the Dark - Part 2 Listen on Patreon We conclude our coverage of The Haunter of the Dark, as well as our coverage of Lovecraft's stories. This momentous episode is brought to you by The Muse of the Monstrous and Other Tales, a new collection of horror fiction by Stephen Jankiewicz. Special thanks to Andrew Leman for all of his contributions over the past few years as well as this outstanding reading! Like that opening jam? Check out Zeitgeist Zero! And here's Robert E. Howard's biopic, The Whole Wide World. Photo by Will Hart

Episode 116 - The Haunter of the Dark - Part 1 Listen on Patreon The Haunter of the Dark. Robert Bloch at the World Fantasy Convention in 1975. Here is the church that the story was based on! Arkham Witch! Tour de Lovecraft!

Episode 115 - The Night Ocean Listen on Patreon Vast and lonely is the ocean, and even as all things came from it, so shall they return thereto. In the shrouded depths of time none shall reign upon the earth, nor shall any motion be, save in the eternal waters. And these shall beat on dark shores in thunderous foam, though none shall remain in that dying world to watch the cold light of the enfeebled moon playing on the swirling tides and coarse-grained sand. On the deep’s margin shall rest only a stagnant foam, gathering about the shells and bones of perished shapes that dwelt within the waters. Silent, flabby things will toss and roll along empty shores, their sluggish life extinct. Then all shall be dark, for at last even the white moon on the distant waves shall wink out. Nothing shall be left, neither above nor below the sombre waters. And until that last millennium, as after it, the sea will thunder and toss throughout the dismal night. --The Night Ocean, by H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow

Episode 114 - In the Walls of Eryx Listen on Patreon Get LOST In the Walls of Eryx! Thanks to Steve Brewster for lending us his voice! Music for this episode is from David Maurice Garrett's album Al Azif - available now for download! Next week, The Night Ocean.

Episode 113 - The Diary of Alonzo Typer Listen on Patreon OMG - we're totally reading your diary, Alonzo Typer! And it's not just us! We're joined by reader Jason Lee! And here's some junk about Polari. Next time, we're breaking down In the Walls of Eryx!

Episode 112 - The Disinterment Listen on Patreon It's the Duane Rimel with maybe-some-Lovecraft classic The Disinterment! Thanks to reader Jasmine Mann: making bad stories great since 2012! Check out her gaming blog! What's that sound? Is it next week's story, The Diary of Alonzo Typer? Um. Yes.

Episode 111 - "Till A' the Seas," Collapsing Cosmoses, The Battle that Ended the Century Listen on Patreon We're back with an H.P. Lovecraft/R.H. Barlow triple threat: The Battle That Ended the Century, Collapsing Cosmoses and Till A’ the Seas. Special thanks and Happy 90th Birthday to our brilliant reader, Agnes Coughnaugton! If you’re interested in buying a limited run poster from the live show, they are still available at ArmyOfCats.com! Don't forget to check out the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, OR - this weekend, May 11-13! If you can't go, dig into the cool merch at SighCo. Graphics. American Patrio-Bots, the Lovecraft Anthology Volume 1 is here! British Empirotrons, you can get your Lovecraft Anthology Volume 2 signed by Chris when he appears to give a talk on adapting Lovecraft at The Travelling Man in Manchester, June 2nd. We'll be back next week with The Disinterment!