Was H.P. Lovecraft To Blame for All Things Pseudo-archaeological? The new Archaeological Fantasies, Episode 113 podcast investigates.
Archaeological Fantasies
07 Saturday Mar 2020
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07 Saturday Mar 2020
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Was H.P. Lovecraft To Blame for All Things Pseudo-archaeological? The new Archaeological Fantasies, Episode 113 podcast investigates.
03 Tuesday Mar 2020
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A late and amusing spoof on Lovecraft’s style appeared in Magazine Of Horror, May 1969 as “The Horror Out of Lovecraft”. Now, The Weird Tales Podcast has an audio reading of the tale.
02 Monday Mar 2020
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New on Librivox, Dream Collection I. Being readings of 20 stories or poems “pertaining to dreams”. Includes Lovecraft’s “What The Moon Brings”, plus Clark Ashton Smith, Dunsany, Coleridge and others.
26 Wednesday Feb 2020
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New on Archive.org, “A Sense of Place: David Macaulay surveys the Brown University campus”. A campus production dated 2010, newly uploaded…
Our guide for this look at the Brown campus is David Macaulay … view one of America’s historic campus landscapes through the lens of a camera and the eyes of one of America’s best-known illustrators.
Or not. It seems that Brown has managed to lock the actual media file on archive.org, and only its generic graphic can be downloaded. However, one can still grab the 340Mb audio podcast as a public download from here. It turns out to be a 26-minute VHS quality video. It’s also on YouTube, with what appears to be even higher compression.
18 Tuesday Feb 2020
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The podcast Voluminous: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft has completed a stinging four-thwack spanking of Frank Belknap Long.
10 Monday Feb 2020
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New on LibriVox, The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, including a cast of voices where required. Also includes a Memoir and three essays.
06 Thursday Feb 2020
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The Cromcast: An Invitation to Cross Plains. Departing from the usual story format, the podcast…
talks with Robert E. Howard super-fan, ‘Indy’ Bill Cavalier!
08 Wednesday Jan 2020
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The excellent in-depth podcast EconTalk sprang a Christmas surprise. 90 minutes with Joe Posnanski on the Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini…
Journalist and author Joe Posnanski talks about his book, The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Posnanski explores the enduring fame of Houdini who remains an iconic cultural figure almost a century after his death. Topics discussed include the nature of celebrity, the nature of ambition, parenting, magic, and the use of public relations to create and sustain reputation and celebrity.
07 Tuesday Jan 2020
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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast Archive. A combined 7Gb, on a new .torrent at Archive.org.
06 Monday Jan 2020
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Another item I missed in the Christmas ker-fluffle. Episode 3 of the new run of The Lovecraft Geek podcast with the venerable Robert M. Price, which he released just before Christmas 2019.
He refers to Lovecraft’s massive daily output of the written word as “graphomania”, a rare word I don’t think I’d encountered before and was thus pleased to learn. There’s also “typomania”, which I guess is the correct modern keyboarding form today, though it wouldn’t apply to Lovecraft since he deeply disliked typing. Also mentioned in the podcast is a relatively-soon re-publication of an old out-of-print Starmont critical book on the Lin Carter mythos and other works (Lin Carter: a Look Behind His Imaginary Worlds, Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 36), and the publication of the long-unpublished Annotated Lovecraft.
03 Friday Jan 2020
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Sir Alec Guinness reads H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”, with a little help from some A.I. machine-learning speech-synthesis.
Guinness was the superlative British actor who had a career that stretched from early b&w screen gems such as The Card and The Man in The White Suit, through to playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars.
20 Friday Dec 2019
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In the new Issue Zero podcast, comics writer Fred Kennedy (The Fourth Planet, due Jan 2020) makes “The Case for Conan The Barbarian” in comics. He gives a potted history of Conan and makes the case that he’s a…
tragically underrated and misrepresented hero” in comics … “just like his creator” Robert E. Howard.
In related news, comics veteran Roy Thomas will be the guest of honour at the Robert E. Howard Days in Texas in 2020. While the covers of the latest Marvel Conan book looks iffy (Conan is apparently now running around in the far-future, with a high-tech cyber-sword…) you can’t fault the old Savage Sword of Conan runs from Marvel.