We’re back and we’re researching our family histories. Nothing but wholesome stuff here. Surely everyone’s ancestors faced an angry mob or two. It was just the done thing in those times.

Main Topic: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward part 2

Following last episode’s look into the story’s origins, we are continuing our investigation into HP Lovecraft’s novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. This time, we move on to one of the more action-packed parts of the book, and, indeed, of Lovecraft’s work in general. The jilted Ezra Weeden gathers together an investigator organisation that might be more accurately described as an angry mob, and leads a raid on the Curwen farm in Pawtuxet. Expect lots of sinister chants, indescribable odours, and beams of light shooting into the sky for some reason.

Links

Things we mention in this episode include:

• A Dreamer and a Visionary: HP Lovecraft in His Time by ST Joshi
• I Am Providence: The Life and Times of HP Lovecraft by ST Joshi
• Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters by HP Lovecraft, ST Joshi, and David E Schultz
• Lovecraft and a World in Transition by ST Joshi
• The New Annotated HP Lovecraft, edited by Leslie Klinger
• Cosmo Alexander
• The Halsey House
• Egyptian mummies used as medicine
• Egyptian mummies used as pigments
• “The Whisperer in Darkness” by HP Lovecraft
• Breatharianism
• More Great NPCs of History
• “Fungi From Yuggoth” by HP Lovecraft
• Yog-Sothoth
• “The Call of Cthulhu” by HP Lovecraft

• Éliphas Lévi
• The Mysteries of Magic by Éliphas Lévi
• Thorn
• The Wurzels
• “The Shunned House” by HP Lovecraft
• “The Dunwich Horror” by HP Lovecraft
• Salem witch trials
• Naphthalene
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• “Mister Corbitt” from Mansions of Madness
• Into the Darkness
• Tatters of the King
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

News

October Horror Movie Challenge

Scott is now a week deep into his October Horror Movie Challenge, and has been posting daily reviews on this very site. Highlights, so far, include the demonic When Evil Lurks and the art-house slasher, In a Violent Nature. If you fancy taking part, or just talking about some of the films you’re watching, why not join the discussion on The Good Friends of Jackson Elias Discord server?

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