We’re back and we’re peering into wells. Perhaps it’s not unusual to find dead things in wells, but they aren’t generally this animated. Maybe the poor things would lie down and die if there was room for them to do so. Or maybe its just that gnawing hunger that keeps them going. Either way, we suppose they wouldn’t really be ye liveliest awfulness without being lively…

Main Topic: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward part 4

We are continuing our investigation into HP Lovecraft’s novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, heading deep into the catacombs below Pawtuxet. This section contains some of the most horrific scenes Lovecraft wrote, as well as a brief introduction to Grecian pottery. Every day is an education with Howie.

This episode brings us to the end of the story itself, but we shall return next time to discuss the various ways in which The Case of Charles Dexter Ward has been adapted for the screen, audio dramas, and Call of Cthulhu.

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
• “The Thing on the Doorstep” by HP Lovecraft
• Yog-Sothoth
• HP Lovecraft Historical Society reading of Lovecraft’s complete fiction, including The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
• The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
• Dan O’Bannon
• The Resurrected (1991)

• “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” by HP Lovecraft
• “The Call of Cthulhu” by HP Lovecraft
• “Pickman’s Model” by HP Lovecraft
• “The Waste Land” by TS Eliot
• Lekythos
• Phaleron jug
• Weird Tales
• Kylix
• Soylent Green (1973)
• The Sign of Koth
• The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

News

Innsmouth Literary Festival

Matt and Paul discuss what they got up to at the Innsmouth Literary Festival. Much of this revolves around book purchases, specifically Ambrose, Broadalbin and Sosostris by John Tynes, Ripples From Carcosa by Heather Miller, and The Dunwich Trilogy by Robert Poyton. The British setting of the latter put Matt in mind of his own scenario “An Amaranthine Desire” from Nameless Horrors.

Matt also gives a shout out to Cthulhu Loves Crafts, creators of the budgie lapel pin pictured below.

Blasphemous Tome Issue 13

We are hard at work on issue 13 of The Blasphemous Tome, the fanzine we put out twice-yearly for Patreon backers of The Good Friends of Jackson Elias. This new issue will contain a brand-new and gruesome Call of Cthulhu scenario from our own Matt Sanderson, as well as all the usual year-end features.

Anyone backing us at the $5 level or higher by the end of this year can expect a printed copy of the Tome, signed by our own fair extremities. Backers at the $3 level will receive a voucher for a discounted print-on-demand copy, and everyone will receive the PDF.

Don’t forget that backing us also gives you access to the entire back catalogue of the Tome in PDF format, which includes a wealth of Call of Cthulhu scenarios you won’t find anywhere else.

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