Midnight Pals Podcast: The Tale of the Shadow over Innsmouth (Patreon)

Episode Summary

It's HP Lovecraft’s turn, so he tells a story about a town with a dark secret that is almost certainly “There’s a squid”.

Episode Notes

It's HP Lovecraft’s turn and nobody can stop it, so he tells a story about a town whose sinister residents guard a dark secret that is almost certainly “There’s a squid”. Howard and Mary go head-to-head in a high-stakes bet. 

HP Lovecraft — ROBIN JOHNSON 

Clive Barker — DAVID AULT 

Edgar Allan Poe — RODRIGO BORGES 

Mary Shelley — REBECCA D'SOUZA 

Dean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERY 

Stephen King — JASON ROBINSON 

with 

Helen Olmstead — TERRI LYNNE HUDSON 

Mr Lillibridge — BRAD BARNES 

Preacher Marsh — DAISY McNAMARA 

Hick — KATE DAVOLI 

Bus Driver — JOEL A.S. BUTLER 

Gilman — DEXTER HOWARD 

Mr Pabody — TENEST TANG 

Script by Robin Johnson, edited by Bitter Karella. Production, editing, music and sound design by Robin Johnson. The dialogue editor was Liselle Nic Giollabháin. 

A transcript of this episode is available at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/the-tale-of-the-shadow-over-innsmouth/transcript 

HP Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, first rejected by Weird Tales in 1933, is one of his longer, better written, and more clearly xenophobic works. The novella, about a coastal town that has been reduced to decrepitude by an influx of immigra– uh, fish monsters, was printed in a run of 400 clothbound copies in 1936, half of which were pulped. This was the only book of Lovecraft's fiction to be published in his lifetime. Lovecraft was unhappy with the print run, which contained innumerable typographical errors, and insisted on the book being distributed with an errata sheet, which was also inaccurate. In 1942, five years after Lovecraft's death, Weird Tales printed an abridged version of the story. 

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