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Study 092 - The Dark Eidolon - Part 2 (Patreon)

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2024-05-25 22:30:10
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We're back and more powerful than ever! Let's conclude The Dark Eidolon by Clark Ashton Smith!

Special thanks to reader Andrew Leman of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society!

Check out those escaped horses!

In the Garden of Earthly Delights

Outro music for this episode and the last brought to you by Pitch Black Manor!

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REO Jackwagon

Attack of the Home Depot mummies!

Bret Kramer

Maybe it’s just me, but whenever I hear “Sweet Caroline”; I swap in “Dark Eidolon” (bah bah baaaah…)

Richard Horsman

There are few writers that are at their best when they’re at their most excessive, but Clark Ashton Smith is definitely one of them. The Zothique stories were the first ones I read by him, and they’re still my favorites. There’s something about the dying Earth setting that enables Smith to reallly let himself go. It makes sense: the world is dying, let’s go out with a big ol’ nihilistic bang. P.S. - if I could offer a punch up: NecroFORTE

Jason Thompson

Thank you for reading THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD! Your episode was great too. I laughed, I cried, I shivered. I love how this tale goes from small scale personal-touch sadism to cataclysmic city destruction to back again. So nuts. So good. Stay cool y’all.

Jason Thompson

It is such a satisfying and unexpected payback moment from Zotulla’s perspective even though all he actually accomplishes is to brain his own mutated body and then kill himself

Mark Simmons

Outstanding! I assume the choice of "Hellions" for the outro music was a nod to the etymological back story that it's short for "Hell-stallions."

It's a Ghost.

With all the goofy names, I had a hard time getting into this story, but then I loved it and just basked in its over-the-top-ness.

It's a Ghost.

I was going to say that what I'm about to say has nothing to do with this episode, except you did mention that the hall was bigger on the inside… So I've been really enjoying the latest season of Doctor Who and think some listeners of SSoSS might like it too. For a change, some of the episodes this season are supernatural in nature, rather than being strictly science fiction. The Christmas special had goblins, and in the latest episode, the Doctor and Ruby disturb a fairy circle on the Welsh coast, and creepiness ensues. I know some viewers didn't like the unanswered questions at the end of the latest episode and wondered if they had "missed something," but I loved the mystery; and afterwards I felt like I’d just read a Robert Aickman story and was trying to figure out how everything fit together.

Steve

Emmets is what the Cornish call tourists. It's an old word for ant because the tourists are red and mill around.

Steve

Please, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.

Albert Hernandez

The story sounded a bit goofy. At one point you used the antiquarian word "rad" to describe it. That clarified things completely. They're story is targeted at 80s prepubescent kids. Now I'm really excited for it! Giant mummies are awesome!

KateSherrod

RUSSIAN NESTING DOLL OF REVENGE needs to be a tee shirt. Or Matryoshka of Revenge if we want to get pedantic. матрешка мести if we want to get REALLY pedantic.

Anne Ominous

Revenge with a splash of self-own. Isn't that always the case though? [sighs loudly] Wizards know how to party! Torture boar and ghoul wine not good enough, eh? How about the latest from my smooth she-ghouls as we slam dance your entourage in to next year's vintage?

Runninghead

That bit with the hoofbeats that get closer and closer sounded familiar somehow. I wonder if it could be a nod to another great tale, by Chinese military strategist Sun Bin (around 300BC). In that the poor-but-stealthy protagonist places a dagger ever closer to the great general of an invading army as a threat. On the first night a dagger is left at the border of the general's vast encampment, then at the door of his own tent, on the third night he wakes to find a dagger underneath his pillow. I don't remember the name of the story but this tale is often told as an example of asymmetric warfare, where guile or guerrilla tactics overcome military might. Of course those hoofbeats aren't used in quite the same way by CAS, as we're never in much doubt as to who's in for an ass-whooping in his story.

Ed Sizemore

Sounds like this story needs to be a theme album for Pitch Black Manor. The lyrics are already half written.

JesterPunch

I now want a Muppet version of this story. Rat creatures and dark furry things inside dead things and singing? It's all right there.

WARP Rainer

Great episode and I would like to recommend another CAS story, “The Seed From the Sepulcher”. It was featured in the October 1933 issue of Weird Tales (the classic bat girl cover). This body horror story has terrific pacing and avoids veering into the usual pulp story tropes. The ending will stick with the reader for quite some time!

Jim Cannon

"Devil-builded" is really an underused phrase in this current, less poetic age. I got to admit, I struggled with this one. Smith brings the outlandish imagery and baroque language and that's awesome as all get out, but when the point is just "the Abyss gazes back," I feel like that was a lot of effort for a very conventional conclusion.

Professor Murder

Really enjoying these stories. I hope we hear more Zothique tales, perhaps their own month? I may be showing my age, but the "far future but there is magic" feel just reminds me of Thundarr the Barbarian something fierce.

Mooncubus

What if My Little Pony is actually Planet of the Horses?

Ziggy Bartdust

The imagery in this kicked ass, and honestly, the fact that everyone is terrible means that everyone losing is kind of a win Also, the creatures kicked ass, I love a good mummy monster, so giant Mummies kicked Ass

Aaron La Vene

Man. Can we get a crazy claymation of this movie like mad god stuff . Because that’s the only way I could see it being done justice without being completely corny . This and the fuzzy teddy story are two of my new favorites and back to back months. Just incredible story selection

Eric Lofgren

This story is nuts. Even for CAS. Loved the imagery he paints. This needs to be adapted by Panos Cosmatos (of Mandy and, Beyond the Black Rainbow fame) immediately!

Kendle

It’s almost too much, too many monsters. I don’t think a dragon man and a giant skeleton would peacefully hang out at a party. And what do you tip a waiter who is giant mummy? I like the story, but it felt like a cartoon to me at times.

Will

The revenge reminded me of The Cask of Amontillado, but the exchange with the evil god reminded me of another CAS short story, The Last Incantation, another story about a necromancer. In it, the necromancer Malygris is told by an evil power who perhaps knows better than he does that his magic won't get him the satisfaction he seeks. In this case however, it is because what he seeks is to feel like he's 16 again. I appreciate how frank the evil beings are in CAS stories. They sometimes seem less like incomprehensible nightmares and more irresponsible family members wondering how much they should intervene in whatever you are about to do to hurt yourself.

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

I appreciate a very simple tale of how revenge is stupid all done up in bows and baroqueness and cross-hatching and magic eye and hats on hats on hats on cats.

Festerfest

I’m just glad Carnacki’s Horse of the Invisible grew up and found some friends.

grey tom

You just try and tell me that Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson and cover artist Derek Riggs didn't read this story! Tall mummies and giant skeletons? Straight out of 1980s stage dressing! LOVE IT!!!