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Study 119 - A Wig for Miss DeVore (Patreon)

Published:
2025-01-23 22:04:26
Edited:
2025-02-06 17:40:07
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2025-01
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We try on A Wig for Miss Devore by August Derleth and find out it fits the cursed object genre perfectly! Watch out! You may already be wearing it!

Special thanks to our reader, Heather Klinke!

If you liked this haunted wig tale, check out our episode on Jerry Jarvis's Wig featuring Jamie Brittain!

Other stories mentioned in this episode:

The Hair by A.J. Alan

The Diary of Mr. Poynter by MR James

Next up:

An extra credit episode in which we play through a meditative solo TTRPG, and then we're kicking off February with the kick-ass story WINDOW by Bob Leman (and featuring reader Andrew Leman). STAY TUNED!

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It's a Ghost.

A Wig for Miss DeVore? More like A Wig for Miss Devour!

Richard Upton Sinclair Lewis Pickman

I am definitely not pouting about the lack of Wig Song. Not even a clip. BUT I do enjoy this story, regardless! It certainly delivers on what it sets up, doesn’t languish in overly-insightful explanations, and has just the right amount of creepy experiences.

It's a Ghost.

I must say, I really enjoyed this really fun and silly story. Also, if I ever see the Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Revenant, and it’s not about this story, I will be very disappointed.

Forrest Rush

Chad you seriously want to dissuade me from the transformative, nay transmogrifying power of ak-TING (said in Jon Lovitzian of course). I think I’ll need to hear from Lying Vincent Price before I’m fully convinced. If nothing else, I have to give you guys credit for truly rehabilitating Derleth, at least as far as anything he does that has absolutely nothing to do with HPL. The recent stories you’ve covered of his have been very entertaining and I look forward to the next dip into that well. Of course, I will continue to use him though as my go to analogy to shut down online rage-fests be they literary, historical or political. “Yeah, your x is just the Derleth to y’s Lovecraft.” Most of the time I just get a “Huh?” and then a block back. So satisfying.

Jason Thompson

So “The Hair” is like a hair version of Death Note?

Joshua

As a sidebar (sideburn, perhaps?) to Janu-Hairy curious souls could be pointed to the seventh episode of The Scooby-Doo Show, The Harum Scarum Sanitarium. The usual goofiness is framed by what feels like an almost subversive level of straight faced oddness & whiffs of morbidity as the gang investigates Dr Coffin & a scheme revolving around wigs. Convertible Hospital roofs, Fred mistaking Scooby for a woman, & a bizarre cut away during the revelation all make a subtly weird watch.

Elisheba

If you read Nancy Drew, you would have known about titian hair, which makes me question some things now. Is Nancy Drew wearing a cursed wig? Are all the crimes she 'solves' just her pinning her own crimes on gullible townsfolk? Is her getting knocked unconscious approximately once a book her losing time because of the curse?

Jeff Wrench

Very entertaining story! (Or at least your discussion was?) Do I need to read some more Derleth? Can anyone recommend a best collection of weird / horror August Derleth stories that's not mostly him missing the point on Lovecraft?

Ryan Thomas

Prompted by Miss Devore's wig, I listened again to the episode discussing Jerry Jarvis's Wig. My blanket is now on the ground, which is understandable. Fifer's description of a Brown George effectively threw me off of my LaZBoy.

Yei

The Aztecs appearing was a surprise, but at least it gives me an excuse to comment. I'm a Mesoamerican historian by training and the Aztecs are my specialty, so I can give you a bit more context on Aztec religion and culture, especially with regards to cannibalism. One thing often forgotten is that the Aztecs normally had really strong taboos against cannibalism, and the practice of ritual cannibalism was an exception that only existed under the very specific conditions brought about by the ritual itself. Rituals altered time and matter, transforming ixiptla (god impersonators) into divine beings, changing their fundamental nature and allowing an exception to the no cannibalism rule. Furthermore, even among the nobility, the practice of actually eating human flesh would have been limited to very few people, and only small amounts of flesh would be eaten. I would also like to point out how absurd the idea of an Aztec priest being connected with modern day murders is (aside from the obvious of course). Priests didn't go around killing people randomly. They were highly trained professionals who worked for the state. Only certain people could be ritually killed, and only under very specific and controlled conditions. Random murder does not really fit that. People seem to think that the Aztecs sacrificed randomly and haphazardly, as if on impulse, when nothing could be further from the truth. It wasn't a good thing, but there was a method and a rational behind it.

Anne Ominous

This takedown of high society really made me appreciate Derleth's writing more than I ever had. Who knew!

Hayden Orr

Hey! Got my patron shoutout! Kind of threw me off while I was listening lol great episode fellas. I would listen to an entire year of haunted wig stories.

Drix

Since the themes for for the next few months are up in the air, I'll drop some random suggestions: "The Same Dog" by Robert Aickman - just damn creepy. "The Clock Watcher" also by Aickman. - infidelity is a bitch. "The Mezzotint" -by M R James. - To my knowledge, the first true found footage story ever. But I could be wrong. "Rappacini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Its been a while since we've had some plant people on the show. "A.B.O" by Walter De La Mare - Guy is summoned by his friend late at night to dig up a garden for uh, "treasure". "The Ring of Thoth" by Arthur Conan Doyle - Imho-tapril will rise again.

Jeremy Impson

I simply loved the way Heather read this story. The exuberant accent she used makes me think "Mid Atlantic by way of Hollywood socialite".

Alan Ricks

So how did her wig transform into Ice King’s crown?

Gideon Falcon

An important note on the Aztecs is that they were around for a fair few centuries, and the blood sacrifice may not have been present for their entire history; unless it's for sure known otherwise, I'd expect that the culture went through many changes over the years. It's like how Egyptian culture lasted SO long, not only did they have archeologists researching the Old Kingdom the way we do them, their culture in the Late Kingdom was immensely different in different ways.

Gideon Falcon

It does make sense why we would tend to mythologize actors enjoyment of their roles; we want to think that they loved making our favorite movies as much as we loved watching them, though they are inevitably less likely to dissect their own work as thoroughly as we do. On the other hand, the opposite can also be true, especially in horror media, as people get hooked on the idea of "cursed" productions. Most notably, there was insane publicity around Heath Ledger's method acting as the Joker, and it's supposed role in his eventual suicide--except, it *wasn't* suicide. The evidence is that he was actually in perfectly stable mental health, and that the overdose was genuinely, tragically, a complete accident. But the press agents inflated it into this much more sensational, disturbing story of an actor taking his role *too far.* It made good headlines, and that is unfortunately more important than being respectful to the dead.