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Study 121 - Wet Season (Patreon)

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2025-02-13 16:58:18
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Author Dennis Etchison makes his debut on the show with Wet Season, a rainy, scary tale about sinister changes in the environment.

Special thanks to our reader, Anthony Tedesco! Check out his new project: The Starforged of Eden!

Here's that Blumhouse interview with Etchison about his Halloween 4 script.

And say something nice about Ruth Price!

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Kirk McDowell

What a treat! So happy to see Etchison get some attention, he’s one of my favorites and a natural fit for the podcast.

Karl Haikara

You guys should totally do more Karl Edward Wagner, his collection In A Lonely Place has been reprinted by Valancourt Books It's well worth buying, every story in it is amazing. I'd recommend The River of Nights Dreaming it is very much a strange story

Kyle Griffiths

Anthony Tedesco is such a good reader, but I got really excited when they were talking about the return of a beloved character. Dandelo please come back soon!

ESTY

Siamese rubber arm ballet is a sort of “that’s not bread” way of describing Khon; the beautiful, traditional form of Thai dancing.

Derek Scott

My crowning achievement! I finally did it! All jokes aside though, thanks to Chad and Chris for putting up with my persistence for so long. Etchison is a great, great writer and there are so many more stories I/We can recommend.

Jason Thompson

Bread Bowl story deserves its own episode

Derek Scott

Side note: I’m going to pretend “Siamese Rubber Arm Ballet” is the lead track off of Hate Beak’s progressive metal comeback album.

MonsterTalk

So I’m guessing it wasn’t spelled “The Ladies Gilled?” Between Tad and Ray and Lorelei… I feel like Etchison is better at puns and/or subtle wordplay than I noticed when I read his stuff in the 80s. Well played!

DR

Great story. Do you think the creatures are terraforming the town with the flooding and changes in wildlife.

DR

If you’re interested in more Wagner. He did a Conan type character who’s immortal called Kane. The story The Dark Muse is one of the best and has a poet trying to get inspiration and wisdom from crossings a portal of dreams through contacting a muse. Theres also a monster fight too.

King Dinosaur

For those comic book fans out there, Wet Season was adapted for Pacific Comics' great horror title, Twisted Tales, in issue #9 from 1984, written by Bruce Jones and drawn by Mike Hoffman. Check it out!

Derek Scott

I’d love to hear some favorites of Etchison from all of you as well. Maybe a running list here could prove useful for Chad and Chris. I have a number of favorites but two other short good ones are “Daughter of the Golden West” and “It Only Comes Out at Night”. Interestingly enough, all of his collections seem to have disappeared in ebook form, which is how I have all his collections. If you can secure copies of Dark Country, Red Dreams, The Blood Kiss or the Death Artist, they are worth it.

Ben A

So glad you two are covering Etchison! Since you brought him up (do not call up what you cannot put down!), I second the recommendation to cover more Wagner. So many of his tales are good fun and well written. I recommend Where the Summer Ends, which is basically a monster of the week story but as it was set mere blocks from my office (Wagner went to school and lived for a time in Knoxville) I find it eerily familiar. You’ll never look at green overgrowth the same again. Looking forward to more Etchison as well!

Aaron La Vene

Wow this was awesome highly excited to hear you cover more of this author. Genuinely an awesome story with a horrific plot twist

Jim Cannon

Please yes more Karl Edward Wagner. He's done Mythos stuff of course and at least one Bran Mak Morn novel, but I will second the recommendation for his Kane stories. Kane is a right bastard antihero in a Conanesque Hyborian world, but he may also be the Caine from the Bible (it's implied). The short story collection _Night Winds_ has a bunch of great Kane stories, worth checking out.

Jim Cannon

I have to say, the two boys giggling constantly in the midst of this funereal atmosphere, with their stepsister dead and all, was the eeriest thing in the whole story for me. Just struck an "off" chord.

Apollo Sitting Up

Not to sound dense. Loved the vibe of this story. Kind of reminded me of Zero Hour by RB. I wonder if it was an inspiration?

Newk

It's nice to have tedesco back Will John Hancock ever make a return?

Richard Upton Sinclair Lewis Pickman

This story feels like an 11-page illustration of why people are made uncomfortable by the word “moist.” The cold skin did immediately clue me in to the fact something, uh, fishy? was going on. The vocabulary definitely had me anticipating it. It also, for some reason, makes me think of the little Tsathoggua creatures from the Michael Shea story.

Steve

Isn't patternless tattoo the drumming of the rain, not what it looks like on the windscreen?

Steve

Didn't really do it for me. It seemed a bit too obvious.

Scott Butler

With the wife’s name Lorelei I assumed something was up with her from the start, but I jumped straight to dead sprit or similar drowning kids. Didn’t expect foreign fish people coming in and taking all the husbands.

The Evil Cub

I pegged the twist as soon as the wife's name was mentioned. Lorelai of course is the name of a legendary water spirit/mermaid/siren who dwelled in the Rhine and lured people to their deaths. I also wanted to mention my primary knowledge of Etchinson is from an anthology he edited called Metahorror which I bought in the airport on my way to Basic Training in 1992 and which still sits on my shelf.

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

Global warming has increased the amount of rain we're having here. Dams, bridges, roadways - heck, whole towns - are straining to deal with the sudden volume. I'll be on the lookout for eel-folk. But, honestly, the story could have just been about wetter wet seasons and would have gotten me agitated.

Joshua Weiss

I feel like Lorelei may not have been entirely malign as much as a fish out of water (so to speak). When she says "...she might have become, in time, my little girl as well. It was just all the mud around her," it made me think that rather than simply drowning the girl, she may have been trying to wash off the surface world and make her a water creature like herself.

Kyle the Ecuadorian

For those who enjoyed this story (Chris & Chad included), I'd recommend John Langan's novel "The Fisherman." It's one of my favorite books and has some wonderfully creepy fish people action; the atmosphere and horror are very similar to Etchison's. Side Note: this story further affirms my desire to never have children (human and eel kids alike). Nope, nope, NOPE.