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Study 123 - The Pilgrimage of Clifford M. - Part 1 (Patreon)

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2025-03-06 19:13:45
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We're kicking off March is for Draculas with a FANGER of a vampire story by Bob Leman: The Pilgrimage of Clifford M.!

Special thanks to our reader Andrew Leman!

March 7th: BUY STRANGE ONE AT BANDCAMP!

Monchhichi

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Newk

I have a confession.... I hated monchichis when I was kid and I used to throw my sisters away. I'm not sure what compelled me to do so but it's something I carried with me all these years and now the secret is out. I also just thought I'd let you know I love how much you guys reference Castlevania

Jason Thompson

HELL YEAH!!! Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath represent!!!!

Richard Horsman

A few years back I splashed out on Centipede Press’s beautiful Leman collection Feesters in the Lake. It’s sat on the shelf waiting for the right moment, and now it has finally come!

Sanjay Mathew

Marsupials do have two pronged genitalia IIRC so Chad is likely correct

Jason Thompson

The vampires in this story (based on your description) remind me a little of the vampires in Peter Watts’ “Blindsight”

Gary Welsh

My favorite music from Chad is in The Haunter of the Dark reading! Brilliant!

Mooncubus

Monchhichi, Monchhichi, oh so soft and cuddly! With her thumb in her mouth, she's really neat! Love to wiggle his little feet! My mom used to sing that song to me all the time when I was little. You unlocked a core memory lol As a vegetarian, I can confirm it's just a cover for vampirism. Watch your back Chad.

Alan Ricks

Why do you think he killed his caretakers as a juvenile. The first he was essentially a feral toddler that was being in a cage but the elderly lady after taking care of him for so long seems bizarre especially after he takes pains not to drain too much blood from people later in his life.

Aaron La Vene

I’m not big on Christmas trees. But my wife is. So I said we can place a tree if I can pick the topper. My topper of course was the Cthulhu topper I got from the HPLHS store. It is now an annual showing at our home. High recommend

ESTY

In the world of the story, Stoker’s book, Dracula was already popular and widely read. So to invade high society, I suspect all Cliff had to do was prey upon rich, older women’s notions of monsters who bestow eternal youth with a blood-kiss. Neck Romancy, innit

Eldritch Golem (JPM)

Rockhill also starts off his introduction to Leman's Feesters in the Lake and Other Stories by citing critic Edmund Wilson's 1945 essay "Tales of the Marvelous and Ridiculous" in which he attacks the work of Lovecraft, Tolkien, and Arthur Conan Doyle. In contrast Wilson cites the work of Prosper Mérimée, and it is Mérimée who Rockhill is also juxtaposing Lovecraft against in the first paragraph which Chad read. Which is all to say that if you guys ever want to do Weird Bear Month Part Deux, I think Mérimée's 1869 novella Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach would be an excellent choice. An English translation is available for free online via BYU: https://merimee.byu.edu/works-2/lokis/

Gideon Falcon

If there IS another reader who can rival Andrew Leman as a narrator of Lovecraftian fiction, it would have to be Jonathan Simms, of The Magnus Archives fame. His voice pulls me into a narrative just as much, and either of them just instantly set the mood for spooky, weird things to be afoot.

Bugberry

There's an anime/manga called Interviews with Monster Girls that involves an alternate interpretation of Vampires as well as other types of folklore monsters that, like this, demystifies them in an interesting way. In this it turns out monsters are just humans with special needs or other physical differences. The vampire in the show is an otherwise normal highschool girl named Hikari (Japanese for Light) who is super pale, sensitive to sunlight, and has small fangs. She can eat garlic just fine, but needs to drink blood, but in this setting apparently the government sends out blood bags to sustain them.

The Lonely Sand Person

Ah yes, the secret vampire must carefully plan his trips to make sure he has accommodations along the way, unlike all those humans who just sleep under a bridge or something.

Cole Caron

Interestingly, Netflix’s Castlevania is one of the few adaptations to give Dracula facial hair.

It's a Ghost.

I usually read the story before listening to the episode, but I couldn't wait this time. I had to find out what you had to say about monchhichis! I had one as a kid, and I think I liked it, but I also remember not quite knowing what it was supposed to be.

Jim Cannon

Monchhichi. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. There was a Saturday morning cartoon, I think from Ruby-Spears, that I thought was funny at the time. In my defense, I was a child.

Jeremy Impson

I'm a supporter of Strange Studies (obviously) but I'm also a supporter of the Internet Archive! I love it when creators (and entities?) that I support work together !

Jeremy Impson

Ok I promise to stop live tweeting my reaction to this episode as I get my groceries, but only if Chad promises to post his OilyFans account here

Derek Scott

On cue, my 11 yo son heard Vampire Mamas had 10 boobs and was, “Yo, that’s crazy.” 😂

Anne Ominous

Coming out swinging with this great read! Oh! Clifford! You were more human than you realize! Loved those icky hillbilly vamps too - reminded me of my family reunion

Sludgecrawler

Another story for March: "Hills of The Dead" wherein Solomon Kane fights a bunch of African vampires

Christine M

This story was so much fun! Thank you for linking to the Internet Archive so we could read along! This is a side note, but I really laughed at one element of the story. As customary in case histories, the scientist carefully protects Clifford's privacy by obscuring his last name. Then late in the story, he lays out the full names of two prominent Sturkeyville citizens and recounts details of their illicit sexual relationship as well as the psychiatric history of the man's wife. I wonder what further details he included in the more technical paper!

REO Jackwagon

Chad, the real journey was the vampires we made along the way.

Matthew Alderman

Ah, vampires are mammals. Much like ninjas. (Sorry, ancient internet joke.)

Scott McCrate

Unfortunately the collection at Internet Archives is no longer available. It was taken down, probably at the insistence of the publisher. I'm sad, I really wanted to look at it.