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Study 142 - The Tehama (Patreon)

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2025-09-11 19:58:36
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New 'cast favorite Bob Leman spins a ghoul-icious mythos tale: The Tehama!

Special thanks to reader Andrew Leman! Behold Purgatory Chasm, The H.P. Lovecraft Experience, Audio Props and so much more at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society!

Next up: FEEDBACK, followed by a look at Brian Lumley's story The Second Wish.

Comments

Newk

I am super glad to have Andrew Leman reading again! The dialogue ran between the two gouls at the beginning reminded me of Chad's Frankenstein stand up bit. This was a really great story by an author that I forget about often. I'm glad you covered it

Karl Haikara

Happy for Septemcraft, this story was fun pretty funny and ironic. I love the teasing of certain trendy type things and the way the Native American main character basically manipulates these people was pretty awesome

Ben A

Ah! Once again, double Leman action! So glad to have this duo back in my ears. Even as much as this feels like a Call of Cthulhu scenario, I love how Leman takes a Lovecraftian situation but turns it on its head with a Native American protagonist. I feel like this story is a distant cousin of Salmonson and Pugmire’s “O, Christmas Tree.” Transgressing the ancient order has consequences. This reminds me a little of the Ballad of Black Tom, though that tale is a deeper subversion of the most bigoted work of Lovecraft (The Street and The Horror at Red Hook ahem!) by showing the horrors of being black in a world of white fear. But Leman gets carried away with the Lovecraftian caper unfortunately. He loses the irony of a bunch of typical Lovecraft protagonists getting their comeuppance trying to use Native American rituals but getting killed by undoing what those very rituals had done to protect the land from eldritch horrors. It’s still an entertaining yarn. I’ve had some lengthy discussions with Native American colleagues about the land acknowledgement statements, and they have had some choice things to say about them. I don’t want to misrepresent their views, so any errors here are mine. While they are better than ignoring the realities of the Native American experience in North America, land acknowledgement statements _are_ pretty much performative and in many ways are designed to make the audience feel better about themselves (even if that is not the intention). They don’t recognize the agency of Native Americans, don’t work toward restorative justice, and, as Chad said, pretty much don’t change much about perceptions or rights. They don’t give Chad’s stolen bike back. One Native American colleague actually told me they thought the statements should be replaced by having individuals ask what local native groups prefer and need first. Otherwise well-intentioned actions just continue to propagate harm and totally miss the fact that acknowledging history but then blithely performing the show right afterwards kinda undermines the whole effort.

ESTY

Land acknowledgments, in my opinion, aren’t intended to absolve anyone. They are acknowledgments: a depressing majority don’t know the names of the nations they are living on. The land was not summoned out of the sea by Columbus. So, it’s a step. The quality of execution at your local level may vary.

ESTY

Three words: “LEMAN BY LEMAN” Full recordings of Bob by Andrew. What is taking you so long? Why is this not a thing yet? Why must you keep teasing us? You have all the pieces in place, just… keep recording. please?

Ben A

I agree completely, Blackmail! It’s a sad state of affairs. For those interested, a great resource for understanding native land identity is https://Native-Land.ca. And then I think take additional steps and learn more about what happened to those peoples after Europeans arrived.

Jon Maness

This really reminds me of the Clutch song/video for Ghoul Wrangler.

The Spider Incident

Regarding land acknowledgements: I think of them as a good step in the right direction. And when they started becoming more common (at least in the US) 5--10 years ago, they seemed meaningful on their own. But at this point, I generally do see them as merely performative when not paired with some sort of concrete action. I hear a land acknowledgement at the start of a city council meeting and think to myself "Great, you have acknowledged that there has been some injustice here! Now, what policies are you setting to address any of this?" For the a smaller institution like theater you referred to, it doesn't even need to be some huge thing--just give the land acknowledgement and follow up with "...and we'll be collecting money to donate to [the local tribe, or the local tribe's charity, or nonprofit working on behalf of the local tribe, etc.]"

Jamie Brittain

If you're having ghoul problems i feel bad for you son/i got 99 problems but the eldritch aint one

Jim Cannon

"Smithers, have Gordon and the hippies killed." "But... sir!" "Do as I say!"

KateSherrod

I'm always glad I support the show but never so glad as when a new episode makes me hanker to listen to a really, really old one. Part of what we're supporting with our Patreon money is the continued availability of episodes from long, long ago. The opening to The Tehama made me nostalgic for the OG episode of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, which has my favorite ghoul action of all time, plus bonus cat armies. This delighted me all over again!

Beanz

One more animal-in-peril for the ole collection, eh?

Richard Upton Sinclair Lewis Pickman

I have really enjoyed these Bob Leman stories. They’re pretty concise, at times brutal and terrifying, but still very FUN. One question , why do they all involve eating people?? 😂 Got a short story and some people need eatin’? Look no further than Bob (and Andrew) Leman.

Richard Upton Sinclair Lewis Pickman

I completely agree! I have often gone back to stories covered back in the original show when something strikes up a recollection. I even listened to Kaddath not long ago. The ghouls and the cats are absolutely the stand-out allies. But this story is enjoyable on its own and Leman really dials up the explicit brutality of the ghouls. Far Below is an eerie continuation of the ghoul’s lore, and makes another great episode! P.S. Pulp Sonnets is also very enjoyable 😃

Alan Ricks

If everyone here went and supported Internet Archive it would be awesome. They are indispensable.

Alan Ricks

For my 2 cents, Land Acknowledgments without Land Reparations is like putting Black Lives Matter/LGBT banners on the planes carrying out our illegal airstrikes across the Global South.

Jim Cannon

Oh, the ghouls with the bees in their mouths and when they meep the bees fly out and sting you?

Jim Cannon

I have been getting into Algonkian monsters of late - beyond the Wendigo, Native Americans have some great monsters, like the Pamola, which has the head of a moose, the feet and wings of an eagle, and the body of a man; or the Ato-Sees, a sort of snake man with shamanic powers; the Pok-wee-jee, small creatures made of ash bark; or the Baykok, an undead creature that hunts warriors and eats their livers. I went looking to see if the titular Tehama came from folklore and no, of course not, Bob Leman made it up. Tehama is a town in California, and the word itself derives from the Wintun word for "low ground" or "shallow." Still, quite a malevolent menagerie Leman conjured up.

KateSherrod

Oh thank you!!!!! You just made my day.

Pete Williams

I came here to post exactly this word for word. Great old minds, I guess.

Ethan Cordray

It's nice to have a Bob Leman story that's a little less of a downer than Time of the Worm -- unless you look at it from the ghouls' perspective! Think about it: they get awakened from hundreds of years of burial, and what do they get to do? Eat one dog, get frozen again, then pied-pipered around, then devoured by some kind of shadow demons. What a sad story for them! They didn't even get to eat any hippies.

Thunk

Need help? Would you care for refreshing Leman aid?

Dave Machin

With Purgatory Cavern coming out and all the great work by DART - I think an extra credit episode on old-time Radio Dramas through to the modern Audio Drama scene would be cool. My son just finished producing one (The Black Veil Audio) - so we're really into them at the moment :-)

Tara Murphy

Thank you so much! I was searching unsuccessfully and finally thought, "my best bet is to check the patreon chat."