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Classic Cast: Notebook Found in a Deserted House (Patreon)

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2025-09-23 22:13:18
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Kick off creepy season with a classic from Robert Bloch: Notebook Found in a Deserted House!

This episode is brought to you by Pitch Black Manor. Pick up their new album on OCTOBER 3rd from Bandcamp!

Thanks to reader Heather Klinke. Music on the episode is from Sense Impacts by Chad Fifer, available at Chaosium.

Here's a link to the original episode from 10/2/2015!

Comments

Newk

Excited for a new pitch black manor album! There might be people out there sleeping on these classic casts that right there is a good reason to listen to them

Gary Smith

This is one of the greatest Lovecraftian tales not written by Lovecraft.

REO Jackwagon

I read this in high school in a collection. Always one of my favorites. The false cousin, the rituals, the alternate shoggoth type. So many great and creepy touches and super-readable.

Victor Badger

I gushed about this on Facebook, but I'm going share here as well. This is one of my favorite episodes of the show, and most of it is down Heather's incredible performance. I'd love to hear a full reading of this story by her some day.

REO Jackwagon

Seconded. Might be hard depending on the state of the author's uhhhh estate but that's a ransom I'd contribute to for sure.

Richard Horsman

God, this story makes me so sad. Bloch really knew how to twist the knife.

Sam Monk

Just wanna second the gushing for how fantastic an episode/story this was, and how impactful Heather Klinke's reading was too (also, not weird). Seriously though, the way this was mixed, alongside the reading - goosebumps, still to this day. I think you guys could seriously do exceptional service to a full recording of this one, I really do.

Richard Horsman

Horrorbabble did a version, and I don’t think that’s a gigantic operation, so the Bloch estate might have okay terms?

HRPrice

It is entirely due to this episode that I recognized a Dark Young when it popped up in a video game a few years ago. I was so delighted! The problem is that I can’t actually say what game that was, as that could technically be considered a spoiler. Just know that there’s a lovingly rendered murder-tree out there in the world, waiting to ambush you. And it’s hungry!

MonsterTalk

+1 to this - I wanted this to be a full recording so badly and Heather absolutely knocked her sections out of the park. A full reading - especially with some of that sweet mood music and light sound fx would be a delight and a bonus I'd pay for. Remember when you guys used to take readings off to a secluded cabin and occasionally send proof-of-life photos until we paid the ransom to have them dumped out with a bag over their head near a highway? I'd help ransom this one for sure.

Alan Ricks

The fact that a short story that was written 70 years ago by an author that has been dead for 31 years can still be copyrighted in the US will never stop blowing my mind.

Aragonewrong

I translated this whoooole thing by hand to danish, so that I could have an awesome prop for a game of Call of Cthulhu. NEVER used it - GREAT STUFF

Ethan Cordray

Came here to say the same thing. I read this in Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, the first post-HPL anthology I ever encountered. It remains, for me, the best Lovecraftian story written by another author.

Alan Ricks

Y’all ever wonder why his aunt and uncle continued to live in the woods alone the whole time when they knew what could happen?

Jim Cannon

Speaking of Bloch, I just finished reading two stories from the June 1937 issue of Weird Tales that I think you all might be interested in. The first is a team-up from Bloch and Kuttner named "The Black Kiss": a very Lovecraftian set up, with an artist inheriting a house by the sea with rumors of sea monsters attached to it, but it evolves in ways that Lovecraft never would have conceived. "The Carnal God" is by John Speer and Carlisle Schnitzer, and its more of a B-movie approach to a cult of beauty preying on London society women, but there's a weird science hero who saves the day.

Avlin Starfall

The beginning where Chad mentions Heather being hired to do voice work for young male characters in shows always makes me laugh and maybe a year ago I relistened to this story and my girlfriend was imitating a character from an anime who was a little boy and she does very good voice work and imitated the character ls voice perfectly. So, since I had just listened to this episode I told her about what Chad said and now it's become a thing whenever she does a voice like that I repeat what Chad says "and I have never felt weird about that. It's never made me feel weird. And it doesn't make me feel weird."

Doc Singles

I bought the book (With a Voice that is Often Still Confused But is Becoming Ever Louder and Clearer) for my Kindle. Only $4 and they (amzn) put Lackey's hype blurb on the sales page!

Victor Badger

I generally attribute any horror protagonists not immediately bailing on a weird/bad vibe place as being the results of crushing poverty unless stated otherwise. If they could afford to live in a neighborhood without Shoggoths, they probably would.

Alan Ricks

You ain’t wrong, speaking as a 40 year-old lifelong renter who works for an engineering firm, if I could afford to own by own home I would put up with the Shoggoths too.

Victor Badger

I think it was almost 30 years ago when I read Stephen King's description of The Amityville Horror as "the incredible shrinking paycheck" and man has that stuck with me. I'm in an extremely small town in rural PA doing relatively lucrative work (CNC Milling) and I am thankful for the relatively low cost of living. It's not too Shoggothy, but it could become that way too rapidly for my tastes if my company has too many bad years, if you get my drift.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

One thing I really like about Matt Ruff's "Lovecraft Country," a novel (later adapted for HBO) about a group of Black protagonists in 1950s Chicago facing the twin perils of supernatural horror and racism, is that a character who moves into a haunted house has an understandable motivation for staying—she's not about to let either an angry ghost or angrier white neighbors scare her away.

Pauley Vee

This is 100% one of my favorite stories of all time and also one of my most beloved episodes from you guys. It made me somewhat emotional to realize that it's 10 years old. I recall you also released it as a classic cast when you guys changed over to strange studies of strange stories. So this will be the third time I've listened to it, at the very least, not counting re-listens to the original. Thanks for all the years of content and bringing all of us weirdos together.

Paul Middleton

One of the first Mythos stories I ever read (after reading the monster description quotes in the CoC rulebook), just the shear gut punch of an ending to a 14 year kid like me, who hadn't read much horror, has stayed with me ever since.

Runninghead

Just hopping on to see if anyone's talking about "Dredge"- a fishing-boat simulator with a more than unhealthy dose of Lovecraftian horror. I've not played it, I'm not associated with it, it just looks like it's a good one.

Doug McCool

This was always one of my favorite stories.

Doug McCool

I played a demo version of it and never got to any of the more Lovecraftian elements, aside from the creepy fishing village "Innsmouth" motif. I think if you like job simulation type games, then this would be a nice Lovecraft-dipped version of one.

Doug McCool

I have thought about checking that show out. I guess I was worried that it might focus more on the racism horror than the cosmic horror, and that didn't sound as appealing.

Casey

Great story and read beautifully. ⭐️