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Airdate: 12/15/2011

We’re back to finish Out of the Aeons with guest Ken Hite and reader Marc Majcher!

Once again, check out You Shall Never Know Security, a wonderful collection of short horror fiction from author J.R. Hamantaschen!

Ken Hite also has a variety of mythos-related books that would look great underneath your Solstice tree!

Happy Holidays all! We’ll be yacking at you in 2012 (when Mu rises once again and the world is destroyed)!

Comments

Ryan Thomas

Before I watch the 2022 film GLORIOUS, which an IMDb entry tells me Out of the Aeons inspired, it made sense to me to read the short story and listen to you guys today, January 4, 2026. After the tale's slow start laid the ground work, I was engaged as soon as the effects of seeing any semblance of Gnatanothoa were described. The horror of having my consciousness trapped forever in an unmovable leathery stone shell, with the terrifying image of an unfathomable monster god being my last sight, gripped me for the rest of the story.

Brian Pitt

When you point it out, I can see the resemblance to Call of Cthulhu (the undersea monster in the Pacific, the secret cult, etc), but when I first read this story I really liked it. The idea that T’yog’s horrible fate was the result of a political struggle, the most human conflict, really stood out to me in a body of work that’s mostly insane cultists wanting to bring back their slumbering gods. And if Ghatanothoa’s priests hadn’t swapped the scrolls his plan would have worked! Take that, Mythos! Even at the time I didn’t buy the “gods friendly to man” bit, though. Come on, Lovecraft, I’ve read “The Curse of Yig.”