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Episode 378 – All Hallows (Patreon)

Published:
2017-11-02 09:52:00
Edited:
2025-05-18 19:41:41
Imported:
2026-06
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Airdate: 11/2/2017

We kick off a week of Walter de la Mare with All Hallows – tune in!

Don’t forget to grab your Cthulhu Christmas Cards at Kickstarter!

Special thanks to Wesley Slover for music from his album Impressions of the Miskatonic!

EXTRA special thanks to our reader, Rachel Lackey – check out Rachel Watches Star Trek!

Comments

Moonflight Dancer

Again, we see De Mare's focus on childhood and the strangeness of change. To me the sleeping child at the end, the unprotected innocence, is an indication that All Hallows itself, unlike the child, is not innocent. It is in needing of protection, because it harbors the darkness inherent to organized religion. While the child sleeps unbidden, the church is the plaything of invisible demons. In restoring this medieval cathedral, they may be restoring the evils of medieval Christianity. While the Dean is reduced to a childlike, amnesiac state by his abduction, the verger is stalwart, willing to sacrifice his life to protect the church. He is more concerned with the building itself and its sanctity, than the protection and cultivation of his community. In this way we can see that holy men have been made the slaves of evil.

Jack Hughes

The premise of this story reminds me of the monastery in Brian Catling's 'Hollow' (that's twice I've mentioned Catling I know I just love his work so much). I thoroughly enjoyed this one, loved Rachel's narration too.