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Episode 424 - Strange Eons - Part 3 (Patreon)

Published:
2018-10-19 19:52:30
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2025-05-18 02:28:40
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2026-06
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It's horror-comedy time with more Strange Eons by Robert Bloch!

Music in this show is from The Night Ocean by Repairer of Reputations - grab it now!

Special thanks again to master reader Andrew Leman!

We'll be back next week with a final episode on Strange Eons! (plus BONUS CONTENT on Halloween, a new Comments Show and a FULL READING of Whisperer in Darkness!)

Comments

H P Lovecraft's Cat

Chad’s reference to the Getty Villa was interesting however the description of the building once Kay had entered wasn’t gone over .”But once inside the room beyond the double doorway familiarity faded.The huge chamber was only faintly illuminated by lamps recessed in panels bordering the high ceiling and the ceiling itself bore no resemblance to the exterior outline of the buildings circular dome.Instead it rose from the walls in four triangular stone panes which slated sharply to meet a common apex above.They were standing in what seemed to be the interior of a hallowed -our miniature pyramid “ This is another shout out to The Shatto Crypt Pyramid,I also think Bloch was using Catalina Island in this story as a resemblance to R’lyeh ,see my comments in Part 2 for members of The Black Brotherhood who are playing along.

Mandy Reznor (She/It)

Lovecraft being the most "aptly named of all writers" likely refers to the fact that he loved his craft, and would take much time and great care in assembling the plots and prose of his tales.

Allison Albright

Well I don't know how everyone else does things, but I knew my husband was the guy I'd marry when I realized that he'd been recording me while I slept.

Ethan Cordray

I was about the write that there was a tunnel in "The Shunned House," but then I realized that I was thinking of "The Lurking Fear." Never mind!

Macabre Mittens

Are we sure that Strange Eons wasn't Bloch's cheeky response to a literary critic comparing him to Lovecraft? "You want derivative?! I'll SHOW you derivative!!!"

Bob Sharp

I might be wrong, but I think the whole science and magic speech was just Bloch's much less elegant phrasing of Arthur C. Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced technology..." quote. As in, there's science and there's magic, but there's a good chance that somebody else's science might be our magic. Just a thought...

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

I like where your head's at, CF. Lemmie see, lemmie see. Right! So we've got our lyin' Vincent Price - that's gold, CF, gold! - but I want to pitch you on Boris Karloff in full make-up, natch, as the Creature. Heard him on an Old Time Radio cassette (childhood roadtrip) as the brother in Arsenic and Old Lace and Beebee, well, he knew how to take a joke. Took the piss right out of himself, he did. Not to mention his turn as the Grinch. Need I say more? I need. 'Cause why stop there? You know where this is headed and there's no use fightin' - we're headed to Bela country! Bela Lugosi is the perfect foil for VP. He'll play the wide-eyed innocent straight man. With a taste for blood! I'm telling you this thing writes itself. Now I know what you're saying. I can hear you already. Sausage fest. Awesome sausage fest, to be sure, but we need to femme this project out in a major way. Stick with me, lad. Mary. Shelley. That's right. We go meta. The writer of Frankenstein is part of the gang. I mean of Bloch can get away with this stuff... Ball's in your court. Don't keep me waiting. Gold, I tell you!

CoolToad

An exemplary Blochtober whisper! Thank you!

skedazzle

I can't help but feel like Gene Wolfe's An Evil Guest is a rewrite of this book or other Lovecraft pastiche and much better tbh though Wolfe should be a better fit in the mythos than he is probably due to most of his injokes going woosh as they spun past everyone's head

MonsterTalk

The complaint about the trope of falling in love in two days... I used to think that was just a fictional thing but a couple of years ago I was in Chicago walking around an office skyscraper and it was a nice day and everyone was out walking around having lunch. I had a couple of blocks to walk because I was coming back from Naansense (an awesome Indian/American fusion place). Anyway that's not important but I find myself suddenly wanting curry fries. :S So as I'm walking I find myself followed by these two ladies behind me and they're talking about love. The one lady says to the other, "I don't know. I know we just met but we made this amazing connection and I feel like he's really the one. You know?" And her friend is doing the "Umhum" and "Yeah" and "I see" kind of litany of the co-worker who isn't paying close attention to the chatty work friend. But as we walk the other lady asks "What's his name?" "Oh, that's the problem! I don't know his name and when he left the next morning he didn't leave his number. But now I'm just hoping he calls me back - I gave him mine." And I can't see them because they're behind me but my face has screwed up into a "you can't possibly be this naive" grimace. And it's too much and I turn around and sure enough her friend has the same look on her face but the girl lamenting the lack of contact details for her one true love just looks dreamy and optimistic. So... the point is, there are people out there who will "fall in love" really quickly. I don't know if they're overly romantic, unders-skeptical, ignorant of what long term relationships are like - or what. But suddenly I realized that some of those Rom-Com scenarios aren't as dumb as they seemed. And also, that casual sex didn't die with disco. But those Naansense fries. Damn.

Steve

It's Reverend Nye, the Cthulhu guy.

Drix

Another classic catacomby Lovecraft tale that sprang to my mind was the Festival, when the narrator follows the members of the church in Kingsport undergound.

Andrew Trnacek

This story seems like a lesser Poroth Farm for mythos

Aaron La Vene

I started a year ago listening to this podcast. Now I’m here.. caught up.... wtf is life.... I HAVE TO WAIT A WEEK FOR THE NEXT EPISODE?! The struggle is going to be so real

Samuel Crider

When this story started I immediately thought of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’ comic “Providence.” I couldn’t read more than a couple issues since it seemed a similar “check list” of Lovecraft tropes and references...

David Halstead

I'm noticing some interesting thoughts on the "right way" and "wrong way" to incorporate Lovecraftian elements in a modern story. It seems also that each reader has their own threshold of tolerance in this regard.

Andrew Trnacek

I have tried listening to strange eons every week. Now I admit I like to listen to the podcast when going to bed so often fall asleep but I feel like each week has been a completely different story. What is RB doing!

Andrew Trnacek

Block is a brilliant author you just need to read Notebook found in a deserted a house (one of the best Lovecraft stories not written by HPL) or Psycho which has a passage in it stratigraphy from Picture in the House, but this story reads like fan fiction. As I said I feel like I go to sleep listening to one story but wake to a different one It appears to be a clumsy attempt to do for HPL what Poroth Farm does for all of the horror genre BTW can you guys please cover Psycho

Cacodaemoniacal

The more you talk about this, the more it feels like the sort of thing writers used to do at conventions--they'd have obscure competitions amongst themselves. "Write a story/book, and use every title Lovecraft ever wrote!" she said, "What could possibly go wrong with that?" she said.

Erick W Mertz

Regarding "The Night Ocean" by Repairer of Reputations, I bought the record and like how it feels in my work/creative space. Thank you for the introduction. I'm curious about your thoughts on the proliferation of Lovecraft imagery in music, particularly the many types of metal. I write a lot of music review and I am exposed to a wide variety of what the genre has to offer. Similar to fiction, there seems to be a sub genre forming in metal that uses Lovecraft stories and creations. I happen to think that, save for a few cases, it's a cheap grab at name recognition, but there are definitely artists who work well with Lovecraftian motifs in their heavy music. www.erickmertzauthor.com

Letheasce

If H.P. Lovecraft had been a pop star instead of an author, Strange Eons could have been a Broadway musical. Please, oh please, tell me how to get to this alternate universe.

Promiscuous

Please excuse the inconsequential nitpicking, but is there an error in the title above? Maybe a tiny typo? Thank you for your continued efforts to bring the work of Frankenstein's Monster Comedian to a wider audience.

Brian Pitt

"Don't think and don't ask questions." That guy really is a Delta Green agent