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You guys wrote things and then we read them and recorded it. Also, this is a true story.

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Mandy Reznor (She/It)

I'm actually not a rat-owner--in fact, I have a kitten named Bastet I rescued off the side of the road. Just the same, I've looked into it; furry, feathered, scaled, slimy, or chitinous, nature provides a great bounty of cuddles.

Mandy Reznor (She/It)

Oh, RE avoiding the "Lovecraft was right" trope: I think the only way to really include Lovecraft in cosmic horror fiction is if the source of cosmic horror is something original, and not one of Lovecraft's creations. Thus, the characters could infer a general idea of what's going on through Lovecraft without it becoming hokey--and without revealing any of the Thing's properties or limitations prematurely.

Steven Vincent

I love lying Vincent Price, please keep him for every show ❤️❤️❤️

Ada Terrill

JanANTuary is good, but come on...March of the Ants.

Alan Ricks

I can tie Vincent Price and the evils of the Dutch Language together. In Dragonwyck (1946) Vincent Price plays Nicholas Van Ry, a charming aristocratic Patroon lord who abuses his tenant farmers and generally poisons and murders people in his care. The patroons were the landed Dutch lords in New Amsterdam between the 17th-18th century. The Patroon system was feudalism here in America and is pretty fascinating.

Six Bay Bay

I too read many bad movie novelizations as a kid. Including such classics as Return to Oz, Flight of the Navigator, Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Elisheba

I need to know what you are covering next so I can either read it or have some Hawthornesque self-flagellatory shame about not.

Herms

Speaking of Alan Moore's Neonomicon and Providence, would you guys ever consider covering those on the show? They're a bit outside your usual parameters but I think it might be worthwhile. It was listening to the podcast that gave me enough knowledge of Lovecraft's life and influences to really appreciate Providence (Neonomicon is another kettle of fish).

Devin Morse

I believe my favorite "ants invasion" story is Kings of the Wild Frontier by the acclaimed English author Adam Ant.

John Burkhart

Personal request from a long time fan: Can you please make a short clip juxtaposing Chris' laugh with Burgess Meredith's iconic performance as the Penguin? It would really make my day.

robert

Klaus Kinski "classy" art house (421 Leiningen Versus The Ants)

CoolToad

You haven't lived until you've read the Jason X novelization.

Rickard Åström

The character I'm playing in CoC nowadays is an anthropologist (yeah, not that original) but in studying the folklore on different continents he noticed similarities between cultures that had never had any contact. This started a more in depth study and comparison eventually leading to mind blowing realizations. Boom, knowledge about the mythos, no Lovecraft present.

Nickthulhu

You know, prompted by reading "The Shambler from the Stars" for the first time, I sought out every Bloch story I could get my hands on. Besides Psycho, which really is a masterpiece — but written by a Bloch quite different from the one that sent me on my quest originally — I have to say "the Shambler from the Stars" is still his best work in my opinion. And, to believe it was one of his first stories, published at the age of 18! The tale is genuinely scary and rather than merely hinting at some culminating madness, like Lovecraft seems to do (I'm thinking of the ending of the Dunwich horror here), Bloch forces the reader to confront a monster that breaks a man's bones as it folds his body in half and then drinks his blood leaving him a shriveled carcass. Through Bloch we finally got the satisfaction of being present for a Mythos event, rather than the usual skirting we got from Lovecraft. Though "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" definitely deserves some mention, I wish Bloch could have kept up this original vigor and vividness: ending with a bang, not a whimper!

Jimmy Bruun

Who am I to argue with Vincent Price? Carry on then.

Shay Fargel

this is very old but i still think it should be labeled as containing lots of cruelty to rats. consider adding a warning to the post?