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Episode 597 - The Necromancer (Patreon)

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2022-05-27 16:42:22
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Our journey through Fine Frights concludes with The Necromancer by Arthur Gray!

Special thanks to reader George Woodruff of Full Throttle Sound!

Next up: A bonus episode on the movie LIFEFORCE! And then a look at Brenda by Margaret St. Clair!

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REO Jackwagon

I listen to a strength & conditioning podcast (Barbell Medicine) hosted by 2 doctors. Going to thier seminars counts toward continuing education credits for medical professionals. What I'm saying is that it's worth looking into! Also, Cromwell was a bloodthirty sin-minded jihadist.

Cole Caron

I’ve definitely cited you guys at least once, but only once I confirmed the information elsewhere.

Steve

I don't know why but I was think of Jésus College, with Mexican professors playing Frisbee with sombreros.

Steve

I wonder what happened to those puritans, the 80,000 or so who fled when James 1st and then Charles 1st were King. I guess they ended up somewhere and made a glorious home for themselves where all is shiny and happy and Christmas has been banished forever.

Max Olesen

I've been lucky enough for the past few years to teach a weird fiction course at my college, and I have definitely used your pod as inspiration for some of the stories we studied, so a belated thanks for that!

Kevin Lama

The 80's version of the Twilight Zone had an episode that confirmed the dangers of math. If you think that balancing a check book is dangerous, watch what happens with Differential Calculus: https://youtu.be/BoQ6ZC8EUQ0

Tomas Rawlings

Really enjoyed. Minor Call of Cthulhu RPG connection to the setting; in Chaosium's Strange Eons II, some stand alone adventures for the game, one is set during the English Civil War (or as it tends to get called now, Wars of the Three Kingdoms) - here's the bumff; TO HELL OR CONNAUGHT—it’s Protestant vs. Catholic, English vs. Irish, and mankind vs. the Cthulhu Mythos with Saint Patrick thrown in for good measure. Who will win? The smart money is on the Mythos.

Tomas Rawlings

Also be great for you to cover that Shakespere guy - Macbeth is a play full of strange magic and murder and occult activity.

Adequately Excellent Entertainment

“Christ-tide” has big “Freedom Fries” energy. Fun story. I did a summer session at Trinity College in Cambridge. A few of us got a sneaky peek at the school’s collection of silver, including the pen used by new Fellows to sign their names to the register when they get that title. The guy who was showing us this said that Trinity Collage has the best, and oldest, collections of silver. (The fancy bowls, flatware, cups and candlesticks you bring out for the fancy banquets in addition to the pen.) He said this was because, when that F’er Cromwell showed up, he sent a couple of lawyers around to confiscate all the silver from all the schools of Cambridge to melt down for making coins or whatever. However, Trinity College was the law school sooooo, the guys sent by Cromwell fudged the numbers and Trinity College got to keep most of its silver.

Jack Saul

Tedious and brief is a Midsummer's Night Drsam reference. It's a malapropism the mechanicals use to describe their play.

Jack Saul

On Christide. There's an apocryphal story that an MP called Sir Thomas Masey Massey moved for the changing of Christmas to Christide at some point in the 19th century to which another MP replied that if that were to happen then Sir Thomas Massey Massey would also need to change his name to Sir Thotide Tidey Tidey.

Karlandos

Not quite what i had in mind when i heard the name Necromancer. That said i could see this as an hour long tv series that could take advantage of the growing paranoia/religious mania induced illusions.

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

Until proven otherwise, I will envision Dean Chad as beating students with the Matrix character Switch who, prior to each beating, sadly intones, "Not like this."

Drix

I can actually confirm that the podcast already has some collegiate merit. A few years back when I was a freshman in college, I was taking a creative writing class. One of our assignments was to find a short story, deconstruct it, and try to figure out how the effect of the story was pulled off. Naturally, I wanted to explore writing Weird fiction and selected Ambrose Bierce's "The Spook House." I believe I cited the podcast as a source, or at least it got my juices flowing for it. I think I managed an A as well. So it's time to start switching methinks

Morgan Tudball

Why did English society ever stop associating mathematicians with necromancers? I can't think of a better way to recruit more nerds into the maths scene than promising them dark and forbidden powers to unleash a can of necromantic whoop-ass on their bullies.

Joshua Alan Doetsch

This show is definitely worth some college credits. I've been listening since the original run of Lovecraft story episodes, and the hundreds of hours of absorbed audio has given insight into weird fiction of a depth and breadth equal to any subject I studied in grad school. That knowledge has even gone to practical use, as I make my living writing for video games, table top roleplaying games, and fiction. Thank you, Professor Fifer and Professor Lackey. It would be an honor to be banned from the forbidden section of the school library by you.

Ethan Cordray

I think Campbell tends to be really into the subjective, psychological experience of horror, which has its own reality to it regardless of whether or not anything "actually supernatural" happens in the story. So I suspect he liked this one for the exploration of this poor superstitious dude's psychological reactions. The story did make me wonder about the plot, though: if the dude really thought his neighbor was doing witchcraft and stuff, why not just report him to the Puritan Cops and let them handle it? It's not as though they wouldn't have taken a charge like that seriously. They woulda been all over it! Anyway, I enjoyed the episode. And that outro music is a banger!

James Holloway

Is it Cambridge supernatural stuff time? Oh boy! You mentioned the severed head of Oliver Cromwell being displayed to warn people who conspired against the king ("this is what happens to my enemies: they die of old age in their beds, surrounded by their toadies and flatterers"). But the story doesn't end there: the head passed from owner to owner for a while after that before fetching up at another Cambridge college -- Cromwell's alma mater, Sidney Sussex College. It is buried in an undisclosed location somewhere in the college, and legend has it that the college is haunted by the ghost of the skull.

Andrew Brown

One thought though for the team, the violence and craziness during the English Civil War and the Thirty Years War was a whole lot of craziness. There was no good guy/bad guy. Or a modern “Science” versus religion thing.

cthulhusdream

So I was wondering with the patron shout-outs, either they are chosen at random or y'all are like years and years behind lol. I've been a subscriber since (and before) the switch to patreon and I had honestly thought I had just missed my name all those years ago 🤣