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Study 053 - Black Man with a Horn - Part 1 (Patreon)

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2023-08-10 20:22:47
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2023-10-06 09:04:29
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We're launching back into the Lovecraft universe via the T.E.D. Klein mythos novella Black Man with a Horn!

Special thanks to reader Erik Peabody of Viking Guitar Productions. You can hear Erik tear into a FULL READING of T.E.D. Klein's amazing story The Events at Poroth Farm on the Horror Hill podcast! Listen on YouTube here!

And here's that Voluminous episode covering HPL's Florida travel-planning.

Comments

Steve

Love it. I'm now feeling compelled to write about space bats haunting a man in Wiscon...

Dan Pratt

You're both so young and fresh!

Iain Hood

I am so thrilled you guys are doing more TED Klein, I read the ceremonies after you guys did EAPF and I really loved it.

Johnny Loco

Ambrose Bierce could still be alive too. We never found the body.

Ann Knight

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly certain the "k" in Belknap (Frank Belknap Long) is silent.

Matthew Alderman

(My brain usually sings “Bak Bon Dzshow” to the tune of “Girls on Film.”)

It's a Ghost.

Chad, when you said that you looked over Bram Stoker's shoulder and saw him "riding Dracula," I laughed and imagined Dracula giving Bram Stoker a piggyback ride. But then I realized that maybe that's not exactly what you'd said after all.

Innsmouth Gold

I don't like to boast - well sometimes I do - but when we covered this on IBC we got a lovely message from a friend who played the episode to TED Klein himself: "after listening to your show ted klein wrote this ---Wow! Thanks so much for alerting me to that podcast; it was delightful. The two genial Brits involved seemed to appreciate the very things I would most have wanted them to, and the story as they recounted it didn’t sound half bad. (Unfortunately they seemed unaware of its latest, slightly revised version.) I also learned a few things — in particular, that the line on a Lovecraft postcard quoted at the start of the story spoke of a “black kitten.” In my story I describe that second word as “obscured by postmark”— and indeed it is, as I can attest, since I own the postcard in question. But someone must have previously transcribed it and was able to make out the actual word, which had always been a mystery to me."

Jeffrey Kahrs

More to come but as I approach 60, the elegiac nature of this as a mediation of the cost of survival while everyone else has passed, aging, and dying makes this one of the more touching mythos stories I have ever read

Keith Allison

Excite for more TED!!! Klein. Poroth Farm is one of my absolute faves, and one I reread every year. Despite that, it's the only Klein story I've read, so I'm looking forward to this one. Have either of you read Ceremonies, the *slightly* expanded version of the story? It came back into print (no ebook) a few years ago, and it is MASSIVE. I was super excited about it, but having slowly worked my way through the first third over the course of a year before setting it aside (partly out of the physical fatigue of holding it), this may be a case of less is more.

Darren Hennessey

The first time I came across the term “treacle” was the 1982 film, “Brimstone and Treacle”, featuring Sting. A friend introduced me to it in college. I seem to recall it had an interesting soundtrack.

Sanjay Mathew

I always liked the SE Asian setting of this story. Negri Sembilan is about a two hour drive from Singapore (where I am), though its one of the smaller and more densely populated states of Malaysia which detracts from the sinister folk horror elements of the story

Clyde Duensing III

I read this story long ago in my youth. I bought "The Ceremonies" first, became a fan and then got the other few publications available by Klein. It's been so long that I am rediscovering this story with you as you read it. When you mentioned the protagonist had been jostled, I hoped for a second that it had been by a "nautical looking negro" ala "The Call of Cthulhu" and then we would have all known exactly what was going on. Seriously, there is a fair amount of resonance between those two stories so far, which is cool. BTW, in answer to your question regarding "Charles Dexter Ward" Yes, there is definitely a lot of fake beard action in that novella and the beard in this story is in fact "Lovecraftian".

Clyde Duensing III

I plan to reread "The Ceremonies" and compare the full reading of Poroth you introduced us to. If memory serves me correctly after roughly 40 years, I believe "The Ceremonies" is the book that spurred my subsequent reading of "The Hill of Dreams" by Machen. I think that book is a bit of a tough slog, but fascinating in a lot of ways and I believe its theme and ending have some clear connections to endings of tales by both Lovecraft and King.

Daniel Restione

Wait a minute….Chris aren’t you in the “getting ready for dyin’ 50’s?” Just before the “Jesus, aren’t you dead already 60’s” and on the way to “Die already 70’s?” I’m sure I heard a wise man lay out that progression once on a podcast!!!!!!

Daniel Restione

Ps- yes- there was a fake beard in CDW…. Along with the nasty burn from the villain about how it looked better than the Doctor’s real beard.

Mochi needs Catnip

As a Floridian I concur that weird and horrifying tales are and did happen here !

Jim Cannon

Was going to say something about the Charlie Chan tv show at least giving James Hong one of his earliest jobs, but I just learned that the white lead got Hong fired off the show for flubbing a line in _rehearsal_ and have totally lost that last smidgen of respect I had for the property. James Hong is a national treasure!

Andrew Brown

When it comes to evil races, if you look past 21st century US view, history is full of evil races. It’s a matter of viewpoint. The Mongols, the Huns, the Romans and so on. If your in those times you’d think these whole races are evil.

Erik Gordon

Just got around to listen to The Horror of Natchoes and Hammentachen and they mentioned this story. Fun

The Screaming Moist

Since we’re talking Klein, I can’t recommend “Petey” enough. That story is a MasterClass in pacing and character studies in a tidy little package.

Anonymous
>>115281705

For me that is one of his lesser stories...but still darn good, that's how good T.E.D. Klein is!

KateSherrod

Kind of gave a condescending "aren't you cute, you little whippersnappers" chuckle at Chris's musings about having entered his 50s (I condescend from the much riper age of 53) but then I had a truly lovely thought: as a cohort of Strange Students we have been together for so many years (I was still looking somewhat ahead to my 40s when I made your aggregate aural acquaintances*) already and we're all hoping this goes on for many more... what I'm trying to say is, I'm enjoying growing old with you all, even if the best was left behind when we didn't pick up that hitchhiker that one scary night back in the 'Oughts. *Pardon that, I've been binging on Adrian Belew era King Crimson all week, something I feel I probably have in common with the Strange Studies crowd more than with others, surely?