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Study 075 - The Monstrosity (Patreon)

Published:
2024-01-18 21:09:23
Edited:
2024-01-18 21:10:56
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2026-06
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We're putting our eyes on The Monstrosity by George W. Crane, a story that appeared in Weird Tales 100 years ago this month!

Special thanks to reader Levi Nunez of Loot the Body!

Learn more about Crane's computer dating program and his marital rating charts!

And here's more information about the Organ Autonomy trope!

Up next: The Spirit Fakers of Hermannstadt by HOUDINI!!

Comments

Hieronymus Tosh

My wife has so many of those demerits I totally lost count of her score! I think that's why I love her so much.

Quantumchaos

This is the origin story of Manimal's grandfather!

Apollo Sitting Up

Don’t forget the Twilight Zone dead man’s shoes where the character is possessed by GHOST SHOES!

Steve

Under this scheme, the maximum merits a wife can score is 25 and maximum demerits is 28. So a wife's score is between 25 and -3. So the best rating possible is Poor.

The Spider Incident

I love how Chris just causally suggests abducting and a homeless person to steal their eyes

Richard Horsman

The dialect made me cast the narrator as a late in life Yosemite Sam. Sure he's settled down and become a shopkeep, but he's still a rootin'-tootin' gunslinger when called upon. it got me through. Also I have a personal connection to this terrible story: George W. Crane was my wife's great grand uncle. She didn't know him at all, but when she was doing genealogy work she did come across the fact that he wrote this story. Never expected you to cover it though!

Long time hater

I had to listen back a few times, did anyone else hear Chad say the monstrosity cut up the Dr with 'one of those Lehman's knives',? I thought we had more evidence of Andrew truly being eternal.

Jim Cannon

At least these days copyright laws mean the unoriginal have to mine public domain properties for their derivative claptrap. Around the turn of the century, Lovecraft's favorite astronomer, Garret P. Service, wrote an UNofficial sequel to War of the Worlds. In it, Thomas Edison himself leads a counterattack against Mars. Misses entirely the anti-colonial themes of Wells' book for hot Martian ladies, rayguns, and moon minerals.

Erik Jordan Phillips

I love the implication that a little transplantation can transform you into something like the donor. You could get a transplant from some skilled person, and acquire, virtually any skill based on the organ , or part being transplanted. In a very real sense, it feels like this might have germinated from the idea of the sacrament or Eucharist, where in we take the body and blood of Christ in an effort to become more like him. Cannibalism aside, transplantation seems a move in the more Progressive direction.

The Cheese and The Worms

I’m not sure if you’re interested in recommendations or if you’re planning to cover novels anytime soon but I don’t think I’ve ever heard “A Canticle for Leibowitz” mentioned on the show. I think it would make a great month of shows.

John Bladek

I’m wondering if the doctor chose a leopardess that had too many demerits, and that was his real mistake.

Donny Bliss

It's funny you read this story so well timed with a real project for an eye replacement. ARPA-H, a new agency of the US health system modeled after DARPA, which came up with crazy projects like the internet. ARPA-H is designed to fun crazy, out of the mainstream ideas that may or may not work. One just announced is the Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts (THEA) program. It's not clear at this time if the scientist will ONLY be using human eyes for transplanting. https://arpa-h.gov/news-and-events/arpa-h-program-aims-restore-sight-people-who-are-blind

Science Doctor, PhD

In my effort to disrupt legitimate discourse about the episode at hand, and share a sort of pointless journey with you all, here is the latest chapter of "A PhD Student Re-Learns to Read (Again)"... I finished reading about a dozen Robert Aickman short stories from a couple of compellations I was able to find at the library, including The School Friend and Trains (I deliberately held off on listening to those episodes since those stories sounded really interesting). Going to finish out the rest in the compellations, then next up is an Agatha Christy novel. It is much more interesting than the tome(s) I have on research methodologies that I also have to get through. Though, in a way, those create more existential dread... As you were.

Rasmus Juul

Perhaps easier to find a hobo with eyes, but a lot less ethical to take them, than to take the leopardess's.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

Looking at the story in Weird Tales on Archive.org I'm struck by the materials on the facing page--(1) the end of a story called "The Hook of Death," which includes a really long exposition speech followed by climactic fight scene between two guys the author keeps referring to as "the younger man" and "the larger man"--why not younger/older and smaller/larger?, and (2) a blurb about real-life truth serum. In "The Hook of Death," the aforementioned Larger Man seems to have been a fake ghost, Scooby-Doo style, but unlike your typical Scooby Doo episode, it ends with a woman named Aimée (eh-May? Amy?) surrendering her lips to the hero. (A kiss? A transplant? Is the hero going to inherit her power of staring in horror at fights now?) As for the truth serum blurb, it contains the sentence, "Recent experiments conducted by Dr. House at San Quentin prison have proved almost beyond a doubt that this method will prove a boon to criminal investigators." Dr. House! And I suspect that "almost" is doing a lot of work.

Anne Ominous

Chad hit it with calling the author a 'popularizer' of someone else's great fiction: this is a reboot of Moreau's juicy bits and a hint of Grimm with the kidnapping and torture. If you couldn't get enough of the phonetics, the same issue of WT debuted HPLs 'picture in the house' -> "Ketched in the rain, be ye?"

It's a Ghost.

I wonder how many merits or demerits you get for being "an adequately excellent lover."

The Lonely Sand Person

I thought it was fairly clear that the Viennese visitor at the end was the boy's father, come to take his body home to Austria.

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

A villain in the short-lived Marvel Shadowline Saga made a real impression on me such that this sort of story always brings him to mind. On the one hand, he was rotting and falling to pieces. On the other hand, he could swap out body parts if there were any, er, at hand. Often he chose parts from professional athletes - suggesting that these parts would provide a bit of skill as well as fine muscle tone. In one issue, at least, he'd acquired some marksman eyes. A fine trope if a bit squicky.