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Study 081 - School for the Unspeakable (Patreon)

Published:
2024-03-07 19:52:16
Edited:
2024-03-07 19:54:39
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March is for Draculas begins with the Manly Wade Wellman story School for the Unspeakable -- special guest Jamie Brittain in attendance!

Thanks to our reader Marsh Davies -- you can pick up his game TEETH here!

Check out that naughty Weird Tales cover!

And here's all the info you could want on the movie if.... 

Finally, don't forget to tune into The Crate and Crowbar podcast!

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Richard Horsman

So many songs in these Wellman stories. Chad should cut an ep!

Robby H.

You're right, Chad. March 31 is a national holiday... it's my birthday (30th this year)

Jeppe Mulich

Fab episode! Great story, great Jamie, great elevated Crawford. The discussion of boarding school lit was particularly interesting. It seems to be such a specific genre that I never really encountered as a child in Scandinavia, but everyone over here (in Britain) seem to be intimately familiar with it.

Our old pal Brendan Gardiner

They cross-bred a ghost horse and a vampire horse to come up with something both durable and intelligent, but also, sadly, sterile.

Our old pal Brendan Gardiner

The way the boys greet Setwick and slyly hint at their own backgrounds to see if he was of like mind harkens to A Catcher in the Rye where Holden Caulfield comments on how often it is that Catholic students at the boarding schools he attended will try indirectly to determine if you’re also Catholic by, for instance, asking if you happen to know where the Catholic Church is, in the middle of a conversation about tennis. It’s a good bet this is where Salinger got the idea for Holden’s observation.

KateSherrod

IF is the first of a trilogy of movies Lindsay Anderson made with Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travers. They're all pretty weird and have moments of true oddness that almost make them feel like speculative fiction of some kind. IF... starts Mick Travers off as a student as mentioned on the show, then O Lucky Man turns him into a career man with a devastating young Helen Mirren as his lust interest; then Britannia Hospital sees him getting, uh, treatment, at a hospital with the staff on strike (and Graham Crowden as a mad scientist). All three are great fun and definitely inspired Kubrick more than a little. And speaking of inspiration, Lindsay Anderson went on to make a little something called Chariots of Fire. But I like the Travers Trilogy much better and I think most of not all of SSoSS fans would appreciate all three movies.

KateSherrod

P.S. Was the horse... PALE????

Steve

Teeth! I have a copy of the gorgeous hardback from Soul Muppet. Haven't played it yet but it reads great.

Steve

All the boys remind me of Boris Johnson.

Steve

I met Marsh and Jamie, great lads! And I still have all my blood, I think.

Aaron La Vene

It can’t be lost boys without a saxophone

The Eldritch Dark

How about a Strange Studies calendar? March is for Draculas, Thew-ly, Poe-vember etc… I could confuse my elderly parents by buying them one for Christmas

It's a Ghost.

Setwick leaving his trunk behind really bothered me too! Like, usually when this kind of thing happens in an old story, the arriving person will be told something like, “Leave your trunk behind, and the servants will pick it up and bring it to the house later,” which usually bothers me too. I always think, what if the servants don’t pick it up, or what if by the time the servants do go to pick it up it’s already been stolen? But in this situation, at least there’s a plan for *someone* to pick it up. Hoag simply telling Setwick to leave it behind without a stated plan for someone to pick it up later is simply horror.

It's a Ghost.

Rather than being a werewolf, my suspicion was that Felcher was a werehorse. . . . Hoag left with the horse, and next thing you know, hairy Felcher shows up.

Nathaniel Lekki

The argument of saying the Devil quotes Scripture too only works if you don't know the context of Scripture. The Devil isn't someone who is simply anti God. He twists what God says because he wants to be like God. So the Scripture he quoted is out of context and doesn't line up with the rest of the Bible. The actual doctrine of the Bible is good, but people twist it to say something it doesn't mean.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

With Satanic schoolboys and a ghost headmaster, I also thought of Neil Gaiman and "Sandman: Season of MIsts," and it turns out that Gaiman counts "School for the Unspeakable" as one of the scariest stories he read as a boy, according to the "About" on a website for his books for younger readers: https://www.mousecircus.com/about Incidentally, "Dead Boy Detectives" is being adapted as a TV series. The characters already appeared in an episode of the TV "Doom Patrol," although they're being recast for the ongoing series.

Andrew Brown

So as a US prep schooler (4 year senior at a well known east coast school) who was a essentially a year younger then most I understand why folks get confused about boarding schools - it can be bad but it also can lead to good things such as self reliance and ability to recover from setbacks. I assumed that the gang of vampires were finding and grabbing students through various schemes over the past years. I really liked the story - and I enjoyed how the hero wasn’t the vampire boys but the crazy old man. In this case faith and religion wasn’t bad but was correct.

Stewart

There's definitely an entire sub-genre of British literature about how awful boarding schools are. In particular I love how much The Chronicles of Narnia books keep hearkening back to that theme, to the point of Lion Jesus getting sicced on a pair of bullies

Forrest Rush

Regarding the horse, remember the Dracula pretended to be the stagecoach driver who picked up Jonathan, drove him to the castle and then took off apparently to put away the coach and the horses. That we never see or hear of those animals again does leave one to wonder what sort of steaks the Count cooked up for Harker and maybe where some of that red stuff he was drinking came from. But whatever happened to those poor Mr Eds, they definitely weren't were-equses. So if the Dracula can make use of real ones, I don't see why some snotty vamp teens couldn't.

Rafe Ball

Having great fun "WHERE'S YOUR BAG?!?"ing my wife and daughter around Disney World right now :-)

Allison Albright

Who among us hasn't dabbled in a little satanism as a teenager?