Lovecraft Retrospective: The Whisperer in Darkness (1931) (Patreon)

George and I burrow deep into the accursed hills of Vermont in search of the hidden meanings of one of Lovecraft's late great tales; The Whisperer in Darkness, published in 1931, is a genuinely spooky paranoid thriller about the battle of wits, nerves, subterfuge, espionage, guns, and dogs (just so many dogs) between a lonely recluse and a conspiracy of indeterminate, weird, occultic, ruthless, alien colonists and their sinister human agents. Featuring an unnerving emphasis on sound and recording - and meditations on colonialism, landscape, technology, the body, and consciousness - we ponder the ways in which this story prefigures modern cryptid tales and found footage urban folklore horror stories.

Also features some discussion of why Transformers is now such a gay franchise, why Masters of the Universe paradoxically isn't, and why Harry Potter is just unfathomably bad, even factoring out the author's raging transphobia.