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Hosted by Tim Mendees and Rob Poyton of the Innsmouth Book Club, Strange Shadows is a fortnightly podcast devoted to the weird fiction of Clark Ashton Smith. One of the Trinity of Weird Tales authors, Smith, alongside Lovecraft and Howard, redefined cosmic horror and fantasy fiction. With his distinct baroque style, Smith's work remains rich, powerful and evocative. Using the five volume Night Shade Press collection of Smith's work as our guide, we will be covering each of his stories in chronological order, as well as screen adaptations and aspects of the author's life. Occasional guests will be joining us to share their knowledge and opinions about this most poetic of the Weird Tales writers. Episodes are free, with bonus content and other rewards available for patrons - visit our Patreon page for details. See you in Zothique!
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It's subterranean Martian horror this episode, with The Dweller in the Gulf. We talk editors, alpha chaps, hope, interesting villains, plus a delve into the mailbag. Oh, and Tim sings...
Reader: Clay Story Sculptor
Favourite words: ferruginous, objugate, mephitic, fetor, noctilucae, sopor, adumbration.
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We are back in scientifiction territory with Smith's tale of future war, The Dimension of Chance. We talk planes and parachutes, sang froid, Tomfoolery, chaps, space rock, D&D alignment and story lengths.
Favourite words: infrangible, leatheroid, rufous, lancelate, pulverous, legerdemain, incertitude and Araucaria.
Reader: Shelley de Cruz
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It's a grim tale this episode with The Isle of the Torturers. We talk Achenar, WH Hodgson, safe words, Melnibone, unseen horrors and goth skin care.
Reader: Simon Frazier Nash.
Favourite words: pythonomoprh, lapidaries, halcyon, promulgate, cresset, adicopere, engineries.
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Frozen Hyperborea beckons for the creeping doom that is The Ice Demon. We talk D&D, the Pleistocene era, Ithaqua, £50 notes, nematodes, potholes and inclement weather.
Reader: Scott Dorward
Favourite words: glabrous, commiseratively, parhelia, buskins, cleavage, bouleversement
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It's a return to Hyperborea with Smith's classic tale of allure and creeping doom. We chat Sybil, the Frost Giant's Daughter, tropigoths, the children of Woolpit, elevated horror and technicolour prose. Oh, and Rob tells the moth joke...
Reader: Helena Nash
Favourite words: austral, southroun, ells, gracile, preterhuman, eider, machicolate, mellifluous, vacillant.
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Peoples Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos The Children of Woolpit
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Averoigne draws us into its arms once more as we visit the naughty monks of Périgon for The Disinterment of Venus. We talk Venus, moving statues, Carry On, posterns, Mary Whitehouse, playing the incubus and rumpy monks.
Reader: Robbie Dorman
Favourite words: peccadilloes, chariness, Circean, maculations, satyriasis, indecorous
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Tim and Rob slip dimensions with Smith's tale of altered perception, The Star-Change. We talk Donner, moonfish, cubism, goblins, Mi-go and creative restrictions. Plus news and the mailbag.
Reader: Simon Frazier Nash
Favourite words: vocable, Sisyphean, lugubrious, littoral, Lethe, uncongenial exigency
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ILF25 Video ILF Booking Clay Story Sculptor
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Join us in the summer of 69 as we plunge back into the haunted forest with The Beast of Averoigne. We talk comets, antique demons, Terileptils, goth hair product and The Averoigne Legacy. Plus Tim sings, we check the mailbag and report news of a CAS event in Auburn!
Reader: Shelley de Cruz
Favourite words: rutilant, pernoctations, consanguinity, Malebolge, corposant, Satanry, Phlegethonian lustre
Auburn CAS Conference The Cromcast The Averoigne Legacy
Rambling Syd Rumpo The Lantern Man of Wicken Fen
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Episode One of Season Four returns us to Averoigne for Smith's tale of revenge from beyond the grave, The Mandrakes. We talk Gahan Wilson, Mandragora, Carry on Abroad, the ghost of Cromwell and the quite remarkable GP Olsen.
Reader: Ally Wilkes
Favourite words: connubial infelicities, privily, termagant, recreant, quotidian, amatory.
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Just prior to Season Four starting, here's a reading of Poe's classic tale of underwater doom and decay, The City in the Sea.
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Tim runs through some reviews of Smith's work from the likes of HPL, August Derleth, Lillith Loraine, & Benjamin De Casseres.
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Season Three concludes with a deep delve into the mailbag. We talk scientifiction, genres, editorial mishaps, Benjamin De Casseres, our favourite Old One, and how to spell Chthuhlhuh.
A Cyclopean thanks to all our readers, patrons, and listeners for supporting us - Season Four will commence after we return from a short break in Averoigne.
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Emperor of Shadows essay Hippocampus Press Star Spawn Painting
IBC Bonus Patron Episode - Our Lady of Darkness
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Our Auburn correspondent Nils Hedglin joins us for a look back at Season Three. We talk favourite words and stories, least favourite story, Strange Shadows Bingo, Auburn, CAS going to church, and Goat Rock. Plus an exclusive end of season quiz!
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Nils' CAS blog Quiz Q&A Strange Shadows Bingo Card
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David D. Perlmutter joins us for our final story of Season 3 - The God of the Asteroid. We talk art vs commerce, the perils of space travel, SETI, U-boats, writing advice and the English class system in space.
Reader: James Lovegrove
Favourite words: selenite, pestiferous, phasmidae, cryptogamous, serrate
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We are joined by our friends from 30+Minutes with HPL podcast to conclude our look at Smith's classic tale of necromantic vengeance, the Colossus of Ylourgne. We chat Ikea, wicker men, Bond villains, Universal movie castings, Talos and Dungeons and Dragons.
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We are joined by our friends from 30+Minutes with HPL podcast for a look at Smith's classic tale of necromantic vengeance, the Colossus of Ylourgne. In Part 1 we chat medieval news, ghoulish iniquities, end times, Bosch and Bruegel, and Rob reveals the new best historical name ever.
Reader: Ramsey Campbell
Favourite words: invultation, omening, horripilation, moiety, athanor, welkin, energumen, Ialdobaoth.
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We delve into Smith's tale of jealousy and poison, The Supernumerary Corpse. We talk poisoners, Margrave, choice insults, bumble bees and Theatre of Blood. Plus listener correspondence.
Reader: James Conrad
Favourite words: usufruct, perspicacity, cupidity, stertorous, irremeable.
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Join us for a jaunt through space and time with a pinch of Smith's The Plutonian Drug. We talk Farquar, LSD, romantic poets, Pluto, Banshee Chapter, and time travel - and meet Shamanic Basil!
Reader: Shelley de Cruz
Favourite words: eloignment, syncope, decrescent, colloid, petrific, discorporate
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Robert Poyton reads a selection of poems -
Nyaghoggua by Robert AW Lowndes
To Clark Ashton Smith by HP Lovecraft
The Winter Moonlight by Clark Ashton Smith
The Eldritch One by Pauline Brooker
Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith
The Outsider's Song and Muse by WH Pugmire
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Join Tim in the Ye Olde Innsmouth Bookshop for a delve into the correspondence between the circle at Festival Time and any seasonal works they may have put out. Includes a reading of Christmas poems by H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, R.H. Barlow, & Clark Ashton Smith, along with various greeting cards and letters. Tim also inflicts a selection of Innsmouth cracker jokes upon us... you have been warned...
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Join us in Poseidonis for Smith’s classic story of creeping terror, The Double Shadow. We chat rituals, King Kull, fart machines, The Double Shadow podcast, fear and loathing, and Rob unleashes his best mummy impression. Plus listener feedback and news of ILF 25!
Favourite words: orichalchum, triremes, seines, samite, byssus, purulence, infrangible, thuribles.
Reader: CJ Hooper
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Double Shadow podcast Leslie Nielsen
Top Five Lovecraft Films
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Join us in the primordial ooze as we discuss Smith's mythos classic, Ubbo-Sathla! We talk conspiracy theories, Poe, Mu and Thule, Azathoth and Rob's trip to Averoigne.
Reader: Matthew Wood, Edwyrdian Tales
Favourite Words: dinornis, vermiculated, recherche, demiurge, inveigle, calamite, cicads.
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We pay tribute to the late Scott Connors before discussing one of Smith's more gruesome tales, The Second Interment. We chat Poe, premature burial, the SPPBBA, Magbane, yew trees, pallbearers and Tim gives us his best Skeksis impression.
Favourite words: mordant, dolorous, syncope, Aeonian, stertorous, infra-mundane.
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The Misktaonic Scale Rawlinson End
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Our Auburn correspondent Nils Hedglin joins us to discuss a tale of botanical body horror! We talk sepulchers, the Moody Blues, plant people, occult sign-offs and discover Strange Shadows Bingo!
Favourite words: Lianas, sanious, epyphitic, etiolated, impedimenta, baleful, loquacious
Guest reader James Conrad
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Strange Shadows Bingo Pingu's The Thing Richard Corben
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Join us in far-future Zothique as we discuss The Empire of the Necromancers! We talk magic circles, cocaine, Benny Hill, D&D, Frankenstein, and give a brief history of necromancy. Plus HPL at the cinema, listener feedback and the answer to how skeletons communicate...
Guest reader: David D Perlmutter
Favourite words: contumelious, lich, arrogate, sere, dubitable
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We are joined by David D Perlmutter to discuss CAS' Immortals of Mercury. We chat editors, art vs commerce, Smith's vocabulary, alien morality, RPGs, dreams, creative writing and Ropey Kelp.
Favourite words: Mazeppa, libration, rugate, noctilucent, salamandrine
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Rob Poyton reads Artemis, The Return of Hyperion, and The Sea-Gods.Download MP3
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Tim and Rob field Patron questions about CAS and about themselves! We talk favourite stories, Smith's saucy verse, vocabulary, inspirations and The Fugs.
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Key of Dreams Isle of the Torturer The Fugs Jeff Vandermeer
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Join us for a trek into the desert as we search for The Invisible City. We chat dodgy publishers, Genghis Khan, Aurora monster kits, Star Trek, alien pets, goth cybermen and fountain pens.
Guest reader: Nigel Watson
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Tailes from the Cryptkeeper
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We plunge back into Hyperborea with one of Smith's most published stories. We talk the word weird, world building, snakes, Venus fly trap and Gibbelins.
Favourite words: acidulous, obstreperous, chatoyance, fugacity, retiarii, unctuous, oleaginous.
Guest reader: David Cartwright
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Join us on the high seas for a discussion on Smith's pirate yarn, A Vintage From Atlantis. We talk Captain Kidd, the Jolly Roger, pirate films, heists, beach parties, Atlantean hangovers, plus Smith's saucy letters!
Favourite words: Rechabite, Amontillado, panakins, slumdegullions, coistrel
We had a few technical difficulties in recording, so the audio is a little "hissy" in places.
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Full Fathom Five The Black Swan
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CAS enthusiast and Sacramento resident Nils Hedglin joins us for some unique insight into Smith's home town. We chat local history, Auburn tours, landscape, flora and fauna, Smith's sculptures, Howard Days, and more.
Clark Ashton Smithery Spiral Tower Press TriAPA
The Leopard Lily Howard Days The Garden of Fear
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Tim delves into Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill, to bring us the story of an argument that raged in the letters column of The Fantasy Fan fanzine... vintage flame wars!
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Smith goes all Lovecraft with this tale of dark family secrets at Tremoth Hall. We talk the Necronomicon, inference, disappointment rooms, the ideal Goth night out, Slough and more.
Favourite words: adyta, dubiety, ululation, sough.
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Smith goes full technicolour in the episode's story, the Demon of the Flower. We talk fan wars, triffids, pigeons, invasive plants, Bowie and weird pets. Plus news from Auburn!
Reader: Gavin Chappell
Favourite words: turgescent, phylacteries, sacerdotalism, addorsed, tutelary, cockadrills
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We blast off into the cosmos again with a Smithian epic, The Eternal World. We talk time travel, Yes album covers, alien abduction, eyes on tentacles and architectural piles.
Favourite words: arachanidan, televisic, irruption, Brobdingnagian, monition, Laocun,
Reader: Alexandra Beaumont
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Wonder Stories Martin's Photos
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We return to Mars for a top tier Smith story, The Vaults of Yoh Vombis. We chat atmosphere, hats, Star Trek, health & safety, Dr Who, mummies and vampires and Billy Connolly.
Reader: Shelley de Cruz
Favourite words: teocalis, gneissic, tabu, filiate, adumbration, turgescent.
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The Miskatonic Scale LOG Cavern Guide
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We cover Smith's one and only play, a necromantic tale set in Zothique! We talk Samuel Loveman, cuckolds, garottes, Zothique and Lieutenant Pigeon.
Favourite words: all of them!
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This episode we cover a CAS tale with a unique genesis - The Seedling of Mars. We talk 50s sci fi, space food, san loss, G-force and biblical floods
Favourite words: piliated, telluric, pereration, refection, inchoate, promulgated, ultrasensational
Reader: Peter Laws
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This episode we cover a rare direct sequel with Beyond the Singing Flame. We talk the rules of writing, liminal spaces, wormholes, proprioception and find a record number of band names in just one sentence.
Reader: Stef Hoyle
Favourite words: veridical, contiguous, madder, fortalice, scoriac, empyrian
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We return to Averoigne, to discuss The Maker of Gargoyles. We talk Le Stryge, gargoyles and grotesques, Derleth, endings, genius loci, clowns and Rob attempts to speak French.
Favourite words: grotesqueries, aspergillus, peregrinations, catafelque, potations
Reader: Shelley de Cruz of Graveheart Designs
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Phlegethon the band
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Our study of Volume Three of the Night Shade Press series begins with The Holiness of Azédarac. We talk medieval naughtiness, Deep Purple, Moloch, jouissance, James Branch Cabell and sequels.
Reader - John Houlihan of Modiphius
Favourite words - aspirate, missals, Erebean turpitude, bituminious, sable vans, lubriciousness
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Les Edwards - Bishop of Ximes Appendix N Podcast
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Season Three opens with a look at the 2018 CAS documentary, The Emperor of Dreams. We chat influence, Carnegie, libraries, rude trees, drugs, Crater Ridge, outsiders and adaptations.
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Tim and Rob chat holiday viewing - including the Ghost Story for Christmas - interesting presents, plans for 2024 and video games.
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We read an extract from Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill, in which Lovecraft relates to Smith something of the prehistory of the mysterious toad god, Tsathoggua
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Tim and Rob look back over Season 2 and choose our favourite words and stories. Plus chat about prequels, dinosaur bones, letters to Weird Tales, second-hand bookshops and gyroscopes.
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We reach the final story in Vol 2 of the Night Shade set, and what a great one to round off Season 2! We talk Goya, bookshops, purple, reincarnation, and HPL sitting on the dock of the bay...
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Favourite words: atelier, adumbration, nympholepsy, toque, animadversions
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Join us as we plunge into the depths of time and space with more scientifiction from CAS. We talk railroading, Dr Who, petrol pumps, outer space, Kagemusha and robot wars.
Favourite words: emmets, pismires, luridities, hispid, mitrailleuse, concertions
Guest reader: Mike Mason
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Tim and Rob chat to the wonderful Ramsey Campbell
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This episode we continue the ether-ship Alcyone's five year mission with a look at Smith's longest story, A Capitivity in Serpens. We chat action vs character, aliens, space westerns, creepy forests, Star Trek and Star wars and West Ham vs Man Utd...
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Favourite words: spraddling, nacreous, aerophytes, annelids, bouleversement, farinaceous
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From Innsmouth Literary Festival 2023
Chair - Rob Poyton
Panel - Zoe Burgess-Foreman, Mike Mason, Tom Campbell, TL Wiswell
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From Innsmouth Literary Festival 20203
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Panel - Simon Bleaken, Anna Smith Spark, David Hambling, Alexandra Beaumont, Paul Fricker
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Athammaus, Athammaus, oh oh... Tim and Rob return to Hyperborea and discover the reason for the fall of Commorium. We talk executions and executioners, cannibalism, dreams, and discover a word that rhymes with Dracula.
Reader: Greig Johnson
Favourite words: fulvous, contumelious, alabastine, exudation, maugre
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Rob Poyton reads In the Desert, Sinbad It Was Not Well to Brag, and Revenant.
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We cover two stories, the classic City of the Singing Flame, and The Good Embalmer. We chat geology, Freud, Star Trek, Dr Who, the London Underground, J Vernon Shea and discover just who is Randy Candle.
Guest reader Mark Griffin 30 Minutes+ with HP Lovecraft podcast
Favourite words: scoriac, pursy, Anakim, abdominous, jocose, rubicund.
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We take a look at the only three CAS screen adaptations we know of - Return of the Sorcerer, from Night Gallery. Mother of Toads from Richard Stanley. And The Last Incantation from Lurker Films.
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We are joined by David, Mark and Richard of 30 Minutes+ with HP Lovecraft podcast to discuss a Smithian classic, Return of the Sorcerer. We talk Alone in the Dark, alternate endings, body parts, rugs, good vibrations, rugs, will power, carrion booty and rugs.
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Favourite words: incubi, recrudescence, aquilinity, manifold cleavage, and oudine.
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Rob and Tim cover a long and short story today -An Adventure in Futurity & The Justice of the Elephant. We talk puns, futuristic names, time machines, Dr Who, the Rajput and Torrid Saffron. Plus listener feedback and latest news.
Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz
Favourite words: polyandry, over-preponderance, obulus, mahout, zenana, Bundelkhand, musth.
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Tim and Rob again cover two shorts stories, The Ghoul and The Kingdom of the Worm. Chat includes Vathek, ghūls, career choices, Wright is wrong again, lost ghoul films, fictional books and scary stones. Plus listener feedback on our last episode.
Guest reader: Paul Fricker
Favourite words: mendicant, penumbra, interdiction, cerastes, simoon, condole
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We cover two short stories again this time, both with a similar theme - extra marital affairs gone wrong! We talk poisons, cuckolds, nightclub bouncers, nightmares, 1970s haunted paintings, Beethoven and beards. Plus letter extracts from HPL on orientalism and listener feedback.
Guest reader Simon Bleaken
Favourite words: yataghan, solicitude, anodyne, deliquescence, propinquity, collops
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Tim and Rob cover two short stories this episode, starting with The Gorgon. We talk Greek myth, Olde London, the abnatural, liminal spaces and The Bangles. Then it's on to An Offering to the Moon, with talk of lunar temples, naked sacrifices and favourite eras.
There's aslo some listener feedback on Lovecraft and the cinema, where we learn about HPL's favourite film and Tim's Pint Scale method of reviews.
Guest reader: Gavin Chappell
Favourite words: catafelque, fabulosity, oblation, luctation plenilune, veridical
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As well as the HPL correspondence, this episode we also delve in the letters between CAS and Richard W. Dodson. We talk pens, Smith's "vocabulary recipe," realism in weird fiction, and read an HPL poem.
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We delve into HPL's essay on the history of the Necronomicon, and chat Crowley, the Atlantis of the Sands, band names, non-euclidean yoga, Mr Worm and John Dee.
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We conduct our first live chat from Innsmouth and are joined by Miguel Fliguer, Chris Karr and Aaron Vlek. We answer some of your questions, and talk about recent movies, live readings, cultist motivations and more!
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John Chadwick talks about his work with ghost hunting groups.
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Tim takes us into the "secret space" at the rear of Innsmouth Book Shoppe for a bonus episode, where we discuss HPL's classic From Beyond. We talk sleep paralysis, the pineal gland, normality, breaking on thru and more....
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Tim and Rob stumble on a secret room in Innsmouth Library, leading to the discovery of a copy of Dreamer on the Nightside, in which Frank Belknap Long describes his life and times with HPL. We chat long letters, their first meeting, the Kalem Club, the mummy's curse, Sonia Greene, how HPL spoke, stationery and more.
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We take our first dive into the correspondence between Smith, Lovecraft and Derleth. We discuss Lovecraft's first letter to Smith and talk Samuel Loveman, Oriental Stories, art vs commerce, modesty, crazy fan mail and read Smith's poem Lichens.
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Tim and Rob delve into the CAS letters again in this bonus episode. We talk the disappearance of Ambrose Bierce, Lovecraft in Florida, CAS on MR James, the Skull of Doom and more.
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Tim and Rob take another dive into the CAS letters , with ta talk structure on the Mythos, return addresses, Smithian crosswords, strange sculptures, and YA fantasy.
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We are joined by author Gavin Chappell to discuss a Smithian classic, Rendezvous in Averoigne. We talk Weird Tales trends, haunted lakes, goth dancing, HPL at the cinema, vampire lore and more.
Favourite words: funereal, osiers, adumbration, pourboire, chaterlaine, wafture
Guest reader: Jeff Goad of the Appendix N Bookclub podcast
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We cover two stories this time, beginning with the tale of a mysterious wanderer, Told in the Desert. That is followed by the story of a remarkable painting, The Willow Landscape. We chat action, curry goat, dream states, album covers, and invent a new word.
Favourite words: torrefaction, olibanum, Iblis, auriphrygiate, ghazals, morbidezza
Guest reader: author Alexandra Beaumont
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This episode sees us deep in interstellar space once more with Captain Volmar and the crew of the Alcyone! We talk manuscripts, Star Trek, mi-go, and Dalek history and play HPL Bingo. We also discuss listener feedback on the mating habits of the Great Old Ones...
Favourite words: etiolated, burglarious, aphelion, quotidian, intersidereal, anaglyph
Guest reader Jeff Goad of the Appendix N Bookclub podcast
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Welcome to Season Two! For our first episode, Jeff Goad of the Appendix N Bookclub podcast joins us as we step through the Door to Saturn. We talk fatal eroticism, Tsathoggua's back scratches, Dungeons & Dragons, triple cyclopean, and Tim pronounces Hziulquoigmnzhah!
Favourite words: magniloquently, perspicacious, stylitean, desuetude, apterous, orotund.
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We are joined by Mark Griffin and Richard Wilson of the 30+ Minutes with HP Lovecraft podcast for a look back over our first season.
We talk HPL's enduring influence, favourite Smithian words and phrases, which story we enjoyed the most, Smith's approach to writing, and more. Plus an announcement about our Guest of Honour at the Innsmouth Literary Festival!
Huge thanks to all our guests, readers, Patrons, supporters and listeners for helping us reach over 1500 downloads. We will be releasing a Patron only episode next, covering some of CAS' correspondence to Lovecraft and Derleth then, after a short break, we will be back with Season Two - The Door to Saturn...
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We end Season One with another trip to Venus, this time from Poseidonis! Author Gavin Chappell joins us, and we chat lost islands, ancient civilisations, science fantasy, pod people, and CAS recordings. Plus listener questions and feedback.
Favourite words Moaria, manumission, consanguinity, orchidaceous, diluvial, calyxes
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We find Smith back on form with two cracking stories. Beginning with The Necromantic Tale, we talk gothic tropes, witch trials, MR James, demons and disappointment rooms.
Then it's a trip to Venus for The Immeasurable Horror. We talk shoggoths, red shirts, Venusian sci fi and Poddy Fronds. Plus listener feedback and news of the forthcoming Innsmouth Literary Festival.
Guest reader: Robert Lloyd Parry Nunkie Productions
Favourite words: Hagdon, nefandous, anitnomian, lustrum, exiguous, etiolated, pullulating.
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We start the New Year with a look at Smith's rarely printed jungle adventure, the Root of Ampoi. We talk pulp magazines, Cockney history, genres, Carry On Up the Jungle and Robert Crumb.
Guest reader: Greig Johnson
Favourite words: acromegaly, allopath, sybaritic
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Rob Poyton reads Smith's prose poem, The Crypts of Memory.
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Tim and Rob host a chat from Innsmouth in Festival season. We talk shopping in Innsmouth, Tolkien and Lovecraft, ideas and names for writing, and pronunciations. Plus we answer live questions from listeners and give a shout out to fellow podcasters.
Big thanks again to all our guest, readers, patrons and listeners, wishing you all Happy Holidays!
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We blast into outer space this episode and follow Captain Volmar on his five year mission to, er, kill half of his crew. We talk tweed in space, TV aliens, rough booze and the roots of scientifiction. Plus CAS letters and listener comments.
Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz Graveheart Designs
Favourite words: glaucous, noctilucae, integument, stridulation, permanganate
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We start our two story episode with Smith's ultra-goth tale of doomed love, The Planet of the Dead. We talk HPL on Zoom, Cimmerians, weird dreams and TV sfx. Then it's on to The Uncharted Isle, where we talk Wallace Irwin, the Bermuda Triangle and ancient maps. Plus letters extracts, and listener comments.
Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz Graveheart Designs
Favourite words: immedicable, sybarite, mendicants, bizzareries, postern, drupes, armillary, littoral, heteroclitic.
Feast of Fools launch Rambling Syd Rumpo A Nautical Extravagance
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Two more short stories this episode. We start with the Dev of Ev and talk obscure pulps, the 8th Circle of Hell, Faust, impersonal evil, sonic vibrations and Shatner in space.
Then it's off to Averoigne for The Satyr, We talk rising sap, carry on films, Victorian repression and the Great God Pan, plus listener comments and news of our live Halloween chat from Innsmouth. Oh - and we also coin the phrase the Auburn Cycle!
Guest reader: Robert Lloyd Parry Nunkie Productions
Favourite words: Manichean, malebolge. infrangible, villaneilles, pleiade, chrysoprase, vertumnal.
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We cover two short stories this episode, starting with The Epiphany of Death. We talk Randolph Carter, Ptolemy, Lovecraft's voice, and Dungeons and Dragons.
Next, we look at Murder in the Fourth Dimension and talk Halpin Frayser, Ted Bundy, portable vibrators, and the Fourth Dimesnion, and ask "who is Mike?"
Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz Graveheart Designs
Favourite words: Lacunae, adit, adipocere, nonce, corpus delecti, demonian
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This episode we cover another of Smith's longer stories, a tale of alien invasion! We talk money troubles, sandstorms, Star Trek tropes, squid worms and yeti crabs, phantasy vs scientifction and make our own UFO sound effects!
Guest reader: author KT Tate
Favourite words: promulgation, concomitance, calamite, locomotor ataxia
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This episode sees us get into our longest Smith tale yet, and it's an interplanetary romance - of sorts! We talk Ambrose Bierce, Antares, Elton John's time machine, laser rods and hairy pits, the Three F's of Smith, Howard and Lovecraft and interstellar conmen. We also read some comments from listeners and have news of our latest Patron bonus.
Oh -and we also have some homework for our listeners!
Guest reader: Gavin Chappell of Lovecraftiana magazine
Favourite words: inanition, fulgurent, nyctaloptic, planturous, nacarat, erubescent,
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Author Gavin Chappell joins us to discuss one of Smith's best loved works, and his first Hyperborean tale. We talk burning books, Wright is wrong again, sword & sorcery double acts, Tsathoggua, and Lovecraft swearing!
We also try to ignite a Balrogian debate by asking, "does Tsathoggua have wings?"
Guest reader: Robert Lloyd Parry Nunkie Productions
Favourite words: purpureal, pecuniary depletion, quinquangular, fetidity
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We move to Africa for the first of Smith's longer stories and chat about Venus, tropical tress, William Seabrook, colonialist attitudes, sex grottos, race laws and more.
Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz of Graveheart Designs
Favourite words: tetanic, baobabs, pandaus, vituperations, sedulous
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We once again cover two short stories - The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake and 13 Phantasms. We talk gopher snakes, HPL as a character, Robert E Howard's suicide note, cathartic writing and post mortem maths problems.
Guest reader: author K.T. Tate
Favourite words: ratiocinative, immortelles, creel
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We cover two stories this episode. The Phantoms of the Fire, which sees a more conventional plot from Smith. Then the wonderful, nightmare-like A Night in Malneant. We talk Californian culture, rustic bluntness, Lovecraft's error, Wright proven wrong, funerals, Silent Hill and one of the best Call of Cthulhu scenarios ever.
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Favourite words: runnelled, peregrinations, obsequies.
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We are joined by our first guest, Jeff Goad of the Appendix N Podcast. We cover the first Averoigne story, speculate on Smiths' absence from App N, and talk medieval porn, tapirs, Elisabeth Bathory and repression. We also question the motives of Abbot Hilaire!
Guest reader - Robert Lloyd Parry, Nunkie Productions.
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We cover three short stories this episode - Sadastor, The Ninth Skeleton and The Last Incantation. We talk Roman graffiti, puffy grave worms, byssus, dusty grapes and the nostalgia for youth. We also talk about Helen Sully's scary experience with Lovecraft!
Guest reader - Shelley deCruz.
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The Inquisitors of Ong banish a prisoner to the lifeless wastes of Yondo. But they may not be as lifeless as they first appear...
We discuss Smith's first story, and talk desolation, Goth band names and the eternal struggle between art and commerce. Guest reader - Robert Lloyd Parry of Nunkie Productions.
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Welcome to the first episode of Strange Shadows! Your hosts Tim Mendees and Rob Poyton introduce themselves, and tell of their first encounters with the sublime talents of Clark Ashton Smith.
There is also some background on Smith's life, details of the texts we will be using, and why we think CAS deserves his own podcast! Tim and Rob welcome your thoughts and suggestions, dear listener, and look forward to sojourning with you in Zothique and similar exotic climes...
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