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Episode 009 — Lovecraft Wrote a Mock-Shakespearean Tragedy Starring His Friends
Episode 009 — Lovecraft Wrote a Mock-Shakespearean Tragedy Starring His Friends
October 23, 2026
Lovecraft's 1918 verse play "Alfredo; a Tragedy," signed "Beaumont and Fletcher," turns teenage Alfred Galpin's high-school romances into a Madrid court tragedy starring his amateur-journalism friends, with Lovecraft himself as the "ancient prattler" Teobaldo. Nearly everyone dies, it went unpublished until 1966, and our podcast staged it as an audio drama in January 2025.
episode-009-alfredo-a-tragedy.mp4Episode 008 — The Cats of Ulthar: the one place the universe shows mercy
Episode 008 — The Cats of Ulthar: the one place the universe shows mercy
2026-10-22
In a cosmos defined by indifference, 'The Cats of Ulthar' (1920) is the rare Love Craft story where something like justice actually arrives — the old couple who kill cats, orphan Menes's prayer, the cats' night revenge, and the town writing it into law.
episode-006-cats-of-ulthar.mp4Episode 007 — Lovecraft Wrote the Best Map of Horror Fiction Ever Made
Episode 007 — Lovecraft Wrote the Best Map of Horror Fiction Ever Made
2026-10-21
Lovecraft's 28,000-word critical survey 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' (written 1925–27, first published in the one-issue amateur magazine The Recluse in August 1927, revised 1933–34) traces horror from Beowulf through the Gothic novel and Poe to the four "modern masters" Machen, Blackwood, Dunsany, and M. R. James; it defines horror by cosmic fear, and David Hartwell called it the most important essay on horror literature.
episode-007-supernatural-horror-in-literature.mp4episode-006-cthulhu-south-park.mp4Episode 006 — South Park Made Cthulhu a Cartoon Villain — and Proved Lovecraft Had Gone Mainstream
Episode 006 — South Park Made Cthulhu a Cartoon Villain — and Proved Lovecraft Had Gone Mainstream
2026-10-21
South Park's 2010 season-14 trilogy ('Coon 2: Hindsight,' 'Mysterion Rises,' 'Coon vs. Coon and Friends') — reckless oil drilling wakes Cthulhu, Cartman makes him his best friend, the cultists chant the real 'eternal lie' couplet, and Justin Bieber doesn't survive; proof that by 2010 Lovecraft's tentacled god needed no introduction.
episode-005-crouch-end.mp4Episode 005 — Stephen King Got Lost in London — Then Wrote Pure Lovecraft
Episode 005 — Stephen King Got Lost in London — Then Wrote Pure Lovecraft
2026-10-20
A special episode: King's 1980 'Crouch End' (written for New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos) — an American couple takes a wrong turn in North London and reality wears thin; Prime Video's six-part limited series (Tomalin/Shankland, first King adaptation produced in the UK); premiere date unannounced.
episode-001-colour-out-of-space.mp4Episode 1 — "The Colour Out of Space Invented Ecological Horror"
Episode 1 — "The Colour Out of Space Invented Ecological Horror"
episode-002-festival-vs-goodman-brown.mp4Episode 2 — "The Festival vs. Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown"
Episode 2 — "The Festival vs. Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown"
episode-003-mountains-of-madness.mp4Episode 3 — "At the Mountains of Madness: The Monsters Were the Victims"
Episode 3 — "At the Mountains of Madness: The Monsters Were the Victims"
episode-004-annihilation-ecohorror.mp4Episode 4 — "How Annihilation Borrowed Lovecraftian Eco-Horror"
Episode 4 — "How Annihilation Borrowed Lovecraftian Eco-Horror"
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