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EPISODE4 - The Lovecraft Geek Nov 11, 2013

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What killed the horror atop Sentinel Hill? Is the series 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Lovecraftian in your opinion? In "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" who is No. 118, the mysterious shade inadvertently raised up by Dr. Willett who warns him about Curwen and eventually deals with Orne and Hutchinson? Would a 'pure' Cthulhu movie really have any impact when we just saw one this summer with multi-dimensioned monsters coming out of the Pacific? And wasn't the '82 The Thing the apex of Antarctic horror? You have juxtaposed Nietzsche's Madman with Old Man Whateley from â??The Dunwich Horror.â?? I'd like to hear you compare these characters. And have you observed any other homages to philosophy in Howard's writings? In Episode 3 you talked briefly about how you thought Lovecraft would view the world up through WWII. What might he have thought of the modern world? Why are Lovecraft's amateur works largely ignored? What are your thoughts, likes, and dislikes re the Dream Cycle stories? What about "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath"? Do you think that H.P.L. mapped out a consistent timeline for his stories of various un-earthly visitors and conflicts between races? Are there any unanswered questions in Lovecraft's stories that you'd love to see answered? Lovecraft seems to anticipate recent political trends, where reality is stranger than (if it's possible ) Lovecraft's fiction. What does this mean?

EPISODE3 - The Lovecraft Geek Oct 20, 2013

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Another Lovecraft Geek podcast to carve by â?? whatever it is you usually carve â?? for our countdown to the high holiday of Halloween. Do you see a divide between those who read the original Lovecraft texts and focus more on the fun to be had celebrating the mythos, and those who focus more on narrative themes and pathos? Do you feel like the expansionists of Lovecraftian tales are more attempting to play in the sandbox of his mythos or to actually attempt to mimic the tragic pathos of his original work? What makes a work of fiction Lovecraftian? What are the best film adaptations of Lovecraft's writings, in your opinion? And, were he around today, how do you think H.P.L would have felt about his work being reinvented in cinema? Are you familiar with Robert Bloch's STRANGE EONS, and if so what do you think of it? Should the Cthulhu Mythos best read as a cohesive universe? How did Lovecraft manage to stay so current on the science of his day? When did HPL get the idea of the Necronomicon? Just how much do you think Lord Dunsany inspired HPL? At what point did he start reading Dunsany's work? I have always wondered if Lovecraft had lived through World War 2, how would the horrors of the nuclear age, death camps, etc. have moulded his further writings? Do you have any plans to gift us with another reading of a Lovecraft story? Which is your favorite mythos deity? Which deity's followers have the best chants and\or prayers? Do you have a favorite Lovecraft themed board game? Are there any collections of August Derleth's own stories, not his so-called "collaborations" with Lovecraft, that you can recommend? As a writer of strange fiction, do you ever find yourself torn between the creation of a completely original story (even if influenced by HLP) and writing one that is part of the mythos (invoking the names of the Ancient Ones, etc)? Do you think there is any disadvantage to authors including Lovecraft references in their work? Is there any stigma among the big publishers, etc., when it comes to "borrowing" from other authors, like Lovecraft? What is your favorite Lovecraftian film? Not an actual work based on HLP, but the film that most evoked that eldritch feeling inside of you? Jason Colavito in his book "The House of the Octopus" raises the worship of the Octopus God "Tutulau" of Samoa, Fiji and Tonga as a possible source of H.P.L.'s inspiration for C'thulhu. Did Lovecraft know anything about this stuff?

Trigger 1 - Call in the Woods Oct 13, 2013

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Audio by John Felix.

EPISODE2 - The Lovecraft Geek Sep 29, 2013

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Thanks to Mike Davis and The Lovecraft eZine at http://lovecraftzine.com/ for hosting The Lovecraft Geek page: http://lovecraftzine.com/the-lovecraft-geek-robert-m-price-podcast/. Send your questions to Dr. Price at: criticus@aol.com. How would you place HLP in the context of his times and literary peers (in terms of his work and also his beliefs and attitudes)? Another question I never get tired of is any reflection on why his legacy is so vast? Do you believe that HPL's political/racial views hinder the ability to turn his stories into major Hollywood productions? What exactly happens to De La Poer at the end of "The Rats in the Walls"? Is he mad? Possessed? Controlled by external beings? Regressing through the "genetic memories" of his Delapore ancestors in some way? Do you have an opinion of those who are originalists or purists, as concerns Lovecraft? If so, what are your thoughts as to why these two camps exist? Did Lovecraft have a source from which he drew inspiration for Cthulhu, or did he somehow manage to invent this creature from whole cloth? Do you have any ideas about the source of these two references in the works of Brian Lumley: 1) "The Second Wish" cites an Englishman named John Kingsley Brown, an apparent contemporary of Lovecraft's Charles Dexter Ward and Robert E. Howard's Justin Geoffrey, and 2) "The House of the Temple" mentions "the red, hairy slime used by Julian Scortz." Did Lovecraft start out to create a mythos for his stories, or did it just grow over time and as he wrote? S.T. Joshi believes that Wilbur Whateley's biological father is also his grandfather, Old Wizard Whateley, because how could Yog-Sothoth engender a child on a human woman? My own reading is different, that as a parody of the Christian tradition of the birth of Christ that Wilbur and his brother were parthenogenically conceived and that Lavinia was a virgin. What is the Geek's opinion on the matter?

EPISODE1 - Official Premier Podcast - The Lovecraft Geek Sep 19, 2013

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Thanks to The Lovecraft eZine at http://lovecraftzine.com/ for hosting The Lovecraft Geek page: http://lovecraftzine.com/the-lovecraft-geek-robert-m-price-podcast/. Questions for this podcast: When did Lovecraft's writings start gaining popularity? Do you think there is any validity to the claim - made famous in Shea and Wilson's Illuminatus Trilogy! - that the "Great Old Ones" are somehow derived from the secret lore of Illuminati Cultists? What do you think the film makers may have missed in Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown? It might be fun/interesting to discuss the sudden appearance of the Azathoth monument in Oklahoma. How old were you when you started reading Lovecraft? What is your favorite Lovecraft story? What is your favorite Lovecraftian story not written by Lovecraft? Will Lovecraft ever achieve his rightful place in the ranks of America's literary greats? What Anthology has The Shambler from the Stars, The Haunter of the Dark, and The Shadow from the Steeple? Do you agree with the thesis that von Daniken, et al, owe their inspiration to HPL, or to other literary or fictional, or primarily non-fictional, sources, and not at all to Lovecraft? I was wondering if you'd expand on your "Teenage fundamentalist" years and how you discovered Lovecraft, and how you reconciled the Cthulu Mythos with your Christian beliefs?

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