Bob's Short Story Hour

Welcome, Listeners to the 2020 BSSH Halloween Special - Part II!

This is part 2 of a 3-part series. If you missed the beginning of the story, please go back and check out episode 67!

When we left off in the last episode, our narrator had just. begun corresponding with an intellectual recluse in the wild Vermont hills about strange sightings and evidence of otherworldly beings there. Creatures whose formerly benign aloofness, had now grown to more sinister-feeling. attention directed upon the men themselves.

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Welcome, Listeners to the 2020 BSSH Halloween Special - Part I!

This episode kicks off our 2020 Halloween feature presentation! We're sticking with Lovecraft this month, though this story is from later in Howard's career than the previous episode's tale.

This story took Lovecraft longer to write than many of his other works. He toiled over it from February 24th to September 26th, 1930. The ideas behind it go back to at least 1927 when Lovecraft first visited Vermont. He loved the beauty of the state and its untouched wilderness so much that he felt compelled to write an essay entitled "Vermont - A First Impression". Whole passages of this work are incorporated into today's story.

The setting of the country farmhouse is based on the abodes of two of his friends Vrest Orton and Arthur Goodenough. Lovecraft even included the discovery of Pluto into the story - something that was announced to the world one month after he began writing the story. It first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in August 1931.

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Episode 66 includes a reading of "The Alchemist" written by a 17-year-old H.P. Lovecraft in 1908. Welcome to October listeners! Stay tuned for more spooky content over the next couple weeks!

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Episode 65 includes a reading of "A Terrible Night" by Fitz-James O'Brien. Stay tuned after the credits for a special bonus! Thanks for listening everyone!

Episode 64 features "The Scarlet Plague: Chapter 6" by Jack London (part 6 of a 6-part series).

In episode 63 I talk with Paula Overby and author and politician running for US Senate in the state of Minnesota. We talk about all manner of things.

Bob is interviewed on the podcast "The Grits with Collygreens".

Episode 61 features "The Scarlet Plague: Chapter 4" by Jack London (part 4 of a 6-part series).