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Here it is again – the very first H.P. Lovecraft month special!  Listen in as we try to figure out what it’s all about at the end of the episode!   Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in […]

“We cannot destroy it- it’s too valuable” said Klugscheisser “And yet, it would be dangerous to keep it.  We must hide it in the last place that anyone would ever think of looking for it…”

Annabelle’s mother closed her eyes. “Get it sharp,” she said. “Very sharp, so it doesn’t hurt much. I’ll boil some water.” Somewhere in the house, far from the green places she’d known, baby Annabelle lay on her stomach and cried…

The note itself simply read, “TUESDAY 7:13 PM”. Unsigned, undated, unadorned. Stuck into my door, just above the latch where I’d be sure to find the note immediately upon my return from my errands about the city…     The Tentacled Sky by Jay Lake The first note was scribbled on a piece of old […]

If you listened to Clown Eggs and thought, “I need more stories like THAT,” you are in for a treat.  This week, we listen to Jay Lake’s “Over the Walls of Eden”-stick around at the end and hear a discussion of the story.   “Why do you remember the books?” he finally asks. She smiles […]

Author Jay Lake knew about the devil and he knew about the clowns. When his story, Clown Eggs, first appeared on the Drabblecast, listeners said things like “This might be, hands-down, the weirdest story I’ve ever heard on [The Drabblecast].  I think I’m going to have nightmares forever. Can I send my therapy bills to […]