In November 1933 Weird Tales featured the first published science fiction of Catherine L. Moore, who wrote under the name CL Moore. This story Shambleau features a very cosmic horror style vampire and space rogue decades before Han Solo became a thing. This story has the elegant purple prose that Lovecraft was known for while at the same time featuring themes that would be considered lurid today.

In this episode we look into CL Moore’s life, growing up in my home state of Indiana, going to college walking distance from my childhood home, her first adventures in publishing, and then of course we talk about the story.

Featuring Cora Buhlert who won a Hugo award for best fan writer since we recorded this episode, and bestselling author and editor Greg Cox.

Read it in Weird Tales November 1933 here:

https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v22n05_1933-11_ELPM-SliV/page/n1/mode/2up

Listen to the author read it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqsy_5zdSW8

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