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Episode 91 – Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley
In the first episode of Season 4 tm, Mike and Will are delighted by Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley, a tale of crypts, clergymen and crikey, what is that in the dog’s mouth?
Big thanks to Jim Moon for allowing us to use extracts from his excellent reading of the story. You can listen to the whole thing over on the Hypnogoria podcast feed.
Show notes:
You can learn more about Mary’s life and work in this article, or for a briefer summary, try wikipedia.
This story first appeared in the April 1890 edition of Temple Bar magazine, a literary periodical that ran for nearly fifty years.
The two lines quoted at the start of this story come from this poem by 19th century British author and poet Mathilde Blind.
During this episode Mike describes the character of Blake as possessing at least two of the personality traits that make up the Dark Triad, a psychological theory of personality first described by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002.
In this story we discuss the crypt at Wet-Waste-on-the-Wold church as being more of a charnel house.
Blake’s repeated use of the phrase “I’d prefer not to…” put us in mind of Herman Melville’s famously work-shy clerk Bartleby!
In this story, the vicar is locked in an ongoing arguement with a neighbouring clergyman about the meaning of the word ‘Asaph’. Dry stuff, but if you are interested there is a summary of the different opinions on this matter on Wikipedia.
Here’s a fun listicle of movies where, like in Let Loose, a severed hand returns to cause havoc. A special mention should go to the our personal favourite, the ‘hand’ scene from Evil Dead 2!
Here’s another famous example from legend of a faithful dog who was killed by his master after a tragic misunderstanding. #RIPBrian
We quoted a line from Melissa Edmundson’s introduction to this anthology, ‘[Let Loose] predates James’s stories if haunted churches and crypts, so that it could be legitimately said that James’s stories were in the style of Mary Cholmondeley’.
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In the first episode of Season 4 tm, Mike and Will are delighted by Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley, a tale of crypts, clergymen and crikey, what is that in the dog’s mouth?
Big thanks to Jim Moon for allowing us to use extracts from his excellent reading of the story. You can listen to the whole thing over on the Hypnogoria podcast feed.
Show notes:
You can learn more about Mary’s life and work in this article, or for a briefer summary, try wikipedia.
This story first appeared in the April 1890 edition of Temple Bar magazine, a literary periodical that ran for nearly fifty years.
The two lines quoted at the start of this story come from this poem by 19th century British author and poet Mathilde Blind.
During this episode Mike describes the character of Blake as possessing at least two of the personality traits that make up the Dark Triad, a psychological theory of personality first described by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002.
In this story we discuss the crypt at Wet-Waste-on-the-Wold church as being more of a charnel house.
Blake’s repeated use of the phrase “I’d prefer not to…” put us in mind of Herman Melville’s famously work-shy clerk Bartleby!
In this story, the vicar is locked in an ongoing arguement with a neighbouring clergyman about the meaning of the word ‘Asaph’. Dry stuff, but if you are interested there is a summary of the different opinions on this matter on Wikipedia.
Here’s a fun listicle of movies where, like in Let Loose, a severed hand returns to cause havoc. A special mention should go to the our personal favourite, the ‘hand’ scene from Evil Dead 2!
Here’s another famous example from legend of a faithful dog who was killed by his master after a tragic misunderstanding. #RIPBrian
We quoted a line from Melissa Edmundson’s introduction to this anthology, ‘[Let Loose] predates James’s stories if haunted churches and crypts, so that it could be legitimately said that James’s stories were in the style of Mary Cholmondeley’.
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