StoryHack Podcast

From the September, 1938 issue of “Detective Yarns.” This one really rips along, and is about as pulpy as a story can get. The bad guys are as bad as can be imagined, the good guy is always about to die, and the author tosses in some nudity for a little extra shock value, no pun intended.

As the creatures of a condemned man's dream, the Brotherhood of Black Evil arose from the dust of 800,000 years to weave its spell of criminal sorcery over those who knew the answer to the Gray Sphinx riddle.

This appeared in the June 1941 Issue of Fantastic Adventures. If I had really planned ahead, I probably would have released this one back on the week of July 4th. Oh, well. It’s pretty short, running only about 10 minutes or so. The good news is I fixed what I had been doing wrong with the recording, so the sound quality is way up over last week.

A man brings home an impossible creature.

Today we’re going to finish up The Daughter of Thor by Edmund Hamilton with chapters 5 and 6. I very much enjoyed the climactic battle of this one. If I hadn’t just thought of it right now, I probably would have found a recording of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” to use as a soundtrack for that part. But I didn’t. If that’s something you’d like to do on a different device while you’re listening, however, it’s pretty clear in the story when to start the music.

This episode used to be number 12, but after the relaunch, is now number 2. It is a western, happening before law came to San Francisco. Written by Gordon Young, originally published in Adventure, February of 1919.

Continuing our plucky hero’s plight, fighting Nazis and now Norse Gods? Poor guy can’t catch a break.

A strange sequence of events leads an American pilot and a Nazi officer to the mythical land of Valhalla. This is a longer story, running about 2 hours total, so I’m splitting it into a few episodes. Part 1 features Chapters 1 & 2.

I'm getting the podcast started back up. For those who are new to the podcast, I also explain what to expect.

In which Sailor Steve Costigan says goodbye to his beloved Sea Girl then fights the frenchman who kicked his dog. It’s the first Robert E. Howard story I’ve recorded for the podcast. I’ve read that these boxing stories were more popular at the time of their release than Howard’s Weird Tales stories. Today, they are all but forgotten. But they shouldn’t be, because they’re tons of fun.