Strange Shadows

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Hosted by Tim Mendees and Rob Poyton of the Innsmouth Book Club, Strange Shadows is a fortnightly podcast devoted to the weird fiction of Clark Ashton Smith. One of the Trinity of Weird Tales autho

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November 02, 2025 SS4 08 The Dimension of Chance
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We are back in scientifiction territory with Smith's tale of future war, The Dimension of Chance. We talk planes and parachutes, sang froid, Tomfoolery, chaps, space rock, D&D alignment and story lengths.
Favourite words: infrangible, leatheroid, rufous, lancelate, pulverous, legerdemain, incertitude and Araucaria.
Reader: Shelley de Cruz
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The Smith Circle Convention Innsmouth Forum

The Art of Skinner Tomfoolery
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1h 18min
October 12, 2025 SS4 07 The Isle of the Torturers
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It's a grim tale this episode with The Isle of the Torturers. We talk Achenar, WH Hodgson, safe words, Melnibone, unseen horrors and goth skin care.
Reader: Simon Frazier Nash.
Favourite words: pythonomoprh, lapidaries, halcyon, promulgate, cresset, adicopere, engineries.

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The Smith Circle Convention Innsmouth Forum
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1h 17min
September 21, 2025 SS4 06 The Ice Demon
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Frozen Hyperborea beckons for the creeping doom that is The Ice Demon. We talk D&D, the Pleistocene era, Ithaqua, £50 notes, nematodes, potholes and inclement weather.
Reader: Scott Dorward
Favourite words: glabrous, commiseratively, parhelia, buskins, cleavage, bouleversement
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The Smith Circle Convention

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1h 27min
August 31, 2025 SS4 05 The White Sybil
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It's a return to Hyperborea with Smith's classic tale of allure and creeping doom. We chat Sybil, the Frost Giant's Daughter, tropigoths, the children of Woolpit, elevated horror and technicolour prose. Oh, and Rob tells the moth joke...
Reader: Helena Nash
Favourite words: austral, southroun, ells, gracile, preterhuman, eider, machicolate, mellifluous, vacillant.
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Innsmouth Literary Festival The Smith Circle Convention Monster in my Bed
Good Friends of Jackson Elias 30+ Minutes with HPL
Peoples Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos The Children of Woolpit
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1h 8min
August 03, 2025 SS4 04 The Disinterment of Venus
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Averoigne draws us into its arms once more as we visit the naughty monks of Périgon for The Disinterment of Venus. We talk Venus, moving statues, Carry On, posterns, Mary Whitehouse, playing the incubus and rumpy monks.
Reader: Robbie Dorman
Favourite words: peccadilloes, chariness, Circean, maculations, satyriasis, indecorous
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Auburn CAS Conference IBC Key of Dreams episode
Monster In my Bed, Legend

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1h 18min
July 20, 2025 SS4 03 The Star-Change
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Tim and Rob slip dimensions with Smith's tale of altered perception, The Star-Change. We talk Donner, moonfish, cubism, goblins, Mi-go and creative restrictions. Plus news and the mailbag.
Reader: Simon Frazier Nash
Favourite words: vocable, Sisyphean, lugubrious, littoral, Lethe, uncongenial exigency
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Auburn CAS Conference Shadow of Chaos Tim Mendees

ILF25 Video ILF Booking Clay Story Sculptor
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1h 37min
July 06, 2025 SS4 02 The Beast of Averoigne
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Join us in the summer of 69 as we plunge back into the haunted forest with The Beast of Averoigne. We talk comets, antique demons, Terileptils, goth hair product and The Averoigne Legacy. Plus Tim sings, we check the mailbag and report news of a CAS event in Auburn!
Reader: Shelley de Cruz
Favourite words: rutilant, pernoctations, consanguinity, Malebolge, corposant, Satanry, Phlegethonian lustre
Auburn CAS Conference The Cromcast The Averoigne Legacy
Rambling Syd Rumpo The Lantern Man of Wicken Fen
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1h 30min
June 22, 2025 SS4 01 The Mandrakes
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Episode One of Season Four returns us to Averoigne for Smith's tale of revenge from beyond the grave, The Mandrakes. We talk Gahan Wilson, Mandragora, Carry on Abroad, the ghost of Cromwell and the quite remarkable GP Olsen.
Reader: Ally Wilkes
Favourite words: connubial infelicities, privily, termagant, recreant, quotidian, amatory.
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Innsmouth Excursion, London Squares Self Publishing Guide
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1h 11min
June 08, 2025 SS Reading 3 The City in the Sea
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Just prior to Season Four starting, here's a reading of Poe's classic tale of underwater doom and decay, The City in the Sea.
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May 25, 2025 SS3 027 CAS Reviews
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Tim runs through some reviews of Smith's work from the likes of HPL, August Derleth, Lillith Loraine, & Benjamin De Casseres.
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