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We start our two story episode with Smith's ultra-goth tale of doomed love, The Planet of the Dead. We talk HPL on Zoom, Cimmerians, weird dreams and TV sfx. Then it's on to The Uncharted Isle, where we talk  Wallace Irwin, the Bermuda Triangle and ancient maps. Plus letters extracts, and listener comments.
Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz  Graveheart Designs
Favourite words: immedicable, sybarite, mendicants, bizzareries, postern, drupes, armillary, littoral, heteroclitic.

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Two more short stories this episode. We start with the Dev of Ev and talk obscure pulps, the 8th Circle of Hell, Faust, impersonal evil, sonic vibrations and Shatner in space.
Then it's off to Averoigne for The Satyr, We talk rising sap, carry on films, Victorian repression and the Great God Pan, plus listener comments and news of our live Halloween chat from Innsmouth. Oh  -  and we also coin the phrase the Auburn Cycle!

Guest reader:  Robert Lloyd Parry  Nunkie Productions
Favourite words: Manichean, malebolge. infrangible, villaneilles, pleiade, chrysoprase, vertumnal.

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We cover two short stories this episode, starting with The Epiphany of Death. We talk Randolph Carter,  Ptolemy, Lovecraft's voice, and Dungeons and Dragons. 
Next, we look at Murder in the Fourth Dimension and talk Halpin Frayser, Ted Bundy, portable vibrators, and the Fourth Dimension, and ask "who is Mike?"
Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz  Graveheart Designs
Favourite words: Lacunae, adit, adipocere, nonce, corpus delecti, demonian

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Noel Farmer interview      Zothique D20 Guide      Blaylock 13 Phantasms     

The Catacombs of Ptolemides     The Ordeal of Randolph Carter

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This episode we cover another of Smith's longer stories,  a tale of alien invasion! We talk money troubles, sandstorms, Star Trek tropes, squid worms and yeti crabs, phantasy vs scientifction and make our own UFO sound effects!
Guest reader:  author KT Tate
 
Favourite words: promulgation, concomitance, calamite, locomotor ataxia

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This episode sees us get into our longest Smith tale yet, and it's an interplanetary romance -  of sorts! We talk Ambrose Bierce, Antares, Elton John's time machine, laser rods and hairy pits, the Three F's of Smith, Howard and Lovecraft and interstellar conmen. We also read some comments from listeners and have news of our latest Patron bonus.
Oh -and we also have some homework for our listeners!

Guest reader:  Gavin Chappell of Lovecraftiana magazine

Favourite words: inanition, fulgurent, nyctaloptic, planturous, nacarat, erubescent,

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Author Gavin Chappell joins us to discuss one of Smith's best loved works, and his first Hyperborean tale.  We talk burning books, Wright is wrong again, sword & sorcery double acts, Tsathoggua, and Lovecraft swearing!
We also try to ignite a Balrogian debate by asking, "does Tsathoggua have wings?"
Guest reader:  Robert Lloyd Parry  Nunkie Productions

Favourite words: purpureal, pecuniary depletion, quinquangular, fetidity

Schlock Webzine     Lovecraftiana Magazine       Gavin Chappell Site     Amazon Author Page        New  IG Anthology Kickstart

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We move to Africa for the first of Smith's longer stories and chat about Venus, tropical tress, William Seabrook, colonialist attitudes, sex grottos, race laws and more.
Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz of   Graveheart Designs
Favourite words: tetanic, baobabs, pandaus, vituperations, sedulous

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We once again cover two short stories - The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake and 13 Phantasms. We talk  gopher snakes, HPL as a character,  Robert E Howard's suicide note, cathartic writing and post mortem maths problems.
Guest reader: author K.T. Tate
Favourite words: ratiocinative, immortelles, creel
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We cover two stories this episode. The Phantoms of the Fire, which sees a more conventional plot from Smith. Then the wonderful, nightmare-like A Night in Malneant.  We talk Californian culture, rustic bluntness, Lovecraft's error, Wright proven wrong, funerals, Silent Hill and one of the best Call of Cthulhu scenarios ever.
Guest reader Jeff Goad  Appendix N Podcast
Favourite words: runnelled, peregrinations, obsequies.
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Check out our first Patron episode on Smith's letters to Lovecraft and Derleth!

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We are joined by our first guest, Jeff Goad of the Appendix N Podcast.  We cover the first Averoigne story, speculate on Smiths' absence from App N,  and talk medieval porn, tapirs, Elisabeth Bathory and repression. We also question the motives of Abbot Hilaire!
Guest reader - Robert Lloyd Parry, Nunkie Productions.
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