Strange Shadows

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Strange Shadows episodes

March 15 SS4 14 The Charnel God
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Join us for a dark trip into Zothique with Smith's classic The Charnel God. We talk cover art, the parade of nudes, dromedaries, Xuthal and Charlton Heston.
Reader: Heather Miller
Favourite words: optamites, orotund, necrophagism, adytum, privity, unctuous, chafferer, huckster, noctabulistic
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Innsmouth Literary Festival Grooving in Green
Mothership Campaign Charlton Heston Put His Vest On
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1 hr 26 min
February 15 SS4 13 The Secret of the Cairn
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Join us for a journey to the light beyond in CAS' unearthly The Secret of the Cairn. We talk the High Sierras, the Law of Fives, Algol and Alderbaran, angels and mounds. Plus a delve into the mailbag.
Reader: Simon Frazier Nash.
Favourite words: intercalated, boskage, asphodels, phlox, stelliform, appanage, friable, mortised.
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Concrete Cow Bedford Tabeltop Expo Heather Miller
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1 hr 15 min
February 01 SS4 12 Genius Loci
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Join us in the isolated desolation of Genius Loci. We talk Bowman, The Willows, creepy locations, pareidolia, Swamp Thing and more.
Reader: Clay Story Sculptor
Favourite words: inveigle, vampire, tenebrific, coadjutation.
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Monster in my Bed podcast CAS Circle Youtube Innsmouth Forum

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1 hr 23 min
January 18 SS4 11 The Third Episode of Vathek
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Join us for a look at Smith's posthumous collaboration, an unfinished sequel to the classic Gothic novel, Vathek. We talk William Beckford, Shakespeare, the fall of Rome, Disney villains and haunted beds. Plus a delve into the mailbag.
Reader: Shelley de Cruz
Favourite words: effulgent, anthropophagism, sternutations
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Grognardia Blog Innsmouth Forum 30+ Minutes with HPL
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1 hr 13 min
December 14, 2025 SS4 10 The Maze of the Enchanter
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Join us in the lush undergrowth of Xiccarph as we discuss The Maze of the Enchanter! We talk Argosy magazine, Greek mythology, sorcery and science, Dr Who, Jack Vance and Dungeons & Dragons.
Reader: Matt Sanderson
Favourite words: odalisque, corundum, coigns, gamboge, suzerain, pard, imbricate, encorsel, aigrette.
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CAS Convention Innsmouth Forum
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1 hr 27 min
November 30, 2025 SS4 09 The Dweller In The Gulf
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It's subterranean Martian horror this episode, with The Dweller in the Gulf. We talk editors, alpha chaps, hope, interesting villains, plus a delve into the mailbag. Oh, and Tim sings...
Reader: Clay Story Sculptor
Favourite words: ferruginous, objugate, mephitic, fetor, noctilucae, sopor, adumbration.
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Goth Bats Innsmouth Forum
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1 hr 17 min
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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1 hr 18 min
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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1 hr 17 min
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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1 hr 27 min
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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1 hr 8 min

About 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…