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From Innsmouth Literary Festival 20203
Chair -    Tim Mendees
Panel -  Simon Bleaken, Anna Smith Spark, David Hambling, Alexandra Beaumont, Paul Fricker

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Athammaus,  Athammaus, oh oh... Tim and Rob return to Hyperborea and discover the reason for the fall of Commorium. We talk executions and executioners,  cannibalism,  dreams, and discover a word that rhymes with Dracula.
Reader: Greig Johnson
Favourite words: fulvous, contumelious, alabastine, exudation, maugre
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Rob Poyton reads In the Desert,  Sinbad It Was Not Well to Brag, and Revenant.

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We cover two stories, the classic City of the Singing Flame, and The Good Embalmer. We chat geology, Freud, Star Trek, Dr Who, the London Underground, J Vernon Shea and discover just who is Randy Candle.
Guest reader Mark Griffin 30 Minutes+ with HP Lovecraft podcast
Favourite words: scoriac, pursy, Anakim, abdominous, jocose, rubicund.
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COTSF artwork    Randy Candle

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We take a look at the only three CAS screen adaptations we know of - Return of the Sorcerer, from Night Gallery.  Mother of Toads from Richard Stanley. And The Last Incantation from Lurker Films.
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PGTCM Andrew Migliore interview

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We are joined by David, Mark and Richard of 30 Minutes+ with HP Lovecraft podcast to discuss a Smithian classic, Return of the Sorcerer. We talk Alone in the Dark, alternate endings, body parts, rugs, good vibrations, rugs, will power,  carrion booty and rugs.
This episode was sponsored by the Auburn Rug Emporium.
Guest reader:  Jeff Goad. Appendix N Book Club
Favourite words: incubi, recrudescence, aquilinity,  manifold cleavage, and oudine.
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Rob and Tim cover a long and short story today -An Adventure in Futurity  & The Justice of the Elephant.  We talk puns, futuristic names, time machines, Dr Who, the Rajput and Torrid Saffron. Plus listener feedback and latest news.
Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz
Favourite words: polyandry,  over-preponderance, obulus, mahout, zenana, Bundelkhand, musth.
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Sword & Sorceries        Great Library of Dreams podcast     

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Tim and Rob again cover two shorts stories, The Ghoul and The Kingdom of the Worm. Chat includes Vathek, ghūls, career choices, Wright is wrong again, lost ghoul films, fictional books and scary stones. Plus listener feedback on our last episode.
Guest reader: Paul Fricker
Favourite words: mendicant, penumbra, interdiction, cerastes, simoon, condole
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Discord Channel     What a Carve Up

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We cover two short stories again this time, both with a similar theme - extra marital affairs gone wrong! We talk poisons, cuckolds, nightclub bouncers, nightmares,  1970s haunted paintings, Beethoven and beards. Plus letter extracts from HPL on orientalism and listener feedback.
Guest reader  Simon Bleaken
Favourite words: yataghan, solicitude, anodyne, deliquescence, propinquity, collops

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Green Lady Painting        Rising Damp Grey Lady      REH Poem

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Tim and Rob cover two short stories this episode, starting with The Gorgon.  We talk Greek myth, Olde London, the abnatural, liminal spaces and The Bangles.  Then it's on to An Offering to the Moon, with talk of lunar temples, naked sacrifices and favourite eras.
There's also some listener feedback on Lovecraft and the cinema, where we learn about HPL's favourite film and Tim's Pint Scale method of reviews.
Guest reader:  Gavin Chappell
Favourite words: catafelque, fabulosity, oblation, luctation plenilune, veridical
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John Rogers London Walks        30+ Minutes with Lovecraft Podcast

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