The Weird and Loathsome Podcast

In police custody after the disappearance of his friend Harley Warren, Randolph Carter recounts the harrowing tale of horror and Madness in Great Cedar Swamp.

Summary & Analysis at 19:30

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Our narrator returns to the family estate of his childhood companion, after receiving a disturbing letter telling of melancholy and dread. What secret lies at the heart of his disturbance? What horrors await the House of Usher?

Summary & Analysis at 53:15

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(Note: This story contains outdated and culturally insensitive language)

Keawe sets out to retrieve the cursed bottle and its treacherous imp to make his marriage to Kokua possible. But, what cost will he be obliged to pay? And what travails await the couple before they can be freed from the threat of damnation?

Further Reading

On the inspiration for The Bottle Imp: https://helengrantbooks.blogspot.com/2014/03/tempered-in-flames-of-hell-bottle-imp.html

On works written for translation:

https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/9786/9241

Summary & Analysis at 45:00

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(Note: This story contains outdated and culturally insensitive language)

The sailor Keawe, taking in the sights of beautiful San Francisco, purchases a mysterious and infernal bottle, complete with a demonic imp ready to grant his every wish. The bottle comes with a price (and a catch), but Keawe believes he made the best of his deal with the devil. But, has he?

Summary & Analysis at 44:00

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A submarine commander descends from victory into madness, after his crew take on board an uncanny ivory statuette. Beset by mutineers, trailed by sea creatures, and drifting into the unknown, he explores a lost and ancient city sunken to depths of the sea.

A true classic by the incomparable H. P. Lovecraft.

Summary & Analysis at 43:00

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Tarzan of the Apes, driven by desperate hunger, steals an ill-fated meal from the village at the edge of the jungle. But the unwholesome feast sits poorly with the King of Beasts, and soon mighty Tarzan can scarcely tell reality from nightmare.

Summary & Analysis at 38:45

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Despite a budding romance between the artist and his muse, terror and tragedy are lurking just out of sight. For terror and tragedy are all that await anyone so unfortunate as to encounter The King in Yellow, or his ominous Sign.

Summary & Analysis at 26:20

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An artist in early 20th century Manhattan is so unsettled by the ghoulish, grub-like visage of the church groundskeeper that he is unable to carry on his work. But when his muse reveals the details of her recurring nightmares, it seems that there is some deeper secret lurking for them both.

Summary & Analysis at 28:05

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In the middle of Carnival, Fortunato encounters his old friend Montresor. But the invitation to sample some fine wine leads not to greater revelry, but rather into a hideous and vengeful trap.

Summary & Analysis at 21:30 

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Our narrator recounts the harrowing tale of his final visit with the sculptor, Richard Upton Pickman, which preceded their estrangement... as well as Pickman's mysterious disappearance.

Summary & Analysis at 40:00

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