Witch House Media has been creating podcasts and audio productions since 2009 - first The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast and now Strange Studies of Strange Stories!
Each week, hosts Chad Fifer and Chris Lackey discuss a piece of genre fiction. Talented voice actors bring the text to life. Music and sound effects create atmosphere while occasional guest experts show up to make things classy. Witch House Media is the gold standard in literary podcasting. JOIN US YOU FOOLS!
I'm familiar with the expression "all cats are grey in the dark" from Benjamin Franklin. It was in a letter, I think, wherein he was extolling the benefits of older women as lovers.
Hello, love the show. Found you through your House on the Borderland episodes. Was curious if you have any plans to cover Carnacki the Ghost Finder from Hodgson? Keep up the great show and have a good one.
We have done! These are the stories we've covered by Hodgson: The Derelict The Voice in the Night The Horse of the Invisible The Whistling Room The House Among the Laurels The Gateway of the Monster The House on the Borderland
Thanks for the 'cast. You both gave some good insights about the story and related ideas. The example of the salmon, for one, about this planet, universe, dimension as possibly a place to develop skills for advanced ' migration '. Listened to the Shatner reading before you guys and all I can say is 'Interesting'. Cheers
A great episode and a fantastic story. How I wish THRILLER had taken it on in the 60s, but that show preferred humanoid monsters and it's not OUTER LIMITS material. For many years I suspected Bloch had never read MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, but had picked up on "shoggoths" from THING ON THE DOORSTEP or SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH, where we learn they are absolutely terrible things, and can change shape, but we're not told what they are exactly. (Bloch's shoggoth design is FAR SUPERIOR to Lovecraft's, imho) But if that is so, he had definitely read MOUNTAINS by the time he wrote for STAR TREK, because his episode WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF condenses the shoggoth rebellion tale to the "B" story, with big Ted Cassidy's android Ruk standing in for the shoggoth. "What happened to the Old Ones, Ruk?"
Don't know about ant scientists, but there was an original OUTER LIMITS episode with bee scientists, who not only make their queen huge, but humanoid, so she can mate with a human being -- DRONE -- and spawn a race of, I dunno, half-human bee scientists to take over the world? The title of the piece was "ZZZZZ" and when it was referred to by the crew they called it "The Bees" to maintain conversational SANITY. Is that as mad as DAY OF THE DRAGON? I don't know. Pretty close.
