Countdown to Cthulhu: Cephalopodcasts
I live about forty-five miles north of San Francisco, so on the days I drive in to the office, I've got a long commute. Fortunately, in this era of four-buck-a-gallon gas, I drive a hybrid. And I've got the perfect co-pilot in Maddie, who watches out for giant squids as we cross the Golden Gate Bridge.
And we listen to podcasts. Lots of podcasts.
One of my favorites, and frequently the high point of my Thursday morning drive is The H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast with Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer, who explore the deeper themes, origins, and influences behind Lovecraft's fiction on a story-by-story basis--with a good dose of humor. Lately, they have been examining "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" in a multi-part show. The H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast have also produced full-length readings of Lovecraft's stories "From Beyond," "The Picture in the House," "The Haunter of the Dark," "Cool Air," and "The Cats of Ulthar." They are currently collecting donations which will allow them to produce a reading of "The Call of Cthulhu."
Two of the stories included in The Book of Cthulhu originally appeared as podcasts:
"Jihad over Innsmouth," by Edward Morris, first appeared at Pseudopod.
"Cinderlands," by Tim Pratt, first appeared at The Drabblecast.
Moreover, Elizabeth Bear's Hugo-winning novelette "Shoggoths in Bloom," which first appeared in Asimov's, and is being reprinted in The Book of Cthulhu, received a podcast adaptation at StarShipSofa.
And while it's not a podcast, here's an audiobook sample from the Brilliance Audio adaptation of The Book of Cthulhu contributor John Hornor Jacobs' debut novel, Southern Gods, of which the BN Mystery Blog says, "flat-out one of the scariest books I've read in a long time; a sweaty, sultry trek through the secret geographical and spiritual places of the American South fueled by a delta blues soundtrack so transcendent and graphically conjured you'll not be able to shake reverberations of the spectral tunes you've never actually heard for weeks (and the dreams they'll conjure will keep your local mediums, pharmacists and psychoanalysts in the manner they're accustomed to for years)."
So if you want a preview of The Book of Cthulhu, all you have to do is click and listen. Because what's cooler than having someone read you a story?
And this was too good not to hotlink from the Girl Gone Geek Blog:
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The Book of Cthulhu is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and better independent booksellers everywhere.
And we listen to podcasts. Lots of podcasts.
One of my favorites, and frequently the high point of my Thursday morning drive is The H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast with Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer, who explore the deeper themes, origins, and influences behind Lovecraft's fiction on a story-by-story basis--with a good dose of humor. Lately, they have been examining "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" in a multi-part show. The H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast have also produced full-length readings of Lovecraft's stories "From Beyond," "The Picture in the House," "The Haunter of the Dark," "Cool Air," and "The Cats of Ulthar." They are currently collecting donations which will allow them to produce a reading of "The Call of Cthulhu."
Two of the stories included in The Book of Cthulhu originally appeared as podcasts:
"Jihad over Innsmouth," by Edward Morris, first appeared at Pseudopod.
"Cinderlands," by Tim Pratt, first appeared at The Drabblecast.
Moreover, Elizabeth Bear's Hugo-winning novelette "Shoggoths in Bloom," which first appeared in Asimov's, and is being reprinted in The Book of Cthulhu, received a podcast adaptation at StarShipSofa.
And while it's not a podcast, here's an audiobook sample from the Brilliance Audio adaptation of The Book of Cthulhu contributor John Hornor Jacobs' debut novel, Southern Gods, of which the BN Mystery Blog says, "flat-out one of the scariest books I've read in a long time; a sweaty, sultry trek through the secret geographical and spiritual places of the American South fueled by a delta blues soundtrack so transcendent and graphically conjured you'll not be able to shake reverberations of the spectral tunes you've never actually heard for weeks (and the dreams they'll conjure will keep your local mediums, pharmacists and psychoanalysts in the manner they're accustomed to for years)."
So if you want a preview of The Book of Cthulhu, all you have to do is click and listen. Because what's cooler than having someone read you a story?
And this was too good not to hotlink from the Girl Gone Geek Blog:
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The Book of Cthulhu is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and better independent booksellers everywhere.
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