People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos

A podcast about cosmic horror, weird fiction, folklore, monster movies, and strange stories.

Episode 103: Wrath of Cthulhucon

I went to Cthulhucon PDX 2015, and then I talk about it for a longtime. You should go next year, here is why… Episode 103: Wrath of Cthulhucon
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Episode 102: Arkham Boogaloo

What lay behind our joint love of shadows and marvels was, no doubt, the ancient, mouldering, and subtly fearsome town in which we live witch-cursed, legend-haunted Arkham, whose huddled, sagging gambrel roofs and crumbling Georgian balustrades brood out the centuries beside the darkly muttering Miskatonic[River]. An excerpt from The Thing on the Doorstep (1933) by HP Lovecraft first published in…
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This image from Werner Herzog’s Encounters At the End of the World. It is my favorite thing about today, but it has nothing to do with what I want to tell you about. Check out this link, it is your gateway to a lovecraftian psychedelic freakout. A story I mention in my upcoming podcast episode.…
Check out this Article on io9 w/ Sandy Peterson(creator of Call of Cthulhu RPG)

I’ve been a fan of Mr. Peterson since I was a boy, he has brought so much joy to me throughout the year. I love listening/reading his interviews, and this is no exception. Check out this interview with my favorite cultist of the Silver Twilight lodge. Call of Cthulhu is a great “pen and paper”…
Next Episode: Arkham, Massachusetts

Up next… legend haunted Arkham, MA. Created by Lovecraft in 1919, the central town in Lovecraft Country. Join me here next week as I go into what, where, and a few other questions about HPL’s answer to Salem, MA. Many stories take place here, and we’ll go over a few.