Episode 154 – The Death of Halpin Frayser – Part 1

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Ambrose Bierce month continues with The Death of Halpin Frayser!

This week we’re joined by the man, Ken Hite. It’s awesome.  He has a cool series coming out: Ken Writes about Stuff. First issue is all about Deep Ones!

OUR KICKSTARTER IS HERE! Help us get to Providence for the NecronomiCon the weekend of August 22nd, where we hope to do a live show and record convention coverage. Wanna get into the show? This is how you buy tix. Can’t make it but want to be a part of the action? This is how ya do it! We appreciate your support. Go HERE!

Special thanks to our reader, Joe Scalora! He’s a gem! Or maybe even Jem! Truly outrageous!

Next Week: Death of Halpin Frayser – Part 2

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Episode 153 - The Damned Thing

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Ambrose Bierce month kicks off with The Damned Thing!

Special thanks to our reader, Mr. Steve Brewster!

OUR KICKSTARTER IS HERE! Help us get to Providence for the NecronomiCon the weekend of August 22nd, where we hope to do a live show and record convention coverage. Wanna get into the show? This is how you buy tix. Can't make it but want to be a part of the action? This is how ya do it! We appreciate your support. Back it HERE!

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Episode 152 – Negotium Perambulans

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It’s giant scary worm time! Dig on Negotium Perambulans by E.F. Benson!

Special thanks to our reader, Jason Rainbird!

Hey, let’s say you were over at bookdepository.com picking up Deadbeats. You could also pick up Shotguns v Cthulhu, featuring stories by your two hosts as well as many other mythos greats!

(And, as always, you can pick up a soundtrack).

Up next – Ambrose Bierce month! We start with The Damned Thing, then move on to The Death of Halpin Frayser.

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Episode 151 – The Horla – Part 2

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We’re closing the case on Guy de Maupassant’s The Horla!

Special thanks to reader Erwann G. Marshall!

Next week: Negotium Perambulans by E.F. Benson.

In the meantime – check out Deadbeats! Or pick up a soundtrack!

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Episode 150 – The Horla – Part 1

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Join us as we take on the mysterious Guy de Maupassant story The Horla!

Special thanks to reader Erwann G. Marshall!

We’ll be back next week with Part 2.

In the meantime – check out Deadbeats! Or pick up a soundtrack!

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Episode 149 - The Man Who Went Too Far

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Hey there folks - we're doing E.F. Benson's The Man Who Went Too Far.

Next week for subscribers... The Horla!

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Episode 148 – The Were-Wolf – Part 3

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We’re in a sprint for the finish with the third part of The Were-Wolf by Clemence Housman!

  • Thanks to fantabulous reader Rachel Ford Lackey!

  • Get a hold of up the rip-roaring Lovecraftian comedy-thriller Deadbeats before it gets a hold of you!

  • Or, even better, get a hold of Chris himself at the Newcastle Travelling Man, where he’ll be hanging out and signing copies of Deadbeats with illustrator I.N.J. Culbard - March 23rd at 1 pm!

  • THE SOUNDTRACKS ARE HERE! You can now download the podcast soundtracks Volume 1 and Volume 2, each with 3 bonus tracks, all newly-remastered, for only $7 a piece. That’s 70 tracks total, over 2 hours of creepy goodness. Get into it!

  • Meet the Werewolf is outta print, but there are a few copies floating around on the internets.

  • Check out the Masturbating Wolfman!

  • We’re back next week with The Man Who Went Too Far by E.F. Benson!

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Episode 147 – The Were-Wolf – Part 2

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We’re back with the second part of The Were-Wolf by Clemence Housman!

  • Thanks to fantabulous reader Rachel Ford Lackey!

  • Get a hold of up the rip-roaring Lovecraftian comedy-thriller Deadbeats before it gets a hold of you!

  • Or, even better, get a hold of Chris himself at the Newcastle Travelling Man, where he’ll be hanging out and signing copies of Deadbeats with illustrator I.N.J. Culbard - March 23rd at 1 pm!

  • THE SOUNDTRACKS ARE HERE! You can now download the podcast soundtracks Volume 1 and Volume 2, each with 3 bonus tracks, all newly-remastered, for only $7 a piece. That’s 70 tracks total, over 2 hours of creepy goodness. Get into it!

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Episode 146 – The Were-Wolf – Part 1

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AROOO!! Time to hit the classics, kids – we’re into The Were-Wolf by Clemence Housman!

  • Thanks to fantabulous reader Rachel Ford Lackey!

  • Get a hold of up the rip-roaring Lovecraftian comedy-thriller Deadbeats before it gets a hold of you!

  • Or, even better, get a hold of Chris himself at the Manchester Travelling Man, where he’ll be hanging out and signing copies of Deadbeats with illustrator I.N.J. Culbard - February 16th at 1 pm!

  • THE SOUNDTRACKS ARE HERE! You can now download the podcast soundtracks Volume 1 and Volume 2, each with 3 bonus tracks, all newly-remastered, for only $7 a piece. That’s 70 tracks total, over 2 hours of creepy goodness. Get into it!

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Episode 145 - The Mark of the Beast

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We're kicking off Werewolf History Month with Rudyard Kipling’s short story The Mark of the Beast!

Show Notes:

  • Thanks to reader Paul Maclean of Yog-Sothoth.com for reading our excerpts.

  • Although it's free online, this story appears in the anthology Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy, with the foreword by Neil Gaiman that we quote in the show.

  • Get a hold of up the rip-roaring Lovecraftian comedy-thriller Deadbeats before it gets a hold of you!

  • Or, even better, get a hold of Chris himself at the York Travelling Man, where he'll be hanging out and signing copies of Deadbeats with illustrator I.N.J. Culbard - February 9th at 1 pm!

  • THE SOUNDTRACKS ARE HERE! You can now download the podcast soundtracks Volume 1 and Volume 2, each with 3 bonus tracks, all newly-remastered, for only $7 a piece. That's 70 tracks total, over 2 hours of creepy goodness. Get into it!

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Episode 144 – Lovecraft’s Juvenilia – Part 2

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This week we’re out with that crazy teenage Lovecraft and his stories The Beast in the Cave and The Alchemist!

Special thanks to reader Kristofor Barnes!

What’s that? Deadbeats is still shipping worldwide FOR FREE?! Sold!

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Episode 143 – Lovecraft’s Juvenilia – Part 1

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Puzzle through some of Lovecraft’s first stabs at fiction with us and reader Hazel Holmes!

We’re covering The Little Glass BottleThe Secret CaveThe Mystery of the Grave-Yard and The Mysterious Ship, most written before HPL was 10!

Don’t miss out on that free shipping for Deadbeats!

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Episode 142 – The Lair of the White Worm

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The Lair of the White Worm is terrible.

Special thanks to our reader Chris Tyler!

And if you need to cleanse your palate after all this White Worm madness, we’d recommend you pick up Deadbeats. Free shipping worldwide!

Next week we’re gonna have fun with some of Lovecraft’s juvenilia! Have a read of The Little Glass BottleThe Secret CaveThe Mystery of the Grave-Yard and The Mysterious Ship, most written before HPL was 10!

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Episode 141 - What Was It?

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Tag in as we wrestle with What Was It? - a mystery by Fitz-James O'Brien!

Special thanks to reader Fred Cross. You can check him out January 8 on Spike in The Joe Schmo Show!

And don't forget to pick up Deadbeats. Free shipping worldwide!

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Episode 140 – The Fall of the House of Usher – Part 3

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All of your lives will be torn asunder as we conclude our coverage of The Fall of the House of Usher!

Andrew Leman really kills it as our reader this week!

Usher in the New Year with Deadbeats – now on sale!

Up next – What Was It? by Fitz-James O’Brien. After that, we’re visiting The Lair of the White Worm!

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Episode 139 – The Fall of the House of Usher – Part 2

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Special thanks to Marilyse Allard and Nellie Lacoste for reading the epigraph of this story:

Son coeur est un luth suspendu;

Sitot qu’on le touche il resonne.

– De Beranger

Andrew Leman, as always, does an amazing job as our reader!

Have a look at this recording of Weber’s Last Waltz.

We’ll be back next time with the thrilling conclusion!

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Episode 138 – The Fall of the House of Usher – Part 1

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Andrew Leman leads the charge as we enter The House of Usher

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Episode 137 - The Masque of the Red Death

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Have a listen to our live coverage of  The Masque of the Red Death!

Or heck - actually watch it!

Special thanks to Mike Davis from the Lovecraft eZine for including us on his weekly video chats and introducing us to Google Hangouts.

Subscribe now to hear our coverage of The Fall of the House of Usher!

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Episode 136 – The Willows – Part 3

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The thrilling conclusion of The Willows by Algernon Blackwood!

Lance Holt brings it home once again as our reader!

We sold out of Deadbeats at Thought Bubble, but YOU CAN PRE-ORDER DEADBEATS RIGHT NOW! The book will be released by the end of the month.

Happy Thanksgiving and we’ll see you all December 6th when we talk Masque of the Red Death – LIVE!

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Episode 135 – The Willows – Part 2

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Part 2 of 3 – we’re surrounded by The Willows by Algernon Blackwood!

Thank goodness we’ve got reader Lance Holt along for the trip!

Meet Chris at Thought Bubble the weekend of 11/17, where you can buy Deadbeats!

And if you can’t make it - YOU CAN PRE-ORDER DEADBEATS RIGHT NOW!

Here’s that article about skeptical kids Lackey was talking about.

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