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MonsterTalk

Cthulhu Rises

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2010

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this special literary edition, MonsterTalk ventures into a dark domain that can be confidently called fiction: the monstrous, genre-defining oeuvre of horror writer Howard Philips Lovecraft. Joined by noted Lovecraft scholar Robert M. Price and biologist PZ Myers, the MonsterTalk hosts discuss Lovecraft’s life and works, and dare to confront his most famous creation: the vast alien monstrosity Cthulhu. Can the hosts gaze into the shrieking outer darkness and return with their sanity intact? Find out on this episode of MonsterTalk! READ full episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It casts a long shadow in American literature, influencing such writers as Rod Serling, Stephen King, Bob Howard, Robert Block, and many others.

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In his stories, he wove a tapestry of mad alien gods and unspeakable horrors and of the

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insignificance of man and of a mountainous evil that sleeps in the ocean

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worshipped by mad cults in dark places, known only as Cathuloo. It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

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A giant hairy creature,

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In larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the Highlands of Scotland.

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