Daniel Harms on H.P. Lovecraft - August 9, 2014
Where Did the Road Go?
Seriah Azkath
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
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Summary
Daniel Harms was in studio with us on this night to talk about the work of H.P. Lovecraft and his influence on our society and culture, as well as the truth behind the man and his work.
Daniel is a writer and librarian living in upstate New York. He is best known for the books The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana: A Guide to Lovecraftian Horror (which won an Origins Special Achievement Award), The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia, The Necronomicon Files (co-authored with John Wisdom Gonce III), and The Long-Lost Friend: A 19th Century American Grimoire. His work has appeared in publications such as The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, Abraxas, Fortean Times, Paranoia, and The Unspeakable Oath. He is the originator of The Shadow Over Usenet, a detailed online discussion of the works of H. P. Lovecraft. He is a lecturer on Lovecraft Circle literature and occult films and history, and his blog Papers Falling from an Attic Window provides commentary on these and other topics.
You can check out Daniel's blog at danharms.wordpress.com.
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| 0:31.9 | of where did the road go and i am your your host, Saraya, as always. |
| 0:38.2 | And this week we got something a little different, |
| 0:40.6 | something I've wanted to do for a while. |
| 0:43.1 | And we're going to be talking about the life and influence of HP Lovecraft. |
| 0:48.3 | And with us, we have Mr. Daniel Harms, correct? |
| 0:52.2 | Yes. |
| 0:53.4 | And such an appropriate last name for studying Lovecraft. |
| 0:57.1 | It really is, yes. |
| 0:59.9 | So obviously Lovecraft's stuff was fiction, but his influence in our society and in our culture has been very widespread and goes into non-fictional |
| 1:13.5 | realms, especially in some cases where they try to force it into non-fictional realms, which we |
| 1:18.5 | will get to as we go. But let's, tell us a little about yourself. You work at Cortland College. |
| 1:26.6 | I work at Cortland College. I work at Cortland College. |
| 1:28.6 | Of course, I do not speak for Cortland College. |
| 1:31.0 | Right, right, right. |
| 1:32.7 | My fields of study have been both Lovecraft and magic in Western culture. |
| 1:41.7 | So those are my fields of study. |
| 1:43.8 | I got into Lovecraft about, oh, I have to say, |
| 1:47.7 | over 20 years ago. And when Lovecraft was still not really that popular, he was gaining |
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