Hello and welcome to the Drapylcast episode 366. The

Jabelcast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories

by strange authors to strange listeners, such as yourself.

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

Welcome to HP Lovecraft Month here on the Drapylcast.

This is a big month for us as many of you know.

It's our seventh year doing this and every year it seems to get bigger and bigger.

It's by far our most downloaded set of stories each year and the funny funny thing is, it's not because of

Lovecraft. A lot of our listeners admittedly aren't even familiar with Howard

Phillips Lovecraft born in August 1890, who many, or maybe just us, refer to as the godfather of weird fiction.

I like Lovecraft's writing, sure.

He was racist and kind of a dick, but aren't we all except for everyone who isn't?

Lovecraft's writing has its moments, but he's no Faulkner or Hemingway,

because certainly those are different last names.

It's his ideas, the way he gradually built horror and weirdness, not just in each single work,

but throughout his entire body of work that influenced future generations of speculative

fiction writers and inspires various degrees of fanfick by the metric ton to this day.

HP's ideas on cosmic horror and the monstrous indifference of space and time,

on entities and forces outside our scope of understanding that would drive

us mad at the very knowing. We're so distinct and badass that while he was hardly noticed during

his time, his name is widely associated today with not just a particular style, but with a horror mythos that's influenced everyone from Stephen King to, well, the three commissioned guest authors were featuring this month.

That's right, each August and H.P. Lovecraft tribute month, we commissioned three Squamis,

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