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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 10 - The Terrible Old Man

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Fiction, Education, Science Fiction, Books, Arts

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2009

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week we explore what it's like to deal with the elderly in The Terrible Old Man.

Transcript

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0:00.0

H.P. Podcraft.com.

0:02.0

It was the design of Angelo Ricci, Joe Zannick, and Manuel Silver to call on the terrible old man.

0:19.8

This old man dwells all alone in a very ancient house on Water Street near the sea, and is reputed

0:26.2

to be both exceedingly rich and exceedingly feeble, which forms a situation very attractive to men of the profession of Monsieur Ricci, Zannock, and Silver.

0:36.0

For that profession was nothing less dignified than robbery.

0:41.0

Yeah. Man, people aren't taking stuff.

0:43.5

Yeah, it's a crime story.

0:45.0

I, it is a crime story.

0:47.0

Yeah, man.

0:48.0

I do like crime.

0:49.0

I mean, not when it's perpetrated on me or anyone I know.

0:52.0

Right, but I like reading about it as it pertains to old man.

0:55.0

It's pretty exciting.

0:57.0

It's pretty exciting.

0:58.0

That was an excerpt, the first paragraph actually of the terrible old man, which is the story we're covering this

1:03.4

week and and we meaning myself Chad Pfizer and myself Chris Lackey and this is the

1:10.3

H.P. Lovecraft.com.

1:13.8

That excerpt from the terrible old man was read by a very talented young man, Mr. Douglas

1:19.1

Surin.

1:20.3

Doug, and now I believe Doug is one of one of the perpetrators of that that fine show ask a ninja

1:26.7

That's right if you are familiar with the internet then you probably have heard of ask a Ninja and Doug is the Ninja.

1:32.6

Doug is the Ninja.

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