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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 11 - The Tree & The Cats of Ulthar

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Fiction, Education, Science Fiction, Books, Arts

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2009

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

It’s a double feature this week!

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right.

0:03.0

Okay, I can happen.

0:05.0

H.Podcraft.

0:08.0

On a verdant slope of Mount me and Ellis and Arcadia,

0:12.0

there stands in Olive Grove about the ruins of a villa.

0:16.0

Close by as a tune, once beautiful with the sublimeest sculptures, but now fallen into as great decay as the house.

0:25.0

At one end of that too, means curious roots displacing the time-stained blocks of panhellic

0:30.8

marble, grows an unnaturally large olive tree of of death distorted body of a man, that the country folk fear to pass it at night when the moon

0:44.8

shines faintly through the crooked boughs.

0:48.6

Mount May and Ellis is a chosen haunt of dreaded Pan, whose queer companions are many, and simple Swains believe that the tree

0:57.0

must have some hideous kinship to these weird panacea.

1:02.4

But an old beekeeper who lives in the neighboring cottage told me a

1:06.7

different story. Well you know you're in for a good story when the beekeeper is at the home.

1:14.0

Beekeeper is going to lay it down for us.

1:16.0

I just imagine that all of his stories end with, of course this was before they were all stung by bees.

1:21.0

I thought most of his... before they were all stung by bees.

1:24.0

I thought most of his stories would end with, you know, so they ate a lot of honey.

1:28.6

It's just good for his business.

1:31.2

Everything is like that.

1:32.2

They were all satisfied by beekeeper brand honey.

1:34.0

That was the opening paragraph of the tree.

1:37.0

The tree. One of the two stories that we are going to do in this episode of the

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