Episode 115 - The Night Ocean

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Books, Fiction, Education, Arts, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2012

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Vast and lonely is the ocean, and even as all things came from it, so shall they return thereto. In the shrouded depths of time none shall reign upon the earth, nor shall any motion be, save in the eternal waters. And these shall beat on dark shores in thunderous foam, though none shall remain in that dying world to watch the cold light of the enfeebled moon playing on the swirling tides and coarse-grained sand. On the deep’s margin shall rest only a stagnant foam, gathering about the shells and bones of perished shapes that dwelt within the waters. Silent, flabby things will toss and roll along empty shores, their sluggish life extinct. Then all shall be dark, for at last even the white moon on the distant waves shall wink out. Nothing shall be left, neither above nor below the sombre waters. And until that last millennium, as after it, the sea will thunder and toss throughout the dismal night.

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0:00.0	HP
0:26.6	I went to Elston Beach not only for the pleasures of sun and ocean, but to rest that we remind. Since I knew no person in the little town, which thrives on summer vacationists and presents
0:30.5	only blank windows during most of the year.
0:33.1	There seemed no likelihood that I might be disturbed.
0:36.0	This pleased me, for I did not wish to see anything but the expanse of pounding surf
0:40.4	of each line before my temporary home.
0:45.0	It was a nice setup for a story called the Night Ocean.
0:50.0	Another collaboration between H.P. Lovecraft and R.H. Barlowe. You're listening to the H.P. Lovecraft and R.H.B.
0:53.0	You're listening to the H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast.
0:55.4	At H.Podcraft.com, I'm Chad Fyfer.
0:57.4	And I'm Chris Laki.
0:58.4	And that narrator that you heard at the front of that is none other than a terrible reader.
1:02.8	Oh, come on.
1:03.8	No, it's me.
1:05.0	I'm reading it.
1:06.2	Normally we don't read these.
1:08.3	We have a separate person doing narration.
1:10.3	However, back in the day, Chad actually narrated the tomb.
1:14.0	Yeah, I was the reader on the tomb, and I thought, well, we're about in the same place, but on the out,
1:19.0	so maybe you should do it, you know, for symmetry.
1:21.0	Yeah, it's not our last episode that one is
1:24.4	a hunter in the dark which yes we're gonna have Andrew Lehman because he already
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