Episode 116 - The Haunter of the Dark - Part 1
The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast
Strange Studies of Strange Stories
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2012
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bob, when I was a boy back in Arkham, I too lived through the Great Depression. |
| 0:12.0 | Far as I'm concerned, it wasn't all that great. |
| 0:17.0 | When I got out of high school, by expulsion, I was faced with a terrible choice everybody had in the depression. |
| 0:28.8 | It was a dilemma. |
| 0:29.8 | It either worked or starve. |
| 0:33.0 | I decided to combine the two by becoming a writer. Now it's I am afraid a matter of fairly common knowledge that H.P. |
| 0:50.4 | Lovecraft is the one who was responsible for steering me in that direction. |
| 0:54.8 | He turned me on and turned me loose. |
| 0:58.0 | Turned me on and he turned me loose. |
| 1:00.2 | I have seen the dark universe yawning where the black planets roll without a |
| 1:09.8 | where they roll in their horror unheeded without knowledge or luster or name. |
| 1:17.0 | Nemesis. H.P. Podcraft.com. |
| 1:27.0 | cautious investigators will hesitate to challenge the common belief that Robert Blake was killed by lightning or by some profound nervous shock derived from an electrical discharge. |
| 1:41.0 | It is true that the window he faced was unbroken, but nature has shown herself capable |
| 1:46.4 | of many freakish performances. The expression on his face may easily have arisen from some obscure |
| 1:52.1 | muscular source unrelated to anything he saw, |
| 1:55.0 | while the entries in his diary are clearly the result of a fantastic imagination aroused by certain local superstitions and by certain old matters he had uncovered. |
| 2:05.2 | As for the anomalous conditions at the deserted church on Federal Hill, the shrewd analyst |
| 2:09.7 | is not slow in attributing them to some charlatanry conscious or unconscious with at least some of which Blake was secretly connected. |
| 2:17.0 | Well we are here to analyze this story though I'm not sure how shrewd we are. |
| 2:21.0 | Mm, yeah. The story is of course the haunter of the dark. sure how shrewd we are. Yeah. |
| 2:23.0 | The story is of course the |
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