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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 118 - Lovecraft's Last Days and Legacy

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Books, Fiction, Education, Arts, Science Fiction

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2012

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Join us as we close out H.P. Lovecraft's personal story.

Transcript

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And the Oh, H.P. Pondcraft.com.

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H.P. Pongcraft. Lovecraft was in this round-robin correspondence group that would as a realist beyond the age of theatricalism and naive beliefs.

0:54.0

I feel quite certain that my own known last hour would be spent quite prosaically in writing instructions

0:58.6

for the disposition of certain books, manuscripts, heirlo looms, and other possessions.

1:03.0

Such a task would, in view of the mental stress, take at least an hour,

1:06.0

and it would be the most useful thing I could do before dropping off into oblivion.

1:10.0

If I did finish ahead of time, I'd probably spend the residual minutes getting a last look at something closely associated with my earliest memories.

1:17.0

A picture, a library table, an 1895 farmer's almanac, a small music box I used to play with at 2.5, or some kindred

1:25.3

symbol, completing a psychological circle and a spirit half of humor and half of whimsical

1:30.4

sentimentality.

1:31.4

Then nothingness, as before August 20th, 1890. A very

1:37.1

poignant quote from H.P. Lovecraft and you are listening to the H.P. Lovecraft

1:41.2

literary podcast here at H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast.

1:42.6

Here at H.Podcraft.

1:44.4

I'm Chris Laki.

1:45.2

And I'm Chad Fife.

1:46.3

And this is kind of a wrap-up episode where we're going to just sort of talk about

1:50.4

Lovecraft after his prose, after his stories.

1:53.4

Yeah, I still can't believe that we managed to get through all of the stories.

1:56.5

Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

1:58.0

I feel like there's more just because we've been doing this for so long and it's become

2:02.0

such a part of my life that

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