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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 143 – Lovecraft’s Juvenilia – Part 1

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Arts, Science Fiction, Education, Fiction, Books

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2013

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Puzzle through some of Lovecraft’s first stabs at fiction with us and reader Hazel Holmes!

Transcript

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Okay, we are now.

0:02.0

rolling, let me pull up nose.

0:03.0

Hold on to the night.

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HP Podcraft.com.

0:08.0

The boat was brought to a sand still.

0:12.0

Captain Jones to reach out his hand for the object, which he now discerned to be glass bottle.

0:19.0

Nothing but a rumble ask that the men on a passing boat threw over he said but from an impulse of

0:28.8

curiosity he reached out for it it was a rum flask and he was about to throw it away when he noticed a piece of paper in it.

0:39.1

He pulled it out and on it read the following.

0:43.0

I am John Jones who writes this letter.

0:47.0

My ship is fast sinking with treasure on board.

0:51.0

I am where it is marked on the enclosed chart.

0:57.2

That's a paragraph from H.P. Lovecraft's The Little Glass Bottle,

1:00.1

which may in fact be his first story that he ever wrote.

1:03.4

Well, certainly the first one in existence.

1:05.9

It's from 1897, which would make him seven years old.

1:09.4

Seven years old when he wrote this.

1:10.4

When it was written.

1:11.5

And you're joining us here on the

1:12.6

H.P. Lovecraft.com I'm Chris Laki. I'm Chad Fyfer

1:16.9

now lately we've been covering stories by other writers but because we

1:20.0

hated Bromstoker's lair the White Worm so much last week.

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