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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 145 - The Mark of the Beast

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Arts, Science Fiction, Education, Fiction, Books

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2013

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We're kicking off Werewolf History Month with Rudyard Kipling’s short story The Mark of the Beast!

Transcript

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Your gods and my gods? Do you or I know which are the stronger?

0:04.8

HB pondcraft.com.

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Native proper. East of Sioux is

0:13.7

sues some hold the direct control of Providence ceases

0:17.9

man being there handed over to the power of the gods and devils of Asia, and the Church of England Providence

0:25.7

only exercising an occasional and modified supervision in the case of Englishmen.

0:31.5

This theory accounts for some of the more unnecessary horrors of life in India.

0:36.8

It may be stretched to explain my story.

0:41.4

That was the opening paragraph and epigraph of the Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling.

0:46.0

And you are listening to our coverage of it here on the H.Plovecraft literary podcast.

0:50.0

At H.Podcraft.com, Paul McLean, is the reader. That's right. I don't know if you've heard of him before but he does

0:56.0

the Yogg sawthoth podcast News from Dakota's and The Silver Lodge and also is the producer of a novel called The Express Diaries written by Nick Marsh.

1:07.0

If you're interested in some cool Lovecraft fiction, this book is got it, so go check it out. There'll be a link on our show notes and thanks Paul excellent job as always reading

1:16.9

This is our free show for February, which I don't know if everybody knows this but is wherewolf History Month. What?

1:23.0

Wait a minute.

1:24.0

It's that, yeah, but it's also, we're at least here at the podcast, it's also Weirwolf History Month.

1:28.0

And that's why we're doing Mark and the Bees today.

1:30.0

And for the rest of the month, we're going to be talking about the

1:32.8

novelette the werewolf by Clemens houseman and all sorts of other good

1:36.8

were woofy topics just wanted to call out real quick that if you subscribe to our

1:40.0

show we do one free show a month and then we do three others for subscribers only.

1:44.1

We've just covered a bunch of stories Lovecraft wrote when he was a kid with actually used an

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