H.P. Podcraft.com.

Searchers after horror haunt strange far places.

For them are the catacombs of Ptolemaeus and the Carvan

mausolea of the nightmare countries. They climb to the moonlit towers of

ruined Rhine castles and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in Asia.

The haunted wood and the desolate mountain are their shrines,

and they linger around the sinister monoliths on uninhabited islands.

But the true epicure of the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence.

This seems most of all the ancient lonely farmhouses of Backwoods New England.

For there, the dark elements of strength, solitude, grotesqueness, and ignorance combined to form the perfection of the hideous.

Wow. That is a comment about New England. Yes it is and that is the greatest

opening paragraph one could wish for right before Halloween. Oh yes if one were

doing a podcast about a horror writer. I think you are right, yes. You who are

Chad Fifer and I who am Chris Lackey I'm agreeing with you because this is the

H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast.

That's right it is a podcast about a horror writer here at H.Podcraft.com.

And this week's story is one of my favorites almost called The Picture in the House.

Yes and it's one of my favorites too.

In fact, we talked about this earlier when I was in college.

I memorized this whole story.

He memorized this whole story.

For a class I had to do.

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