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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 2 - The Tomb

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Fiction, Education, Science Fiction, Books, Arts

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Greetings all! Listen to us talk about the H.P. Lovecraft story The Tomb.

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H.P. Podcraft.com.

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Okay, we're rolling.

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We're rolling.

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In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented,

0:12.0

I'm aware that my present position will create a natural

0:13.8

doubt of the authenticity of my narrative. It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too

0:18.6

limited in its mental vision to weigh with patients and intelligence those isolated phenomena seen and felt only by a

0:24.0

psychologically sensitive view which lie outside its common experience.

0:28.0

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and

0:31.8

the unreal.

0:32.7

But all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and

0:36.2

mental media through which we are made conscious of them.

0:38.4

But the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of

0:41.6

super sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.

0:45.0

Testing, testing.

0:47.0

All right, welcome to the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast.

0:51.0

I am one of your hosts Chris Lackey.

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And I'm Chad

0:53.2

Fifer here at hp podcraft.com. All right this week we're talking about hp lovecraft's

0:58.2

first adult story the tomb isn't it, it's actually an adult story?

1:03.0

No, no, no, no, no.

1:04.0

It's a story he wrote while he was an adult, not a story for adults.

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