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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 22 - The Other Gods

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Fiction, Education, Science Fiction, Books, Arts

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2009

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re not going to talk about the normal gods, we’re talking about The Other Gods!

Transcript

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0:00.0

H.P. Podcraft.com.

0:02.0

A.

0:03.0

The line is control.

0:05.0

The line is control.

0:07.0

A top the tallest of Earth's peaks, dwell the gods of Earth, and suffer no man to tell that he hath looked upon them.

0:19.0

Lesser peaks they once inhabited, but ever the men from the plains would scale the slopes of

0:25.3

rock and snow, driving the gods to higher and higher mountains, till now only the last remains.

0:34.1

When they left their older peaks, they took with them all signs of themselves.

0:39.4

Save once, it is said, when they left a carvvan image on the face of the mountain which they called

0:46.7

Negranic.

0:47.7

What do you think that the carvan image was?

0:51.0

Giant middle finger? I thought it was a naked man with an oversized penis just as Zeus

0:59.6

just as Zeus was here yeah just you know, really juvenile drawing.

1:06.0

Well, that was the opening paragraph of the other gods.

1:09.0

By H.P. Lovecraft.

1:10.0

That opening paragraph was read by Julie Hoveerson.

1:12.0

Yeah.

1:13.0

Julie is a friend of the show, a long time friend of the show, and she runs a great audio drama

1:16.6

anthology series called 19 Nocturn Boulevard.

1:20.2

We'll put a link in the show notes.

1:21.6

I think...

1:22.2

Yeah, they release about two a month, horror and... We'll put a link in the show notes. There's some good stuff.

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