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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 28 - The Horror at Martin's Beach

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Fiction, Education, Science Fiction, Books, Arts

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2010

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week, we jump into a collaboration between Lovecraft and Sonia Greene – The Horror at Martin’s Beach, a good old-fashioned monster story!

Transcript

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0:18.0

I have never heard an even approximately adequate explanation of the horror and heard speech. Despite a large number of witnesses, no two accounts agree.

0:23.8

And the testimony taken by the local authorities

0:26.6

contains the most amazing discrepancies.

0:31.2

Perhaps this haziness is natural in view of the unheard of character of the horror itself,

0:36.0

the almost paralytic terror of all who saw it,

0:40.0

and the efforts made by the fashionable Wavecrest Inn to hush it up after the publicity created by Professor Alton's article

0:46.7

Our hypnotic powers confined to recognize humanity

0:52.0

Against all these obstacles, I am striving to present a coherent version.

0:57.0

For I beheld the hideous occurrence and believe it should be known in view of the appalling possibilities it suggests.

1:05.8

Martin's Beach is once more popular as a watering place, but I shudder when I think of it.

1:12.4

Indeed I cannot look at the ocean at all now without shuddering.

1:17.0

Shuttering with delight. Yeah, bea baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa Martin's Beach. We're lighting up the tiki torches and breaking out the beach

1:32.8

balls. Oh yeah I'm your host Chad Piper and I'm your host Chris Lanky and we're here

1:37.0

with the H.P.Lofcraft literary podcast.

1:38.6

H.Podcraft. com.

1:40.4

Woo!

1:41.0

Yeah! Come. Yeah. So this is the war at Martin's beach we're talking about today.

1:48.7

So this is the war on Martin's Beach we're talking about today.

1:51.1

It's not really very much of a party. No, there's well party

1:54.0

goers don't have a lot of luck in Lovecraft stories. Things don't normally turn

1:58.7

out very well. There's a second title for this story. Yes invisible monster was it was that its original

2:04.4

published title or is I don't know I don't know I don't have appeared under that

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