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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 297 - For the Blood is the Life

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Education, Arts, Books, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

MARCH IS FOR DRACULAS RETURNS! It's For the Blood is the Life by F. Marion Crawford!

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0:00.0

One thing about HP Podcraft.com, I never could some again. All the damn vampires.

0:10.0

It's strange, he said. Do you see that little mound just on this side of the boulder?

0:18.0

Yes, I said and I guessed what was coming. It looks like a grave, observed Holger.

0:25.0

Very true. It does look like a grave.

0:29.0

Yes, continued my friend, his eyes still fixed on the spot.

0:32.6

But the strange thing is that I see the body lying on the top of it.

0:36.0

Of course, continued Holger, turning his head on one side as artists do.

0:41.0

It must be an effect of light.

0:42.0

In the first place, it is not a grave at all. Secondly, if it were, the body would be inside and not outside. Therefore, it's an effect of the moonlight. Don't you see it?

0:53.0

Perfectly. I always see it on moonlit nights.

0:57.0

It doesn't seem to interest you much, said Holger.

1:00.0

On the contrary, it does interest me, though I am used to it.

1:04.0

You're not so far wrong either.

1:06.0

The mound is really a grave.

1:10.0

Ooh.

1:11.0

I'm chilled. That was from the beginning of F. Marion Crawford's For The Blood

1:16.2

is the Life. A story H.P. Lovecraft mentions in his essay, supernatural horror and literature.

1:21.1

So we are talking about it here today on the

1:24.0

H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast. We are at H.Podcraft.com and you are tuned

1:28.6

into the free show. Every month we do one free show and if you wish to subscribe you can get three additional shows every month.

1:37.0

That's right.

1:38.0

Who was the reader that we just heard there?

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