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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 364 - The Thing on the Roof

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Education, Arts, Books, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What's that you hear? It's The Thing on the Roof by Robert E. Howard!

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0:00.0

Let me of three years before when he attempted to discredit my evidences of Nahuac culture

0:15.2

and Yucatan, which was the result of years of careful research.

0:19.2

Our relations had been anything but cordial.

0:22.0

However, I received him and found anything but

0:23.7

anything but cordial.

0:22.8

However, I received him and found his manner,

0:25.8

hasty and abrupt, but rather abstracted as if his dislike for me

0:29.6

had been thrust aside in some driving passion that had hold of him.

0:33.2

His errand was quickly stated.

0:35.4

He wished my aid in obtaining a volume in the first edition of Von Junst's

0:40.4

nameless cults, the edition known as the Black Book, not from its color, but because of its dark contents.

0:48.0

He might almost as well have asked me for the original Greek translation of the Necronomicon, though since my return from Yucatan

0:55.0

I had devoted practically all my time to my avocation of book collecting.

1:00.2

I had not stumbled onto any hint that the book in the Dusseldorf edition was still in existence.

1:07.6

It's time to go back to the library armed with charms and wards because we got us a spooky book story.

1:15.0

H.P. podcraft.

1:19.0

You know, I've tried to use that black book line before from the opening there.

1:22.0

But I could never really pull it off. I like I'll put on a... black book line before from the opening there.

1:22.6

But I could never really pull it off.

1:24.0

I like I'll put on a red shirt and be like,

1:26.0

how do you like my black shirt?

1:27.5

And then the store clerk or whatever I'll be like, but that's a red shirt.

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