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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 4 - Polaris

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Fiction, Education, Science Fiction, Books, Arts

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2009

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest reader is Rachel Ford!  She’s ace!

Transcript

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0:00.0

H.P. Podcraft.com.

0:05.0

We're going. We're rolling.

0:07.0

Okay.

0:08.0

But still the Pole Star leers down from the same place in the Black Fault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives

0:15.8

to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey. Sometimes when it is cloudy I can sleep.

0:27.0

Ooh, that sounded very mysterious.

0:31.0

It did. What's that from? That's from Polaris, a story by

0:34.4

H.P. Lovecraft. Oh, H.P. Lovecraft. And this happens to be the H.P. Lovecraft literary

0:39.3

podcast. That is so crazy that Rachel Ford just read that.

0:43.2

And she read it very well.

0:44.8

Very well indeed.

0:45.7

And then we just so happen to be discussing that story today.

0:48.7

We are discussing that.

0:49.6

And by we, I mean.

0:51.5

Well, I'm Chad Fyferfer and I'm Chris Lanky.

0:53.6

And this is the H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast.

0:55.6

H.P. podcraft.com. Well, look at all that.

0:58.2

Rachel is an actress who agreed today to read some of the story for us as well as a few

1:01.7

other quotes. Yes, she's to be our reader for this one because Polaris the gender of the narrator is somewhat ambiguous so we thought maybe we would get away with having it be a woman.

1:11.0

Yeah, I mean you know Lovecraft was probably

1:12.6

writing a male character but right. We wanted to have some more female

1:15.0

voices on the show so thank you Rachel and by more you mean yeah one this is our first

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