H.P. Podcraft.com.

You ask me to explain why I am afraid of a draft of cool air,

why I shiver more than others upon entering a cold room, and seem nauseated and repelled when the chill of evening creeps through the heat of a mild autumn day.

There are those who say I respond to cold as others do to a bad odor and I am the last to deny the impression.

What I will do is to relate the most horrible circumstance I ever encountered and leave it to

you to judge whether or not this forms a suitable explanation of my peculiarity.

I judge not guilty.

That was the opening of H.P. Lovecraft's cool air, read by Rachel Lackey.

Yes.

I hear that Lovecraft himself had an aversion too cold.

Right, he did. He did, indeed.

We know this from a letter he wrote to Robert E. Howard, which said, I'm going to not read you this whole thing, but Lovecraft goes on a lot about this.

He says, I can't write decently under 73 degrees or 74, from there down to freezing the effects of a falling temperature is simply

increasing discomfort and sluggishness but after that it begins to be painful to breathe I can't go out and he just keeps going on about

the different temperatures how it affects his heart and his condition and I mean if it

was if it was interesting I would keep reading it but it's just

Lovecraft really didn't like the cold.

Well, thank God the snuggie hadn't been invented at that point, because we might not have ever gotten the story, you know?

That's true, that's true's true oh and for our English

listeners 73 degrees is 22.7 Celsius also for our English listeners the

snuggie is a blanket with sleeves I don't know if they advertise.

I don't have to have a snuggie over here. Maybe they might have a slinket which is just like the snuggie.

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