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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 470 - The Jar

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Education, Arts, Books, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We're hitting Halloween season with a journey through The October Country by Ray Bradbury, starting with The Jar!

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H.Podcraft.com.

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It was one of those things they keep in a jar in the tent of a sideshow on the outskirts of a

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drowsy town. one of those pale things drifting in alcohol

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plasma, forever dreaming and circling, with its peeled dead eyes staring out at you and never seeing you.

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It went with the noiselessness of late night,

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and only the crickets chirping,

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the frog sobbing off in the moist swamp land.

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One of those things in a big jar that makes your stomach jump as it does when you see a preserved arm in a laboratory vat. Charlie stared back at it for a long time.

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Just one of those things you see every day, you know, road rage, political fights on TV, a preserved arm and a laboratory

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vat.

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Wait, what?

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Where's Ray Bradbury been hanging out?

0:59.9

Well, he's going to be hanging out with us all month here at the

1:03.5

H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast. I'm Chris Lackey.

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And I'm Chad Fifer. We're here at H.P.

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Pudcraft.com and Patreon and it is the most wonderful time of the year.

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October, my birthday is this week.

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It's Halloween season.

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You know, there's lots of monsters at the stores you can pick up.

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Candy.

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It's all good stuff.

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So we thought, why not do some stories from the October country by Ray Bradbury and that's what we're doing starting this week with the story the jar which we heard about right in that creepy beginning there and we also heard some creepy music. That's right

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