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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 510 - The Aquarium

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Education, Arts, Books, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In honor of the new HBO show, we're plunging back into Lovecraft country with the mythos story The Aquarium by Carl Jacobi.

Transcript

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0:00.0

H.P. Potcraft.com.

0:05.0

Miss Emily Rhodes had been in London a little more than a year when she decided to give up her apartment and rent a house.

0:11.0

The apartment was really quite comfortable, but as Miss Rhodes put it she

0:14.8

was tired of having her paints and easel next to her tea cups. Accordingly she

0:19.0

turned to the advertisements in the Times. In April she found what she was looking for. The advertisement read

0:25.0

Tulat near Knights Bridge Station two stories 12 rooms including conservatory and

0:30.8

a-Q.

0:32.8

Completely Furnished, Long Way and Long Way agents.

0:36.2

She read the advertisement a second time.

0:38.6

The conservatory, she could turn into a studio

0:40.8

and sound it ideal.

0:42.4

But what in the world was an AQ? Air quality

0:48.4

adventure quest. AQ is the top level domain for Antarctica.

0:53.0

So maybe it's letting you know the conservatory is also a portal to the South Pole.

0:57.0

Could be.

0:58.0

That could be a thing in that house.

0:59.0

Those are the opening paragraphs of the aquarium by Carl Jacobi.

1:02.0

This month, the series Lovecraft Country is

1:04.5

premiering on HBO.

1:06.0

It's based on the book by Matt Ruff,

1:08.0

and we're very excited about it.

1:09.0

So we're doing our own Lovecraft Country Month

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