The essential salts of animals may be so prepared and preserved that an ingenious man may have the whole arc of Noah in his own study and raise the fine shape of an animal out of its ashes at his pleasure. And by the like

method from the essential salts of human dust, a philosopher may without any

criminal necromancy, call up the shape of any dead ancestor from the dust wherein to his body has been incinerated. H.P. Podcraft.com.

Well, that's interesting.

Yeah, that is the opening inscription for the case of Charles Dexter Ward, a novel by H.P. Lovecraft.

And today we're going to start our adventure into the world of Charles Dexter Ward.

That reader was Matt Foyer. We are glad to have him back.

Matt Foyer who is an actor extraordinaire and star of the Kolf Kuthulu film and the upcoming

Whisper in Darkness. I'm Chad Vifer. And I'm Chris Chad Viper and this is the

H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast at H.P. podcraft.com

we're glad to be back after a couple of weeks off.

Took a couple weeks off. I was in Cyprus you went to Alaska? I did. Actually I read this in Cyprus well I should say

reread it next to a pool so not very mood setting but still great story I did

some reading on my vacation as well up on the train up in the Klondike surrounded by mountains of madness

up in Alaska. It was pretty good. But it was a reread for me too because as I mentioned before this is actually the first

HP Lovecraft bit I ever read. I really love this book. I do too. I'm not going to

lie. And I re-watched the film adaptation, The Resoract did, just yesterday.

Yes. The Dan O'Bannon adaptation, which we can talk about a little later.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that movie a lot too. I really enjoy that movie. It's a little later. Yeah yeah I like that movie I do too I really enjoy that

and it's a it's a very good script-wise great adaptation. That opening

inscription is a quote well it says it's attributed to Burrellis. Pierre Burrell is the

guy that actually wrote that and he wrote he

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