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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 586 - I Am Legend - Part 1

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Education, Arts, Books, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0

hppagraft.com Hi folks and welcome to our coverage of

0:05.1

I am Legend. Just a quick note before the show starts, I made a little booboo on this one

0:10.4

and I recorded with the wrong microphone. So my audio is a little like the societal change

0:15.0

in the theme of this book, not entirely bad, not entirely good, just different.

0:19.5

There is nothing wrong with your listening system, there is just something wrong with Chad.

0:23.2

But if I could take the opportunity to make something right, in this episode we talk about

0:27.5

the music mentioned in the book, all real classical music except for one piece, The Year of the

0:32.6

Plague by Roger Lay. When I put together the playlist from the book, I actually scoured the

0:36.9

internet for this thing, discovered that it was entirely fictional until now. As pendants for my

0:42.8

mistake with the microphone, I have recorded The Year of the Plague, you know what they say?

0:47.0

When lifehands you Dracula's, you make Dracula's. That's what I've done and I hope you guys

0:51.8

enjoy the episode, stay tuned for the song at the end of the show.

0:58.6

On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when Sunset came

1:05.6

and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back.

1:11.8

He walked around the house in the dull gray of afternoon, a cigarette dangling from the corner

1:17.5

of his mouth, trailing thread-like smoke over his shoulder. He tracked each window to see if any

1:25.1

of the boards had been loosened. After violent attacks, the planks were often split or partially

1:33.1

pride off, and he had to replace them completely, a job he hated. Today, only one plank was loose.

1:43.4

As he pushed open the front door, he looked at the distorted reflection of himself in the

1:52.7

cracked mirror he'd fastened to the door a month ago. In a few days, jagged pieces of the silver

2:00.8

backed glass would start to fall off. Let him fall, he thought. It was the last damned mirror he'd

2:09.6

put there. It wasn't worth it. He'd put garlic there instead. Garlic always worked.

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