Before we've begin, I wanted to thank everyone for contributing to the ransom and announce that we have made our goal.

Yeah! This February we'll be releasing From Beyond with Bruce Green and the picture in the house with Andrew Lehman.

Isn't that great, Chad?

You bet!

I think those will be some contentious performances.

Anyway, I want folks to know that we're putting together our next music compilation,

Music of the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast volume two.

This will have all new music from the show and maybe some remixes of the early stuff.

I just made that up.

I have no idea if there's going to be any new remixes or anything like that.

So I have to wait and see. On with the show.

H.P. podcraft.com

Gorgons and Hydrasas and chimeras, dire stories of Salano and the Harpies may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition.

But they were there before. They are transcripts, types, the archetypes are in us and

eternal. How else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us at all? Is it that we

naturally conceive terror from such objects considered in their capacity of being able

to inflict upon us bodily injury on the least of all.

These terrors are of older standing.

They date beyond body, or without the body they would have been the same. That the kind of fear here treated is purely spiritual,

that it is strong in proportion as it is objectless on earth, that it predominates in the period of our sinless infancy,

our difficulties the solution of which might afford some probable insight

into our anti-mandane condition,

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