HP Lovecraft Was A Super Weird Dude, Part One: Childhood Tragedy

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Love him or hate him, there's no denying that Howard Phillips Lovecraft fundamentally altered the course of horror and speculative fiction. So how did he become one of the most influential authors in all of horror history? In the first part of this special two-part episode, Ben and Max welcome returning guest Jonathan Strickland for an exploration of Lovecraft's tragic childhood and long record of bizarre childhood behavior -- and how a vicious argument over love stories paved the way for his later success.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.
0:28.1	Fellow ridiculous historians.
0:29.6	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:33.1	Let's have a brief conversation with our super producer, Max Williams, before we pop the top on this one.
0:40.3	Max, how you doing?
0:41.4	How you do?
0:42.5	You know, I'm holding in there.
0:44.2	I'm holding in there.
0:45.2	You're holding in there.
0:46.9	Yeah, I don't know.
0:47.9	We're there a little troublesome today, but we will push through.
0:51.5	We very much, we very much hopefully will.
0:55.6	Now, I am Ben Bullen, and my partner in podcast crime as well as Max's, Noel Brown, is on some adventures, will be returning soon.
1:06.3	And we have, in the meantime, been cooking up some ridiculous, some bizarre, special historical
1:14.5	explorations for this week.
1:18.4	We are going to talk about one of the most important figures in all of modern horror fiction.
1:29.4	And we are going to do it in a way to show you how weird this guy is.
1:35.6	Now, when we were cooking up the idea for this episode,
1:40.0	part of our continuing series on very weird authors,
1:43.7	we looked around and I was thinking,
1:47.0	who is the best guy to hang with us on this story? Now, since HP Lovecraft is long past
1:58.1	beyond the mortal veil, we went to our second choice.
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