Hello and welcome to Chronicles for something approximating a Halloween special. I do believe this will actually come out the day after Halloween, but you'll have to work with it. And as you can see, we're actually in Studio 1 today because we have a bigger cast of host. Joining me for this episode of Chronicles is Harry and Lowe, who you obviously know very well. And today we're going to be talking all about the Shadow over Innsmouth by HP Lovecraft,

because what better thing to Mark Halloween with than some classic Lovecraft.

And a great opportunity for me as well, because as I've said to you both many times, this is actually the first time I've been able to read some

Lovecraft and it seems like a great opportunity to bring in some more learned heads, some people

who enjoyed his work, you know, longer than I have. And so looking forward to having a discussion.

Yeah, we've been wanting to cover Lovecraft at Lotus Eaters for a long while and we've covered

quite a few things that are Lovecraft adjacent on the screen.

I don't know if you can see it on the video you're watching.

We've got Junji Ito's picture of H.P. Lovecraft that he drew a portrait of.

Junji Ito being a Japanese comic author who's heavily inspired by the works of Lovecraft.

And speaking of which Lovecraft is probably one of the most influential horror writers of the modern period.

You can't really go anywhere without Lovecraft having inspired some author or some work which has gone on to inspire things that you've probably heard of.

Stephen King, I mean, being the most notable example of somebody who was heavily inspired by Lovecraft,

which is ironic given the complete divergence of their own social views.

Right, yeah.

Lovecraft is someone that I've appreciated for a long time. I was introduced to him through the music of Metallica.

Because they're big Lovecraft fans and have at least three songs written about the Cthulhu mythos.

Call of Cthulhu, obvious, thing that should not be, which is based directly on the shadow over Innsmith.

And one song off of their 2016 album,

which name I cannot remember, but which the chorus is just James shouting, Cthulhu Awakens.

So I assume it's based off of the call of Cthulhu.

Sounds pretty badass.

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