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PseudoPod 600: The Graveyard Rats

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Drama

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Author : Henry Kuttner Narrator : Robert C. Eccles Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Graveyard Rats” was first published in Weird Tales, March 1936. The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner Old Masson, the caretaker of one of Salem’s oldest and most neglected cemeteries, had a feud with the […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to Suuodapod Towers, get comfy, find a cushion to hide behind. You're going to need it.

0:10.0

Suuodapodod episode 600 Woo Woo! June 22nd 2018. This week's story The

0:20.0

Graveyard Rats by Henry Cutler. Happy episode 600 folks and where some people celebrate with extraordinary joy in fireworks.

0:37.0

We figure what could possibly be more festive than terrifying, possibly supernaturally intelligent rats, grave robbing, and mummies.

0:45.8

P-A-R-T, why?

0:47.8

Because we were commanded too.

0:51.9

Anywho, welcome to episode 600 which comes to us from all-time horror great Henry

0:58.2

Cutner was a friend of Lovecraft's and contributed several stories and deities to the Lovecraft mythos.

1:05.6

He was known for his literary prose and worked in close collaboration with his wife,

1:09.7

C. L. Moore. They met through their association with Lovecraft's fans and friends and their work together

1:16.8

spanned the 1940s and 50s, mostly credited to pseudonyms. If you look for work by Louis Paget and Lawrence O'Donnell, it's both of them.

1:28.1

This next bit is both kind of lovely and very sweet and romantic and also infuriating. They both freely

1:36.0

admitted that they collaborated at least in part because he got paid more per

1:40.6

page than she did. Same work, different rate. Yeah. Moving aside from

1:50.9

that particular sex is trash fire it's interesting to note that several people have

1:55.3

written or said that she wrote three stories which were actually published under his name.

2:00.4

Clash by Night and the portal in the picture Beyond Earth's gates are two which are

2:04.8

sometimes attributed to her brilliantly as well cutner actually contributed a

2:09.9

lot of scripts to the early Green Lantern comics.

2:20.4

Even more brilliantly, Elsbrog de Camp, who knew them both well, talked a lot about how their collaboration was so seamless, they would often not be able to find the joints

2:25.2

between their work once the story was completed. I really like that.

2:32.0

Kuntner was prolific too, as well as his work that. stories published under the pageant name. These were about a man who invented

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