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What follows is horror to the core proceed only if you wish to be disturbed as well as entertained.

Pseudopod, episode 613 September 21st 2018 this week's story

The Challenge from Beyond from 1935 written by C. L. Moore, and Abraham Merritt, and Robert

E. Howard, and H.P. Lovecraft, and Frank Belknap Long.

Hi everyone, welcome to Sudapod, the Weekly Horror Podcast,

where this week we are essentially playing host to the traveling Wilburies

of early genre fiction in the Western world.

This story was an exercise in round-robin story writing in which each of the authors

continued the narrative from the preceding authors chapter. I'm not going to say anything. I want you folks

to come to this cold because there's a lot to talk about here. And I mean we could spend half an hour

on the biographies of this astonishing group of individuals. But we know your time is short, so we're going to keep on target. Do please look all of these people up, especially the names you may not be familiar with. Frank Belknap Long in particular is a fascinating human being.

Now, speaking of fascinating human beings, on to our narrators, because what kind of a podcast company would we be if we did not take the time to carefully

match each and every one of these sections of story written by a luminary of their

field with a luminary of our field. So please allow me to introduce Ben Phillips, Peter Piazza,

Marty Perrette, Dave Roberson, and Ellie Hirschman, all of whom as they always do

knock it out of the park. So get ready because we have a

story for you or is it five and promise you, it's true. The Challenge from Beyond by C.L. Moore A Merritt,

H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long.

C. L. Moore George Campbell opened sleep-fogged eyes upon darkness

and lay gazing out of the tent-flep upon the pale

August night for some minutes before he roused enough even to wonder what had

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