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PseudoPod 750: The Artist and the Door

PseudoPod

Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Arts, Books, Drama

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Author : Dorothy Quick Narrator : Dani Daly Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Artist and the Door” was first published in Weird Tales in November 1952 The Artist and the Door by Dorothy Quick The advent of the artist and the door was almost simultaneous. I have […]

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We have no memory of recording this episode, none of us.

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It's been wiped.

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I see TV static when I try and think about it.

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Be warned.

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Sudapod Episode 750 March 26, 2021.

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This week's story, The Artist and the Door by Dorothy Quick.

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Hi everyone, welcome to Sudapod The Weekly Horror Podcast.

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I'm Alistair Yohost and this week's story comes to us from Dorothy Quick.

0:36.0

Dorothy Gertrude Quick was the pen name for Dorothy Gertrude Quick Mayor,

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a prolific writer of horror, detective fiction, poetry and nonfiction.

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Born in Brooklyn to a wealthy family, Quick and at Samuel Clemens,

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yeah, in 1907, while onboard the SS Minnetonka,

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and the two became close friends.

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But those of you who don't know, Clemens is Mark Twain.

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Later, Quick gave credit to Twain for encouraging her to write,

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and she lectured extensively on their friendship.

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A 1961 memoir of the great American author Mark Twain and me

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was the basis for a 1991 Disney movie of the same name.

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Quick married John Adams Mayer in 1925, a society event,

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noteworthy enough to merit mention in Time Magazine's Milestones column,

1:22.0

no less, but published under her maiden name throughout her life.

1:25.0

She made her first genre fiction sale to Farnsworth Wright,

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