PseudoPod 982: The Haunter of the Dark

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🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Author : H.P. Lovecraft Narrator : Boocho McFly Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Haunter of the Dark” first appeared in Weird Tales, December 1936 CW: xenophobia H.P. Lovecraft The Horror of the Heights Federal Hill, Providence Voluminous: The Letters of HP Lovecraft Episode 82 Lovecraftian horror — and the racism […]

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0:00.0	We have no memory of recording this episode.
0:04.0	None of us.
0:06.0	It's been wiped.
0:09.0	I see TV static when I try and think about it.
0:12.0	Be warned.
0:18.0	Sudapod, episode 975, June 27th, 2025.
0:24.9	This week's story, The Haunter of the Dark, by H.P. Lovecraft, narrated by Buccio McFly,
0:31.9	hosted by Alastair-Stewart, with audio by Chelsea Davis.
0:36.4	Welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast.
0:39.2	I'm Alistair, your host.
0:40.9	This week's story comes to us from H.P. Lovecraft.
0:44.0	You know who he is, and if you don't, this is as good an intro as any to the author
0:48.3	whose shadow perpetually traps so much modern Western horror fiction.
0:53.1	About once a year, I'll find myself at a convention on a horror panel and I'll be asked
0:58.0	about Lovecraft.
0:59.8	Most of the time, my default answer is we don't have time to get into that.
1:04.2	I've got time today, so be aware the remarks at the end of this episode are extensive.
1:14.2	Your narrator this week is the excellent Buccio McFly.
1:18.4	Buccio was created in a lab 40,000 years ago by the Anunnarchy for the express purpose of being a substitute voice for Enki,
1:21.7	who was at the time suffering through a cold that gave him a sore throat.
1:25.9	Once his purpose was fulfilled, he was sealed away
1:28.4	with a spell and only allowed to reincarnate every 1500 years with the express goal of creation
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