When Cthulhu Calls

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Science Fiction

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode is a radio drama, and a co-production with Jeff Emtman's podcast Here Be Monsters. I've been fascinated by the monster Cthulhu for a long time. The writer H.P. Lovecraft described Cthulhu as a gargantuan, aquatic being with tentacles on its mouth, and bat-like wings And yet, there is so much cute merchandise on the Internet which turns that green grotesque creature into an ironic meme. Perhaps these merchants are true believers, trying to manage their terror of the Cthulhu because they know it's real -- and it's rising. With Sheldon Solomon, Dan Truman, Bill Lobley and Ann Scobie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend
0:07.8	our disbelief.
0:09.1	I'm Eric Malinsky.
0:11.6	Today's show is going to sound different from my usual shows.
0:15.2	First of all, it's a radio drama that mixes reality with fantasy.
0:20.4	And today's episode is also a full-on co-production with one of my favorite podcasts, Here Be Monsters.
0:29.0	To give you a taste of what that show sounds like, this is how the host and creator, Jeff
0:33.9	Emptman, does his introduction.
0:39.4	Here be Monsters, the podcast about.
0:43.0	He's here in the waters.
0:46.1	The podcast about.
0:57.0	When it comes to Monsters, there is one that I have been fascinated by for a really long
1:01.9	time.
1:02.9	It's called Kthulhu.
1:05.3	This is a monster of almost unimaginable scale, millions of years old, that supposedly
1:13.3	sleeping most of the time, the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
1:17.8	And if he's ever to rise, that could be the end of the world.
1:22.7	Kthulhu is all over pop culture.
1:24.8	You can find him in role-playing games, video games, he was even on South Park, but he
1:29.8	was originally created by Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
1:35.6	The figure was between seven and eight inches in height and of exquisitely artistic workmanship.
1:42.9	It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face
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