The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Join us as we interview independent scholar Lars G. Backstrom, who walks us through his own experiences with Asperger's syndrome and relates them to Lovecraft's characters and universe.

Join us as we decode the mysterious transmissions of The Night Wire by H.F. Arnold!

POEVEMBER kicks off with the Edgar Allan Poe classic Hop-Frog!

Tune in as we discuss some magic realism in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez!

Hey, you guys party? Cool - check it out: This ticket booth worker wants to talk Michael Shea's Copping Squid. And it's totally Patton Oswalt!

We set up scenarios and describe our strategies to deal with them - from superpowers and magic to friendships and pants-pooping. TUNE IN!

Don't look - LISTEN! We're covering Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier!

Actor/comedian Patton Oswalt is back again to discuss Michael Shea's DAGONIAD! OH YEAH!

We're back covering Mimic by Donald A. Wollheim!

By your request, we’re talking Lovecraftian Film and TV!

We’d PREFER that you listen to our show on Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville!

We're covering Tsathoggua by Michael Shea with special guest PATTON OSWALT!

Creep into April with The Painted Skin and other weird tales by Pu Songling! Various translations of these stories appear online - but they are also available in Penguin's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.

We've got The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the only cure is to read MORE!

Join us for a night of infinite stars - it's Nightfall by science fiction legend Isaac Asimov!

Listen up! It's The Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury!

Time to get a-lurkin'! We're jumping into the "H.P. Lovecraft" novel called The Lurker at the Threshold (which is actually by August Derleth).

We're ringing in the holidays as we cover Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, the basis for John Carpenter's The Thing!

We kick off a week of Walter de la Mare with All Hallows - tune in!

It's Werewolf History Month, and we’re taking on The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore!

Hey you crazy cats! We're back and covering Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood.

We're winding up the summer with the T.E.D. Klein novella The Events at Poroth Farm - get into it!

What's that you hear? It's The Thing on the Roof by Robert E. Howard!

Get creepy! It's a full-length reading of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, featuring Heather Klinke!

Travel along as we climb aboard The Time Machine by H.G. Wells!

Folks don't know this, but THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD is a reference to The Day of the Dragon by Guy Endore!

March is for Frankensteins, y'all! Clasp our clammy hands as we dig into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein!

Listen in as we sample Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler!

Black History Month kicks off with the excellent Octavia E. Butler story Bloodchild!

Thanks so much to Patton Oswalt for recommending the story - we'll be doing listener suggestions all month!

This story was read and recorded by Andrew Leman at The Jungle Room Recording Stage & Studio in Glendale, CA.

'Tis the season to sit in laps, whether you want to or not. It's The Human Chair by Edogawa Ranpo!

POE-vember is upon us! Thrill to the weirdness that is The Man of the Crowd!

Chris and Chad tackle an issue they know NOTHING about - the destructive male ego! Dig on Transformation by Mary Shelley!

This reading was recorded and performed by the amazing Greig Johnson - please visit his hilarious YouTubes page!

Ramble across the moors with us as we tackle Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights!

We're kicking off Creatures of the Black La-June with The Monster of Lake LaMetrie by Wardon Allan Curtis!

We're kicking off Werewolf History May (and Lackey's birthday) with a great story: The Refugee by Jane Rice!

We're back and we're MARCHIN' FOR DRACULAS! Join up as we're introduced to Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu.

MARCH IS FOR DRACULAS RETURNS! It's For the Blood is the Life by F. Marion Crawford!

We're putting the weird in Black History Month with Of One Blood by Pauline E. Hopkins!

This was our show at the NecronomiCon - LIVE from the Biltmore Hotel in Providence, RI - August 22nd, 2015.

BLOCHTOBER BEGINS! We're kicking it off with "Notebook Found in a Deserted House," a story that can be found in a number of collections. We read it in Mysteries of the Worm from Chaosium.

CONAN makes his appearance on the podcraft - it's The Tower of the Elephant!

We're back from Providence and ready to rock with Lin Carter's Something in the Moonlight, which can be had for next to nothing in the Cthulhu Mythos Megapack!

We're kicking off August for August - it's the master of the Arkham House, Mr. August Derleth! First story: The Survivor!

Frank Belknap Long gets the podcraft treatment as we conjure The Hounds of Tindalos!

This month we roll around in the works of Clark Ashton Smith, starting with The Tale of Satampra Zeiros!

Join us for a very special, super-sized episode of the show covering the epic poem Beowulf!

Robert E. Howard puts HPL in a headlock with THE BLACK STONE! Why didn't anybody warn us?!