HPPodcraft.com – Episode #91 – Dreams in the Witch House pt. 3

Wow didn't see this one creep by me. Finishing up this week, Chris, Chad, and Ken Hite tunnel through the end of this story and reveal some pretty gruesome and heart breaking stuff. I've read this story and didn't particularly care for it, but like usual, after hearing the guys discuss this and go through the finer points I missed, I really liked this one folks.

The delivery of this tale makes the skin crawl and the mind feverish as H.P.L unravels the fibers of reality and makes anyone believe that the bad guys don't need a front door to get you and sometimes there is no escaping the horror.

Close to $600 left in the race to raise R'lyeh, we can do it!

HPPodcraft.com – Episode #91 – Dreams in the Witch House pt. 2

Sorry for the late post on this one. This last Thursday the guys got a little farther in discussing H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dreams in the Witch House". In the last episode the essence of terror that surrounds Brown Jenkin was one of the main topics. A new character is discussed and the confusion of how Lovecraft intertwines Christianity with his Cthulhu mythos.

Joined again with Kenneth Hite, and the voice of Dave Stinton, Chad and Chris, deliver another hilariously informative installment in their three part series covering the story. Check it out!

Still need donations to get those great readings of H.P. Lovecraft's "Call of Cthulhu" read by the mighty Andrew Leman.

HPPodcraft.com – Episode #90 – Dreams in the Witch House pt. 1

The Boys are back from their two week vacation, and there not alone. This week we join hosts Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer, as well as guest host Kenneth Hite, and reader Dave Stinton, as they delve into H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in the Witch House”. In this first part, the boys scratch the surface of the actual story while they talk about the nuzzling human-faced rat, Brown Jenkin, and why he portrays such a terrifying character in this story.

Art by Chris Lackey

The HPPodcraft is a podcast that I have been listening to for a little over a year. I stumbled upon them on iTunes after I heard another podcast talk about the Necronomicon. Since 09’ Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer have been going through the list of H.P.L stories in order of when they were written. They rely on the donations of listeners to keep them going, and the support of all the fans to make the show better and better. On occastion they have been known to(with the help of those donations I was talking about.) release full story readings of Lovecrafts work. They’re definitely one of the things I look forward to every week.

They are 3/4 of the way there, but the guys need just a little more help to deliver a full reading of "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft, with reader Andrew Leman

Where's My Shoggoth?

There’s a new crowd getting into Lovecraft these days, and im not talking about your average cultists. I was bumping around Amazon.com one day looking for a couple new books to bury my nose in, when I came across this.

Little Wilbur Whateley has a god.
It's a big red god.
Other folks have gods, too ...
but Wilbur has the biggest, reddest god in Dunwich

I was dumbfounded, and lost my sanity as I scrolled down to see a relative list of children’s books based in the Lovecraft Mythos. A sense of hopeless joy washed over me as I browsed through the reviews of “Where the Deep Ones Are”, “The Antarctic Express”, and “Baby’s First Mythos”.

"Baby's First Mythos" is a collection of short stories and poems "to blast your childs soul" as one description put it, and is written by C.J. Henderson and drawn by Erica Henderson. The author of "The Antarctic Express", and "Cliffourd The Big Red God", - Kenneth Hite is quite prolific in the realm of Lovecraft, and  does an amazing job addapting two childrens classics ("Where The Wild Things Are", and "the Polar Express") for children, and I am happy to say that I will be looking forward to sharing these with my kids someday.

Interested in what else might be floating around for children mythos books, I looked around some more and came across what seems to be a promising book in the future. “Where’s My Shoggoth?” is a fully illustrated book from Archaia publishing written by Ian Thomas and dawn by Adam Bolton. The book has recently been finished and will be in Archaia’s spring catalog. The tale is about a young boy who loses his pet shoggoth, and in the journey to find it encounters a bunch of other Lovecraftian creatures. Im looking forward to grabbing this one and I will throw up an update when I hear more news.