Strange Shadows

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a look back over Season Four! We choose our favourite and least favourite stories, and talk  pig farms, art vs commerce, General Tabasco,  the Brundage covers, the FJ Ackerman debate, trolls, nudes and what is weird? Favourite favourite words@  pythonamorph,  mumiyah,  tenebrific, volutation, leatheroid, maculations. Download MP3  Innsmouth Literary Festival         Co...

Send us Fan Mail Our last story of Season Four sees us back in Xiccarph where Maal Dweb attempts to overcome his ennui by aiding The Flower Women . We talk Raymond Reddington,  writing a series, bored gods, Dr Who, Star Trek, Lorelei, wilting goths and mullets. Reader:  Simon Frazier Nash Favourite words: depredators, hodden, abnegation, matrass, psammite, canorous, concamerated, lucent. Download...

Send us Fan Mail Join us in Zothique for a trip into the catacombs to meet the Weaver in the Vault. We talk relics, dromedaries, potholing, earthquakes, spider gods, D&D, and Red Sonja. Reader:  Simon Frazier Nash Favourite words:  leman, terebinth, divagations, concamerated, benignant, mumia, vicinage, syanite. Download MP3 Innsmouth Forum         Grooving in Green      Innsmouth Literary Fes...

Send us Fan Mail Join us as we plunge into the Martian underworld with Vulthoom ! We talk radio drama, characters, Star Wars and Trek, the Smithian trip, fungal clubs, and television. Reader:  Shelley de Cruz Favourite words: veridical, stridor, anthalite, Trimurti, houris, gnomons, ciceronage, acclivitous. Artwork by JB Lee Download MP3 Grooving in Green      Innsmouth Literary Festival Mothershi...

Send us Fan Mail It's as distinctly avian theme this episode as we take flight on The Voyage of King Euvoran . We talk Boris Dulgoth, Carry On/carrion, a surfeit of lampreys, beef wood and, inevitably, tits... Reader: Simon Frazier Nash Favourite words: stymphalian, Aepyornis, byssus, involute, quadrireme, flagitious,  bastinado, malapert, misericordia, oupires,  volutation, passarines, magni...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for what is widely regarded as Smith's finest tale, The Dark Eidolon . We talk infernal spectacles, noisy neighbours, spectral equines, revenge, film adaptations and SFX. Reader: Simon Frazier Nash Favourite words: Simoom, diddered, bezom, guernon, odalisque, capricoles, haliotis, involutate. Download MP3       Innsmouth Literary Festival    Mothership Campaign      ...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a dark trip into Zothique with Smith's classic The Charnel God . We talk cover art, the parade of nudes, dromedaries, Xuthal and Charlton Heston. Reader: Heather Miller Favourite words: optamites, orotund, necrophagism, adytum, privity, unctuous, chafferer, huckster, noctabulistic Download MP3 Innsmouth Literary Festival    Grooving in Green      Mothership Campai...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a journey to the light beyond in CAS' unearthly The Secret of the Cairn .  We talk the High Sierras, the Law of Fives, Algol and Alderbaran, angels and mounds. Plus a delve into the mailbag. Reader: Simon Frazier Nash. Favourite words: intercalated, boskage, asphodels, phlox, stelliform, appanage, friable, mortised. Download MP3 Concrete Cow       Bedford Tabeltop...

Send us Fan Mail Join us in the isolated desolation of Genius Loci . We talk Bowman, The Willows , creepy locations, pareidolia, Swamp Thing and more. Reader: Clay Story Sculptor Favourite words: inveigle, vampire, tenebrific, coadjutation. Download MP3 Monster in my Bed podcast     CAS Circle Youtube          Innsmouth Forum   Support the show Contact us at innsmouthbookclub@outlook.com Night Sha...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a look at Smith's posthumous collaboration, an unfinished sequel to  the classic Gothic novel, Vathek . We talk William Beckford, Shakespeare, the fall of Rome, Disney villains and haunted beds. Plus a delve into the mailbag. Reader: Shelley de Cruz Favourite words: effulgent, anthropophagism, sternutations Download MP3 Grognardia Blog       Innsmouth Forum      ...

Send us Fan Mail Join us in the lush undergrowth of Xiccarph as we discuss The Maze of the Enchanter! We talk Argosy magazine, Greek mythology, sorcery and science, Dr Who, Jack Vance and Dungeons & Dragons. Reader: Matt Sanderson Favourite words: odalisque, corundum, coigns, gamboge, suzerain, pard, imbricate, encorsel, aigrette. Download MP3 CAS Convention       Innsmouth Forum Support the s...

Send us Fan Mail It's subterranean Martian horror this episode, with The Dweller in the Gulf. We talk editors, alpha chaps, hope, interesting villains, plus a delve into the mailbag. Oh, and Tim sings... Reader: Clay Story Sculptor Favourite words: ferruginous, objugate, mephitic, fetor, noctilucae, sopor, adumbration. Download MP3 CAS Convention Goth Bats         Innsmouth Forum Support the...

Send us Fan Mail We are back in scientifiction territory with Smith's tale of future war, The Dimension of Chance . We talk planes and parachutes, sang froid , Tomfoolery, chaps, space rock, D&D alignment and story lengths. Favourite words: infrangible, leatheroid, rufous, lancelate, pulverous, legerdemain, incertitude and Araucaria. Reader: Shelley de Cruz Download MP3 The Smith Circle C...

Send us Fan Mail It's a grim tale this episode with The Isle of the Torturers . We talk Achenar, WH Hodgson, safe words, Melnibone, unseen horrors and goth skin care. Reader: Simon Frazier Nash. Favourite words: pythonomoprh, lapidaries, halcyon, promulgate, cresset, adicopere, engineries. Download MP3 The Smith Circle Convention       Innsmouth Forum Support the show Contact us at innsmouthb...

Send us Fan Mail Frozen Hyperborea beckons for the creeping doom that is The Ice Demon . We talk D&D, the Pleistocene era, Ithaqua, £50 notes, nematodes, potholes and inclement weather. Reader: Scott Dorward Favourite words: glabrous, commiseratively, parhelia, buskins, cleavage, bouleversement  Download MP3 Innsmouth Literary Festival       The Smith Circle Convention      Support the show Co...

Send us Fan Mail It's a return to Hyperborea with Smith's classic tale of allure and creeping doom. We chat Sybil, the Frost Giant's Daughter , tropigoths, the children of Woolpit, elevated horror and technicolour prose. Oh, and Rob tells the moth joke... Reader: Helena Nash Favourite words: austral, southroun, ells, gracile, preterhuman, eider, machicolate, mellifluous, vacillant....

Send us Fan Mail Averoigne draws us into its arms once more as we visit the naughty monks of Périgon for The Disinterment of Venus . We talk Venus, moving statues, Carry On, posterns, Mary Whitehouse, playing the incubus and rumpy monks. Reader:  Robbie Dorman Favourite words: peccadilloes, chariness, Circean, maculations, satyriasis,  indecorous Download MP3 Auburn CAS Conference       IBC Key of...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Rob slip dimensions with Smith's tale of altered perception, The Star-Change . We talk Donner, moonfish, cubism, goblins, Mi-go and creative restrictions. Plus news and the mailbag. Reader: Simon Frazier Nash Favourite words: vocable, Sisyphean, lugubrious, littoral, Lethe, uncongenial exigency Download MP3 Auburn CAS Conference       Shadow of Chaos Tim Mendees ILF25...

Send us Fan Mail Join us in the summer of 69 as we plunge back into the haunted forest with The Beast of Averoigne . We talk comets, antique demons, Terileptils, goth hair product and The Averoigne Legacy. Plus Tim sings, we check the mailbag and report news of a CAS event in Auburn! Reader: Shelley de Cruz Favourite words: rutilant, pernoctations, consanguinity, Malebolge, corposant, Satanry, Phl...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One of Season Four returns us to Averoigne for Smith's tale of revenge from beyond the grave, The Mandrakes. We talk Gahan Wilson, Mandragora, Carry on Abroad, the ghost of Cromwell and the quite remarkable GP Olsen. Reader:  Ally Wilkes Favourite words: connubial infelicities, privily, termagant, recreant, quotidian, amatory. Download MP3  Innsmouth Excursion, London...

Send us Fan Mail Just prior to Season Four starting, here's a reading of Poe's classic tale of underwater doom and decay, The City in the Sea. Download MP3 Support the show Contact us at innsmouthbookclub@outlook.com Night Shade Books Patreon Innsmouth Literary Festival Innsmouth Book Club             Facebook           Youtube BlueSky                      Tim Mendees                    ...

Send us Fan Mail Tim runs through some reviews of Smith's work from the likes of HPL, August Derleth, Lillith Loraine, & Benjamin De Casseres. Download MP3 Support the show Contact us at innsmouthbookclub@outlook.com Night Shade Books Patreon Innsmouth Literary Festival Innsmouth Book Club             Facebook           Youtube BlueSky                      Tim Mendees                    ...

Send us Fan Mail Season Three concludes with a deep delve into the mailbag. We talk scientifiction, genres, editorial mishaps, Benjamin De Casseres, our favourite Old One, and how to spell Chthuhlhuh. A Cyclopean thanks to all our readers, patrons, and listeners for supporting us - Season Four will commence after we return from a short break in Averoigne. Download MP3 Emperor of Shadows essay    ...

Send us Fan Mail Our Auburn correspondent Nils Hedglin joins us for a look back at Season Three. We talk favourite words and stories, least favourite story, Strange Shadows Bingo, Auburn, CAS going to  church, and Goat Rock. Plus an exclusive end of season quiz! Download MP3       Nils' CAS blog             Quiz Q&A          Strange Shadows Bingo Card Wormingford Dragon Window Support the...

Send us Fan Mail David D. Perlmutter joins us for our final story of Season 3 - The God of the Asteroid . We talk art vs commerce, the perils of space travel, SETI, U-boats, writing advice and the English class system in space. Reader: James Lovegrove Favourite words: selenite, pestiferous, phasmidae, cryptogamous, serrate Donwload MP3 Support the show Contact us at innsmouthbookclub@outlook.com N...