Strange Shadows

Send us Fan Mail Season Three opens with a look at the 2018 CAS documentary, The Emperor of Dreams.  We chat influence, Carnegie, libraries, rude trees, drugs, Crater Ridge, outsiders and adaptations. Download MP3 Hippocampus Press Support the show Contact us at innsmouthbookclub@outlook.com Night Shade Books Patreon Innsmouth Literary Festival Innsmouth Book Club             Facebook           Yo...

Send us Fan Mail We read an extract from Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill, in which Lovecraft  relates to Smith something of the prehistory of the mysterious toad god, Tsathoggua Download MP3 Hippocampus Press Support the show Contact us at innsmouthbookclub@outlook.com Night Shade Books Patreon Innsmouth Literary Festival Innsmouth Book Club             Facebook           Youtube BlueSky             ...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Rob look back over Season 2 and choose our favourite words and stories.  Plus chat about prequels,  dinosaur bones,  letters to Weird Tales, second-hand bookshops and gyroscopes. Download MP3 Innsmouth Excursions  -  Plymouth Barbican       MR James Country     Woolpit Voluminous Podcast Support the show Contact us at innsmouthbookclub@outlook.com Night Shade Books Patreon...

Send us Fan Mail We reach the final story in Vol 2 of the Night Shade set, and what a great one to round off Season 2! We talk Goya, bookshops, purple, reincarnation, and HPL sitting on the dock of the bay... Reader: Shelley de Cruz  Graveheart Designs Favourite words: atelier, adumbration, nympholepsy, toque, animadversions Download MP3 Goya's The Follies Plymouth Barbican Innsmouth Excursio...

Send us Fan Mail Join us as we  plunge into the depths of time and space with more scientifiction from CAS.  We talk railroading, Dr Who, petrol pumps, outer space, Kagemusha and robot wars. Favourite words: emmets, pismires, luridities, hispid, mitrailleuse, concertions Guest reader:  Mike Mason Download MP3 Mason and Fricker's Eldritch Stories           Voluminous Podcast Support the show C...

Send us Fan Mail This episode we  continue the ether-ship Alcyone's five year mission with a look at Smith's longest story, A Capitivity in Serpens.  We chat action vs character, aliens,  space westerns, creepy forests, Star Trek and Star wars and West Ham vs Man Utd... Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz  Graveheart Designs Favourite words: spraddling, nacreous, aerophytes, annelids, boulever...

Send us Fan Mail Athammaus,  Athammaus, oh oh... Tim and Rob return to Hyperborea and discover the reason for the fall of Commorium. We talk executions and executioners,  cannibalism,  dreams, and discover a word that rhymes with Dracula. Reader: Greig Johnson Favourite words: fulvous, contumelious, alabastine, exudation, maugre Download MP3 Support the show Contact us at innsmouthbookclub@outlook...

Send us Fan Mail Rob Poyton reads In the Desert ,  Sinbad It Was Not Well to Brag, and Revenant. Support the show Contact us at innsmouthbookclub@outlook.com Night Shade Books Patreon Innsmouth Literary Festival Innsmouth Book Club             Facebook           Youtube BlueSky                      Tim Mendees                     Innsmouth Gold Dragon's Teeth Gaming Channel Graveheart Designs...

Send us Fan Mail We cover two stories, the classic City of the Singing Flame , and The Good Embalmer . We chat geology, Freud, Star Trek, Dr Who, the London Underground, J Vernon Shea and discover just who is Randy Candle. Guest reader Mark Griffin 30 Minutes+ with HP Lovecraft podcast Favourite words: scoriac, pursy, Anakim, abdominous, jocose, rubicund. Download MP3 COTSF artwork     Randy Candl...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by David, Mark and Richard of 30 Minutes+ with HP Lovecraft podcast to discuss a Smithian classic, Return of the Sorcerer . We talk Alone in the Dark , alternate endings, body parts, rugs, good vibrations, rugs, will power,  carrion booty and rugs. This episode was sponsored by the Auburn Rug Emporium. Guest reader:  Jeff Goad. Appendix N Book Club Favourite words: i...

Send us Fan Mail Rob and Tim cover a long and short story today - An Adventure in Futurity  & The Justice of the Elephant.  We talk puns, futuristic names, time machines, Dr Who, the Rajput and Torrid Saffron. Plus listener feedback and latest news. Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz Favourite words: polyandry,  over-preponderance, obulus, mahout, zenana, Bundelkhand, musth. Download MP3 Sword &amp...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Rob again cover two shorts stories, The Ghoul and The Kingdom of the Worm . Chat includes Vathek , ghūls, career choices, Wright is wrong again, lost ghoul films, fictional books and scary stones. Plus listener feedback on our last episode. Guest reader: Paul Fricker Favourite words: mendicant, penumbra, interdiction, cerastes, simoon, condole Download MP3 Discord Channel...

Send us Fan Mail We cover two short stories again this time, both with a similar theme - extra marital affairs gone wrong! We talk poisons, cuckolds, nightclub bouncers, nightmares,  1970s haunted paintings, Beethoven and beards. Plus letter extracts from HPL on orientalism and listener feedback. Guest reader  Simon Bleaken Favourite words: yataghan, solicitude, anodyne, deliquescence, propinquity...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Rob cover two short stories this episode, starting with The Gorgon .  We talk Greek myth, Olde London, the abnatural, liminal spaces and The Bangles.  Then it's on to An Offering to the Moon , with talk of lunar temples, naked sacrifices and favourite eras. There's also some listener feedback on Lovecraft and the cinema, where we learn about HPL's favourite...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by author Gavin Chappell to discuss a Smithian classic,  Rendezvous in Averoigne. We talk Weird Tales trends, haunted lakes, goth dancing, HPL at the cinema, vampire lore and more. Favourite words: funereal, osiers, adumbration, pourboire, chaterlaine, wafture Guest reader:  Jeff Goad of the Appendix N Bookclub podcast Download MP3 Schlock Webzine        Rogue Planet...

Send us Fan Mail We cover two stories this time, beginning with the tale of a mysterious wanderer, Told in the Desert . That is followed by the story of a remarkable painting, The Willow Landscape. We chat action, curry goat, dream states, album covers, and invent a new word. Favourite words: torrefaction, olibanum, Iblis, auriphrygiate, ghazals, morbidezza Guest reader: author Alexandra Beaumont...

Send us Fan Mail This episode sees us deep in interstellar space once more with Captain Volmar and the crew of the Alcyone ! We talk manuscripts, Star Trek, mi-go, and Dalek history and  play HPL Bingo. We  also discuss listener feedback on the mating habits of the Great Old Ones...  Favourite words: etiolated, burglarious, aphelion, quotidian, intersidereal, anaglyph Guest reader Jeff Goad of the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season Two!  For our first episode, Jeff Goad of the Appendix N Bookclub podcast joins us as we step through the Door to Saturn.  We talk fatal eroticism,  Tsathoggua's back scratches, Dungeons & Dragons, triple cyclopean,  and Tim pronounces Hziulquoigmnzhah! Favourite words:  magniloquently, perspicacious, stylitean, desuetude, apterous, orotund. Guest reader...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by Mark Griffin and Richard Wilson of the 30+ Minutes with HP Lovecraft podcast for a look back over our first season. We  talk HPL's enduring influence, favourite Smithian words and phrases, which story we enjoyed the most, Smith's approach to writing, and more. Plus an announcement about our Guest of Honour at the Innsmouth Literary Festival! Huge thanks...

Send us Fan Mail We end Season One  with another trip to Venus, this time from Poseidonis!  Author Gavin Chappell joins us, and we chat lost islands, ancient civilisations, science fantasy, pod people, and CAS recordings. Plus listener questions and  feedback. Favourite words Moaria, manumission, consanguinity, orchidaceous, diluvial, calyxes Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz  Graveheart Designs Schlo...

Send us Fan Mail We find Smith back on form with two cracking stories. Beginning with The Necromantic Tale, we talk gothic tropes, witch trials, MR James, demons and disappointment rooms. Then it's a trip to Venus for The Immeasurable Horror. We talk shoggoths, red shirts, Venusian sci fi and Poddy Fronds. Plus listener feedback and news of the forthcoming Innsmouth Literary Festival.  Guest...

Send us Fan Mail We start the New Year with a look at Smith's rarely printed jungle adventure, the Root of Ampoi. We talk pulp magazines, Cockney history, genres, Carry On Up the Jungle and Robert Crumb. Guest reader:  Greig Johnson Favourite words: acromegaly, allopath, sybaritic The Cockney Walk         Root of Ampoi track     Greig Johnson Etsy Support the show Contact us at innsmouthbookc...

Send us Fan Mail Rob Poyton reads Smith's prose poem, The Crypts of Memory. Music by Innsmouth Gold Watch out for links to more Xmas readings over the break! Xmas Reading 2 - The Abomination That Came for Christmas Xmas Reading 3 -  The Festival Support the show Contact us at innsmouthbookclub@outlook.com Night Shade Books Patreon Innsmouth Literary Festival Innsmouth Book Club             Fa...

Send us Fan Mail Tim and Rob host a  chat from Innsmouth in Festival season. We talk shopping in Innsmouth, Tolkien and Lovecraft, ideas and names for writing, and pronunciations. Plus we answer live questions from listeners and give a shout out to fellow podcasters. Big thanks again to all our guest, readers, patrons and listeners, wishing you all Happy Holidays! Russell Smeaton           People&...

Send us Fan Mail We blast into outer space this episode and follow Captain Volmar on his five year mission to, er, kill half of his crew.  We talk tweed in space, TV aliens, rough booze and the roots of scientifiction. Plus CAS letters and listener comments. Guest reader: Shelley de Cruz  Graveheart Designs Favourite words: glaucous, noctilucae, integument, stridulation, permanganate Innsmouth Exc...