The Dunwich Horror (part 3)

We’re back and we’re ready to start our investigation into the actual Dunwich Horror. Somehow, it’s taken two episodes and half the story to get here. Everything that’s happened so far is simply prologue. Admittedly, it was a long prologue filled with many events. Still, prologue. Main Topic: The Dunwich Horror In this latest journey through Dunwich, we touch on a few topics that demand links. * Matt mentions the recent Kickstarter for The Littlest Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. In particular, we touch on the All About Cows tie-in book. * Paul suggests that Lovecraft’s use of dialect might have been inspired by James Russell Lowell’s Biglow Papers. * We offer some background about party lines in the story, including some (very) personal insights. * Wilbur’s diary hints at the Hollow Earth. We discussed Lovecraft’s use of this theme in our episode abou subterranean spaces. News Our good friends at the HP Lovecraft Historical Society have released their Dark Adventure Radio Theatre adaptation of Masks of Nyarlathotep. This is an appropriately epic audio play, spanning 6 CDs in its physical manifestation. It is also available as a digital download. The newly resurrected Dudley Bug Ball gaming convention is scheduled to take place on the 23rd of February at the Station House Hotel in Dudley. At the time of writing these show notes up, their website is down but the event is still going ahead. Please check social media for updates. Some other good friends of ours — Matt Ryan and Noah Lloyd — have released the Reckoning of the Dead 2018 Annual. This ‘zine-style booklet contains two full Call of Cthulhu scenarios, expanded from one-page seeds from their website. This publication is exclusively for their Patreon backers. See the Reckoning of the Dead website for more details. We received some goodies in the post from Lord Mordiggian of Crafteon! These included a copy of the band’s CD, Cosmic Awakening, some posters and an especially cool T-shirt. You can see the latter below, modelled (well, held up) by Scott. Thank you very much, Lord Mordi! We’ll never again be able to picture Lovecraft looking any differently than this. Matt contaminated our discussion about nice, wholesome black metal by mentioning his new Cthulhu plushes.