This podcast started in 2012 as a fictional update from a strange, supernatural town. With guest Dave Moore, we discuss how this successful production is made while unpacking the utopian ideal it creates with a kind of drab mundanity.

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• Welcome to Nightvale

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This 2005 video game tried to capture the atmosphere and experience of H. P. Lovecraft’s mythos. It is now called a commercial failure and a cult classic. We discuss its unique, immersive gameplay, and its Lovecraftian approach to knowledge as a thing to fear.

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• Call of Cthulhu (RPG)

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• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth Interview 2
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth Q&A
• The making of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
• Owen, D. (2017). Player and Avatar : The Affective Potential of Videogames. Jefferson, UNITED STATES: McFarland.
• Horror is Knowledge: The Presentation of Fear in ‘Call of Cthulhu

This 2015 comic series is an attempt to tell “the ultimate H.P. Lovecraft” story, so we dive deep into the cold, clinical research process behind it. We also discuss this story’s relationship with sexual violence, racism, American mythology, capitalism and… comic book fandom.

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• Providence

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• Interview: Alan Moore on Providence, Jerusalem, League and more – Part 1
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• H.P. Moorecraft: On the Ending of Providence
• PROVIDENCE Artist JACEN BURROWS On His Long Collaboration With Alan Moore, Adapting LOVECRAFT, More
• Providence: Lovecraft, Sexual Violence, and the Body of the Other
• The Road To Providence
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• American Dread: Alan Moore and the Racism of H. P. Lovecraft
• Pickman’s Apprentice: An Appreciation of Jacen Burrows

This 1986 horror film adapted an H.P. Lovecraft story into a transgressive “video nasty” about repressed sexuality. We learn about the production methods that brought its “pineal glands” to life, while discussing Lovecraft’s fear of sex in contrast with From Beyond’s smashing of taboos.

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• From Beyond

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• 30 YEARS LATER, FROM BEYOND IS LOVECRAFT AT HIS KINKIEST
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• Corliss, Richard. TIME Magazine; 12/1/1986, Vol. 128 Issue 22, p74, 
• Sharrett, C. (2015). Lovecraft Today. Cineaste, 41(1), 27–78.
• A Man’s Home…
• Transgressive Sexuality and Slimy Creatures ‘From Beyond (Collector’s Edition)’
• Stuart Gordon’s Shock Treatment
• Race, Sexuality, and Procreation in H.P. Lovecraft Film Adaptations
• The Posthumous Pornification of H. P. Lovecraft
• Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Sex: or The Sex Life of a Gentleman
• Wisker G. (2013) “Spawn of the Pit”: Lavinia, Marceline, Medusa, and All Things Foul: H. P. Lovecraft’s Liminal Women. In: Simmons D. (eds) New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft.

This 2016 novel explores sci-fi and horror in the 1950s from the perspective of an African-American family already accustomed to prejudice and dread. We have an uncomfortable conversation about how it addresses H.P. Lovecraft’s racism and the question of whether a white author should tell stories about the black experience.

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• Lovecraft Country

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• Matt Ruff’s “Lovecraft Country,” where the horror is racism (not racist)
• The Big Idea: Matt Ruff
• Shadows Over America: Matt Ruff and Victor LaValle Take on Lovecraft and Race
• Talking with Matt Ruff about science fiction’s racist past
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