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Episode 495 - The Terror from the Depths - Part 1 (Patreon)

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2020-04-09 17:13:51
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2021-07

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Fritz Leiber dresses up as Lovecraft in The Terror from the Depths! Tune in to our thrilling coverage!

Special thanks to our reader - Andrew Leman of Voluminous!

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Anonymous

The story is available in the book Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark.

Anonymous

This story made me think of Floyd Collins who got his foot stuck in a cave and spent four days alive as rescuers brought him food and water then two weeks just being able to talk to them as a rock collapse prevented direct contact. His body wasn’t recovered for months. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2016/06/12/podcast-episode-109-trapped-cave/amp/

Anonymous

Is the lizard man folklore at all related to the Reptilian conspiracy theories? Because from what I know, the Reptilians stuff actually has its roots in anti-semitic "New World Order" nonsense, and I'd be interested in how it *originally* came into being and developed, because I have no idea how you get to "The Jews secretly run the world, *and* they're lizard people."

Anonymous
>>34975852

Yes and also in the Heroes and Horrors by Leiber anthology, which while also out of print it is only going for about $6-10 online.

Anonymous
>>34978049

Obviously the Serpent Men were created by the Great Serpent to rule Valusia until Kull of Atlantis put a stop to them.

Anonymous

Also, I read this tale long ago, but on a listen nowadays Wilmarth's letter reminds me of a screencap that floats around the internet now and again showing a map of the US highlighting all known caverns, and a map showing the density of unresolved missing persons cases, and showcasing how much the two look alike.

Anonymous

Holy Leiber, you've been down too long in the midnight dream!

Anonymous

I have never commented on the show before but the long awaited return of Stand Up Frankenstein compelled me to break my silence and tell you that his return was the highlight of my day. "misery made me a fiend when I wish it would have made me a sandwich" makes me laugh as much today as when I first heard it keep up the good work guys.

Anonymous

My recollection reading this story is that it is somewhat slow, but it builds an effect. The slow build of the narrative puts the reader in the same state of mind as the protagonist...sleeping his days away, dreaming, wandering the same paths over and over. I am a big Fritz Leiber fan, glad Chris and Chad are covering him.

Anonymous

Good stuff, but I think Leiber really missed the obvious tribute to Lovecraft. The Terror from the Depths, no. The Terror from the Debts, yes.

Steve

Alabamium and Virginium were indeed falsely claimed elements, found using the device mentioned in the story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Allison

Steve

This is very much a love letter, to Lovecraft's fiction, to his life and to the LA hills. It's not exactly exciting, and it doesn't quite go the full HPL on the vocabulary. I'm not sure how this goes if you're not familiar with all the references but it worked for me.

Anonymous

Now for something completely different. Last night I watched the Ice Worlds episode of The Planets, which is a series on Amazon Prime. I have always been really intrigued by the planets it covers - Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, the worlds farthest from the Sun. Pluto is really incredible. A vast plain of frozen nitrogen 900 miles across, and next to it a mountain range made of ice the height of the Rockies. The ice that covers the planet might be up to 180 kilometers thick, with an ocean of liquid water beneath that might be another 100km deep, and a solid core beneath that which appears to have radioactive decay, since something down there is creating the heat needed to create a dynamic surface. The whole time I kept thinking, that is where Cthulhu lives. R'lyeh is not in the Pacific, but in the heart of Pluto. Of course the Cthulhu Macula on Pluto is named for him. Which reminds me. March is for Maculas.

Anonymous
>>35023867

In me and my bestie's own Lovecraftian worldbuilding project, I recall him actually suggesting there's no radioactive material at all, and the dynamic surface and possibly-aqeous core were the result of Cxaxakluth's presence in that body. Don't worry, though, the Big C has gotten some notable influence in the rest of the solar system as well. Did you know the chemical composition of Venus' atmosphere suggests it used to have liquid water, before it was covered in sulphur and greenhouse gases and turned into the burning Perdition it is today? The surface is also relatively smooth and new, because the lack of plate tectonics means heat and pressure slowly build inside until, roughly every fifty million years I think, the whole surface shatters like an eggshell and belches molten rock. Since "Alonzo Typer" passingly references an ancient Cytherean civilization, we decided back when it was habitable, the Elder Things colonized it. And why did it become a nightmarish hellscape? Who did the Elder Things wage a war *against?*

Anonymous

There is seriously something comforting about starting an episode and hearing the soothing voice of Andrew Leman reading some eldrich horror.

Anonymous

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but here’s a link to a 1934 story in the LA Times that seems like a possible source of inspiration for the story:

Anonymous

https://latimespast.tumblr.com/post/74283915119/lizard-people ...sorry, hit return before the link.

Anonymous

Thanks guys for continuing producing episodes during these times. We need some cosmic horror to cheer us up :-). I hope you and yours stay safe and healthy.