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Comments 36 - Instructions on How to Get Killed (Patreon)

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2021-04-15 18:50:02
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A fond remembrance of Draculas past.

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Anonymous

All jokes aside, the March Draculas are exactly my kind of music. It had a real Eels feeling to it. I'd buy it!

Anonymous

To answer your question about Kolchak, The Vampire was an episode of the TV, which was a sequel to the original Night Stalker movie in which one of the Vampires managed to escape the end of that movie.

Anonymous

Two mentions! Squeee!

Anonymous

Seeing the title of this episode was one of the happiest moments of my life.

Anonymous

As a veteran of not one, but two,, productions of the stage adaptation of Grapes of Wrath, I did think it was weird that you described Rose of Sharon as “old” but I didn’t think it would be fair for me to get two mentions on the comments show. So I left it for somebody else, AND THE OPPORTUNITY WAS WASTED! Never again!

Anonymous

Space disco you say? https://youtu.be/Q1W6OlH3ms0

Anonymous

Oh man! The March Draculas was a perfect touch, topped only by Chris’s rendition of “Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush from years ago. I remember running inside right after I heard that and immediately playing it again for my father, who is the biggest Kate Bush fan I know. You two are the absolute best!

Anonymous

“Entries from Stephen King’s commonplace book” needs to be a recurring segment.

Anonymous

March, Draculas! March I tell you!

Illegal_Structures

I totally agree with the lackluster appraisals of MR James and Algernon Blackwood. "Tedious" and "pointless" are apt words for both. That being said, James managed to hit it out of the park on a few occasions. The Mezzotint, and The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance are truly creepy entries into the early weird-fiction canon. I would recommend both stories to readers who normally find James to be dull and forgettable. On a side note for comics fans, I believe that The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance was a source of inspiration for Neil Gaiman's Mr Punch graphic novel.

Anonymous

Every time you bring up James you break my heart, guys. But I totally get what you about just not being able to get into certain writers. I've tried hard but I just can't appreciate any of the late WH Pugmire's work despite him being unarguably an important Weird writer of the past couple of decades.

Anonymous

“You shouldn’t let poets lie to you” is solid dating advice to people in their 20’s.

Anonymous

Chris creepy whispering "March is for Dracula IN APRIL" made my day.

Scott

Interesting how some writers really light one person up and leaves the next person cold. I get a bit defensive about my favorites, which I recognize, so I try not to call authors out unless I read something really egregious. I suppose I’ve reached the age where I just don’t see the point of arguing about it anymore; I remind myself that HPL was dismissed and ignored by most people for decades - until he wasn’t. I enjoy his work a lot. Even his most fervent fans have to admit that Lovecraft could be turgid AF at times, but we forgive it.

Anonymous

I've been a listener for a while and I just want to say I always enjoy your energy and enthusiasm when discussing all these great (and not so great) stories. Keep up the good work! Also a suggestion for bonus content for the next March is for Dracula's. A short three act play, about 20 pages, called "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom". Its a satirical play written by Charles Busch originally premiering in 1984. Here's the plot synopses : In ancient Sodom, a young girl is sacrificed to the dreaded Succubus, a beautiful vampiress who thrives on blood of young girls. Through a trick of fate, the girl is transformed into a vampire and plots revenge. They meet again in the 1920s as rival silent movie actresses during an interview where they face a vampire hunter. And then again in the 1980s where one is a hardboiled headliner and the other a charwoman, rekindling their feud. Its one of the most interesting plays I got to read while at collage. If nothing else give it a look and enjoy the silliness of the material.

Anonymous

The best part of Kolchak: The Night Stalker was the way that they saved budget by almost never shooting in Chicago, other than for B-Roll. The werewolf episode, for instance, was shot on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, and I'm pretty sure the there are no palm trees in the windy city, as seen in other episodes. I don't know what they were saving the budget for, because the SFX were about as cheap as you can get -- invisible space monsters anyone? -- and the cast (except for the regulars) were your typical 70s day players, on Kolchak this week and the Love Boat the next. It was cheap, it was cheesy, and I love it to this day.

Anonymous
>>57890338

Hey, don't diss "The Dunwich Horror FROM SPAAAAAAACE," friendo.

Steve

Hey, I'm only on pronunciation watch. Misplaced old women is someone's else deal.

Steve

Also, I get the feeling the Aickman isn't going to appeal to Chris. He's very much in the M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood continuum. I've read every weird story he wrote so I'll try to stay positive.

Jeremy Impson

On the subject of making connections to Lovecraft stories, we should make HPL bingo cards where each square has a trope, character type, or archaic word of phrase from a Lovecraft story. Then Chad and Chris can check them off as the record, and we can play along at home.

Jeremy Impson

At the risk of doubling down on his crisis, but was it likely that Chris was renting VHS tapes back in 2006?

Jeremy Impson

As an adult I've had several very positive comments about my tooth gap being an attractive feature, and they were all it took to shed a childhood's/young adult's worth of self-consciousness and hesitancy to smile broadly.

Anonymous

Yes, finally some Robert Aickman on the show! I'm going through the whole of his oeuvre a second time right now (really just 6 standard size collections) and I'm so looking forward to you covering him. As Neil Gaiman said: "He really is the best."

Anonymous
>>57899629

I'm hopeful. I absolutely love Aickman, enjoy James reasonably but don't get much out of Blackwood (except for his sublime "The Wendigo"). I feel that Aickman is very different from the other two authors you mentioned in that he has a decidedly more "modern" sensibility and real psychological insights that James, for example, lacks almost completely IMO.

Anonymous

Look, gang, I know not every author is for every reader, but just like you had to find the right flavor of Clark Ashton Smith to finally "get" why people dig his stuff, I feel like that's gonna be the same for y'all with M.R. James. Might I suggest "Lost Hearts?" It's got some great creepy imagery, hauntings, only a light spattering of casual racism, some delightful phonetic dialect writing, and I'm convinced it was at least an aesthetic inspiration for Guillermo Del Toro's "Crimson Peak" (*ahem* spoooooky bathtuuuuub ghoooost).

Anonymous
>>57998780

Yes, Lost Hearts would be perfect. I suggested it for creepy child month a while back.

Anonymous
>>57835618

Tower Records in Hollywood sold her records, and the divider said: "Kate Bush I sing so high only bats can hear me" I sing so high only Draculas can hear me is so very close.

Anonymous

RE: "No one wants instructions on how to get killed." Explanations of human nature that are based on what is "natural" are always fallacious to me. One might think it is "natural" to want to live, yet around 800,000 people kill themselves per year. I can provide other contradictions but that is not necessary. Human actions vary widely and significantly and exist in dialectical tension with a context. Explanations of humanity based on 'nature' almost always support power structures and inequality (the way things currently are is "natural!") while also ignoring all the ways such theses do not fit. There is nothing "natural" about being a 21st century individual who fills out Excell spreadsheets all day to get more little pieces of paper or higher numbers on a screen so they can exchange these for a room to sleep in, some food to eat, and entertainment piped in from somewhere far away. I guess I'm saying reject naturalistic thinking in general and try to embrace something that takes context and situation into account, or at the very least be very skeptical about any and all statements claiming anything is 'natural' and this eternal and immutable.

Anonymous

March is for Draculas is one of the more in-jokey things I put up on my calendar I get excited for as I watch it grow closer, like Christmas. The girlfriend has just accepted it at this point.