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Episode 558 - The Sandman - Part One (Patreon)

Published:
2021-08-05 20:34:02
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2021-08-05 20:50:29
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2022-01
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We're here to lull you into some NIGHTMARES with E.T.A. Hoffmann's weird classic The Sandman!

Don't forget to pick up YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE by author J.R. Hamantaschen!

Special thanks to reader Levi Nunez of Loot the Body!

This episode features Harp Quintet in C Minor by E.T.A. Hoffman as performed by Beethoven Trio Ravensburg.

And PRE-ORDERS BEGIN at MIDNIGHT TONIGHT for Pitch Black Manor's new album Night Creeps, featuring the track from the end of the episode: HEATWAVE - exclusive merchandise - don't miss out!


Comments

Scott Lloyd

“… High pressure job.“ Nice! I felt that one coming, in my bum knee.

Anonymous

I think it's no exaggeration to say that "Der Sandmann" constitutes the first contact with weird literature for many if not most German adolescents. It is pretty much obligatory reading in schools here and a favorite subject for presentations, essays, etc. because it's just so delightfully strange. "Der Sandmann" is also one of those books that should really be read in the original German if at all possible. The translations are not bad by any means and still a great pleasure to read. However, Hoffmann has been so formative for the modern German language with his very idiosyncratic prose that there really is no corresponding phrase for many of his expressions. One of my favorite stories of all time, thank you for your great coverage!

Anonymous

I know this author from the opera Tales of Hoffman. I had no idea that there was an actual Hoffman involved! The opera is quite an adaptation but there is an Olympia and a Coppelius so I am fairly sure I know where this is going.

Anonymous

Great episode, didn't knew the story at all and I'm looking for the next one, but my fav part were all the muffled giggles that Chad tried to hide through the whole episode whenever a joke was made 😂

Anonymous

That PBM song at the end was amazing;~; 🖤👏🏼

Anonymous

The conversation reminded me of Todd Rundgren's song Lockjaw. Listen for two things: 1) the wonderfully evil character used to scare children into behaving 2) just how much can be done to the human voice - yup, the whole song is just Todd's voice processed very heavily, indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prIBBbVabLA

Anonymous

I have a vague memory of some traumatising stop motion short I watched when I was young that seems to be the same story of the sandman the old woman tells in this. Anyone have any idea what that could be? Definitely had some horrible baby birds eating eyes... 😱 Edit: found it https://youtu.be/2Hz3QB31K_c

Anonymous

Chad’s always dropping gold pitch ideas. Phantom of the Opera being weaponized for war should totally be a graphic novel and I want to draw it!

Anonymous

I have been working through the bonus episodes recently, and just listened to the Halloween episode from a few years ago, where Chad and Chris talked about haunted houses - attending them, working in them, the safety protocols etc. - and I was reminded of it while reading "The Sandman" yesterday, in particular the description of Nathaniel as a child. Imaginative, given to fancy, easily frightened by Coppelius at first, but after that becoming an avid consumer of ghost stories and tales of goblins. Basically, he's one of us... but he ends up the protagonist-victim in his own story.

Anonymous

The cool versions of the nutcracker had a Seven-headed Mouse King. https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/dance/holiday-dance-2016-16-nutcracker-performances/

Anonymous

I was never afraid of birds...until now. That description was amazing creepy and will haunt my dreams.

Anonymous

I'm half-remembering reading The Sandman in college, and the story is always tied up with Freud in my head, though I can't completely recall why. But listening to the story again, the psychoanalytic reading seems really strong. The young child hiding in the closet seeing something he "shouldn't" sounds similar to the "primal scene" of the child at the keyhole watching parents being intimate, and all this talk of eyes and blinding brings up Oedipus punishing himself. I wonder how much of the horror here is a stand-in for other versions of childhood trauma. This reading adds some interesting context to Clara's letter, which you mentioned sounded pretty sophisticated and even a bit like modern day psychology. The gist of the letter is that the problem is in Nathanael's mind, but as with real trauma, knowing that it's in your mind and being able to effectively cope with it are two different things. Does anyone else know about theorists doing a psychoanalytic reading of this story?

Anonymous

Never read Gaiman's comic, so for me it's always the Spider-Man villain I think of, or else Pat Ballard's song "Mr. Sandman". This story does lose a little of its horror if you can't get the sound of The Chordettes or Bert Kaempfert out of your head.

Anonymous

Oh my, Chad was in rare form in this one. I belly laughed at least three times.

Anonymous

Another, more benign incarnation of The Sandman to add to the list is der Sandmännchen (the little Sandman), a cute stop motion TV series for children which originated in East Germany in 1959 but which is still being made today (over 22,000(!) episodes so far). At the end of each episode the eponymous character throws a handful of sparkling sand towards the viewer, which is meant to send the children off to sleep. When I travelled to meet my German in-laws for the first I discovered that it works on jet-lagged adults too. I haven't reviewed all 22,000 episodes to see whether sexy automata make an appearance or whether he ever steals the eyes of a recalcitrant child. From the nation who gave the world's children Struwwelpeter nothing would surprise me.

Anonymous

This reminds me heavily of the 2000's Horror movie adaptation of the tooth fairy. I strongly believe that the writers for the tooth fairy movie were directly influenced by this story. Can anyone verify this?

Anonymous
>>65672596

I was going to post about this in the context of Rammstein’s “Mein Herz Brennt “. It’s a very creepy Sandmann-adjacent song which references the children’s show in the opening lyrics (starts out like the show’s opening). Of course Rammstein does great horror songs (Stein um Stein about walling someone up alive, Heirate Mich about necrophilia). Mein Herz Brennt starts like this (I think the translation is decent): Now, dear children, pay attention I am the voice from the pillow I brought you something Have ripped it from my chest With this heart, I have the power To blackmail (!) the eyelids The official video will definitely give anyone nightmares. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WXv31OmnKqQ

Anonymous

Did anyone else get shades of Jello Biafra from the PBM song at the end? Particularly the line "deadly heatwave"