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Episode 583 - The Werewolf of Ponkert - Part 2 (Patreon)

Published:
2022-02-11 00:56:44
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2022-02-11 00:58:58
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2022-02

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We're closing the book of human skin on H. Warner Munn's The Werewolf of Ponkert!

Special thanks to reader Levi Nunez of Loot the Body - check out Hex Volume 2!

From DARKWORLDS QUARTERLY: Werewolves of Weird Tales – 1923-1935

From On An Underwood No. 5: The Coincidental Friendship of H. Warner Munn and H. P. Lovecraft by Todd B. Vick

Next up: The Blood-Flower by Seabury Quinn

Comments

Anonymous

I wonder if that "haunted castle" might have been the home of the Master. The reason it is considered haunted may be because the Master has rested in some hidden chamber in the castle and causes misfortune to those who try to stay there over the many years. The Master gave it his best shot to try to fight off the intruders but in the end, was driven off.

Anonymous

On the subject of the daughter being a blooded werewolf. I mean, he did pick her up in his jaws. She had to get a scratch at the very least from that. I’m more interested in the throwaway line about “they” wanting him to suffer rather than tell him his daughter wasn’t dead… “They who?” The townspeople? I guess he did help do a lot of terrible murders and they wanted him to pay for that regardless of his remorse and assistance. And the sudden creepy feeling the narrator gets. I think that is the real reason he doesn’t reveal the name or location of the inn at the start of the story. He shuns the place now for reasons he doesn’t make clear, so he wouldn’t want other people seeking it out for the same reasons. I suppose it’s paid off in later stories… I would hope so anyway.

Anonymous

Even though it was obvious there wasn’t going to be a happy ending for the wife, during the entire bedroom scene I couldn’t stop my brain from rerunning the Love American Style ep where the guy claims to be a werewolf in order to get away with cheating on his significant other. The resolution there was played for laughs, but hinted at an outcome as bloody as this with a twist. Clearly there’s too much junk TV in my head.

Anonymous

The idea of a story from a monster's point of view made me think of the Marvel Comic series "Tomb of Dracula." Dracula is the title and main character. So, how are the stories structured? Basically, either one of two things happen. Sometimes Dracula is the antagonist and the vampire hunters, the supporting cast, are the protagonists. That's basically a standard horror story, where the monster is the title character. In other Tomb of Dracula stories, Dracula would face off against villains even more dangerous than him (e.g., Doctor Sun), making Dracula the comparative hero. So, as you said, I'm not sure if it's really possible to have a true villain be the protagonist, at least not for a story that a moral person could enjoy. It's an interesting question. I guess Lovecraft would have rejected the moral idea entirely and argue that the monsters have alien, not evil, motivations. But can a human even imagine truly inhuman motivations? I don't know.

Anonymous

For some reason, Vlad seeding doubt about the Master among the other members of the pack made me think of the underpants gnomes of South Park. Phase 1: Create werewolves. Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Immortality!

Anonymous

Just adding a little werewolf flavor: recently I read Thomas Tessier’s “The Nightwalker” which is a pretty decent werewolf novel (though there is the “did it really happen” motif). Also, a new movie coming out in a week or so looks okay. It’s called The Cursed, though I first heard of it last year called Eight for Silver. Man, I hope it’s decent.

Anonymous
>>77682975

Technically <i>Frankenstein</i> is from the point of view of the monster. Even if you don't subscribe to the idea that Victor is the villain, a good chunk of the words in that book come out of the creature's mouth.

Anonymous

Whoah, that's a hell of a stinger, revealing that the book itself is made out of Vlad's skin. Dark! Speaking of dark, thanks for that spoiler Chris. Felt a palpable sense of relief. The murder of the wife was terrible enough, I'm glad the baby made it. Sometimes I think I'm just not cut out for this horror stuff. I love werewolves. Definitely my favorite of the classic monsters. Anyone else ever read <i>Murcheston: A Wolf's Tale</i>? Its by Dave Holland, who as far as I know is still around so not suitable for the show, but the story is primarily told from the werewolf's point of view. And it more or less follows through with Lovecraft's remit. The narrative eventually switches to the guy hunting the werewolf, but there's considerable exploration of how the werewolf picked up his curse, adapted to it, and enjoys it. Really good, a Victorian period novel that sort of fills that void in the classics, which is missing THE werewolf story in the manner of <i>Dracula</i> being THE vampire story.

Anonymous
>>77710674

Think I'm going to have to get that Tales of the Werewolf Clans book.

Anonymous

Hmmm. I think "The Shadow over Innsmouth" meets the "looking through the Devil's Eyes" criteria, and even "The Picture in the House" gets close. Patricia Highsmith's Ripley books may be one of the best of this idea, although there's nothing supernatural in them.

Anonymous

Although I admit I've never really liked werewolf stories that much, modern ones tend to descend into descriptions of piss and viscera and never really get to the chills. Although... I take that back. I don't like werewolf *novels*. I suspect that werewolves maybe work best in shorter format. Note that this is no slur against others' preferences and enjoyments. I generally abhor yucking others' yums, as the kids say, and my taste, while perfect, is not universal.

Anonymous

Upon first hearing of The Red Hand of Doom, I had wondered if Levi Nunez was raised Catholic, which I was. Many a Catholic boy has heard tales of the red hand of doom, and the zits that would be hitherto cursed upon them. Thankfully, I would soon enough learn otherwise from a wise, progressive doctor, Dr. Frank N. Furter.

Raoul Kunz

I honestly liked this one very much, and that in light of the fact that I much despise Werewolf stories as such, if for nothing else than the fact that they normally break up and separate the Werewolf from the Vampire which it is not truly, both in the ancient and early medieval Germanic tradition, or what we know of it with the sources being few and far and mostly Scandinavian and "after the fact, id est rather "new" and Folkore. Rather like the Southern Germanic and Alpine tradition of Krampus is much mangled and intermingled to an unclear degree with the much more harmless Ruprecht tradition, and ever since "Valhaleluja" by Nanowar of Steel we know that Santa is Odin/Wotan/Wodan/Woden ^^. But here Munn is evidently aware of the fact that these two are firmly intermingled in bothy mythology and tradition and I love it, it adds a rather cool factor of "ill defined weirdness" and a more mythological and eldritch vibe. Also: Hey! I'm back after almost a two years of being primarily busy with eldritch scares commuting, now that we have entered that Age of the Fourth Horseman ;) but in the Beforetime I listened to the then HPPodcraft podcast weekly and now I had a whopping number of episodes to go through - t'was a blast ^^. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

Jason Thompson

Oh man!! Now that I am a parent, that scene where the baby was in peril was so agonizing!! I really felt it! But I like using fiction to wallow in my anxieties, so it was, like, the good kind of agonizing

Anonymous

Guys, you've got to cover Micheal Shea's "The Autopsy" soon, with or without Patton..., Not only is it a chilling story that reminds me of "Who Goes There?", but it's about to get its moment... Guillermo Del Toro is bringing Michael Shea’s “The Autopsy” to Netflix https://www.michaelsheaauthor.com/news/guillermo-del-toro-bringing-michael-sheas-the-autopsy-to-netflix/ He's also doing an episode (6) devoted to "The Dreams in The Witch House"!

Anonymous

So good to hear our boon companions so enthused! A possible template for what Lovecraft wanted werewolf-wise would be Fargo. Our protagonist in Fargo is undoubtedly Jerry. He is the main character, sets everything in motion, and drives the action. Marge is an unforgettable hero and, I suppose, a similar character could emerge in a werewolf-centered and driving story.

Anonymous

Neat story, but nowhere near as scary as the advertisement a couple pages earlier in that Weird Tales! When I saw the headline, "Is SEX a Mystery To You?" I thought, "Oh boy, is this going to be amusing or sad?" A couple paragraphs in, I thought, hey, maybe this was a useful service for fact-based sex education. Then I got to this: "Safe Counsel contains nine startling sections: I. The Science of Eugenics . . ." Wooowwwww. It even comes FIRST, before Marriage or Child-birth or anything! So much yikes. Though I guess it does give context to Lovecraft's beliefs and how unremarkable they might have been in his time. Image of the page here: https://imgur.com/a/JwCVBSj

Anonymous

_Crawford Tillinghast defends all monsters_ and _Matt Burriesci fights all dogs_” both sound like something I would totally watch. Are there more titles in this series?

Anonymous

On the topic of the monster's point of view (and finding it repellent), I am reminded of a story by Brian McNaughton, "The Doom that Came to Innsmouth," published in Chaosium's Tales Out of Innsmouth compilation (edited by former HP Podcraft guest Robert M. Price). I suppose it's not a spoiler to quote from the editor's introduction to the story: "You find yourself sharing the narrator's pro-aquatic sympathies, precisely because he is the narrator, and then suddenly you find yourself thinking, 'Hey! Wait a minute! What have I got myself into here?'"