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The Shadow Out of Time (H.P. Lovecraft, 1936), with George Daniel Lea
George Lea and I convene for another Lovecraft Retrospective (which I'll file here as a Same Log, despite the sad lack of Elliot) to talk about H.P. Lovecraft's strange, neglected, undervalued, late masterpiece The Shadow Out of Time. For my money, this bizarre and ominous tale of mental time travel
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Shabcast 42: Walking on Glass by Iain Banks (1986), with Kit Power
Talking about an amazing novel with an amazing friend.
Jun 22, 2025 0 1
And Once Again the Truth is Found (Part 3)
Continuing a consideration of ‘The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral’ by M.R. James and its BBC television adaptation by Lawrence Gordon Clark Continuing a consideration of ‘The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral’ by M.R. James and its BBC television adaptation by Lawrence Gordon Clark Links to all previou
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'These Things of Darkness'; Dracula and Frankenstein as Gothic Capitalist Production
“This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine” - The Tempest Adaptation, Culture, and Production Dracula, the novel, and Frankenstein, the novel, have one thing in common: they’re unfilmable. The books are unfilmable for different reasons. It boils down to this: Dracula is too bad to film, and Frankens
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