Catching Up Cosmic

By: catchinguplitpod
  • Summary

  • Catch up on classic cosmic horror with us! We both love the genre but we're starting out mostly unfamiliar with the classics, so we're going right to the source! We're reading every Lovecraft story aloud, critiquing and analyzing it, and poking a bit of fun along the way.
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Episodes
  • Joe Did Nothing Wrong
    May 5 2021

    This week we read 'Beyond The Wall of Sleep' and spoiler alert: Its Bad!

    Read along with us on wikisource here .

    We also had some technical difficulties while recording, so apologies for some slightly clunky editing near the end.

    Content Warnings: classism, ableism, irresponsible psychiatric treatment, cannibalism

    Background audio credit: "Running, Snow A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org as well as CC0 audio and music

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Jellyfish and Dragons
    Apr 21 2021

    Today we read 'From Beyond', a surprisingly solid short story from 1934 about a mad scientist and the invisible jellyfish that live in the air.

    You can read along with us at en.wikisource.org/wiki/From_Beyond

    This was our first live episode, hosted as part of Flights of Foundry, a global speculative fiction convention! This year's event is over, but check out their website flights-of-foundry.org for updates.

    All audio resources used are CC0 content from Freesound.org

     

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    37 mins
  • Jack Black Takes A Nap
    Apr 7 2021

    In this episode we read two Very different short stories and go on a wild tangent about Jack Black... somehow....

     

    The full text of Dagon is available on wikisource

    The full text of A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson is available on wikisource

     

    Normally episodes will be going out every other week, but to start off we're giving you a few weekly ones :)

     

    Content Warnings: Suicide, morphine addiction, possible unreality and paranoia, racist caricature

    Background audio credit: "Stream, Water, C.wav", "Footsteps, Muddy, E.wav", and "Ambience, Seaside Waves, Close, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org as well as original field recordings and CC0 audio

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    52 mins

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