For their 200th episode, JF and Phil turn their attention to H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu,” a story foundational not only to modern horror fiction but to the very idea of the Weird. In revisiting this tale of forbidden knowledge and cosmic ambiguity, the hosts reflect on Weird Studies itself as a “slow piecing together of dissociated knowledge” that mirrors the work of Lovecraft’s own bewildered protagonists.
Image by Antoni Espinosa via Wikimedia Commons.
Upcoming Events:
Peter Bebergal teaches on Weirdosphere starting November 20, 2025
JF Martel speaks at Back to Haunt Us in East London on November 8, 2025
Phil Ford speaks at the Durations Festival in NYC on November 7, 2025
Phil Ford hangs out at Archestratus Books and Food on November 8, 2025
References
H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Weird Studies, Episode 2 on Garmonbozia
Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
Phil Ford, “The Wanderer”
H. P. Lovecraft, "Nyarlathotep"
Weird Studies, Episode 74 on Jung
Phil Ford, Jacob Foster, and J. F. Martel, “Care of the Dead”
Weird Studies, Episode 110 on The Glass Bead Game
Weird Studies, Episode 101 on Tanizaki
Graham Harman, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy
Weird Studies, Episode 156 on Donna Tartt
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