Building Twisted Worlds

We've always told ghost stories, huddling around campfires, scaring ourselves silly. Today there’s a new venue for spooky stories – YouTube, where creators are turning cobwebby VHS video tapes and other relics of the early internet into a new genre – analog horror. In this hour, we celebrate weird fiction in all its forms, going back to the original eldritch being himself, H.P. Lovecraft.

Original Air Date: October 28, 2023

Interviews In This Hour:

When dreams escape sleep: the analog horror of 'Somnium DreamViewer' — Kelly Link on 'Pretty Monsters' — The Ecology of Noise in Lovecraft's Fiction — The Magickal Realism and Continuing Influence of H.P. Lovecraft

Here's the original broadcast from 2015 that featured more on Lovecraft, including reckoning with his racist views. 

Guests:

Holly Fernwright, Kelly Link, Dean Lockwood, Erik Davis

Check out our previous episode on H.P. Lovecraft.

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