Lot No. 249

Worry about the mummy.

Because he wrote this story, Lot No. 249, okay? Yeah.

In 1892, like I said, and it's about this guy at Oxford, Abercrombie Smith.

And he studies medicine.

And then we had l- literary works from the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Uh, he wrote an 1890 story called The Ring of Thoth, and 1892's Lot No. 249.

Uh, that one, of course, was adapted, uh, in the motion picture, uh, Tales from the Dark Side: The Movie.

Yeah.

Nah.

So he's distracting her before she can get ready for the dinner party, and the first story he reads her is Lot 249, which is actually adapted from a story by Arthur Conan Doyle of all goddamn people.

Man.

I thought he just did Sherlock Holmes and shit.

That's fine-

'Cause this is what it's giving me vibes of anyway.

Yeah, I'ma just even look up Lot 249 the story and see.

Maybe sh- maybe it's just this.

I saved the really, really best story for now.

That lot 249 was a heavy mother.

Hi, I'm Andy Goulding from Blueprint Review and Cartoon Breakdown Podcast and you're listening to Anthological, the anthology podcast about anthology movies.

This is my fifth appearance on the show and back after a couple of seasons hiatus.

I know the framing device is not my assigned segment of the film, but I just like to tell that story at any opportunity I get.

But I'm in danger of drifting into self-indulgence again, which I promised I wouldn't do.

So let's get to my part of the film, which is the first story, Lot 249.

So Lot 249 was directed by John Harrison, who directed all the segments in Tales from the Dark Side of the movie.

And if you wanna look up any of these stories, like, uh, the Conan Doyle story is The Ring of Thoth from, uh, 1890.

Uh, there's Lot No. 249 from 1892.

This is the one that was realized in Tales from the Dark Side the movie to some extent-

Mm