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Oct 30, 2026
Scott MillerNARRATOR
His influence extended to numerous other authors who continued to expand the strange fictional universe he created long after his death.
Scott MillerNARRATOR
From the October 1931 issue of Weird Tales magazine, on page 394, The Strange High House in the Mist, by H.P. Lovecraft.
Scott MillerNARRATOR
In the morning mist comes up from the sea by the cliffs beyond Kingsport.
Scott MillerNARRATOR
White and feathery it comes from the deep to its brothers the clouds, full of dreams of dank pastures and caves of Leviathan.
James HollowayHOST
But on the other hand, at the time that Lynn Carter was doing this kind of thing, this was more by way of an Easter egg.
James HollowayHOST
Like, the number of people who knew about 1933 Donald Wondray stories in an age when, like, if you wanted to read a lot of stuff from old Weird Tales, you had to, like, go find back issues of Weird Tales from the 30s.
James HollowayHOST
I don't know how much of that Wondray stuff was reprinted or how many of those reprints were still in print in the 70s.
James HollowayHOST
You know, this was very, very niche stuff.
Jay ShepardHOST
pulp books.
Jay ShepardHOST
He was publishing a lot of stuff in Weird Tales.
Joshua StolteHOST
Okay.
Jay ShepardHOST
I don't think he was as popular as he is now, definitely.
Gena MarieHOST
We expect from Ray Bradbury wondrous fantasy or gentle nostalgia, but not intense depravity.
Gena MarieHOST
Publishers did not start an industry-wide cancellation when the October game was first published in an edition of Weird Tales magazine.
Gena MarieHOST
No, there was no massive public outcry directed at author Ray Bradbury.
Gena MarieHOST
No.
TomHOST
In The Iceberg, it says the Dunwich Horror is a book, but actually it is a story that showed up in a magazine.
TomHOST
Weird Tales, dated April 1929.
TomHOST
This is a story as of this recording that's almost 100 years old, but we'll get back to it in a little bit.
TomHOST
The Iceberg also notes that when you visit both locations, the Marble Quarry in Fallout 4 and the Dunwich Building in Fallout 3, that you have hallucinations, but they're a little bit different from each other.
AdrianHOST
He transferred to the University of Michigan, got degrees in English and journalism, and then completely threw himself into the world of pulp magazines.
ClaraHOST
Writing for places like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories?
AdrianHOST
Exactly.
ClaraHOST
That background in the pulps is so crucial because by the time Arthur comes to radio, his brain is fully steeped in the macabre, the supernatural and the really gritty, high stakes pacing of crime pulps.
GorgorodHOST
Let's look at August 1929.
GorgorodHOST
A young writer from Texas named Robert E. Howard, who you might know as the creator of Conan the Barbarian, publishes a short story called The Shadow Kingdom in a magazine called Weird Tales.
GorgorodHOST
And this story is absolute ground zero for the modern myth.
speaker_1HOST
It is the Rosetta Stone of the reptilian conspiracy.
Tony WalkerHOST
Stolen Body.
Tony WalkerHOST
So, first appeared in the Strand magazine in November 1898 and was gathered in 12 stories in a dream, 1903, published across the Atlantic in the November 1925 issue of Weird Tales, Bit of a Gap.
Tony WalkerHOST
And it fitted very well in the pulp horror of Weird Tales or pulp stories of Weird Tales.
Tony WalkerHOST
So it has the supernatural in it.
Tony WalkerHOST
Very often, Wells would explain away the supernatural or you'd have a Scooby-Doo kind of thing.
Hank SchwaebleGUEST
Where I really was pleased with all the stories I wrote, more or less, this one seemed a little bit different.
Hank SchwaebleGUEST
So I sent it over to Weird Tales, and I said, hey – I know this is a little longer.
Hank SchwaebleGUEST
It was like 11,000 words, I want to say.
Hank SchwaebleGUEST
A little longer than what you might usually publish, but I know you mentioned you sometimes serialize things or would consider serializing.
Hank SchwaebleGUEST
Are you interested in this? And they got back to me and said, hey, we really like this.
Hank SchwaebleGUEST
The editor-in-chief said he really, really, really likes this story.
Hank SchwaebleGUEST
And They had a an arrangement with Blackstone Publishing, kind of a collaboration where they had a weird Tales Presents line of novels that Blackstone published.
Hank SchwaebleGUEST
would publish so they asked me if blackstone was interested because they still had to get blackstone to approve each novel to accept it they said if blackstone was interested would you be willing to expand this into a novel and i said uh well yeah if i have a contract i don't want to write a novel and have them just look at it and then say yeah that's pretty good but you know we'll pass um and uh blackstone was very interested and so uh we negotiated a contract out and my agent uh I gave it the stamp of approval, and so I set out to taking this 10,000, 11,000-word story and turning it into a full-length novel.
Nick AndersonGUEST
I wouldn't get a Stephen King connection at all.
Nick AndersonGUEST
I definitely get the weird authors like Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, that early Weird Tales era.
JoshHOST
Yes.
Nick AndersonGUEST
Where it's not exactly horror.
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