Elder Sign: A Weird Fiction Podcast

Elder Sign: A Weird Fiction Podcast

Claytemple Media

4.9from 200 ratings

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224
Episodes
10
Transcribed
200
Ratings
Daily
Cadence
2019
First episode

About Elder Sign: A Weird Fiction Podcast

College-level conversations about the masters of horror literature from H.P. Lovecraft to Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King.

Publisher
Claytemple Media
Category
arts
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
12 Feb 2019
Latest episode
8 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

10 of 224 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Ep. 224: The Isle of Torturers by Clark Ashton Smith

  2. 9 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Ep. 223: At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft - Chapter 1

  3. 14 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Ep. 222: The God in the Bowl by Robert E. Howard

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Ep. 224: The Isle of Torturers by Clark Ashton Smith

Published 8 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And yet there's one place or several places perhaps that refuse to take part in this and are just overtly wicked and evil. And then the question is, what do we do with that? This is a story where no wars are fought to say these people are wicked and they don't belong in the order that we've created and decide to live under, perhaps because they're not a threat because they don't leave their island, but they are a threat because they are constantly finding ways to shipwreck people and capture them on the island. So the question is then, well, what do you do? It's almost a question of theodicy, like not why is there evil in the world, but evil exists. […]

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