
Elder Sign: A Weird Fiction Podcast
Claytemple Media
4.9from 200 ratings
- 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.

8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 224: The Isle of Torturers by Clark Ashton Smith

9 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 223: At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft - Chapter 1

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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- 114 ratings
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- 4.9 / 5
- 86 ratings
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