The SFFaudio Podcast #147 – Pickman’s Model by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Mr Jim Moon. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the short story (21 Minutes) followed by a discussion of it by Jesse, Tamahome, Mr Jim Moon, Wayne June and Mirko Stauch. Here’s the ETEXT.
Talked about on today’s show:
S.t.a.u.c.h., comic book explosion sounds, “thwip”, Pickman’s Model by H.P. Lovecraft, Hypnobobs Podcast, Hypnogoria.com, Jim Moon’s audio essay about ghouls, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Amicus Press, Beyond The Grave, The Monster Club, The H.P. Podcraft Podcast, The Tomb, The Call Of Cthulhu, The Crawling Chaos, The Music Of Erich Zann, The Festival, nobody wants to talk about art, Neonomicon, Pickman’s Necrotica, Night Of The Living Dead, Richard Burton, the German audio drama adaptation, The Thing On The Doorstep (annotated by S.T. Joshi), I Am Providence: The Life And Times Of H.P. Lovecraft, The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward, Robert E. Howard, Omar Epps, House, M.D., “no nordic man”, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, lead-lined coffins, a slurry of sauce, “the lesson”, “subway accident”, The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath, Bradford Dillman, “for procreational purposes”, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Unnameable, Gustav Dore’s illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, the power of art, Supernatural Horror In Literature, Aristotle’s Poetics, Algernon Blackwood, YogSothoth.com, What The Moon Brings, a ghoulish sense of humor, Robert Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith, eldritchdark.com, Out Of Space And Time, Cotton Mather, spectral evidence, the original waterboarding, The Horror At Red Hook, He, Audio Realms, The Mountains Of Madness, Through The Gates Of The Silver Key, The Statement Of Randolph Carter, two one sided conversations, what would Lovecraft write today?, The Lovecraft Chronicles by Peter Cannon, Lovecraft’s racism, Mr. Nigger Man (Lovecraft’s cat), racist paint colours, WWII, xenophobia, the strange and the stranger, Samuel Loveman, mythologizing the author, Buck Rogers, Doc Savage, Poe himself is the star of The Raven, laughing in horror, the Night Gallery paintings, Hannes Bok, a wolf with a mullet, a modern adaptation, The Rats In The Walls, if a story can be spoiled it’s probably not worth reading (or re-reading), Tam would have dropped his shit, Joanna Russ, Cthulhu 2000, Poe wrote his wife to death, Beyond The Wall Of Sleep, The Crawling Chaos, “psychedelically cosmic”, Jim Moon’s Necronomicon woodcuts, 16th century Pickman,
Posted by Jesse Willis
Mriko’s shownotes:
Lovecraft:
http://hplovecraft.com/
Text:
http://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/pm.asp
Comic Sound effects
http://www.cracked.com/funny-1097-comic-book-sound-effects/
http://gizmodo.com/5656616/thwip-snikt-bamf-how-comic-book-sounds-became-real-life-sounds
Models (just simple google pic. Search result)
http://www.google.de/search?q=pickman%27s+model&hl=de&client=firefox-a&hs=op9&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=l_Y0T7yXJ4jzsgaN4oThDA&ved=0CDYQsAQ&biw=766&bih=446
Some reviews:
http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-pickmansmodel.html
Cool Fan review with pictures:
http://www.cthulhucoffee.com/summaries/pickman.html
http://philosophicalasides.blogspot.com/2011/04/pickmans-model.html
PM at Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8563911-pickman-s-model
Movie From Beyond the Grave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Beyond_the_Grave
Movie Monster Club
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monster_Club
Can’t find something about Hayes
Hpocraft
http://hppodcraft.com/2010/06/30/episode-47-pickmans-model/
Interview with Chad and Chris:
http://www.cthulhu.de/artikel/interview-chris-lackey-und-chad-fifer/
HPLs Essay Supernatural Horror in Literature:
http://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.asp
Music of Erich Zann:
http://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mez.asp
The Festival:
http://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/f.asp
The Dream-Quest for unkown Kadath
http://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.asp
The Neonomicon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonomicon
http://www.avatarpress.com/2010/04/neonomicon-by-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows/
Ghouls:
http://www.google.de/search?q=ghoul&hl=de&client=firefox-a&hs=e1s&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=gTA1T6DQHc7tsgaf0_3gDA&sqi=2&ved=0CEsQsAQ&biw=1000&bih=446
http://www.deardeath.com/ghouls_in_fiction.htm
http://www.deardeath.com/ghouls.htm
difference betw. g and zombie
http://www.differencebetween.net/science/nature/difference-between-ghoul-and-zombie/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoul
Richard Francis Burton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton
http://burtoniana.org/
Arabian Nights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_nights
http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/index.htm
A Victorian Obsession With Death
http://berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2000/04/05/death.html
http://www.angelpig.net/victorian/mourning.html
http://scheong.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/dressing-for-a-sombre-occasion-mourning-jewellery/
German Audio Versions:
http://www.luebbe.de/Hoerbuecher/Spannung/Details/Id/978-3-7857-4529-8
“Gruselkabinett” series
http://www.luebbe.de/Suchergebnisse/Allgemein/alle/gruselkabinett/1/score/100/1/0/0
Dietmar Wunder (voice over artist for Omar Epps of House, M.D.) german only:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietmar_Wunder
http://www.dietmar-wunder.de/
it is mentioned here: http://www.tocotronic.de/nebenprojekte/dirk-von-lowtzow/ (subsection of the band’s official homepage and on amazon, but there seems to be no record at the publisher’s website anymore
narrator: Dirk von Lowtzow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_von_Lowtzow
his band: http://www.tocotronic.de/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocotronic
possible sources for the names according to S.T. Joshi:
Elliot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eliot_(missionary)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Eliot
Pickman:
Samuel Pickman House (oldest building in Salem)
http://www.salemweb.com/tales/charter.shtml
Thurber, a botanist born in Providence, R. I.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2476505
Penguin Classics Ed.
http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141187075,00.html
S.T. Joshi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._T._Joshi
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/3667
http://www.acidlogic.com/stjoshi.htm
http://www.stjoshi.org/
Hippocampus Press
http://hippocampuspress.com/
I am Providence:
http://www.hippocampuspress.com/h.p-lovecraft/about-hp-lovecraft/i-am-providence-the-life-and-times-of-h.-p.-lovecraft?zenid=b24eed5c86a10d20fa656166a24e47e4
Changeling:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling
Northend Boston:
http://www.northendboston.com/
Boston Art Club
http://bostonartclub.com/
Nightgallery Episode:
Night Gallery
http://www.nightgallery.net/season2b.html
http://www.tv.com/shows/night-gallery/pickmanand039s-model-77030/ (LEGAL?)
at HULU
http://www.hulu.com/watch/58795/night-gallery-pickmans-modelthe-dear-departedan-act-of-chivalry
Fan Film Project:
http://www.pickmansmodel.com/
19nocturne
http://nineteennocturne.libsyn.com/lovecraft-12-pockman-s-model
H.P. Lovecraft Collection
http://www.lurkerfilms.com/cat/hplc04.html
Goya:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Paintings
Gustavé Doré:
http://www.danshort.com/doregallery/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dore
Henry Fuseli:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fuseli
Sidney Sime:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_H._Sime
http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/sime.htm
Anthony Angarola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Angarola
Call of Cthulhu:
http://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.asp
The opening paragraph has been enshrined in the 15th edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (1980)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlett's_Familiar_Quotations
Yog-sothoth.com (that’s Yog Radio)
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/content/
What the moons brings (reading)
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/content/516
Robert Bloch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bloch
In Lovecraft’s Story „The Haunter of the Dark“ http://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/hd.asp
Robert Bloch is killed under the charactername of Robert Blake.
Wiki C.A. Smith
http://www.eldritchdark.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith
Cotton Mather:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mather
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil//mather.htm
The Horror from Red Hook
http://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/hrh.asp
He
http://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/he.asp
Lovecraft’s Racism
http://www.cosdigital.com/ent/lovecraft.pdf
Peter Cannon: The Lovecraft Chronicles:
http://www.mythosbooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=59192&keyword=cannon&searchby=author&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_23=132891484823d78623be66ad708f6c57
L. Sprague de Camp’s Biography on Lovecraft:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraft:_a_Biography
Lovecraft Remenered:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraft_Remembered
Philip Francis Nowlan, creator of Buck Rogers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Francis_Nowlan
Lester Dent, creator of Doc Savage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Dent
Word counting in Lovecraft’s stories by Ruth Cthuluchick (adjectives)
http://cthulhuchick.com/wordcount-lovecraft-favorite-words/
William Hope Hodgson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hope_Hodgson
Podcast and recordings of the works of William Hope Hodgson
http://hodgecast.blogspot.com/
A little comment on the voice-over artist Dietmar Wunder who plays Thurber in the german audio drama. He also is the narrator of the german version of the VALIS trilogy, available at audible.