The Double Shadow: A Clark Ashton Smith Podcast

Archive for February, 2013

Episode #23: “The Door to Saturn” pt. 2

February 26, 2013 by Ruth · Episode · Comments are closed

This week, we’re finishing up “A Door to Saturn.” Our reader is still @JoeScalora, a longtime listener and the first non-guest reader we’ve had for the podcast. Thanks for all the positive feedback we’ve gotten for him, we’re planning to ask him to read from time-to-time in the future!

As a reminder, we’re giving away a copy of The Weird and you can win it. Just draw Tsathoggua, as you see him, and send it to us. You can use our contact page, Twitter, Facebook, or our forums to submit your entry. We’ll be posting them, but we’ll choose randomly, so make a valiant effort! To help those of you with less artistic talent feel better, here are ours:

Ruth’s Tsathoggua

Phil’s Tsathoggua

Tim’s Tsathoggua

The contest ends March 20th!

Join us next time for “The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan”

Music by Erdenstern.

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Episode #22: “The Door to Saturn” pt. 1

February 19, 2013 by Ruth · Episode · Comments are closed

A transcription of this episode is now available.

This week, we’re doing the first half of Smith’s “A Door to Saturn.” Our reader is @JoeScalora, a longtime listener and the first non-guest reader we’ve had for the podcast.

We’re doing a giveaway of The Weird, a fantastic compendium of Weird tales. It’s huge and we’ve all enjoyed it, although none of us has finished it. This copy was given to us by a publisher to give away.

What we’re asking you to do to enter to win is just to draw Tsathoggua, as you see him, and send it to us. You can use our contact page, Twitter, Facebook, or our forums to submit your entry. We’ll be posting them, but we’ll choose randomly, so make a valiant effort! To help those of you with less artistic talent feel better, here are ours:

Ruth’s Tsathoggua

Phil’s Tsathoggua

Tim’s Tsathoggua

The contest ends March 20th!

Music by Erdenstern. Next week, we’ll continue with the second half of “A Door to Saturn.”

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Episode #21: “The Tale of Satampra Zeiros”

February 5, 2013 by Ruth · Episode · Comments are closed

A transcription of this episode is available.

This week, we’ll be doing our first Hyperborean episode, “The Tale of Satampra Zeiros.” To see the rest of the Hyperborean stories, check out the list on our about page.

We have our first guest in this episode, Jason Thompson, a.k.a Mockman or @khyungbird. Jason is the author of Manga: The Complete Guide and the author and artist of various comics, including King of RPGs (with Victor Hao), H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, and The Stiff. He is currently working on a comic with Shaenon Garrity. One of the reasons we asked Jason to be a guest on this episode, in particular, is because he’s done a great comic of today’s story. You can buy the comic in his store and I (Ruth) really recommend it.

Jason mentioned learning about Hyperborea in the Inventorum Natura by Una Woodruff. Tim was able to find the Clark Ashton Smith illustrations for The Lurking Fear, thanks for W.H. Pugmire’s blog.

This is the family tree we mentioned, which Lovecraft created to bind his world to Smith’s:

The next two episodes will cover the amazingly trippy adventures in “The Door to Saturn.”

Music by Erdenstern.

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