Explore every episode of the podcast Innsmouth Book Club
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| Ep 102 Christopher Michael | 23 Mar 2025 | 01:18:05 | |
Author Christopher Michael drops by the Gilman House for a chat about his excellent debut novel Tomb of the Black Pharaoh. We talk OSS, Woman in Black, soccer hooligans, the mythos and Egypt, HPL at Xmas, Florida Man, Silky the Worm and more. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep101 Innsmouth Tales | 10 Mar 2025 | 01:22:49 | |
We drop into the Olde Library to discuss Innsmouth as a setting and some of our favourite tales of the old sea port. We chat origins and themes, Cornwall, urban decay, Stephen Jones, The Slime Beast, writing Innsmouth and more. Plus ILF news, a delve into the mailbag and a reading of the Innsmouth Sonnet. The Hunger streaming The Hunger DVD Nosferatu Retrospective Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 95 Talking Lovecraft | 17 Nov 2024 | 01:18:10 | |
Join us in the olde Innsmouth Theatre as we welcome comedian and poet CJ Hooper and spoken word performer Matthew Wood of Edwyrdian Tales. We chat live Lovecraft, LARPs, pronunciation, comedy, martial arts, improvisation and vampires. Plus - the Return of Dagon's Sack! Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 94 Pigeons From Hell | 03 Nov 2024 | 01:41:03 | |
Join us in Innsmouth library for a look at Robert E Howard's superb tale of Southern gothic! We talk Piney Woods, Boggy Creek, ghouls, zuvembies, Boris Karloff's Thriller and ask why are old ladies so scary? Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| 🔒 IBC Bonus 9 - Fungi From Yuggoth Part 4 | 20 Oct 2024 | 01:15:05 | |
We continue our study of HPL's sonnet cycle with The Port, The Courtyard, The Pigeon Flyers and The Well. We chat Marblehead, Salem, landscape and architecture, mad organists, balrog wings, Hells Kitchen, Thog and Manchester. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| 🔒 ILF24 Panel One - Location, Location, Location | 19 Oct 2024 | 00:43:34 | |
The first panel at ILF24 was entitled Location, Location, Location - the importance of setting in weird fiction. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| IBC93 Bazaar of the Bizarre | 06 Oct 2024 | 01:31:09 | |
Join us in the world of Newhon for Fritz Leiber’s classic, Bazaar of the Bizarre. We talk Sword & Sorcery, Lankhmar, Dungeons and Dragons, fetish clubs, Goth home furnishings and HPL’s advice. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| 🔒 ILF24 Charles Stross Interview | 06 Oct 2024 | 00:45:20 | |
Tim and Rob chat with the Innmsouth Literary Festival 24 Guest of Honour, Charles Stross Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep92 The Lamp of Alhazred | 15 Sep 2024 | 00:52:04 | |
Join us in Isnnmouth Library as we read Lovecraft's last known piece of correspondence, which formed the basis for August Dereleth's poignant memorial story, The Lamp of Alhazred. We talk James F. Morton, Fungi from Yuggoth, Providence, and nostalgia. Plus a last call for Innsmouth Literary Festival 24! Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep91 Key of Dreams Revisited | 01 Sep 2024 | 01:16:47 | |
Laura Langrish and Dan Osbaldeston from Key of Dreams join us in Innsmouth Theatre to discuss the latest developments in their unique Lovecraftian investigation experience. We talk Machen, spreadsheets, immersion, the Mythos sandbox, Dickens, emotional content and, of course, tweed... Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| 🔒 IBC Bonus 8 - Fungi From Yuggoth Part 3 | 04 Aug 2024 | 00:51:39 | |
We invite you once again into the private members room of Innsmouth Library to continue our delve into HPL's sonnet cycle . We cover the next four sonnets and chat dreams, Greek myth, nostalgia, Lovecraft's lamp and confirmation that Tim is from Pluto.... Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 90 David Cartwright | 21 Jul 2024 | 01:24:08 | |
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| Ep 100 Ramsey Campbell | 23 Feb 2025 | 01:16:47 | |
The marvellous Ramsey Campbell drops in to help us celebrate our Centenary episode! We talk new works, settings, Solomon Kane, TV adaptations, The Three Stooges, Universal monsters, humour and erotica in horror, a personal haunting and more Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 89: The Black Tome of Alsophocus | 07 Jul 2024 | 01:10:24 | |
Join Tim and Rob in Innsmouth Library as they discuss an unfinished HPL story that was completed by a modern author! We chat Fungi From Yuggoth, Fomalhaut, bookshops, Azathoth, A-Ha and the Arkham Prod... Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep88: Masque of the Red Death | 23 Jun 2024 | 01:31:45 | |
We mark the passing of film maker extraordinaire Roger Corman with a look at the 1964 classic Masque of the Red Death. We talk pulp cinema, AIP, Jane Asher, Nicolas Roeg, plagues, wafting drapes, vaseline, birds of prey and goth roulette. Plus the latest Pearl & Scream! Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| 🔒 IBC Bonus 7 - Fungi From Yuggoth Part 2 | 09 Jun 2024 | 00:52:28 | |
Join Tim and Rob in the private members room of Innsmouth Library as we continue our delve into HPL's sonnet cycle with the first three fungi in the collection. We chat fungi or funji, bookshops, attics, cordyceps, Yog Sothoth and more. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep87 Haunter of the Dark | 26 May 2024 | 01:34:35 | |
We visit Innsmouth Library to discuss Lovecraft's last written work, Haunter of the Dark. We chat sequels, Tesla, peeping, Nyarlathotep, the Book of Dzyan, shopping lists and more. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep86: On Writing | 11 May 2024 | 01:30:18 | |
Authors Alexandra Beaumont and Gavin Chappell join us in the Squid Inn for an in-depth chat on writing weird fiction. We talk plotting, developing characters, world building, publishing and more! Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep85: Thomas Campbell | 27 Apr 2024 | 01:13:53 | |
The Gilman Hotel welcomes Lovecraftian writer and film maker Thomas Campbell in for a chat. We talk Alien, Mythos erotica, making movies, community, adapting HPL and more. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| 🔒 IBC Bonus 6: Fungi From Yuggoth Part 1 | 13 Apr 2024 | 00:46:12 | |
Tim and Rob return to the secret room in Innsmouth Library for the first in a Patron bonus series on HPL's sonnet cycle, Fungi From Yuggoth. We chat sonnets, drugs, mi-go, Dreamlands and Planet X. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 84 Zoe Burgess-Foreman | 30 Mar 2024 | 01:10:11 | |
Author, artist and researcher Zoe Burgess-Foreman drops by the Gilman Hotel. We chat Lovecraft, anime, sex and horror, remakes, indie art, comics and bums! Contains adult themes. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 83: Equoid | 16 Mar 2024 | 00:59:23 | |
Join us at Innsmouth library as we discuss Equoid, Charles Stross' Laundry Files novella. We talk locations, snails, magick, conspiracies and the dangers of googling. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 82: Peter Laws | 02 Mar 2024 | 01:24:55 | |
We drop by the Gilman Hotel for a chat with author, podcaster and Fortean Times columnist Peter Laws. We talk being weird, the paranormal, the nature of horror, fandom, AI, religion and serial killers. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| 🔒 IBC Bonus 10 - Fungi From Yuggoth Part 5 | 09 Feb 2025 | 01:09:00 | |
We continue our study of HPL's sonnet cycle with The Howler, Hesperia, Star-Winds, Antarktos and The Window. We talk Zoar, the Salem witch trials, Fomalhaut, Roerich, frozen worms and the Dreamlands. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 81: HPL TV - Ash vs Evil Dead | 17 Feb 2024 | 01:08:55 | |
Stef Hoyle and Graeme Patrick join us in the TV Lounge at the Squid Inn to watch Ash vs Evil Dead! We talk video nasties, the Necronomicon, splatstick, RPGs, and action quips. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 80: Brian Lumley | 03 Feb 2024 | 01:02:18 | |
We pay our respects to the late Brian Lumley with an overview of his work, plus a look at his short story De Marigny's Clock. We talk August Derleth, Dagon fanzine, interpreting the Mythos and Titus Crow. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep79: HPL TV - True Detective Season One | 20 Jan 2024 | 01:12:08 | |
Author John Houlihan joins us for the next in our HPL TV series - True Detective, Season One. We chat Sticks, Ligotti, Chambers, serial killers, police work and Southern gothic. Includes talk on dark themes. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Xmas Reading 5 - Fritz Leiber on HP Lovecraft | 06 Jan 2024 | 00:12:27 | |
For our final festive reading of the season, Tim dips into Fritz Leiber & H.P. Lovecraft - Writers of the Dark from Wildside Press. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| 🔒 Bonus Episode - A Festive Chat | 31 Dec 2023 | 01:00:49 | |
Tim and Rob chat holiday viewing - including the Ghost Story for Christmas - interesting presents, plans for 2024 and video games. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Xmas Reading 4 - The Battle of the Century | 23 Dec 2023 | 00:27:44 | |
Tim takes us through a story by RH Barlow and HP Lovecraft that features some familiar characters.... Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| IBC78: HPLTV - UFO | 02 Dec 2023 | 01:27:00 | |
Once again we visit the TV lounge at the Squid Inn to continue our look at Lovecraftian telly. This time, it's the Gerry Anderson's 1970 classic, UFO. We talk supermarionation, purple hair, future music, Dr Who, Kirk-fu, ouija parties, Triune Brain theory and cats. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 77: HPL TV - Red Dwarf | 18 Nov 2023 | 01:21:37 | |
For the first in our new HPL TV series, Tim chooses the classic sci-fi comedy, Red Dwarf. We talk last man on Earth, Bottom, anti-heroes, the Despair Squid, SFX and twonks. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep76: Mike Mason | 04 Nov 2023 | 01:05:20 | |
With Tim off hunting rare tomes, Rob is joined at the Gilman House by Mike Mason of Chaosium. Chat includes old seaside towns, Call of Cthulhu, scenario design, conventions, game settings and HPL as a keeper. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 75: A Night in Lonesome October | 21 Oct 2023 | 01:21:26 | |
Join us as we brave Innsmouth at Halloween for a look at Roger Zelazny's classic A Night in Lonesome October. We talk Gahan Wilson, Jack the Ripper, familiars, animation and monster mash-ups. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 99 Eraserhead | 26 Jan 2025 | 01:27:48 | |
We mark the passing of genius film maker David Lynch with a look at his 1977 masterpiece Eraserhead. We talk Bolex, paper rounds, industrial music, haircuts, meeting the family, the song In Heaven and Doodahs. Plus we catch up on our mailbag. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| 🔒 Bonus ILF23 - Ramsey Campbell Interview | 16 Oct 2023 | 00:32:10 | |
Tim and Rob chat to the wonderful Ramsey Campbell Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep74: Key of Dreams | 07 Oct 2023 | 01:08:46 | |
We are joined at the Gilman House by Laura Langrish and Ivan Carić, for a chat about Key of Dreams, an amazing new Lovecraftian immersive experience. We talk horror movies, dreams, RPGs, LARP, jump scares, licking wallpaper and more. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| 🔒 Bonus ILF23 Panel Two - The Weird Influence | 04 Oct 2023 | 00:49:41 | |
From Innsmouth Literary Festival 2023 Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| 🔒 Bonus ILF23 Panel One - The Weird Tradition | 02 Oct 2023 | 00:40:05 | |
From Innsmouth Literary Festival 20203 Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep73 Black Armada Games | 23 Sep 2023 | 01:23:04 | |
Joshua Fox and Becky Annison of Black Armada Games drop into the Gilman Hotel to tell us about their new game, Lovecraftesque. We talk RPG settings, CoC in Japan, the Satanic Panic, creative destruction, ritual, Games Workshop and more. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Innsmouth Reading 5: In the Vault | 09 Sep 2023 | 00:23:16 | |
Innsmouth is still closed due to holidays, so for this week here is a reading of HPL's In the Vault by Tim Mendees Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| 🔒 SS Bonus 05 - CAS Adaptations | 01 Sep 2023 | 01:09:42 | |
We take a look at the only three CAS screen adaptations we know of - Return of the Sorcerer, from Night Gallery. Mother of Toads from Richard Stanley. And The Last Incantation from Lurker Films. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep72: Innsmouth Chat | 26 Aug 2023 | 01:06:44 | |
With Innsmouth closed due to birthday celebrations, we take time out for some patron questions. Joining us are Paul Fricker of the Good Friends of Jackson Elias podcast, and Mark Griffin of the 30+ Minutes with HPL podcast. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 71 Revelations in Black | 12 Aug 2023 | 01:33:20 | |
We nip into Innsmouth Book Shoppe for a look at Carl Jacobi's vampire classic Revelations in Black. We talk pronunciations, graveyard lurking, heliotrope, Rosie Lugosi and guard dogs. We also learn why Tim hates vampire stories, plus an excellent Dagon's Sack question on Lovecraft's personality. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep70: Paul Fricker | 29 Jul 2023 | 01:34:05 | |
Writer, podcaster and game designer Paul Fricker drops by the Gillman House for a chat and a plate of whelks. We talk Call of Cthulhu 7th edition, writing scenarios, podcast tech, horror as entertainment, conventions and the mysteries of Milton Keynes. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 98 New Year Chat | 12 Jan 2025 | 01:10:36 | |
Join us in a post-festive Innsmouth for our New Year chat. We reveal the contents of our stockings - including Alone in the Dark, Bureau of Investigation, Cthulhu Unmasked and more. We also review the 2024 GSFC Woman of Stone, and Robert Egger's Nosferatu. Plus Tim unveils his Anthony Hopkins impression... Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep69: Simon Bleaken | 15 Jul 2023 | 00:53:33 | |
Author Simon Bleaken drops into the Gilman House for a chat. We talk Egypt, cosmic horror, atmosphere vs character, fandom, AI and reviews. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep68: The Tree Men of M'Bwa | 01 Jul 2023 | 01:17:33 | |
The sun is shining in Innsmouth, so we take you into the local park for a picnic and a chat about Donald Wandrei's classic The Tree Men of M'Bwa. We talk ice cream, colonialism, fox vs seagull, portals, puns and legal battles. Plus listener feedback on the film Dagon and Lovecraftian video games. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 67: Dagon | 17 Jun 2023 | 01:21:42 | |
We seek refuge from the heat in the cool darkness of the Innsmouth Picture House. After the latest Pearl & Scream advert, we watch Steward Gordon's 2001 classic, Dagon, then chat nature vs nurture, dodgy B&B rooms, Bruce Campbell, two stroke... oil, and Lovecraftian humour. Plus an extra special Dagon's Sack with a letter from TED Klein! Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||
| Ep 66: Black Man with a Horn | 03 Jun 2023 | 01:35:43 | |
We drop into to the Olde Book Shoppe to discuss TED Klein's classic novella, Black Man with a Horn. We talk album covers, uncanny valley, English etiquette, William Seabrook and detective Lovecraft. Send your questions to dagonsack@outlook.com | |||