Aug 31 2024 77 mins 1
Hey! You got your cosmic horror in my heroic adventure!
Hey! You got your heroic adventure in my cosmic horror!
Is Doctor Who compatible with Lovecraftian horror? Let’s discuss! In Episode 80: The Shadow over Lovecraft, the team run through a zippy survey of Image of the Fendahl, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, the Big Finish audio The Lovecraft Invasion and Simon Bucher-Jones’ and Mark Clapham’s BBC Books novel The Taking of Planet 5.
Are there Deep Ones and Old Ones and mi-go? Yes! Is there discussion of Lovecraft and racism? As little as we could manage, but yes! Is there discussion about the right ways to pronounce Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep? Well no, because we ran out of time for that. But we had time for a lot else, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Nick Drake, mythos hoedowns, a certain amount of peeing, the psychedelic imagination, and Kelvin’s dog!
