The Good Friends of Jackson Elias

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The Good Friends of Jackson Elias is an irregular podcast devoted to the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, horror movies and horror gaming in general. It is hosted by Paul Fricker, Matthew Sanderson and Scott Dorward, three freelance writers who have worked on the new edition of Call of Cthulhu and other horror roleplaying games.

Episodes are usually built around a particular theme, always centred on our shared love of all things dark and horrifying.

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Call of Cthulhu Deities — Shudde M’ell, Yibb-Tstll and Bugg-Shash

Apr 22 2024 61 mins

We’re back and we’re suckling. This is more difficult than you might think, at least when Yibb-Tstll is involved. Even once we get past all those pesky nightgaunts, there’s the whole, um, moving target aspect to deal with. And the less said about that snog with Bugg-Shash, the better. Maybe we’ll just stick with Shudde-M’ell. At least he knows how

Media Catch-Up

Apr 08 2024 61 mins

We’re back and we’re consuming. Mostly, we’re consuming media. At least that’s the consumption we feel happiest talking about in public. Also, the digestion of media tends to lead to less dyspepsia, bloating and flatulence than more tangible fare. Except for Dan Brown, that is. Main Topic: Media Catch-Up This episode is the latest in our ongoing s

The Ocean in Call of Cthulhu

Mar 25 2024 61 mins

We’re back and we’re enjoying a nice seaside holiday. Of course, when most people talk about the seaside, they mean the bit that’s on land. Somehow, we’ve ended up in the wetter part. Maybe that’s more technically landside. Human languages are messy things. Regardless, it’s everything we could have asked for: cold, murky, and filled with ter

Robert Bloch and the Cthulhu Mythos

Mar 11 2024 61 mins

We’re back and we’re wondering what’s in this jar on our desk. The contents are murky, but it looks like it might contain the heart of a small boy. Robert Bloch swears by it, but we’re worried that having it makes us accessories to some grisly crime. Main Topic: Robert Bloch and the Cthulhu Mythos Following last episode’s discussion of Psych

Psycho (1960)

Feb 26 2024 61 mins

We’re back and we’re abluting with trepidation. It used to be that taking a shower was relaxing. We could just pull that curtain closed and enjoy the jets of warm, cleansing water. Since watching Psycho, however, we can’t help but keep one eye open while showering. That wouldn’t be so bad if we didn’t keep getting shampoo in it. Still, it probably

Delusions in Call of Cthulhu

Feb 12 2024 61 mins

We’re back and we’re rolling to disbelieve. Honestly, the world around us just becomes weirder and weirder with every passing year. A lot of this is probably down to age, but we can’t discount some kind of breakdown of objective reality, right? Well, that’s assuming there was ever such a thing as objective reality. In order to determine this, we’d

Psychological Horror in Call of Cthulhu

Jan 29 2024 61 mins

We’re back and we’re doubting ourselves. Well, that’s assuming we have any selves to doubt. Once you start plumbing the dark recesses of psychological horror, you soon realise that you can’t take anything for granted. Objective reality is a joke and identity is just a lie we tell ourselves. If we’re not careful, we’ll narrate ourselves out o

The Ghost of Listener Suggestions

Jan 15 2024 61 mins

We’re back and we’re going through our mailbag again. It becomes a lot more manageable once we sift out the missives written in Aklo and other inhuman tongues. We’re not saying that what’s left is any less sanity-blasting, but at least we can read it aloud without imperilling the space-time continuum. Main Topic: The Ghost of Listener Suggestions

The Shadow Over Innsmouth – Sequels and Adaptations

Jan 01 2024 61 mins

We’re back and we’re heading beyond Innsmouth. The literal and metaphorical tentacles of the Deep Ones now extend far beyond the town’s limits. We’re finding our fishy friends moistening the pages of books, slithering across the silver screen, and even lurking in the hidden depths of our computers. No matter how disturbing any of these may be, however,

Told After Supper, by Jerome K Jerome – part 3

Dec 20 2023 22 mins

Our 2023 Christmas ghost story reading of Jerome K Jerome’s “Told After Supper” draws to its conclusion. After learning all about ghosts in the first reading and hearing some strange anecdotes in the second, we now join the narrator as he braves the terrors of the Blue Chamber. This reading has been organised by good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Percev