Lovecraft and the Irish (with W. Scott Poole)

Cian is delighted to invite to the cabin in the woods W. Scott Poole, author of In The Mountains Of Madness: The Life And Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft for a chat about the great New England horror writer! In this episode we have an enormously fun conversation that includes: -Lovecraft's short story The Moon-Bog, set in Ireland -Lovecraft's racial worldview and how the Celts/Irish feature in it -Links to better-known HPL stories such as The Rats In The Walls and The Horror At Red Hook -Recent revisionary takes on HPL's universe such as The Ballad Of Black Tom -Lovecraft's discussions with Robert E Howard about race -Connections to other writers of fantastic/weird fiction -Recent book Wasteland: The Great War And The Origins Of Modern Horror Don't miss this one! NOTES: Wasteland, W. Scott Poole, 2018, Counterpoint Press https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wasteland-Great-Origins-Modern-Horror/dp/1640090932 In The Mountains Of Madness, W. Scott Poole, 2016, Soft Skull Press https://www.amazon.com/Mountains-Madness-Extraordinary-Afterlife-Lovecraft/dp/1593766475/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mountains+madness+poole&qid=1602261897&sr=8-1 The Ballad Of Black Tom, Victor Lavalle, 2016, Tor https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ballad-Black-Tom-Victor-Lavalle/dp/0765387867 A Means To Freedom, Lovecraft & Howard, 2017, Hippocampus Press https://www.amazon.co.uk/Means-Freedom-Letters-Lovecraft-Robert/dp/0984480293 "Pencil, Writing, Close, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org 'Cthulhu and R'lyeh' by Bendukiwi https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cthulhu_and_R%27lyeh.jpg