Prequel i: March 1926 Part I — Dagon, by H.P. Lovecraft

Welcome to our FIRST PREQUEL EPISODE! And because it’s coming out on the 109th anniversary of the death of Weird Tales’ most famous regular writer, H.P. Lovecraft, we’re kind of turning this first episode into a memorial for HPL.On this Inceptional episode of Century Read, Non-Euclidian Kris Jerome, Cyclopean Kris Puterbagh, Darksome Marcus Axford and Cthonian Finn J.D. John introduce themselves and commence their exploration of the MARCH 1926 issue of WEIRD TALES Magazine!Non-Euclidian Kris starts us off with one of his favourite H.P. Lovecraft stories from the pages of Weird Tales — HPL didn’t have any stories in the March 1926 issue, so Kris picked the most influential one (in our opinions) from earlier issues:DAGONby H.P. LOVECRAFT(published in the October 1923 issue; reading by Cthonian Finn)———After that comes the episode's featured poem:NEMESISby H.P. LOVECRAFT(published in the April 1924 issue; reading by Cthonian Finn)———Finally, we cap off the show with letters to the editor, including a fake one we have snuck in. Can you guess which one? Let us know, and we'll give you a shoutout on a future show!Along the way, we'll do some fake "sponsorship ad reads" for our favourites among the hucksters, swindlers, and morally-questionable entrepreneurs whose hilarious and sometimes inappropriate advertisements appeared in the back pages of this issue, hawking everything from telekinesis lessons to .32 automatics available through the mail.Join us!(This episode is the FIRST of FOUR prequel episodes working from the March 1929 issue.)