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In this week’s episode, we’ll be covering The Beast of Averoigne in the version which was published in Weird Tales, May 1933. We’ll also be talking about the differences between this version and the one originally submitted to Weird Tales, which you may enjoy reading as well.
In this week's episode, we finish "The Colossus of Ylourgne," sections 5-8. Come visit us on our new site at thedoubleshadow.com and check out this week's post. We'll be keeping the Tumblr blog as well for shorter media posts.
Next week, we'll be talking about "The Mandrakes."
Music by: Kevin MacLeod
Brief site outage for moving
We're excited to be moving to a new self-hosted website today (6/18), although we're anticipating a few glitches as we do it. There will be a temporary site outage tonight while we shift over, but the site will still be available at http://thedoubleshadow.tumblr.com, and our Tumblr blog will continue to be used to repost material from the main site, if you're more of a Tumblr person.
If you've subscribed using Feedburner or iTunes, your subscription will update to the new site. It's possible that your iTunes player or your feedreader will re-download previous episodes. Our apologies for that. We're also moving to Blubrry's episode hosting service, which we hope will provide stable service for our episodes in the future.
The Double Shadow Episode #5: "The Colossus of Ylourgne" pt.1
This week's episode covers the first half of "The Colossus of Ylourgne," sections 1-4. You can download the episode here or subscribe in iTunes or via RSS.
The illustration above was commissioned by Farnsworth Wright to go along with the story's publication. According to his correspondence, Smith was dissatisfied with the piece as a whole, but liked the two torturing demons.
For our casting of Gaspard, do you prefer Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Gosling, or someone else? Let us know in the comments, otherwise Ruth and Tim will never settle this.
You still have the rest of today (6/13/12) to enter our weird fiction book giveaway. We'll be posting and contacting winners sometime on Thursday or Friday.
Our next episode will be the second half (sections 5-8) of "The Colossus of Ylourgne."
Music by: Kevin MacLeod
The Double Shadow Episode #4: The Maker of Gargoyles
You can download the episode here or subscribe in iTunes or via RSS.
Thanks to Night Shade Books, we're very excited to announce our show's first giveaway! We're giving away copies of The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith, Book of Cthulhu (short stories) edited by Ross Lockhart, Best Horror of the Year v.4 edited by Ellen Datlow (pub. 2012), and Laird Barron's The Croning. To enter, submit your 1-2 sentence synposis for an unwritten Averoigne story. You can submit the entry to our Twitter, our Facebook, our Google + page, or as a comment on this post (note, private Twitter accounts should choose an alternative method, unless we follow you back). If using Twitter, please limit your synopsis to 2 tweet maximum.
Winners will be determined in 2 ways. First, as a group, we'll pick our favorite synopsis. That person will win a copy of Miscellaneous Writings and one other book of their choice. The other three books will be given away randomly to participants. So even if you're not sure your idea is the absolute best, give it a shot! If you're looking for more inspiration, check out the Averoigne story links in our intro post and read ahead a bit.
This week's show is about "The Maker of Gargoyles," the third story in the Averoigne cycle. It was first published in August of 1932, by Weird Tales. You can download the episode here, or subscribe in iTunes, by RSS, or on Stitcher. This week, we've had to issue our first of a (thankfully) few warnings for sexually violent stories. Each podcast containing sexual violence will begin (or begin after something like the contest announcement) with a warning that contains further info on the situation.
Since it's come up enough, the difference between aspergillus, which Smith keeps saying, and an actual aspergillum. Fun fact, Ruth was sprinkled by an aspergillum just a couple days ago and did not burst into flame, disappear, etc. She is probably not a lamia. Probably. Ruth tries to avoid aspergillus, because that's disgusting.
Stories mentioned in the podcast were Guy Davis's "The Marquis" and China Mielville's Perdido Street Station.
Thanks to Kevin MacLeod for the music in this week's episode. Also, apologies for Ruth's mic. It switched from her good one to the basic internal one without anyone noticing until after the podcast was recorded.
Our next episode will be the first half (sections 1-4) of "The Colossus of Ylourgne."
This week covers "A Rendezvous in Averoigne," the second story in Clark Ashton Smith's Averoigne Cycle. Rendezvous was first published in the April/May 1931 issue of Weird Tales, alongside Robert E. Howard's "The Children of the Night" and H.P. Lovecraft's poem "Alienation" (#32 from Fungi from Yuggoth).
You can download the episode here or subscribe in iTunes or via RSS.
The Ray Bradbury quote was from the intro to Arkham House's 1988 collection A Rendezvous in Averoigne: The Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith. The title is a trifle misleading, as this contains stories from throughout Smith's career, not just his Averoigne works (nor all of them).
The film The Fearless Vampire Killers was released in 1967 and was written by and co-stars a young Roman Polanski.
And shout out to the Podcast to the Curious, about the works of M.R. James. We're fans of more than their accents.
Join us again on May 30th as we read "The Maker of Gargoyles."
Music by: Kevin MacLeod
Clark Ashton Smith’s letter to H.P. Lovecraft, Dec. 4 1933
While doing research for the show—picture us hunched over dusty books in an old library, a single desk lamp lighting a cavernous room filled with tomes and an aged librarian hovering in the darkness—we stumbled upon a set of letters from Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lovecraft. The two are discussing Roman history, and apparently Lovecraft, good-naturely, criticized his friends’ misrepresentation of the time period in his Averoigne stories.
Here is Ruth reading a selection from CAS’ response to HPL. These were formal letters of the time period, note the author’s playful subversion of the form by adding fantastic addresses.
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H.P. Lovecraft's letter to Clark Ashton Smith, Dec. 13 1933
Here is Lovecraft's response to Smith's previous letter. Perhaps by way of apology for correcting his friend's mistake, Lovecraft delves into the fictional Roman history of Averoigne. This letter truly highlights HPL's talent for verisimilitude and world-building.
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The Double Shadow: Episode 2 - "The End of the Story"
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"The End of the Story" was first published in Weird Tales in May of 1930.
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If you're looking for more lamia, "Lamia" by John Keats.
The novel Phil mentioned was The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers. This is a novel that concerns lamia and vampires and amounts to in-depth re-working of the lamia/vampire myth using Keats and historical accounts and all kinds of stuff. The title was taken from a CAS poem. (Ruth's note--looks fascinating!)
Listener @GenusUnknown also pointed out to us when reading for this week that the "the almost vanished and evilly famous ruins of Château Faussesflammes" are mentioned in H.P. Lovecraft's collaboration with Hazel Heald, "Out of the Aeons."
Join us in 2 weeks (May 16th) for "A Rendezvous in Averoigne."
Music by: Kevin MacLeod
Now available on iTunes!
Just a quick update to say that you can now subscribe on iTunes, either by searching for us in the iTunes store or by opening this link in your browser and clicking to open in iTunes (probably faster, because iTunes store search sucks).
Updated: And thanks to Jason for the reminder that for those who don't want to subscribe in iTunes, you can use our Feedburner feed for your podcasting program/RSS reader!
The Double Shadow Episode: 01 - Introduction
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The very first episode of The Double Shadow, a podcast that will explore the life and works of 20th Century weird fiction author Clark Ashton Smith. Episode One talks about Ashton Smith's importance as a Weird Fiction author, his place in history and an overview of what the show will cover.
Show Notes:
Intro & Outro music courtesy of Kevin MacLeod.
The Averoigne stories in the order in which we'll cover them (publication order) (revised 6/17/12 because of an ordering issue):
The End of the Story
A Rendezvous in Averoigne
The Maker of Gargoyles
The Colossus of Ylourgne (published after Azédarac but we accidentally got it out of order)
The Mandrakes
The Beast of Averoigne (published) and the original version rejected by Weird Tales
The Holiness of Azédarac
The Disinterment of Venus
Mother of Toads
The Enchantress of Sylaire
The Satyr (written in 1931 but published in 1948)
A map of Averoigne (click to expand):
The map was created by Tim Kirk and posted on the Eldritch Dark website.
Phil's quoted interview with Clark Ashton Smith came from Conversations with the Weird Tales Circle. The interviewer was George Haas. Phil notes:
Haas seems to have been kind of an interesting figure, very involved in Fortean activities throughout CA and San Francisco in particular. He wrote two accounts of meeting CAS, in one of them he notes that they got together with Anton Szandor LaVey for a cook out. I find that idea amazing.
The book Ruth mentioned is Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith, published by Arkham House, 2003.
More biographical information about Clark Ashton Smith is available on the Eldritch Dark website and on Wikipedia.
Join us next time for The End of the Story!
Music by: Kevin MacLeod