The Hound and Another Eldritch Tale | H.P. Lovecraft

The Hound and Another Eldritch Tale | H.P. Lovecraft

From Nightshade Diary by M.P. Pellicer

January 31, 2026 · 3h 28m

About this episode

This episode explores H.P. Lovecraft's short stories 'The Hound' and 'The Mound', delving into themes of obsession and madness.

The Hound is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft published in the 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It is notable for containing the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional grimoire, the Necronomicon, and is considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his friend St. John, who are obsessed with grave-robbing and have built a macabre museum in their basement filled with preserved bodies, skulls, mummies, and other grotesque artifacts. Their obsession leads them to a Holland churchyard to exhume the tomb of a legendary grave robber. They discover a jade amulet in the shape of a winged hound with a semi-canine face, which they recognize as described in the Necronomicon. After stealing it, they are pursued by a monstrous hound, leading to the death of St. John and the narrator’s descent into madness. The Mound is a horror and science fiction novella by H.P. Lovecraft, written in 1929– as a ghostwriter for Zealia Bishop, based on her brief premise: "There is an Indian mound near here, which is haunted by a headless ghost. Sometimes it is a woman." Lovecraft expanded this into a tale of a hidden underground civilization, K’n-yan, beneath a mound in…

People in this episode

Host: M.P. Pellicer

Topics covered

  • horror
  • science fiction
  • Cthulhu Mythos
  • grave-robbing
  • madness

Keywords

  • H.P. Lovecraft
  • The Hound
  • Necronomicon
  • grave-robbing
  • Cthulhu Mythos
  • The Mound
  • Oklahoma

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Weird Tales

Books & works: The Hound, Necronomicon, The Mound

Places: Oklahoma

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