About this episode

The episode features a reading of H. P. Lovecraft's story 'The Unnamable', which tells of an indescribable entity haunting a dilapidated house.

THE UNNAMABLE was first published in the July 1925 edition of Weird Tales. In the story, the antiquarian Randolph Carter tells a close friend the tale of an indescribable entity that allegedly haunts a dilapidated house near an old cemetery.

Topics covered

• H. P. Lovecraft
• horror
• fiction
• supernatural

Keywords

• Weird Tales
• Randolph Carter
• antiquarian
• entity
• cemetery

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Unnamable, Weird Tales

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