About this episode

The episode explores Richard F. Searight's unpublished Cthulhu Mythos story about a professor who summons the Warder of Knowledge.

THE WARDER OF KNOWLEDGE is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Richard F. Searight, unpublished during his lifetime. Lovecraft read the story, saying of it: "I like the story exceedingly." It was first published in the 1992 mythos collection, TALES OF THE LOVECRAFT MYTHOS. In pursuit of omniscience, Professor Gordon Whitney dares to summon the ageless Warder of Knowledge, and finds that some secrets are guarded by horrors beyond human imagining.

People in this episode

Host: HorrorBabble

Topics covered

• Cthulhu Mythos
• horror
• omniscience
• summoning
• secrets
• knowledge

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: THE WARDER OF KNOWLEDGE, TALES OF THE LOVECRAFT MYTHOS

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