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Podcast News – H. P. Lovecast
New episode of the H. P. Lovecast Podcast is online! We are doing tiki month for the month of May. For our primary episode we did a deep dive on the short story “Blood of the Kapu Tiki” by Eric C. Higgs. The episode is on Buzzsprout and all major podcast platforms.
StokerCon Panel on Podcasting
StokerCon is about two weeks away! Michele and my main priority will, of course, be the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, however we’ve both been invited to be on a panel about podcasts! We don’t have a date/time yet (or many it will be an on demand panel?), but here are the details:
Horror Pods and Vlogs Go Viral: The Pandemic and Beyond
Moderator: Lee Murray
Panelists:
Behind the Keyboard: R.F. Blackstone
Galactic Terrors: James Chambers and Carol Gyzander
H. P. Lovecast Podcast: Nicholas Diak and Michele Brittany
HWA Skeleton Hour: Kathryn E. McGee
If you’re interested in attending StokerCon (online this year!) and to see all the great programming, and to check out the AnnRadCon or the panel I am on, more info on how to register can be found at the StokerCon2021 website.
McFarland Sci-fi Book Sale
McFarland is currently doing a sale on their books classified as sci-fi. Up until May 17th, if you use the code SFF25 during check out, you’ll get a 25% discount. Included in this sale is Kevin Wetmore’s Stranger Things book and Michele’s Horror in Space book, both contain essays I’ve penned.
“Cullzathro Fhtagn!” Paper Published
My paper, “Cullzathro Fhtagn! Magnifying the Carnivalesque in Lovecraft through the Comic Book Series Vinegar Teeth” has been published at Academia.edu’s experimental Academia Letters publishing endeavor. I’ll eventually turn my adventure of publishing this essay via Academia Letters into write up as the whole process definitely needs more illumination. However, it’s nice to have a new publication out in the world. Let’s just see how successful it becomes.
General Neo-Peplum News
Rest in Peplum
Actress Tawny Kitaen passed away at the age of 59. She played Deianeira in many episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.