Another creepy Halloween episode, where we listen to whippoorwills. Ava has theories and her bird makes an appearance at last, yelling faintly in the background. Brynn isn't sure about monster dongs, but she is sure that wizards die while yelling "BLEAH!"
For the single song playlist (which is only its own playlist for the sake of giving it a really good name), go here
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TRANSCRIPT:
Brynn: Overall, I thought this story was pretty cool. A lot of the dialogue was kind of hard to get through, but the story was interesting.
Ava: Yeah, I – I thought it was an – I thought, if it is a retelling, it's a really cool retelling. Um, but it's also really scary and like, uncharacter – uncharacteristically heroic for Lovecraft, and I just really like this story. Um, so we're gonna move on to star reviews. Uh, what did you give this for editing?
B: I liked this a lot better than the last one.
A: [laughs]
B: Cause – like we said on the last one, you know, it was designed to be read not all in one sitting, so it was kind of a pain to read it all in one sitting. But this one has nice flow, you can read it all at once.
A: Yeah, this is more of a one-sitting story.
B: I mean, it – five out of five, there wasn't anything wrong with it.
A: Yeah, I gave it a four out of five, just cause that dialect is so tough to get through.
B: See, I – I was gonna do that under dialogue, which is why I didn't count it against it here.
A: [laughs] Yeah, sometimes we have, like, differing ideas of where a point should be deducted [laughs]. Um, so what did you give this one for plot?
B: Plot, I mean, it's – it's a five out of five.
A: Yeah, I gave it a five out of five as well. That's the thing, um, when – when you give it a five out of five, there's not much to say.
B: Yeah.
A: It's a really interesting plot, and it's really scary.
B: Characterization, um, he goes into a ton of detail, I mean, even about, like, say, like, Armitage's friends who only really show up towards the end. Like, you get good descriptions of them, and like, their character just by, like, you know, what they're talking about, like with what they're bringing. Like, why did you bring a hunting rifle, you idiot, you know?
A: Yeah. Yeah, I also gave it a five out of five. Yeah, everyone's really well fleshed out. Especially Wilbur. Yikes. Um –
B: Yes.
A: What did you give this one for dialogue?
B: Dialogue, I – I dropped it to a four there, simply because it's a pain to get through it. But, I mean, at the same time, you can kind of – the way he wrote out the dialogue – you can hear it the way he wants you to hear it in your head. So, it wasn't too much of a deduction because [pause] of that, but it was a deduction because it was a bit painful to get through.
A: Yeah, I gave it a five out of five. I thought that the whole, like, party line phone thing was really creepy.
B: Yeah.
A: Um, because you hear people, like, legitimately dying over the phone.
B: Yeah.
A: Um, so, we're gonna do creepiness again, so what did you give this one for creepiness?
B: Pretty – pretty much a five out of five. He – he gets those descriptions, you know, and that's like – that's his big thing [pause] is just the way he describes all the creepy stuff.
A: Yeah, he – he's a description man, and I also gave it a five out of five, because it's just – it's really dense prose, but it really is just so creepy. So my average is pretty much a five out of five.
B: Same here.
A: Nice.
B: So what was your favorite part of the story?
A: I really liked [pause] the whippoorwills, and the final revelation was choice, that it was his twin brother. That – that's real good, and real creepy.
B: Yeah. My favorite was probably just Armitage, cause I love how, like, from the beginning he's like "you're creepy, kid." And he, like, just starts, like, researching everything, and discovering all of it on his own. And him and his buddies, just showing up at the end.
A: Yeah, Armitage is much more proactive than our last protagonist [laughs].
B: Yeah [laughs]. So what was your least favorite part?
A: I thought that the whole research thing could've really been condensed a lot, because – all those books, man [laughs].
B: Yeah.
A: There's a lot of listing of what books he looked into, and what languages he was looking at, and it's just like – that's – that's a time for a montage, sir.
B: Yeah, I could see that. And if – and if it was a movie, it probably would be a montage, you know?
A: Yeah, it is a movie, but I haven't seen it in a few years, so I can't remember if there's a montage.
B: My coworker was saying there's a movie of the last one, too.
A: Actually, you know what, Jeffery Combs is the lead in both of them. He's, uh –
B: Huh.
A: Yeah, he's um – well, I guess he's not technically the lead in Herbert West. He plays Herbert West, and then he also plays Wilbur Whateley.
B: That's cool. I don't really know what my least favorite part is.
A: Sounds like it might have been that dialect [laughs].
B: Yeah, probably [laughs].
A: [laughs]
B: I mean, I – you know – I mean, I like it, because you can tell, like, how he wants you to hear it. But I don't like it because there's a lot of it, and it's just really painful [laughs].
A: Um, if you go to [pause] the podcast I was talking about earlier, hppodcraft.com, I don't know if there's a full reading of this one. Um, they have full readings of several, uh, Lovecraft stories, but –
B: You mean I didn't have to read?
A: [laughs] I don't think there's a full reading of this one, sorry.
B: [laughs]
A: Um, but, uh, the guy who reads the excerpts does a really good job with [pause] um, the dialect. His name's Andrew Leman, and he's [pause] really an excellent reader. He does a lot of their stories.
B: Anything else you want to add?
A: Uh, no I'm finished.
B: Okay. Thank you for listening to Amazon Warriors. You can find us on Twitter @thebookwarriors, and you can email us at warriors (at) superfuntimes (dot) net. Next episode we'll be discussing Neanderthal seeks Human by H.P. Penny Reid.
