The Good Friends of Jackson Elias is an irregular podcast devoted to the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, horror movies and horror gaming in general. It is hosted by Paul Fricker, Matthew Sanderson and Scott Dorward, three freelance writers who have worked on the new edition of Call of Cthulhu and other horror roleplaying games. Episodes are usually built around a particular theme, always centred on our shared love of all things dark and horrifying.
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The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long
We’re back and we have an angle. Well, it started out as a curve, but then some bits fell off. It’s outrageous! We’re not sure if that was some kind of fall from grace, an earthquake, or just shoddy plastering. Or maybe we’re just being obtuse. Happily, the hounds of Tindalos will be along soon to put us right. Their sense of such things is pretty acute.
Main Topic: The Hounds of Tindalos
Following on from our time travel episodes, we thought we should find an example of how these tropes have been used in the Cthulhu Mythos. Happily, Frank Belknap Long’s seminal story, “The Hounds of Tindalos”, is about as good an example as we could ask for. As well as showing us a very genre-appropriate method for exploring time, it introduces one of the weirdest and scariest antagonists in the Mythos.
We explore the curves and angles of the story, and briefly discuss the life and works of Frank Belknap Long. In addition to his role as a core member of the Lovecraft Circle, Long has the distinction of being the first person after Lovecraft to write a Mythos story. But that was just a small part of a career that spanned over 70 years and multiple genres.
Links
Things we mention in this episode include:
* Time Travel episodes
* “The Shadow Out of Time” by HP Lovecraft
* “The Hounds of Tindalos” by Frank Belknap Long
* Frank Belknap Long
* “The Eye Above the Mantel” by Frank Belknap Long
* Weird Tales
* “The Space-Eaters” by Frank Belknap Long
* “Dark Awakening” by Frank Belknap Long
* New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos edited by Ramsey Campbell
* The Horror From the Hills by Frank Belknap Long
* The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long
* Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Night Side by Frank Belknap Long
* Doels
* Chaugnar Faugn