Episode 200 – On 'The Call of Cthulhu'

Weird Studies

Oct 29, 2025•1 hr 28 min

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Episode description

For their 200th episode, JF and Phil turn their attention to H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu,” a story foundational not only to modern horror fiction but to the very idea of the Weird. In revisiting this tale of forbidden knowledge and cosmic ambiguity, the hosts reflect on Weird Studies itself as a “slow piecing together of dissociated knowledge” that mirrors the work of Lovecraft’s own bewildered protagonists.

Image by Antoni Espinosa via Wikimedia Commons.

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JF Martel speaks at Back to Haunt Us in East London on November 8, 2025

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Phil Ford hangs out at Archestratus Books and Food on November 8, 2025

References

H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

Weird Studies, Episode 2 on Garmonbozia

Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

Phil Ford, “The Wanderer”

H. P. Lovecraft, "Nyarlathotep"