Thank you for making this video. I have a little trouble understanding his writing. You explaining it helps a lot.

The Festival is one of my favourites. There are a lot of really excellent Lovecraft short stories that just don't get the wider attention they deserve, being overshadowed by the longer, and more famous, ones such as The Dunwich Horror, The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness etc. I'm really glad you're looking to make this a regular feature.

Such a great regular review show. I hope you never run out of short stories to recap!

We'd love the audiobook👍🏽😊

"NAMELESS CITY" has story parallels to "AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS" and the living ghosts of the Seb'k horned reptiles like the people of blue litten K'n-yan in "THE MOUND" as the species wanted immortality and they have it.

I felt that this story was an initiation of sort. The whole experience was supernatural from the very start, as the arrival at Kingsport had already merged into some sort of trip to the past. Flying away into what can only be deemed the underworld would have bestowed knowledge of things better left unknown. I think he would have emerged a fully versed witch, for lack of a better term. I wonder if the whole thing about the wax mask and the crawling things that have learned to walk is some sort of hint at these witches living eternally. After their body dies, they go on in the form of worms and such that can come together to emulate a human body. I mean, our narrator heavily suggests that his father was a part of this, yet no nention of him having a waxen face. Only his real grandfather could have had access to the items he was buried with. Just throwing around ideas based on my impressions. Also, The Silver Key has a passage where Randolph Carter remembers from his childhood the old church in Kingsport and how it was torn down long ago to make way for the Congregational Hospital. He said he followed the story closely because of the strange tunnel found beneath the church that lead deep into the rocky hillside. This, along with the narrator's validation of the Necronomicon, proves that The Festival was real.

Been subbed to you for a while and I havent watched in a while but super stoked to see this Weekly Lovecraft breakdown. I'm new to his work but have read quite a few of his stories and have loved them all. Cant wait to see the rest of your vids and thoughts on these

Just finished this story today it was so interesting and great to analyse,loved your thoughts on it and going to watch your others on Lovecraft when I read them

Hey David, have you read the works of - Lovecraft's friend -Clark Ashton Smith? I highly recommend it if you haven't.

Very interesting David. I’ve not read much of Lovecraft, but I’ll have to read this story sometime in the near future. It’s really cool to hear how Stephen King was inspired by it, yet I guess when hearing what the story is about, it’s not to hard to see why King would look to this story, along with other stories of Lovecraft, for inspiration.

Your videos just always relax me David. You are the motherfucking best!

Wonder if the conclusion of this was a partial inspiration for Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing"?

I actually read it just two days ago.

Do you know of any stories similar to Stephen King's "The Langoliers"? I have been looking for something like that for a decade.

You once again reminded me to remind you to watch Fullmetal Alchemist anime (2003) before you die (you have time).

In the s story it mentions wyrms not worms right? I always just pictured rotting corpses being under the disguises

I think the revelation that his ancestors were guiding him takes away all the horror from the story

Can you do the alchemist next

The Exploring Series did a reading of this story. Here's the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kLpoppSbtMyqnZ8.html

The Steven king story Jerusalem's lot is a love letter to the rats in the walls

You don't write on paper do you? Do you collect pens, fountain pens especially? I'm just getting into buying them.

Dude you have to chill with the spoilers.