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THE COCOON,
November 22, 2019 10:00pm

 

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THE COCOON,
BY JOHN B.L. GOODWIN, leads the Show this time, in another unabridged reading by Dr. H. Owll. An inexplicable (and uniquely horrible) "Insect Fear" story which impressed itself on our impressionable mind when we were a child, its hideous denouement never fails to impress, although we still, after all these years, are without a complete understanding of what actually happened in the tale. The unknown moth-- as its body disintegrated, did its vengeful spirit take form to wreak hideous malice on the child protagonist? Did a giant of its species invade the boy's room in the night? Was the fault the father's, for failing to lend the tobacco jar? And was young Denny's desiccated corpse... exsanguinated? His parent noted the unusual lightness of the corpse. Oh, well, heigh-ho. Another frightful Supernatural narrative in the series, which we expect to continue. Those who don't like the stories can just join us after the first half hour. Puzzling Evidence and KrOB, eventually, paid us a visit. And we also concluded with a horror yarn, as they used to say in the old Pulp Magazine days, "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis" by Clark Ashton Smith. Onward!


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