Today, dear listener, we provide you with a privileged look at those classic adventurers Carnacki the Ghost Finder and Adam Adamant. We reflect on the glories of the Edwardian period, throw in some Dr Who trivia, have fun with motor-boats, and generally go mad. We have to, for these are the reminiscences of the Adamant Edwardian…
We’re off on another wild multi-part adventure, involving the Victorian airship The Attila, lost cities, H P Lovecraft, Madame Blavatsky, Tibetans, E Nesbit’s ghost stories and how to be an anarchist. Did you pay any attention when we explained the true origins of the ghoul? No. Or when we told you the truth behind the Flying Dutchman? No. So we’re at it again. We are, unashamedly, greydogtales, and this is Edwardian Arcane: The Fawcett Saga.
It’s one of our fun mega-trails, so we’ll start with the easy part, and inevitably get mixed up along the way…
One of the fascinations of early weird fiction, as written by Robert W Chambers, H P Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, amongst others, is the range of tantalising tomes they mention. Forbidden books, some of which drive men to terrifying and nightmarish deeds, or simply send them mad. It’s a great tradition, carried on into more recent times by writers such as Brian Lumley and Ramsey Campbell. Continue reading The Fawcett Saga 1: Lovecraft & the Book of Dzyan