Show Notes
What if Pride & Prejudice wasn't a bucolic tale of classic romance? What if Netherfield Park hid a dark and menacing secret? And what if Caroline Bingley had a sinister motive for inviting Jane to visit? Stefanie and Melinda discuss Lovecraftian horror as a genre, the prospect of Pride & Prejudice being a much, much shorter novel, and why on earth Elizabeth Bennet would ever have called on the Bingleys without a formal introduction, in Love, Lovecraft & Mr Darcy by Violet King.
Links & Mentions
Read more about H.P. Lovecraft here [https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page].
Learn more about what exactly an Eldritch Being is [https://rulesofgruesome.com/what-are-eldritch-beings/] here
Aja Romano's excellent article How HBO's Lovecraft Country illuminates H.P. Lovecraft's history of literary racism for Vox is linked here [https://www.vox.com/culture/21363945/hp-lovecraft-racism-examples-explained-what-is-lovecraftian-weird-fiction]
Read the Reuters investigation into the tidal wave of AI books on Amazon is here [https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-launches-boom-ai-written-e-books-amazon-2023-02-21/] and a fuller investigation of how fake books have always been a scam is here on Robert Evans' substack, Shatterzone [https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/ai-is-coming-for-your-children].
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