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Study 029 - The Stains
🕑 Added 2023-02-03 02:59:24 +0000 UTCJoin us as we discuss Robert Aickman's award-winning short story The Stains with special guest, writer/director Jeremy Dyson! Look out for his new novel The Warlock Effect with co-writer Andy Nyman - out this April!
Special thanks to reader Greig Johnson! Grab something from his Etsy page now!
This episode featured music from Lichen, Moss and Wrack by Fordell Research Unit!
Here is Gary Budden's synopsis from A Personal Anthology.
And here's another take on the story from Reading the Weird at Tor.com.
Next up: How Love Came to Professor Guildea by Robert Hichens
Comments
I just noticed that when Stephen throws the book, meant for his brother, it lands with a clang. I'm uncertain just how closely I want to pin down the threads to the story. I don't want to ruin the weirdness for myself.
I feel that using lichen, which is a symbiotic relationship between moss and algae is to show that life is a part of death and vice versa.
Very happy to hear you guys cover Aickman again, this story is very haunting one. I was thinking that the nymph maybe is actually something bringing cancer, or some terminal disease which is what the lichen represents. The father is the spirit of death claiming him it seems but it is from meeting the nymph that he begins to have this growing disease of lichen.
