Readings by Maria Rustica

"The Baumoff Explosive" is a weird tale by William Hope Hodgson, read by Maria Rustica. William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was a pioneer of the genre now known as weird tales, influencing, among others, H. P. Lovecraft. Hodgson had a special gift for seeing through the darkness of the preternatural, and the rare courage to do so, which meant that even the hellish battlefields of World War I held no new terrors for him. "The Baumoff Explosive" has also been published under the title "Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani". The print (etching on zinc) is by José Guadalupe Posada: "A group of men looking at a man's back with an image of the Crucifixion." Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.