Tony Walker

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15,273 appearances 26 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Classic Ghost Stories · The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

It's it's it's cold, it's hard, it's not it doesn't blur, it doesn't drift off, it doesn't uh fuzzy its way into metaphysics or anything like that. podcast-host

It's just cold and beautiful standing there doing now but be and you know European the European man has gone back to this and it goes through a a f podcast-host

Then it has enough of that and it goes back to you see this in architecture, and it goes back to the uh the love of ornamentation and uh frippery and and then it goes back to the cold austere lines again. podcast-host

We seem to be it's like breathing in in it comes and out it goes. podcast-host

Now he's very interesting in that he's he's a uh romantic, which in a you know, and then it becomes a Panassian. podcast-host

And I see podcast-host

Lots of the gothic in this. podcast-host

Um, I see hint he's too early to be a decadent, but I see it, I feel it anyway, in in this work. podcast-host

Anyway, so he he lived uh a semi-Behemian, semi-bourgeois life between uh Paris and Noilly, supporting a complicated family. podcast-host

Uh and three times proposed to the Academy Francaise, he was always rejected, but he's podcast-host

Contemporaries, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Goncot, and many others regarded him as a master craftsman. podcast-host

He died in 1872 after the Franco-Prussian War on the Commune, worn out by heart this easy and overwork. podcast-host

And he's buried at Montmartre, a posthumous collection, Le Tombeau de Thiophil Gautier, with contributions from Victor Hugo Swinburne. podcast-host

He's getting decadent to me, and others testified to the breadth of his influ breadth of his influence, you know. podcast-host

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So but underneath this respectable surface, if it was respectable, runs a gotier who matters to us, the craftsman of the weird and the exotic. podcast-host

So in stories like La Morte Amoreuse, Clarimonde, which we've done, La Pierre de Mormy, the Mummy's foot, which we've just done, and U Nuit de Cleopatre, um which I haven't done, he treats the supernatural not as a moral allegory but as an intrusion from another order of reality. podcast-host

I think an aesthetic reality. podcast-host

Lovecraft later singled him down as the first French writer with a genuinely authentic sense of the unreal world. podcast-host

And he Lovecraft praised those tales for their forbidden vistas and for the way Gauthier captures the Aeon weighted dread. podcast-host

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