Scooby-Doo meets Harlan Ellison. And H.P. Lovecraft.

If you took my brain when I was about 13 years old and tapped a spigot into it, something a lot like this episode of the Cartoon Network series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated probably would've come dribbling out. Shrieking Madness features an unlikely combo of my childhood faves the Scooby Gang, perpetually cranky sci-fi author Harlan Ellison and Cthulhu mythos creator H.P. Lovecraft. (Well, they call him H.P. Hatecraft, but they don't fool me with that cunning little ruse.)

Ellison voices himself. Lovecraft is way too dead to provide his own voice, but he's played here by Jeffrey Combs, so that's almost as good.

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