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Luminous Miasma: On Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Episode 129
Edgar Allan Poe can be lauded as a major inspiration for many innovative artists, genres, and movements, from horror fiction to the music of…
3 years, 5 months ago
Demon Workshop: On Victoria Nelson's 'Neighbor George'
Episode 128
The American writer and thinker Victoria Nelson is justly revered by afficionados of the Weird for The Secret Life of Puppets and its follow…
3 years, 5 months ago
Leaving the Mechanical Dollhouse: On Abeba Birhane's "The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity"
Episode 127
Like Caligula declaring war on Neptune and ordering his troops to charge into the Mediterranean Sea, our technological masters are designing…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Daemon Speaks, with Matt Cardin
Episode 126
Returning guest Matt Cardin is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose focus on numinous horror places him in the literary lineage as Arthu…
3 years, 6 months ago
Strange Brews: Weird Studies Live at Illuminated Brew Works
Episode 125
On May 23, 2022, Meredith Michael joined JF and Phil for a live recording at Illuminated Brew Works, a craft brewery in Chicago, Illinois.Th…
3 years, 7 months ago
Dark Night Radio of the Soul, with Duncan Barford
Episode 124
For several episodes now, Phil and JF have been circling what St. John of the Cross called the Dark Night of the Soul, that moment in the sp…
3 years, 7 months ago
Off-Week Patreon Bonus: On Modern Miracles
Episode 123
Every off-week, JF and Phil record a bonus episode for Patreon supporters. The conversations on that stream are shorter, less formal, and mo…
3 years, 7 months ago
Spirals and Crooked Lines: On the Star Card in the Tarot
Episode 122
The Star is one of the most iconic of the major trumps of the traditional tarot deck. It is also one of the most ambiguous. A woman is shown…
3 years, 8 months ago
Dream Theater: On 'Mandy' and 'The Band Wagon'
Episode 121
In this episode, each of your hosts bullies the other into watching a movie he would normally not touch with a bargepole. Phil has been (uns…
3 years, 8 months ago
On Radical Mystery
Episode 120
Though it is seldom acknowledged in the weirdosphere, there is a difference between weirdness and mystery. Most of the time, the Weird confr…
3 years, 9 months ago