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Holiday Bonus: Waiting for the Next Sentence
With the next flagship show set to drop on January 8, 2025, we thought we'd tide you over with this conversation on the art and craft and wr…
1 year ago
On 'The X Files,' with Meredith Michael
Episode 181
Chris Carter's The X-Files is weird on its face: a dramatic series that, from the start, presented itself as more than drama, an exploration…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Player: On the Magician Card in the Tarot
Episode 180
The Magician card likely graces more front covers of books on the tarot than any of the other major arcana. In many ways, it symbolizes the …
1 year, 1 month ago
The Final Frontier, with Lionel Snell
Episode 179
One of the great rewards of "weirding" the world is learning that boredom may be a kind of ethical transgression—the world is simply too str…
1 year, 2 months ago
Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'
Episode 178
Earlier this month, Phil and JF recorded a live episode at Indiana University Cinema in Bloomington following a screening of John Carpenter'…
1 year, 2 months ago
Riddles in the Dark: On Fairy Tales, Interpretation, and 'Rapunzel'
Episode 177
Fairy tales are among the most familiar cultural objects, so familiar that we let our kids play with them unsupervised. At the same time, th…
1 year, 3 months ago
On Charles Burns' 'Black Hole' and the Medium of Comics
Episode 176
Comics, like cinema, is an eminently modern medium. And as with cinema, looking closely at it can swiftly acquaint us with the profound weir…
1 year, 3 months ago
Mid-Break Bonus: The Quiet Earth
Every off-week, listeners who have chosen to support Weird Studies by joining our Patreon at the Listener's Tier get to enjoy a bonus episod…
1 year, 4 months ago
Don't Look Now: Live at Lily Dale
Episode 175
Daphne du Maurier was a prolific English writer of novels, plays, and short stories resonant with what she termed "a sense of unreality." In…
1 year, 5 months ago
Magick and Enlightenment, with Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford
Episode 174
Phil and JF are joined by Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford – practicing magicians, podcasters, and co-authors of the newly released Baptist's…
1 year, 5 months ago