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Holiday Bonus: Waiting for the Next Sentence
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…

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On 'The X Files,' with Meredith Michael
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…

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The Player: On the Magician Card in the Tarot
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 …

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The Final Frontier, with Lionel Snell
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…

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Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'
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'…

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Riddles in the Dark: On Fairy Tales, Interpretation, and 'Rapunzel'
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…

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On Charles Burns' 'Black Hole' and the Medium of Comics
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…

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Mid-Break Bonus: The Quiet Earth
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…

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Don't Look Now: Live at Lily Dale
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…

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Magick and Enlightenment, with Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford
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…

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