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Back to SearchA Christmas Ghost Story
Episode 101
The Christmas Eve ghost story is a fine old tradition associated with Victorian and Edwardian England, one now making a comeback on both sides of the…
3 years, 2 months ago
Christmas Devils and the Feast of Fools
Episode 100
From St. Nicholas Day through Christmas, the Devil figured prominently in medieval plays, embodying a subversive seasonal element also celebrated in …
3 years, 2 months ago
An After-Dinner Reading: Decadent Dining in the Satyricon
Episode 99
This short off-format episode is intended as a sort of fireside reading to be enjoyed by our overfull American listeners as they struggle to digest t…
3 years, 3 months ago
Villainous Victorian Women
Episode 98
Our survey of villainous Victorian women examines six individuals associated with some of the most ghastly crimes of the era, many directed against c…
3 years, 3 months ago
Who Put the Hell in Helloween
Episode 97
During the Satanic Panic, the notion of Halloween as a Satanic High Holy Day came to prominence, but the elements necessary to this mythology were se…
3 years, 4 months ago
A Vine on a House: a horror story
Episode 96
A short and somewhat extra episode for the Halloween season, a presentation of the 1910 horror story by Ambrose Bierce, “A Vine on a House.” Also, so…
3 years, 4 months ago
Spirits of the Corn
Episode 95
Spirits of the corn (grain) fields from the United Kingdom to Russia have been imagined as embodiments of the harvest and guardians of the fields, so…
3 years, 5 months ago
Master of the Wolves: Transylvanian and Balkan Wolf Lore
Episode 94
The Master of the Wolves is a supernatural figure central to Transylvania’s (modern Romania’s) voluminous body of wolf lore, a mythology that extends…
3 years, 5 months ago
Episode 93: Marvelous and Rare
As a “summer intermezzo” Bone and Sickle is offering three episodes this August in our “Marvelous and Rare: Antiquarian Circle” format. These are sh…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 92: Marvelous and Rare
As a “summer intermezzo” Bone and Sickle is offering three episodes this August in our “Marvelous and Rare: Antiquarian Circle” format. These are sh…
3 years, 6 months ago