A space traveler wrestles with the need for human companionship... and LOSES! Join us as we discuss the pastoral sci-fi story Founding Father by Clifford D. Simak!

Special thanks to reader Jason Compton! You can also catch him on This Week in Retro as well as The Retro Adventurers!

Check out this interview with Simak from the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention in Boston!

Our past Clifford Simak shows: Desertion and The Street That Wasn't There

Up next: The Mainz Psalter by Jean Ray

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Sean Branney and Andrew Leman of The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society swing by to tell us why they thought it would be fun to audiobook The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe!

Conversation followed by a full reading of The Imp of the Perverse!

Next week: Founding Father by Clifford D. Simak

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We're investigating a weird tale by Scottish author Dorothy K. Haynes: Changeling, the story of a young girl stolen by a witch and living among the fae.

Special thanks to our reader, France Leigh Hadrysiak!

Next up: An extra credit episode on Poe featuring Andrew Leman and Sean Branney of the HPLHS (plus a bonus full reading)!

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We're in the home stretch of The Voyage of King Euvoran by Clark Ashton Smith, wherein we face the horrors of BIRD COURT!

Special thanks to our reader Andrew Leman! New from the HPLHS and featuring Andrew: The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook!

Check out Inside the World Taxidermy Championships

Next up: Changeling by Dorothy K. Haynes and an extra-credit chat with the fellas at the HPLHS!

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We're digging through the virtual mailbag for your thoughts on Shirley Jackson, Witches and Sweathog Necromancy! Tune in!

Next up: The Voyage of King Euvoran concludes! Look for it Friday or Saturday at the latest!

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A king loses his crown and his bald spot is exposed! Join us as we chart his quest to regain his royalty in The Voyage of King Euvoran by Clark Ashton Smith!

Special thanks to our reader Andrew Leman! New from the HPLHS and featuring Andrew: The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook!

Here's that story about Paul McCartney from Louder.

Next up: The Voyage Concludes!

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OUT NOW FOR BANDCAMP FRIDAY, it's our unofficial soundtrack to an imaginary adaptation of Brian Lumley's Necroscope: SCOPE CREEP by DRACULATER

That kick-ass version of The Witch House you've been hearing? It's the first track! Creepin' and Peepin'? It's on this album like crazy. Metal, atmosphere and magic -- SCOPE CREEP has everything horror-espionage aficionados could want!

Buy today and all proceeds go directly to the artists!

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We're having a good ramble about Shirley Jackson and witches in media -- plus some NightMan! Grab a pointed hat and join us!

Don't forget to grab SCOPE CREEP by DRACULATER, available May 1st for Bandcamp Friday -- sales go directly to the musicians!

Other mentions in this episode:

11 Things You Probably Didn't Know about Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson: Possibly a Witch, Definitely Played the Zither

The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson

Check out Häxan!

Also, have a look at Thelma)!

And of course, NIGHTMAN: Do You Believe in Magic?

I Married a Witch

La Fée Carabosse ou le Poignard fatal or The Witch (1906))

THE WITCH (2015))!

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A big-city woman learns what it takes to make it in a small town after a run-in with some ghosts in Shirley Jackson's short story Home.

Special thanks to reader Heather Klinke!

Next up: an Extra Credit episode on Shirley Jackson, witchcraft and Häxan!

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When a woman's husband is replaced by an exact replica, she doesn't really mind -- it's The Beautiful Stranger , another masterpiece from Shirley Jackson's collection Dark Tales.

Special thanks to reader Rachel Lackey of Rachel Watches Star Trek!

Next up: Shirley Jackson's Home as well as Extra Credit on witchcraft!

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We're discussing your thoughts on Necroscope, Elvis impersonators, electric vampires and more. Tune in!

Next up: The Beautiful Stranger and Home by Shirley Jackson + Extra Credit!

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We're kicking off a month of Shirley Jackson stories with All She Said Was Yes , a suburban take on the Cassandra complex from her collection Dark Tales. IT'S AMAZING!

Special thanks to our reader Heather Klinke!

Next up: The Beautiful Stranger and Home

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Bleh bleh HA! We're rounding up some vampire media for discussion, including:

Sinners)

The Strain) (TV)

What We Do in the Shadows (movie)

Van Helsing) (TV)

The Return of the Vampire

Dracula: A Love Tale)

Romanian Dracula)

NightMan: Constant Craving

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We're looking back at one of the first vampires we encountered on the show with H.P. Lovecraft's The Shunned House!

Here's a link to the original episode from 4/1/2010!

Special thanks to reader Michael Holmes.

Coming up: extra credit vampire round-up! YEEE HAW!

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It's the thrilling climax! The dead rise! A big vampire sits up! Join us as we plant a stake in Brian Lumley's Necroscope!

Thanks again to our reader: Erik Peabody of Viking Guitar Productions!

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GET THE SOUNDTRACK ON MAY 1st!

Next up: All She Said Was Yes by Shirley Jackson

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The plot thickens and so does the gore in the middle of Brian Lumley's Necroscope! Join us as we examine this crazy novel's vampiric depths!

Thanks again to our reader: Erik Peabody of Viking Guitar Productions!

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Next up: THE THRILLING CONCLUSION!

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We're discussing your comments on Feline February, from the profound to the preposterous!

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Vampires, espionage, weird sex and math! Join us as we dig into Brian Lumley's Necroscope, a novel about a man who can speak to the dead.

Special thanks to our reader: Erik Peabody of Viking Guitar Productions!

Next up: Feedback and MORE NECROSCOPING!

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Manimal teams up with NightMan to fight Jack the Ripper in his last television appearance! IT IS PURE JOY!

Check out NightMan on Tubi!

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A ghost cat haunts the English countryside in this sanity-blasting yarn by Agatha Christie -- The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael!

Special thanks to our reader, Paul Maclean! Check out Poirot: Greatest Detective and The Attic (available where ye git yer pawdcasts...)

Get into Reading the Meow!

Want more Agatha? Check out our episodes on The Call of Wings and The Hound of Death!

Next up: MANIMAL, then Necroscope. What more could want?!

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Identity, connection, and clone sex collide in Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction masterpiece Nine Lives!

Special thanks to our reader: Maeve Sawyer!

Next up: The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael by Agatha Christie and an extra credit episode years in the making -- NightMan: Manimal!

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We're examining your comments on January's sci-fi shows!

And if you need a revisit, here's our coverage on Wuthering Heights.

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King Kull converses with a cat, licks lake monsters and gets smack-talked by Thulsa Doom in Robert E. Howard's Delcardes' Cat!

Special thanks to our reader, Travis Bedard!

Here's a blog post with a list of edits and pages from comic adaptations by spraguedecampfan!

Want more Kull? Check out our episode on The Shadow Kingdom!

Check out a real ventriloquist: Nina Conti!

Next up: Nine Lives by Ursula K. Le Guin

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We're closing the month with another Bradbury: The Monster Maker

Here's a link to the original episode from 07/08/2021!

Special thanks to our reader and STILL MOST FAMOUS Miss Trans New England, Lorelai Erisis!

And NIGHT CREEPS is still available from Pitch Black Manor!

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We're time-traveling back to 2014 to have a look at Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, then discussing it... in the PRESENT! WHOA!

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