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Episode 93: The Phantom Detective - The Vampire Murders and Tomoe Gozen
This month, Jack and Kate go into their stash of vintage paperbacks and engage in a little show-and-tell session. Kate brings The Phantom Detective: The Vampire Murders by Robert Wallace, a 1965…
Episode 92: A Feast of Snakes - Southern Serpentine Symbolism
Harry Crews' Feast of Snakes (1976) is a rough and raunchy southern gothic that opens with a lurid bang and never lets up. Jack and Kate are confronted with the seamy underbelly of Americana, from…
Episode 91: The Ninja - Miyamoto Musashi's Penthouse Letters
The Ninja is a 1980 novel by prolific genre author Eric Van Lustbader, which would kick off not only an eight-book epic series but play a vital role in the ninja boom of the 1980s. Jack and Kate…
Episode 90: Best of 2025
Jack and Kate look at what they've read and watched in the year that was 2025 and make some recommendations in the world of books and beyond. The rules of engagement are simple: the hosts each choose…
Episode 89: Bloodstone - But What If Conan Was an Asshole?
Karl Edward Wagner's 1975 sword and sorcery epic Bloodstone is the first full-length outing for Kane, mighty-thewed protagonist of a series of short stories and novels. Jack and Kate navigate a…
Episode 88: Hotel Transylvania - Lestat Would NEVER
Hotel Transylvania (1978) is the first of 25 novels and two short story collections in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's epic vampire series centering around the adventures of the Comte de Saint-Germain.…
Episode 87: Three Hearts and Three Lions - Scary Rubbery Trolls
Poul Anderson's 1961 novel Three Hearts and Three Lions is one of the cornerstone influences on Dungeons and Dragons: a medieval-inflected romp through creature encounters and chivalric romance,…
Episode 86: The Unworthy - Is it Nunsploitation?
Agustina Bazterrica's 2023 novel The Unworthy explores the relationship of its unnamed narrator with the repressive post-apocalyptic cult in which she finds herself. Jack and Kate embark on a…
Episode 85: Smoke City - Everybody's Got Their Own Apocalypse
Keith Rosson's 2019 novel Smoke City is a supernatural character study that somehow makes the road trip adventure shared by a loose-cannon pop artist, a reluctant immortal, and a would-be ghost…
Episode 84: The Cherry Pit and The Bargain
It's time for Jack and Kate to explore their vintage paperback piles and trade tales from the yellowed pages of the past. Jack wades through the sweltering psychosexual Southern Gothickry of Donald…
Episode 83: Rogue Moon - Sweaty Sci-Fi
Algis Budrys's 1960 novel Rogue Moon is a masterpiece of Sweaty Sci-Fi, a freshly-patented subgenre that will be revealed during the course of this episode. Jack and Kate take a trip to the dark side…
Episode 82: Best of 2024
It's March, which can only mean one thing! We're really late with this episode. Jack and Kate look at what they've read and watched in the year that was 2024 and make some recommendations in the…
Episode 81: Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? - Wait'll We Tell You
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? is a 2021 graphic novel that pairs historical true crime author Harold Schechter and Eric Powell, writer and illustrator of the monster punch-up comic The Goon.…
Episode 80: Hoodtown - Heels, Homicide, and Horny Times
Christa Faust's 2004 novel Hoodtown takes the reader to an alternate universe Los Angeles, where crime drama is brewing in an underground culture populated by masked wrestlers. Skulls will be cracked…
Episode 79: The Shadow on the Glass - Lovecraftiana Meets Victoriana (and Gets Cheeky)
Outside of your hosts' beloved Warhammer 40k novels, can tie-in game fiction be good? Jack and Kate aim to find out by discussing The Shadow on the Glass, a 2024 novel that pairs podcast-favorite…
Episode 78: Sudden Death - The Most Dangerous Game Is Tennis
Sex. Sacrilege. Murder. Tennis. This podcast is all about three out of those four things. Sudden Death, a 1978 novel by Peter Brennan (creator of TV shows Judge Judy and A Current Affair), marks the…
Episode 77: The Old House of Fear - Gothic Thrills for the Conservative Mind
Russell Kirk is best known for his influential work of post-war political philosophy, The Conservative Mind. But his best-selling work–by far–was a 1961 gothic thriller The Old House of Fear. Jack…
Episode 76: Joyland - Murder, Manhood and MILFery
Stephen King's 2013 novel Joyland is the author's second effort for publisher Hard Case Crime. Jack and Kate are ready to track the clues in this story of murder, romance, and amusement park…
Episode 75: Live Girls - Vampire Hookers vs. Ping Pong balls
Ray Garton's 1986 horror novel Live Girls may have the perfect bad book pitch: vampire hookers in seedy vintage Times Square. Jack and Kate travel back to a golden age of sleaze and encounter…
Episode 74: Nightmare House and Airport 77
Once again, Jack and Kate trade reviews of books from their archives. This time around, Jack explores the terrifying mystery and romance of Rae Foley's Nightmare House (1968) and Kate plunges…
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