Episode 129: Luminous Miasma: On Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Edgar Allan Poe can be lauded as a major inspiration for many innovative artists, genres, and movements, from horror fiction to the music of Maurice Ravel. He has also been a major inspiration for Wei...
3 Aug 20221h 33min
Episode 128: Demon Workshop: On Victoria Nelson's 'Neighbor George'
The American writer and thinker Victoria Nelson is justly revered by afficionados of the Weird for The Secret Life of Puppets and its follow-up Gothicka. Both are masterful explorations the supernatur...
19 Jul 20221h 28min
Episode 127: Leaving the Mechanical Dollhouse: On Abeba Birhane's "The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity"
Like Caligula declaring war on Neptune and ordering his troops to charge into the Mediterranean Sea, our technological masters are designing neural networks meant to capture the human soul in all its ...
6 Jul 20221h 16min
Episode 126: The Daemon Speaks, with Matt Cardin
Returning guest Matt Cardin is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose focus on numinous horror places him in the literary lineage as Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood. His new book, What the Daem...
22 Jun 20221h 22min
Episode 125: Strange Brews: Weird Studies Live at Illuminated Brew Works
On May 23, 2022, Meredith Michael joined JF and Phil for a live recording at Illuminated Brew Works, a craft brewery in Chicago, Illinois.The occasion was the launch of Weird Studies Black IPA, the fr...
8 Jun 20221h 37min
Episode 124: Dark Night Radio of the Soul, with Duncan Barford
For several episodes now, Phil and JF have been circling what St. John of the Cross called the Dark Night of the Soul, that moment in the spiritual journey where all falls a way and an abyss seems to ...
25 Mai 20221h 28min
Episode 123: Off-Week Patreon Bonus: On Modern Miracles
Every off-week, JF and Phil record a bonus episode for Patreon supporters. The conversations on that stream are shorter, less formal, and more improvisitory than those of the flagship show. To give th...
18 Mai 202240min
Episode 122: Spirals and Crooked Lines: On the Star Card in the Tarot
The Star is one of the most iconic of the major trumps of the traditional tarot deck. It is also one of the most ambiguous. A woman is shown emptying two urns of water onto the parched ground. She is ...
11 Mai 20221h 21min
