Episode 179: The Final Frontier, with Lionel Snell
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 strange to allow for it, and if you're bored, you're at least p...
6 Nov 20241h 18min
Episode 178: Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'
Earlier this month, Phil and JF recorded a live episode at Indiana University Cinema in Bloomington following a screening of John Carpenter's film In the Mouth of Madness. Carpenter’s cult classic obl...
23 Okt 20241h 12min
Episode 177: Riddles in the Dark: On Fairy Tales, Interpretation, and 'Rapunzel'
Fairy tales are among the most familiar cultural objects, so familiar that we let our kids play with them unsupervised. At the same time, they are also the most mysterious of artifacts, their heimlich...
9 Okt 20241h 27min
Episode 176: On Charles Burns' 'Black Hole' and the Medium of Comics
Comics, like cinema, is an eminently modern medium. And as with cinema, looking closely at it can swiftly acquaint us with the profound weirdness of modernity. Do that in the context of a discussion o...
25 Sep 20241h 21min
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 episode. These episodes are different from the flagship show. Less...
21 Aug 20241h 2min
Episode 175: Don't Look Now: Live at Lily Dale
Daphne du Maurier was a prolific English writer of novels, plays, and short stories resonant with what she termed "a sense of unreality." In this episode, JF and Phil discuss her great short story "Do...
7 Aug 20241h 58min
Episode 174: Magick and Enlightenment, with Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford
Phil and JF are joined by Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford – practicing magicians, podcasters, and co-authors of the newly released Baptist's Head Compendium: Magick as a Path to Enlightenment, a colle...
24 Jul 20241h 30min
Episode 173: By Heart: On Memory, Poetry, and Form
In this computerized age, we tend to see memory as a purely cerebral faculty. To memorize is to store information away in the brain in such a way as to make it retrievable at a later time. But the old...
10 Jul 20241h 18min
