Oct 28, 2025
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This week, we take a look at the author who inspired modern day horror writers such as Stephen King and Guillermo Del Toro by turning her ordinary suburban American life into quiet horror.
Shirley Jackson lived in a house full of noise - four children, a controlling and flandering husband and a typerwrite...
Oct 21, 2025
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Last week we went into the connections between the top 3 Romantic writers of their era: Mary (Godwin) Shelley, Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.
But that just SCRATCHES at the surface of these lunatics (and their friends).
This week's episode goes more "behind-the-scenes" of what famously went down at that...
Oct 14, 2025
In 1816, under a sunless sky, 18 year old Mary Godwin dreamnt of a man who could re-animate the dead. But the story of Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus wasn't born out of superstition, it was born out of the Ennlightenment itself.
This episode unravels how a secret Bavarian order, a volcanic winter and one radical...
Oct 7, 2025
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Welcome to an episode that I've done inn combination with: A). Just getting back from a weeks long vacation in Japan and B). Popular demand for this particular subject matter.
What is that subject matter, you ask?
It's actually about one of my favorite things in Japan - their toilets! Specifically, their...
Oct 1, 2025
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Jess here - I'm back from Japan (expect that love-letter podcast to Toto toilets coming your way very soon :)
In the meanie, Here is my latest deep dive into videogames and their real-life counterparts. This week, we're loking at: Assassin's Creed Hexe (as currently titled) and the real German witch...