100 Episodes

  1. Episode 409: Pitched Perfectly - The Film was Better than the Book

    Published: 05/01/2024

  2. Episode 408: There’s good news and...more good news - 2023 in review

    Published: 29/12/2023

  3. Episode 407: Jingle Bell Rock - Storytelling through the medium of songs the Christmas edition

    Published: 22/12/2023

  4. Episode 406: A Picture Says a Thousand Words - The Rise of the Graphic Novel

    Published: 15/12/2023

  5. Episode 405: The Fairest of Them All - The Pursuit of Beauty as a Literary Device

    Published: 08/12/2023

  6. Episode 404: It was Great Apart from the Ending - Beloved Fiction that Wobbled on the Dismount

    Published: 30/11/2023

  7. Episode 403: The Old Family Business - Gangster Witches and Legacy Monster Hunters

    Published: 24/11/2023

  8. Episode: 402 Of Gold and Hubris - Tracing the Origins of Rumpelstiltskin

    Published: 17/11/2023

  9. Episode 401: Girls on Ice - a History of the Fridging Trope

    Published: 10/11/2023

  10. Episode 400: Strange Fruit in the Gallant South - Exploring the Southern Gothic

    Published: 03/11/2023

  11. Episode 399: This Set is Cursed - Strange Events Behind the Scenes at Horror Films

    Published: 27/10/2023

  12. DD Episode 398: Joyous Companions Forever - examining the queerness of the vampire genre

    Published: 20/10/2023

  13. Episode 397: The Beautiful and the Damned - examining the Queerness of the Vampire Genre

    Published: 13/10/2023

  14. Ep 396: It Came from Out of the closet - The Queer Relationship with Horror

    Published: 06/10/2023

  15. Ep 395: Weirdstones and Magic Keys - What makes a Children’s book a classic?

    Published: 29/09/2023

  16. Ep 394: Divas Debutantes and Girls next door - the best and worst female main characters

    Published: 22/09/2023

  17. Episode 393: Unlikely Rebels - the Moral Outlaw Trope

    Published: 15/09/2023

  18. Episode 392: An Awful Lot of Walking - Mastering Pacing in Speculative Fiction

    Published: 08/09/2023

  19. Episode 391: Lost in the Woods - Tracing the Origins of Hansel and Gretel

    Published: 01/09/2023

  20. Episode 390: Let the Games Begin - Why the Competition Trope is so Popular in Speculative Fiction

    Published: 25/08/2023

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Authors J.A. Ironside and M.E. Vaughan talk about books, films and all aspects of speculative fiction, from the nuts and bolts of writing it, to its (occasionally) obscure origins.

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