Podside Picnic

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Episode 240: Up In The Hills, She Dreams. . . Oct 17, 2023

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This time on Graveside, a reading of my recent short story, "Up In the Hills, She Dreams of Her Daughter Deep In the Ground" It first appeared in Strange Horizons' Childbearing Issue: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/up-in-the-hills-she-dreams-of-her-daughter-deep-in-the-ground/ Artwork by Caterina Gerbasi

Creepshow Preview Oct 12, 2023

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Ready for another Graveside feature? We chat about Creepshow (1982) and how apt the anthology format is for this horror and other horror films. Oh, and there's meteor shit, too!

Episode 239: The White People Oct 11, 2023

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We discuss The White People by Arthur Machen, a fascinating and challenging bit of Weird Fiction that really has the juice

Strange & Norrell: Parts 12 - 22 Preview Oct 05, 2023

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As the year turns, so does our taste in reading. Join us in our read-along of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and remember: This land is all too shallow/It is painted on the sky/And trembles like wind-shook rain/When the Raven King goes by

Beer Run: Graveyard Spirits Oct 03, 2023

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After a hectic opening to Spooky Season, at last . . . a chance to sit back, relax, and take good long swig from the sarcophagus juice!

Cobweb (Ft. Tai Black) Preview Sep 28, 2023

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Welcome to our first Graveside Picnic episode of the season! This time, Tai Black returns to talk about Cobweb (2023)

Episode 238: Noonautical Nonsense (Ft. Matt Hughes) Sep 27, 2023

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Multi-genre author, Matt Hughes joins us to talk about his career, his works of SFF in a Vancian groove, and his current projects. Be sure to check out his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4687520

Close Encounters of the Third Kind Preview Sep 21, 2023

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We watch the skies for a sign, and find it in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Do YOU want to believe?

Episode 237: Chainsaw Man Sep 19, 2023

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Ashely Adams joins us again to talk Chainsaw Man. Anime, that is, not manga - mostly

Summer People Preview Sep 14, 2023

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We discuss Kelly Link's The Summer People, who aren't what we'd call your typical out-of-towners Read here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SEB-86461