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Horror For the Nervous, with Josephine McAdam
25 februari 2025
We’re back and we’re hiding behind the sofa. Sure, the monsters, masked killers, and mutants can probably find us back here, but it still feels safer for some reason. Fear is rarely a rational thing,... Lees meer
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Quatermass and the Pit, with Seth Skorkowsky
11 februari 2025
We’re back and we’re digging up the past. Some of this excavation is purely physical, burrowing into the clay under London in search of the usual skulls and spaceships. The rest, however, is more atavistic... Lees meer
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How to be an Investigator, with Seth Skorkowsky
28 januari 2025
We’re back and we’re blundering. That’s not to say that we don’t have a clue, but we’re not quite sure what to do with the handful we’ve managed to find. We’ve tried pinning them to... Lees meer
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Haunted Landscapes, with Heather Miller
14 januari 2025
We’re back and we’re digging deep. While you might expect to find ghosts in these haunted landscapes, mostly we’re unearthing history. Oh, and carcinogens. On balance, ghosts seem like the healthier option. Main Topic: Haunted... Lees meer
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Call of Cthulhu and Detective Fiction, with Heather Miller
30 december 2024
We’re back and we’re polishing our magnifying glasses. Being a detective requires a keen eye for detail, an analytical mind, and a thorough knowledge of genre. But that happens when you find yourself in a... Lees meer
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The Horse of the Invisible, by William Hope Hodgson – part 2
21 december 2024 · 36 min
Our 2024 Christmas ghost story double-bill concludes with the second part of William Hope Hodgson’s “The Horse of the Invisible”, from the casebooks of Carnacki, the Ghost Finder. This is our second Carnacki tale this... Lees meer
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The Horse of the Invisible, by William Hope Hodgson – part 1
20 december 2024 · 37 min
Our 2024 Christmas ghost story double-bill continues with William Hope Hodgson’s “The Horse of the Invisible”, from the casebooks of Carnacki, the Ghost Finder. This is our second Carnacki tale this year, and you can... Lees meer
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The Searcher of the End House, by William Hope Hodgson – part 2
19 december 2024 · 40 min
Our 2024 Christmas ghost story reading reaches the bizarre conclusion of “The Searcher of the End House”. You can find part one of this tale on your podcast feed of choice or on this very... Lees meer
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The Searcher of the End House, by William Hope Hodgson – part 1
18 december 2024 · 31 min
We have a special treat for our 2024 Christmas ghost story reading, with not one but two tales of Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson. Our first is “The Searcher of the End... Lees meer
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Carnival of Souls, with Ross Bryant
17 december 2024
We’re back and we’re enjoying the salt air. Or should that be the Saltair? Either way, it would be even jollier if there weren’t all these ghouls around. We have nothing against ghouls, and they... Lees meer
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Bringing Historical Games to Life, with Ross Bryant
3 december 2024
We’re back and we’re raising the dead. Well, sort of. After all that discussion about Joseph Curwen’s necromantic exploits, we thought we’d try something on a larger scale. Instead of tomes of forbidden knowledge, however,... Lees meer
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward part 5
19 november 2024
We’re back and we’re peering through time. Handily, Yog-Sothoth has granted us the power to see he who is to come after us. Well, except Charles Dexter Ward actually turned up in 1926, around a... Lees meer
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward part 4
5 november 2024
We’re back and we’re peering into wells. Perhaps it’s not unusual to find dead things in wells, but they aren’t generally this animated. Maybe the poor things would lie down and die if there was... Lees meer
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward part 3
22 oktober 2024
We’re back and we’re rearranging the furniture in the library. All perfectly normal stuff. Nothing to worry about. Everyone gives a strangled cry or two when lifting heavy objects. And that nasty smell? Furniture polish.... Lees meer
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward part 2
8 oktober 2024
We’re back and we’re researching our family histories. Nothing but wholesome stuff here. Surely everyone’s ancestors faced an angry mob or two. It was just the done thing in those times. Main Topic: The Case... Lees meer
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward part 1
24 september 2024
We’re back and we’re digging through our family tree. Or should that be digging up our family tree? Either way, we dig it. While The Case of Charles Dexter Ward doesn’t precisely advocate for raising... Lees meer
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Call of Cthulhu Deities: Iod, Zu-che-quon, and Nyogtha
10 september 2024
We’re back and we’re summoning horrors from beyond space and time. If we’re honest, we’re not quite sure why we’re doing this, but here we are. It’s too late to worry about such details at... Lees meer
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Listener Suggestions Meets the Wolf Man
27 augustus 2024
We’re back and we’re being suggestive. Or is that suggestible? Why don’t you tell us! Main Topic: Listener Suggestions Meets the Wolf Man Back in late 2022, we used Discord and Twitter to ask our listeners what kinds of... Lees meer
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Special: Interview With Jason Cordova part 2
20 augustus 2024
We’re back with the conclusion of our interview with Jason Cordova, the mastermind behind The Gauntlet and creator of such RPGs as Brindlewood Bay, The Between and Public Access. Our winding discussion takes in game... Lees meer
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Under the Pyramids
13 augustus 2024
We’re back and we’re catching up with our sleep. You think we’d be trying harder to escape, given that we’ve been tied up and lowered into the abysmal depths under the pyramids. But, no, we’re... Lees meer
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Special: Investigative Games With Jason Cordova
6 augustus 2024
We’re back with another special interview episode. This time, we’re talking to Jason Cordova, the mastermind behind The Gauntlet and creator of such RPGs as Brindlewood Bay, The Between and Public Access. Jason’s games take... Lees meer
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Strange NPCs: Harry Houdini
30 juli 2024
We’re back and we’re squirming. Sure, the best way to get out of this straitjacket would be to have someone unbuckle it, but where’s the fun in that? Then again, now that we’re getting lowered... Lees meer
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Non-Human Characters in Call of Cthulhu
15 juli 2024
We’re back and we’re doubting our humanity. It’s easily enough done. Whether it’s these gill slits on our necks, that pervasive smell of death surrounding us, or just the weird way our shadow shifts and... Lees meer
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Media Catch-Up – Books
2 juli 2024
We’re back and we’re catching up with our reading again. Specifically, in this episode, we seem to be reading in bed. You’d think that such a common pastime wouldn’t merit much discussion, yet somehow we... Lees meer
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Possession in Call of Cthulhu
18 juni 2024
We’re back and we’re under the influence. Sure, the alien entity taking up residence in our heads may not technically be a demon, but that feels like an academic distinction right now. It’s little comfort... Lees meer
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Late Night With the Devil
4 juni 2024
We’re back and we’re dabbling with dark forces. If Late Night With the Devil has taught us anything, it’s that achieving fame and fortune is just a matter of striking the right bargains. Sure, that’s... Lees meer
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Special: Strength Drain and Recovery With Frank Delventhal
28 mei 2024
In our recent episode on injury and disease in Call of Cthulhu, we mentioned the strength drain ability of Dark Young. Good friend of the Good Friends Frank Delventhal, AKA Strongman Frank, got it touch... Lees meer
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Injury and Disease in Call of Cthulhu
21 mei 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re damaged. Send help. Main Topic: Injury and Disease in Call of Cthulhu This episode, we’re looking at how injury, disease, poisons, and other physical hazards work in Call of Cthulhu. Being... Lees meer
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R’lyeh Roulette IV
7 mei 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re spinning the wheel of misfortune. R’lyeh Roulette is not a game to be entered into casually. While you might not place bets in the normal manner, there is still much at... Lees meer
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Call of Cthulhu Deities — Shudde M’ell, Yibb-Tstll and Bugg-Shash
23 april 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re suckling. This is more difficult than you might think, at least when Yibb-Tstll is involved. Even once we get past all those pesky nightgaunts, there’s the whole, um, moving target aspect... Lees meer
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Media Catch-Up
9 april 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re consuming. Mostly, we’re consuming media. At least that’s the consumption we feel happiest talking about in public. Also, the digestion of media tends to lead to less dyspepsia, bloating and flatulence... Lees meer
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The Ocean in Call of Cthulhu
26 maart 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re enjoying a nice seaside holiday. Of course, when most people talk about the seaside, they mean the bit that’s on land. Somehow, we’ve ended up in the wetter part. Maybe that’s... Lees meer
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Robert Bloch and the Cthulhu Mythos
12 maart 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re wondering what’s in this jar on our desk. The contents are murky, but it looks like it might contain the heart of a small boy. Robert Bloch swears by it, but... Lees meer
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Psycho (1960)
27 februari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re abluting with trepidation. It used to be that taking a shower was relaxing. We could just pull that curtain closed and enjoy the jets of warm, cleansing water. Since watching Psycho,... Lees meer
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Delusions in Call of Cthulhu
13 februari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re rolling to disbelieve. Honestly, the world around us just becomes weirder and weirder with every passing year. A lot of this is probably down to age, but we can’t discount some... Lees meer
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Psychological Horror in Call of Cthulhu
30 januari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re doubting ourselves. Well, that’s assuming we have any selves to doubt. Once you start plumbing the dark recesses of psychological horror, you soon realise that you can’t take anything for granted.... Lees meer
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The Ghost of Listener Suggestions
16 januari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re going through our mailbag again. It becomes a lot more manageable once we sift out the missives written in Aklo and other inhuman tongues. We’re not saying that what’s left is... Lees meer
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth – Sequels and Adaptations
2 januari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re heading beyond Innsmouth. The literal and metaphorical tentacles of the Deep Ones now extend far beyond the town’s limits. We’re finding our fishy friends moistening the pages of books, slithering across... Lees meer
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Told After Supper, by Jerome K Jerome – part 3
21 december 2023 · 23 min
Our 2023 Christmas ghost story reading of Jerome K Jerome’s “Told After Supper” draws to its conclusion. After learning all about ghosts in the first reading and hearing some strange anecdotes in the second, we... Lees meer
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Told After Supper, by Jerome K Jerome – part 2
20 december 2023 · 28 min
Our 2023 Christmas ghost story reading continues. This year, we are presenting Jerome K Jerome’s comic tale “Told After Supper”. After the introduction to the nature of ghosts we received in the first reading, we... Lees meer
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Told After Supper, by Jerome K Jerome – part 1
19 december 2023 · 24 min
We are delighted to offer you another ghost story for Christmas. Good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell (host of Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories), has once again organised a suitably festive performance on our... Lees meer
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 6
19 december 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re picking through the ruins. The US Federal Government may have bombed Innsmouth to smithereens, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still useful gaming inspiration to be found in the wreckage. From... Lees meer
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 5
5 december 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re taking part in some self-reflection. It would just be a bit easier if our reflections didn’t keep changing. Maybe it’s inevitable once you get to a certain age. Your hairline starts... Lees meer
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 4
21 november 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re playing hide-and-seek. No, hang on. That’s when everyone hides and one person goes looking for them. This is the other way around. There’s a name for that game, isn’t there? Oh,... Lees meer
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Mason and Fricker’s Eldritch Stories Sampler
14 november 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
Mason and Fricker’s Eldritch Stories Sampler In a change to regular programming, here is a sample of another podcast we thought you might enjoy. Mason and Fricker’s Eldritch Stories is a collaboration between Paul Fricker... Lees meer
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 3
7 november 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re enjoying a nice whiskey. OK, maybe we shouldn’t drink a whole quart of the stuff, but you’d do the same if you lived in Innsmouth. The alcohol fumes go some way... Lees meer
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 2
24 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re on a bus journey. Sure, this is a bone-rattler, but that’s like combining a gym visit and a massage, right? It certainly seems to have done the other passengers good. Have... Lees meer
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 1
10 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re sightseeing. Like most penurious writers, we’re doing so on a tight budget. Wasting money on expensive train tickets means that we won’t be able to afford the good cheese crackers for... Lees meer
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Glorious
26 september 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re poking around in holes. Sometimes it’s hard not to let curiosity get the better of you. There could be anyone on the other side of that barrier, even a god. You... Lees meer
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Mythos Deities: Yig & Ghatanothoa
12 september 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re petrified. It’s bad enough that you can become mummified by standing near Ghatanothoa, but being imperilled just by looking at his image is simply too much. And then we learn that... Lees meer
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