The Good Friends of Jackson Elias
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Bride of Listener Suggestions
29 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and and we’re listening to our listeners. No, not in a creepy way. Well, not beyond our natural creepiness, anyway. We’re not even using our ears this time. Hmmm. That probably makes it... Lees meer
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Media Catch-Up – Books
15 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and and we’re playing Jenga with that teetering pile of unread books, plucking out a few tomes for discussion and hoping we don’t get crushed in the attempt. Main Topic: Media Catch-Up –... Lees meer
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Special: The Hounds of Tindalos, read by Mike Perceval-Maxwell and Scott Dorward
13 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back with another special episode. This time, we’ve teamed up with Mike Perceval-Maxwell, host of Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories, for a reading of Frank Belknap Long’s “The Hounds of Tindalos”. If you would like... Lees meer
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Nightmare Alley
1 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and and we’re geeking out. Main Topic: Nightmare Alley With all the talk about mediums in recent episodes, we thought it might be helpful to examine one from media. Guillermo del Toro’s 2021... Lees meer
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Séances
18 juli 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and and we’re in the dark. While we’re told that darkness is essential for séances, it does make it tricky to watch when the medium starts dancing. Also, if the spirits are going... Lees meer
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The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long
4 juli 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we have an angle. Well, it started out as a curve, but then some bits fell off. It’s outrageous! We’re not sure if that was some kind of fall from grace, an... Lees meer
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Time Travel in Call of Cthulhu part 2
20 juni 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re going round in circles. Driving around Milton Keynes has prepared us for such eventualities, although these are temporal loops rather than roundabouts. Then again, what is a time loop but a... Lees meer
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Special: Stage Magic and Spiritualism With Sean F Smith
13 juni 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back with our first special episode for a while. After our recent look into Victorian Spiritualism, Sean F Smith contacted us, offering to discuss the topic from the perspective of stage magic. Sean is... Lees meer
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Time Travel in Call of Cthulhu part 1
6 juni 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back, or should that be forward? Time does have a tendency to jump around, and you’re never quite when you thought you were. Days pass in years and years pass in days. And the... Lees meer
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Victorian Spiritualism part 2
23 mei 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re glowing. While we’re only too happy to ascribe this to good diet and healthy living, all this phosphorous oil we keep splashing on ourselves may also play a part. It really... Lees meer
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Victorian Spiritualism part 1
9 mei 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
We’re back and we’re rapping. While we’re sure we could come up with some killer rhymes, we’re letting our toes do the talking today. There’s no reason why messages from beyond can’t come with a... Lees meer
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Son of Listener Suggestions
25 april 2023 · 59 min
We’re back and we’re listening again. Usually, we don’t hold with listening. Most things people try to tell us are things we’d rather not hear. Whether this is advertising, gossip, or sinister secrets about the... Lees meer
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Barbarian (2022)
11 april 2023 · 1 uur 9 min
We’re back and we’re trying to figure out why the hell this film is called “Barbarian“. Learning that the screenwriter doesn’t know either makes us feel better, but not by much. Maybe a nice bottle... Lees meer
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Strange NPCs: Edgar Cayce
28 maart 2023 · 56 min
We’re back and we’re catching up with our sleep. Don’t worry, we’re still using this time productively, just like Edgar Cayce taught us. Whether it’s diagnosing your athlete’s foot, telling you of your past life... Lees meer
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Mythos Deities: Cyäegha and Byatis
14 maart 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re stroking our chin serpents. The Byatis beard care regimen is a strange one and requires a little more anthropophagy than we normally indulge in. Still, it’s hard to argue with the... Lees meer
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Listener Suggestions
28 februari 2023 · 59 min
We’re back and we’re listening to the strange voices that whisper to us from beyond the veil. Well, maybe they’re whispering from Twitter and Discord, but we’re not sure that’s any less frightening. At least... Lees meer
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Michael Shea’s “Fat Face”
14 februari 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re pouring ourselves into our rubber suits and orthopaedic shoes. Doing up all these straps can be murder when your fingers are made of protoplasm. We’re going to need a nice, tasty... Lees meer
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Media Catch-up – TV
31 januari 2023 · 58 min
We’re back and we’re staring in disbelief as our hands fall off. Media Catch-up – TV Once again, we are perched open mouthed before the small screen, gobbling down televisual delights and regurgitating opinions. This... Lees meer
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Kill, Baby… Kill!
17 januari 2023 · 54 min
We’re back and we’re puzzling over titles. If you were making a Gothic horror film about a haunted village, you might wisely consider a name like Curse of the Dead. Hell, if you wanted to... Lees meer
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Gothic Horror
3 januari 2023 · 59 min
We’re back and we’re skulking around the old ruined abbey. Sure, the place is lousy with ghosts, but they’re not really that important. We’re far more concerned with the weather. If reading Gothic horror has... Lees meer
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The Viy – part 4
24 december 2022 · 26 min
Our 2023 ghost story for Christmas concludes with part 4 of Nikolai Gogol’s “The Viy”. Good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell (host of Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories), has once again organised a suitably... Lees meer
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The Viy – part 3
21 december 2022 · 25 min
Our 2023 ghost story for Christmas continues with part 3 of Nikolai Gogol’s “The Viy”. Good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell (host of Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories), has once again organised a suitably... Lees meer
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Making Call of Cthulhu Weird
20 december 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
We’re back and we’re getting on a bit. Turning 250 is a sobering milestone. Worse, we seem to be getting a bit peculiar in our dotage. Or maybe it’s just the world around us that’s... Lees meer
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The Viy – part 2
17 december 2022 · 25 min
Our 2023 ghost story for Christmas continues with part 2 of Nikolai Gogol’s “The Viy”. Good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell (host of Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories), has once again organised a suitably... Lees meer
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The Viy – part 1
16 december 2022 · 27 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 eerie performance on our... Lees meer
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Mythos Deities – Tsathoggua, Atlach-Nacha and Abhoth
6 december 2022 · 56 min
We’re back and we’re heading deep beneath the earth. We’ve heard that there’s nothing but good things down there in the endless dark. Admittedly, we’ve mainly heard that from the sinister voices that whisper to... Lees meer
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Censor (2021)
22 november 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
We’re back and we’re getting ready to snip. Our scissors are sharp, our tape is sticky and our minds are made up. This poor film doesn’t stand a chance. Sure, we could censor it carefully,... Lees meer
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Is Horror Dangerous?
8 november 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
We’re back and we’re starting a moral panic. It’s good to have a hobby. While riling up frightened mobs isn’t everyone’s idea of a good time, it certainly helps us unwind after a hard day’s... Lees meer
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Dealing With Downtime
25 oktober 2022 · 1 uur
We’re back and we’re taking things easy. Sometimes, after a particularly hectic battle against the forces of eldritch darkness, a bit of downtime is just what the doctor ordered. Literally. What could be better than... Lees meer
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Media Catch-up – Films
11 oktober 2022 · 54 min
We’re back and we’re getting all eclectic. It’s simply inevitable that if you ask the three of us to pick films, our selections will not mesh together at all. Just think of this episode as... Lees meer
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30 Coins (30 monedas)
27 september 2022 · 54 min
We’re back and we’re taking up a new hobby. Esoteric numismatology isn’t for everyone, however. Unfortunately, eldritch coins have steep prices, and not just financial ones. Our lives have become complicated ever since we picked... Lees meer
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Morality in the Cthulhu Mythos
13 september 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
We’re back and we’re in a moral quandary. It’s fair to say that the gods and monsters of the Mythos are beyond human comprehension. The problem is that we are human (or at least that’s... Lees meer
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Morality in RPGs
30 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
We’re back and we’re sitting in judgement. Unfortunately, it turns out that judgement doesn’t make a very good seat. Next time, we’re bringing cushions. The topic of morality in RPGs shouldn’t be a comfortable one,... Lees meer
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Strange NPCs – Louis Wain
16 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
We’re back and we’re trying our hands at cat breeding. According to these instructions we received from Louis Wain, the secret is electricity. The cats don’t seem to happy about this, even if it does... Lees meer
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Y’golonac and The Revelations of Gla’aki
2 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
We’re back and we’re catching up with our reading. Until recently, we thought we’d seen the most sanity-blasting fanfic the internet could offer. Between terrible prose, wooden characters, and unacceptable levels of horniness, bad fanfic... Lees meer
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Mythos Deities: Gla’aki
19 juli 2022 · 55 min
We’re back and we’re holidaying at Deepfall Water in sunny Gloucestershire. The area may be a bit rundown but you can’t argue with these prices. Buying a house here cost us less than a week... Lees meer
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Loot
5 juli 2022 · 58 min
We’re back and we’re building up our hoards. All this loot is nice and shiny but it’s not especially comfortable. We wonder how dragons can sleep on their treasure without putting their backs out. Maybe... Lees meer
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Media Catch-up – Books
21 juni 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
We’re back and we’re making like bookworms. This is easier than it might seem, given that bookworms don’t really eat books — just their bindings — and aren’t even worms. Then again, they don’t read... Lees meer
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The Night House
7 juni 2022 · 56 min
We’re back and we’re taking an almost Lovecraftian interest in architecture. While we’re suckers for a good gambrel roof, these blueprints for The Night House are far more compelling. The Welsh maze designs, the oddly... Lees meer
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath part 5
24 mei 2022 · 51 min
We’re back and we’re waking up. It’s been a long old kip, but not that refreshing really. Dreams of being chased by hunting horrors aren’t as restful as we might like. On the bright side,... Lees meer
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath part 4
10 mei 2022 · 50 min
We’re back and we’re holidaying in Leng. While it’s not everyone’s first thought for a getaway, we’ve found it really quite dreamy. Leng may have had some shocking reviews on TripAdvisor, but we’re not sure... Lees meer
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Creating Stories at the Table – With Gaz Bowerbank
26 april 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
We’re back and we’re making stuff up. Sure, it’s a bit disjointed, filled with inconsistent characterisation, narrative dead ends, and terrible jokes, but it sort of feels like a story. What do you expect when... Lees meer
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Mythos Deities: Cthulhu
12 april 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
We’re back and we’re lost in reverie. These dreams are really something — so vivid and insistent. We just wish we knew whose dreams they are. Regardless, they’re inspiring us to create strange, wondrous new... Lees meer
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Breaking the Law
29 maart 2022 · 58 min
We’re back and we’re on the lam. Setting fire to all those libraries seemed like a good idea at the time but apparently the authorities disagree. We’ve tried explaining that there are simply some things... Lees meer
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Peril in Call of Cthulhu
15 maart 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
We’re back and we’re in danger. At least, we think we are. Something seems to be at stake, although we’re not quite sure what. Maybe it’s our lives, our loved ones, or some of this... Lees meer
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Mind Control in RPGs
1 maart 2022 · 59 min
We’re back and we’re growing sleepy, sleepy, so very sleepy. We are listening to your voice. Only your voice. Yes, yes, we are under your control. We shall do you bidding. What is it you... Lees meer
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Everything is Horror
15 februari 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
We’re back and we’re getting scared. Everywhere we look, there’s something creepy hiding in the shadows. Sometimes it seems like there’s a bit of horror in every game, regardless of the genre. Maybe a nice... Lees meer
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath part 3
1 februari 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
We’re back and we’re trying to work out how to cook this shantak egg we bought. Boiling it seemed practical until we realised we’d need a pot as large as a house. Frying poses similar... Lees meer
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath part 2
18 januari 2022 · 53 min
We’re back and we’re visiting the dark side of the moon. Not the most popular tourist attraction, but it does have its charms. The leprous-looking coast and fields of white fungi are particular highlights. We... Lees meer
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath part 1
4 januari 2022 · 56 min
We’re back and we’re descending the seventy steps of light slumber. At least we can take a breather in the cavern of flame before we have to trot down the seven hundred steps to the... Lees meer
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