The Devil's Library

In their latest Ligotti side episode, Ligeia and Leraje are joined by Chris from the Doom Folk Metal band Buzzard, a fellow Ligotti enthusiast - a fact that often comes through clearly in the lyrics he writes for Buzzard. Transcript (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep8-5.pdf Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe: https://www.librarything.com/work/15932254/t/Songs-of-a-Dead-Dreamer-and-Grimscribe...

In this episode The Devil's Librarians get to grips with the beautiful, enigmatic horror of Jeff VanderMeer's novel Annihilation. Please note! Leraje made a mistake with a reference - when he mentions The Dunwich Horror he means The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Transcript (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep8.pdf Annihilation (novel): https://www.librarything.com/work/14034594/t/Annihilation Southern R...

In this episode, The Devil's Librarians are honoured (and slightly giddy) to be joined by Heather Parry, the author of Carrion Crow (which we talked about a couple of episodes ago) and Orpheus Builds A Girl. Transcript: https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep7.pdf Carrion Crow: https://www.librarything.com/work/32884942/t/Carrion-Crow Orpheus Builds A Girl: https://www.librarything.com/work/28299177/t/Orph...

Leraje, with help from some familiar voices, looks at the Romantic Satanism movement and how it informed and became the bedrock of our interpretation of Modern Atheistic Satanism. The Carducci quotes spoken in Italian were performed by Valter Zanardi, published on YouTube (https://youtu.be/hfPR0aQ61g8) under a Creative Commons license on 17th October 2019. Transcript (PDF) QueerSatanic on LaVey an...

Ligeia, Pike, Lithos and Leraje get gothic with Heather Parry's visceral, deeply affecting novel Carrion Crow. Transcription (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep6.pdf Carrion Crow: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL57547213M/Carrion_Crow The Madwoman In The Attic: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL545633W/The_madwoman_in_the_attic Fruits of Knowledge Book Campaign: https://helltraef.org/fruitsofknowl...

Ligeia and Leraje continue their in-depth breakdown of the unsettling short story collections of Thomas Ligotti. Transcription (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep5-5.pdf Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe on Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20016684W/Songs_of_a_dead_dreamer_and_Grimscribe Ligotti Part 2: https://thedevilslibrary.libsyn.com/episode-35-songs-of-a-dead-dreamer-grimsc...

This episode Pike, Lithos, Ligeia and Leraje get our Satan all the way on and talk about the Ira Levin 1960's classic Rosemary's Baby. Hail, uh, Adrian I guess. Transcript: https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep5.pdf Rosemarys' Baby on OpenLibrary: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28322W/Rosemary's_Baby Rosemary's Baby Movie on TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/805-rosemary-s-baby Tanis Podcast: https...

In this episode, Ligeia, Lithos, Pike and Leraje discuss Ursula K Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. Transcription (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep4.pdf The Last Archive podcast episode 'The Word For Man Is Ishi': https://www.thelastarchive.com/season-4/episode-2-the-word-for-man-is-ishi The Left Hand of Darkness on OpenLibrary: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59800W/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkne...

In this episode, Ligeia and Leraje follow up on their original Ligotti episode and talk about three different short stories from Grimscribe and Songs of a Dead Dreamer. Episode Transcript (PDF) Grimscribe and Songs of a Dead Dreamer on OpenLibrary.org Original episode on GOSPod          

In this episode, Ligeia, Leraje, Pike and Lithos talk about reading 'Sundial' by Catriona Ward. Special thanks to Bohema for the excellent outro music! Episode Transcript (PDF) Sundial on OpenLibrary.org Our review on Storygraph      

In this episode, Pike, Ligeia and Leraje talk about reading the Shirley Jackson classic "The Haunting of Hill House". Special thanks to Bohema for the excellent outro music! Episode Transcript (PDF) The Haunting of Hill House on OpenLibrary.org Our review on Storygraph The movie/TV version(s) on TheMovieDatabase.org: The Haunting (1963)   The Haunting (1999) The Haunting of Hill House (2018)  

In this episode, Ligeia and Leraje are joined by our fellow Satanist Pike to talk about the Iain Reid novel "I'm Thinking of Ending Things". Content warning - we discuss subjects raised in the novel such as self-harm and unaliving oneself. If you're accessing this via YT or PT then the 'S' word has been beeped out. Transcript: https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep1.pdf I'm Thinking of Ending Things: I'm...