Art of Darkness

Futurist. Gallerist. Author. Consultant. Historian. Founder of Galleria Fiume. Rachel Haywire joins Kevin to talk McLuhan, the state of media and the arts, and more. Get ad-free Core Episodes, the After Dark episode, and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . x.com/AltCulture x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz compan...

C. Sandbatch joins the show to talk Faulkner, Fletcher, and Southern Modernism. Get ad-free Core Episodes, the After Dark episode, and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We talk about C.S. Lewis’ great epistolary Christian apologetic novel: The Screwtape Letters. Get ad-free Core Episodes, the After Dark episode, and more at  patreon.com/artofdarkpod  or  substack.com/@artofdarkpod . bookclubfromhell.substack.com x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collect...

Publisher Will Ballard of Farthest Heaven joins us to tease our forthcoming Max Ernst episode with Brad Kelly, and more. Get ad-free Core Episodes, the After Dark episode, and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . farthestheaven.com x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information abou...

Author and cultural critic Sean Murphy joins us in the Dark Room to talk Bukowski and how he speaks to our current technocratic situation. Get ad-free Core Episodes, the After Dark episode, and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . x.com/bullmurph x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for i...

Psychotherapist, writer, and podcaster Mark Vernon joins us in the Dark Room to talk about Clive Staples Lewis, Owen Barfield, the Inklings, and his own work. Get ad-free Core Episodes, the After Dark episode, and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . x.com/platospodcasts x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company....

Kelby Losack joins us to talk Clive Staples Lewis and more. He's the author of Texas Tea, Letting Out the Devils, Mercy, God Is Wearing Black, and more (and the co-host of Agitator). Get ad-free Core Episodes, the After Dark episode, and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . x.com/KelbyLosackBRB x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simpleca...

Matt takes us through the life and work of the author of the Chronicles of Narnia, the Great Divorce, the Screwtape Letters, and more: C.S. (Jack) Lewis. Get the After Dark episodes, ad-free core episodes, Bookends Book Club, and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod  or  substack.com/@artofdarkpod . twitter.com/artofdarkpod twitter.com/Therewillbbooks twitter.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an Ad...

We get the band back together. Abbie, Brad, Kevin, Kirsten, and Matt talk all things Art of Darkness, ghosts of podcasts past, present, and future. Enjoy. Get this episode ad-free by subscription to patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Author Stephen Pimentel joins the pod to talk Jung, the Magus, Hesse, Hobbes, and more. Get ad-free Core Episodes, the After Dark episode, and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . x.com/StephenPiment x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of pers...

We go there and back again, covering the life and work of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, noted Oxford philologist and author of the singularly influential novels: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. And get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod  or  substack.com/@artofdarkpod . twitter.com/artofdarkpod twitter.com/Therewillbbooks twitter.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an...

Actor Michael Bakkensen returns to the podcast to talk about the craft of acting, William Shakespeare and the Oxford / Stratford situation, Shakespeare as stoner and more. Get ad-free Core Episodes, the After Dark episode, and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . x.com/MichaelBakkense x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an Ads...

Ol' Slick (Brad Kelly) makes his anticipated return to Art of Darkness for a Dark Room to talk Jung, the Tarot, his new novel THE EARTHEN DARK and more. Get ad-free Core Episodes, the After Dark episode, and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . x.com/bradkelly x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.ads...

Forest of Symbols podcaster Aldous Asterion comes back to the Dark Room to discuss Jung and his work Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self. Get ad-free Core Episodes, the After Dark episode, and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . x.com/AldousAsterion x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See p...

Matt breaks the seal and covers the life and work of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, and his shadow. And get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod  or  substack.com/@artofdarkpod . twitter.com/artofdarkpod twitter.com/Therewillbbooks twitter.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data...

Podcaster Dexter De La Paz joins the pod to talk Poe, Epstein, Grimdark and American macabre historically and now. Get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . x.com/TLEPaz x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal...

Actor Amanda Forstrom joins the pod to talk about Shakespeare and her work with A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACATAR). Get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . badmouthtc.com x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of per...

Writer Samuel Buntz comes back on the pod to talk about the supernatural Kipling and more. Get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . x.com/SamBuntz x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/therewillbbooks x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In our first episode of Season VI, we change regimes as Matt Taylor joins the show and Kevin covers the wildly influential life and strange work of the father of psychoanalysis, Dr. Daddy Issues himself, Sigmund Freud. And get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod  or  substack.com/@artofdarkpod . twitter.com/artofdarkpod twitter.com/Therewillbbooks twitter.com/kautzmania Hos...

Abbie brings us the life story of the great Audrey Hepburn, in our last core episode of Season V. Enjoy! And get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod  or  substack.com/@artofdarkpod . twitter.com/artofdarkpod twitter.com/abbielucas twitter.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal dat...

Filmmaker Josh David Jordan talks about his Orthodox film El Tonto Por Cristo, and inspirations (including Tarkovsky). Get the After Dark episode and more at: patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . eltontoporcristo.com instagram.com/eltontoporcristomovie x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/abbielucas x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for informat...

Kevin and Matt introduce the plan for Art of Darkness Season VI (2026), including Freud, Jung, Tolkein, and Lewis. More to come. Get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . There Will Be Books on Spotify x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/kautzmania x.com/Therewillbbooks Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about ou...

Matt Taylor (There Will Be Books) joins the Dark Room to talk about Roald Dahl, the Witches, James and the Giant Peach and our coming Season VI (2026) as the new co-host of the show. Get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod . There Will Be Books on Spotify x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/abbielucas x.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz comp...

Kevin and Abbie traverse the life and the work of the incomparable genius of the American theatre, the granddaddy American playwright of them all: Eugene O’Neill. And get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod  or  substack.com/@artofdarkpod . twitter.com/artofdarkpod twitter.com/abbielucas twitter.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com fo...

Abbie walks us through the life and work of Maori filmmaker Merata Mita. And get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod  or  substack.com/@artofdarkpod . twitter.com/artofdarkpod twitter.com/abbielucas twitter.com/kautzmania Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.