Duckfeed Presents

Way back in 2016, I started this yearly Halloween Reading tradition by performing "The Repairer of Reputations" by Robert W. Chambers, the first story from The King in Yellow . Now, all of these years later, I bring you the final of the four horror stories that open that book. An aloof painter has a grudge against a nightwatchman at the church across from his studio, a strange man who disturbs any...

Hello all, Every once in a while we like to make a big post like this to announce some changes. 2024 marked our ten year anniversary of funding ourselves through Patreon, and over that time we’ve increased the amount of content we put out each month. This year’s changes are going to be about refocusing, reining things in a bit, and making sure we’re putting our energy where it does the most good....

It felt right to take a break from our normal programming (talking about things that don't matter) to process our feelings about what just happened this week in American politics. It's not our expectation that you share our exact values when it comes to electoral outcomes, but our bet is that you're pretty similar to us in feeling pretty bad about Trump winning a second term. If that's the case, w...

It's never good news when an investigator comes knocking at your door. The question is, is the news bad for you for the P.I.? What secrets dwell out in the barn, or deep in your past, or at the heart of things tracing back to a time before things with legs walked the land? Laird Barron's "Shiva, Open Your Eye", published for free in NIghtmare Magazine , is a Lovecraftian tale told from the other s...

It's been a long time coming, but we're revisiting this project! Over a decade of podcasting, we've developed a voluminous vocabulary to describe games and media, or just to make inside jokes and comparisons. So we asked you, the listeners, what terms you'd like us to define, and this is what we came up with. Terms Defined This Episode: Towers of Hanoi Rot Gut Diverticula No Lesson Today Zelda You...

A Traveler has arrived at a penal colony to observe a strange manner of execution: a device that takes twelve hours to kill the offender. Its biggest proponent, an Officer still loyal to an old regime, fanatically explains the devices's intricacies while preparing a Condemned Man for slaughter. Then, he reveals his plan to implicate the Traveler in its further operation. No stranger to existential...

The audio attached to this post is clipped from this month's Watch Out for Fireballs! Dispatch. Hello! We are excited to share some big news with you. Later this year, we will be launching a new premium podcast that is a deep dive into Baldur's Gate III . We're calling it "Real Lich Hours". It will be a weekly show at the $5 tier , with the first handful of episodes being free to everyone so you c...

Bet you were wondering what Mario tastes like in person!

Hey folks, this is a quick announcement that's also a bummer. Earlier in the year we'd said that we planned to return to the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. We submitted a proposal for our panel, and waited, and waited, and waited... only to learn just recently that we'd been rejected. Without doing a live panel it doesn't make sense for us to spend the money and time to make an appearance at the show...

Carmelo said your face looks like a clock.

Three days of physical and mental unrest have sent a man to seek sanctuary at the services of the Cathedral of St. Barnabé. But far from being able to escape his problems, he finds himself pursued by an unearthly church organist all across Paris to his own home, unable to escape that which hunts for his very soul. "In the Court of the Dragon" is the third story from The King in Yellow by Robert W....

It's hard to choose the way you want to die. But this wasn't the case for Arthur Emerson... too bad he can't remember doing it. One day the swans and cats start acting weird. Then the fog rolls in. Then he remembers a night long ago when he rambled down the cramped streets of an Italian city, and met a man who spoke of a strange being: Cynothoglis. "The Prodigy of Dreams" was published in a collec...

This year's Halloween is the short but chilling horror story "The Tower" by Marghanita Laski, first published in 1955. A woman named Caroline is fascinated by a ruined tower near Florence, after having learned of its unfortunate inhabitants and their mysterious demise. So she goes to visit, and this story documents every agonizing step of a trip she never should have taken. Thanks so much for your...

We're pleased to announce our first new podcast in quite some time! Coming this fall, Gary and Kole will premiere ORB: A Venture Bros. Podcast . We've taken our approach to video games, movies, music, comics, and books... and now we're dedicating a show to one of our favorite television shows. The Venture Bros. is a long-running show on Adult Swim about a miserable superscientist, his miserable ar...

Hey everyone, we've got some announcements. You can listen to the audio for full details, but it boils down to: the Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee has been canceled, the Portland Retro Games Expo has been canceled, and we cannot in good conscience plan and execute a Duckfest with the global pandemic being what it is. We will not be doing any live events this year, and this really, really bums...

The tradition continues with another horror short story for Halloween. This year it's another story from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. "The Mask" is the story of a love triangle between three artists in Paris, which is disrupted by a miraculous elixer and a stray copy of the accursed play. Thank you so much for your support, and have a safe and happy Halloween!

Get ready for a day of Duckfeed. On August 31, 2019, we will gather at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland Oregon for live performances of many Duckfeed shows, and a few local podcast friends. Listen to the announcement for more. More details are forthcoming, including ticket details.

In this season finale of Heartbeat City, Cozy Snugglefield is joined by Jenn Burleton to answer your questions. Links: TransActive Gender Project — The organization that Jen leads.

The tradition of Halloween readings continues this year with Kole's reading of The Yellow Wallpaper , by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It's an early work of feminist literature, and an early psychological horror story. Like Frankenstein , its horror results from the depiction of extreme medical malpractice. Gilman wrote the story to protest the way women's psychological and emotional health were being...

In this episode of Heartbeat City, Cozy is joined by Autumn Greer to take your questions. Special Guest: Autumn Greer.

On this episode of Heartbeat City, Cozy is joined by Brayton Cameron to answer your questions. Special Guest: Brayton Cameron.

On this episode of Heartbeat City, Cozy is joined by Bob Mackey and Henry Gilbert to answer your questions. Special Guests: Bob Mackey and Henry Gilbert.

On this episode of Heartbeat City, Cozy is joined by Madeline Allfight to answer your questions. Special Guest: Madeline Allfight.

On this fourth episode of Heartbeat City, Cozy is joined by Madeline Allfight to answer your questions. Special Guest: Madeline Allfight.

On this third episode of Heartbeat City, Cozy is joined by Jenni Polodna to answer your questions. Special Guest: Jenni Polodna.