Podside Picnic

This Graveside, we talk about the Netflix limited series, The Fall of the House of Usher, compare it to the Roger Corman film of the same name, and compare both adaptations to the original Poe

The Most Dangerous Woman in Speculative fiction returns to Graveside to talk about Ma (2019), part horror movie, part character study, and completely unhinged.

This time on Graveside, a reading of my recent short story, "Up In the Hills, She Dreams of Her Daughter Deep In the Ground" It first appeared in Strange Horizons' Childbearing Issue: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/up-in-the-hills-she-dreams-of-her-daughter-deep-in-the-ground/ Artwork by Caterina Gerbasi

Ready for another Graveside feature? We chat about Creepshow (1982) and how apt the anthology format is for this horror and other horror films. Oh, and there's meteor shit, too!

We discuss The White People by Arthur Machen, a fascinating and challenging bit of Weird Fiction that really has the juice

As the year turns, so does our taste in reading. Join us in our read-along of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and remember: This land is all too shallow/It is painted on the sky/And trembles like wind-shook rain/When the Raven King goes by

After a hectic opening to Spooky Season, at last . . . a chance to sit back, relax, and take good long swig from the sarcophagus juice!

Welcome to our first Graveside Picnic episode of the season! This time, Tai Black returns to talk about Cobweb (2023)

Multi-genre author, Matt Hughes joins us to talk about his career, his works of SFF in a Vancian groove, and his current projects. Be sure to check out his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4687520

We watch the skies for a sign, and find it in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Do YOU want to believe?

Ashely Adams joins us again to talk Chainsaw Man. Anime, that is, not manga - mostly

We discuss Kelly Link's The Summer People, who aren't what we'd call your typical out-of-towners Read here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SEB-86461

Hugo-nominated comic book artist, Wendy Xu joins us to talk about Tsui Hark's Green Snake (1993). Immortal snake devil sisters, sanctimonious monks, a hapless (and feckless) scholar make for an outstanding experience

As the year turns, so does our taste in reading. Join us in our read-along of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and remember: This land is all too shallow/It is painted on the sky/And trembles like wind-shook rain/When the Raven King goes by

This time, we talk about M. Rickert's Was She Wicked, Was She Good? and what the dangers of childhood innocence are, and what it costs when it's lost Read it here: https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/was-she-wicked-was-she-good/

We discuss the questionable merit and irrefutable weirdness of the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie. Finally, a film that asks: can working stiffs be heroes?

We get back together to chat what we've been enjoying over a few beers. Join us!

We bid you farewell, Fair Traveler, as we Discover at last the Great and Secret Knowledge of the House in the last parts of this Profound Book, so full of Charm!

Tripping balls, isolation tanks, asshole geniuses. No, this isn't the latest techbro cleanse, but the 1980 film, Altered States. Join us to answer, "to be, or not to be . . . monke"

We take a small detour from Piranesi to visit another labyrinth. This one was built by Jorge Luis Borges, for his own Favored Child way back in 1947. Be careful, though - Asterion's games of tag are killer

We talk about The Dungeonmaster (1984), aka Ragewar a movie that shows that we need not accept the Jock/Nerd binary, but accept that both can exist - in the form of onine warrior, X-CaliBR8

Aaron Thorpe returns for the Superman II theatrical and not the Donner cut, more's the pity.

Go Team Venture! The team gets back one last time to round out the multiple, intricate storylines in Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon's Heart Remember: this is not a good-bye, only a see you later

Welcome, Fair Traveler! We welcome you to the Majesty and Beauty of the House as we Discuss the first three parts of this Profound Book, so full of Charm!

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only one game we will be playing, and that's BOLTGUN. So, tune in, battle brother and get ready to purge chaos in the Emperor's name! Check out Jeff's WH40K webcomic, Reforged: https://www.warhammer-community.com/web-comics/