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Welcome back to the Manor!  We interrupt what was going to be the next episode, but...  Ace Frehley, founding member of KISS, passed away last year.  Jody (especially) and James wanted to pay homage to the Spaceman and here it is.  Pour a pint or a shot of cold gin and commiserate along with us. Next week's episode is a drunken episode of D&D.  What's that, you ask?  Tune in and find out! Get...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to another of our Led Zeppelin album arcs!  Although in this case, it's an arc of one episode, as The Song Remains the Same's material has mostly been covered in other arcs!  But there is still plenty to talk about, so join us in time for Jimmy Page's birthday today and enjoy! Next week's episode is a drunken episode of D&D.  What's that, you ask?  Tune in...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to a new year!  We're starting out this year with an episode to celebrate JRR Tolkien's birthday, which is tomorrow, January 3rd.  We've mentioned doing this episode several times, so here it is... The Nature of Middle-Earth!  Edited by Carl F. Hostetter, it's based off Tolkien's writings (and notes from Christopher Tolkien) on how he developed the backstory o...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the last episode of the year!  Which as usual, is focused on Iron Maiden!  If you harken back to the origins of the podcast, you'd know this tradition started due to an episode coming out on the day they formed.  Go back and listen! This time, we're (well, mostly Jody) talking about their B-sides from the 1980s!  If you don't know what a B-side is or what t...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to some more peanuts holiday fun!  This time, it's Charlie Brown and the gang during Christmas!  Pour yourself a ping and get ready for some holiday fun! Next week's episode is our annual "last episode of the year so let's talk about Iron Maiden" which this year is on their B-sides. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-...

Welcome back to the Manor! It is time for our annual Ghost Stories for Christmas episode!  This year, we're focusing a fair bit on M.R. James and our favorites of his, but we do talk about other authors and even have a "tournament of authors."  Something which we also subject our guest to!  We want to welcome John M Knight to the show, an excellent author who has written stories in the Jamesian st...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the first of our three Yuletide episodes!  We're starting with two classic songs about that most excellent of World War I flying aces, Snoopy, as he fights the Red Baron, including a dogfight (ha!) at Christmas! Pour yourself a winter warmer or some nog of whatever kind you prefer and enjoy! Next week's episode is about (stay tuned). Get in touch with us at...

Welcome back to the Manor!  And welcome to our annual Thanksgiving episode!  Rather than have it come out a day late, after listening to our take on that as we pared the episode down a bit, we thought it would be better to release a day early, so here it is!  On Thursday!  Wow! This year, we discuss the Thanksgiving song "Over the River and Through the Wood," original a Thanksgiving poem.  But lis...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more Food Month Fun!  In this episode, we're talking about foods we like that were inspired by nerd things, like books and movies and our families!  Ha! Enjoy!   Next week's episode is about (stay tuned). Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormea...

Welcome back to the Manor's Food Month!  It's Thanksgiving month and we're discussing food all month long.  This week is desert island foods.  If you had one type of food you had to eat for life, what would it be?  Get ready to listen in on foods and music and magical ovens.  All this and more!   Next week's episode is about the foods we love inspired by our nerd things and families.   Get in touc...

Welcome to the Manor!  This month, after a grueling month or two or so of Halloween Spooky Season wonderfulness, we're taking it easy with a month of episodes on food. Starting out, we'll talk about foods that others (specifically our closest of loved ones) don't like that we do. Mmmmm... anchovies! Next week's episode is about desert island foods. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.pod...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the doubled up day of Halloween spookiness!  This is the second episode, a brief history of Halloween music, led by Jody himself!   Pour yourself a spooky pint and light a spooky pipe and enjoy! And Happy Halloween! Next week's episode starts November's food month!   Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the final episodes of the spooky season!  Since Halloween falls on a Friday this year, rather than give you a short "happy Halloween" episode, this year we're giving a real treat!  Two episodes!  (Wait... maybe that's a trick...) Both are on Halloween history aspects, with this first being led by James, on the history of Samhain in (mostly ancient) Ireland!...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more extra spookiness!  This week's midweek spooky episode is about Mulligan's Pub, Dublin, Ireland, and its haunts.  Pour yourself a pint of haunted ale or stout and enjoy! Next episode is on Halloween!  To celebrate Halloween being on a Friday this year, we're giving you two episodes!  Double the spookiness!  Both are on the history of Halloween... but wh...

Welcome to more spooky season goodness.  This year, at the beginning of October in fact, marks the 75th anniversary of Peanuts.  It's the 59th anniversary of the animated special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, but the 66th anniversary of the first mention of the Great Pumpkin from 1959! So to celebrate all those, and the fact that James just read this book, we're discussing the book "It's...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more spooky season spookiness.  This episode is on that most nightmarish of albums from 1975, or any year for that matter, Welcome to My Nightmare, the debut of Alice Cooper (as a solo artist). Sit back and get ready for some evil fun! This Friday's spooky season episode is on The Great Pumpkin. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/medi...

Welcome back to the Manor!  What better way to continue spooky season than to discuss zombie flicks!  The Return of the Living Dead turned 40 this year and we get into it!  Spooky, creepy, scary, and hilarious, what's not to love. Pour yourself a pint and enjoy! Next spooky season episode is on the the 50th anniversary of Alice Cooper's album Welcome to My Nightmare.   Get in touch with us at Podb...

Welcome back the Manor and welcome to more spooky season goodness! Or is it evilness?  Whichever or both! This episode was a suggestion.  From whom?  Listen in!  We'll get into the color "haint blue," which is supposed to ward off ghosts.  How does it work?  Listen in!  What's so special about the color?  Listen in!  Basically, just listen in and enjoy! Next spooky season episode, in two days on F...

Welcome back to the Manor and to more Halloween spooky fun!  This episode gets into the costumes of our youth and famous costume makes, specifically Ben Cooper. Pour yourself a pint and enjoy! Next week's mid-week spooky episode is about... haint blue!  If you have no clue what that's about, tune in soon.   Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more spooky season goodness!  We're starting off October with one of the masters of horror... and stage and sci-fi and just about everything.  Peter Cushing!  He discussed how he views fantasy vs horror and we jump in with our own thoughts!   Pour yourself a pint and enjoy! This Friday's spooky season episode is on Ben Cooper Halloween costumes and our hist...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to more spooky fun!  We're starting out October with an excellent creepy story on the final days of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his encounters with his own spooky doppelganger.  Did it herald his death?  Cause it?  A symptom of madness?  Oooooh... spooky! Next week's midweek spooky season episode is about Peter Cushing's thoughts on horror. Get in touch with...

Welcome back to the Manor!  And what better way to start the official start of spooky month than with a local Hoosier author!  Join us for a discussion on the excellent horror novel "8114" by Joshua Hull. But wait!  There's more!  We (James) actually interviews the famed author himself!  So listen in on that excellent bit of talk and then join the Terrors as they discuss the book together. If you...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more spooky season spookiness!  This episode is on the 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show!  Does this sound familiar?  Since we did the 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Show (musical stage show) a couple years ago. So join us for the background on the movie version!  In fact, today is literally the 50th anniversary of its release in the U...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to Hobbit Day 2025!  Otherwise known as our anniversary, although I suppose this is technically coming out just a few days before that. This time, we're discussing the horror aspects of "The Fellowship of the Ring," as well as some etymology that we've found (****ing philologists!).  Pour yourself a pint and put some shag into your pipe and enjoy! Next week's...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to this year's extended spooky season!  Today we're talking about the haunted brewery in Auburn, Indiana, the Auburn Brewing Company.  And a little bit on Gen Con from this year.  Enjoy the spookiness! Next week's episode is our annual Hobbit Day episode, but this time with added spookiness! Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/...