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Welcome back tot the Manor!  Light your pipe (Dutch style like Santa if you have it), pour a pint (or a dram or a Wassail bowl of mead), turn down the lights, and get ready to get your Christmas ghost story scare!  We're releasing this on our Christmas Eve day episode so that you can get one good Christmas Ghost Story on the proper day of the year. If it seems a little ale oriented, what would you...

Welcome back to more Yuletide spookiness at the Manor!  This episode continues our annual traditions of discussing Christmas Monsters and the Wild Hunt, sometimes together in an episode and sometimes not - but of course this year you can see that it's the same. So get ready for some Yule frights and enjoy! Next week's episode is an original ghost story for Christmas!  Oooooo! Get in touch with us...

Welcome back to Yuletide at the Manor!  Where we keep Christmas well with copious pints of spiced ale and punch!  This week's episode is on the differences between wassailing and caroling.  We hope you enjoy - but if you're keeping Christmas as well as we are, you should be enjoying just about everything! Next week's episode is our annual Wild Hunt and Christmas Creatures episode. Get in touch wit...

Welcome to Yule at the Manor!  Hope you enjoy Smoking Bishop... as well as a drink.  Ha!  Jocularity.   We start this Yule season with an episode on the Swedish Year Walk, called Arsang, where you take a long nighttime spooky walk through woods infested with dangerous beings, just to get a glimpse of the following year.   Next week's episode is about the differences between wassailing and caroling...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to some more Lucifer fun.  Although we're now into November, we recorded such a long "Lucifer the television series" episode that we had to split it into multiple parts.  Aren't you lucky to have more Luci fun, just before turkey day!? Next week's episode is the start of our Yule season.  Our dark and spooky Yule season, mwahahahaha!!!  We start with an e...

Welcome back to the Manor!  Happy Thanksgiving! At least to those in the States.  We know other countries have Thanksgiving and Harvest Festivals at various times.  Perhaps we'll get to those next year!  Also, maybe not.  Who knows. Hope you enjoy our discussion of "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" as we enjoy Chuck's dinner recipe and our discussion of the best Thanksgiving episode of anything anywh...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to part 2 of our interview with Darin Wall of the heavy metal band Greyhawk.  For fans of the band, you already know that Darin was kick ass and stopped a gun man just after we interviewed him.  If you're fans of metal or fans of kick ass guys who keep people safe and alive, you'll dig this.  Check them out.  Darin is awesome and the whole band kicks ass....

More on Monty Python's second series!  We continue with what the Pythons were doing after graduating from various universities, but before they decided to put Python together.  In other words, their work on other shows that led to them getting together!  Also, we get into more of their episodes!  Next week's episode is part 2 of Darin Wall from the band Greyhawk. Get in touch with us at Podbean: ...

A short episode to wish all of you a happy and haunted Halloween and a scary and spooky Samhain.   Next week's episode continues Monty Python's series II. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor You can also find our podcast on iTunes, Spotify...

More spooky season fun at the Manor!  This week we get into the most awesome of lycanthrope movies, "An American Werewolf in London."  From the plot to the actors to the special effects, all of it spooky and all of it awesome.  Of course James delves too deeply into the ale and pub of the Slaughtered Lamb, but at least we didn't wake a Balrog. Next week's episode is about..... well, less next week...

Welcome back to spooky season at the Manor and to a spooky season extra episode!  If you listened to our crossover with the "A Kinda Creepy" podcast (on their show), you'll hear us discuss The Flask, a haunted pub in the London Highgate area.  We also mentioned the Highgate Vampire, but only in passing.  So here it is!  A full episode on the blood sucker!   Enjoy! This week's main episode on Frida...

Welcome back to spooky season in the Manor!  Keeping with our semi-theme, we're talking about that kick ass band from Germany (though now mostly Swedish), Lucifer!  Started in 2014, they have four LPs and their spiritual views match up well with spooky season.  Pour a pint or a wee dram or whatever your drink of choice is and enjoy! Next week's spooky additional episode is on the Highgate Vampire....

Welcome back to the Manor, where it's spooky season all month with lots of spooky extras.  Watch out for the dagger wielding ghost as you traipse through our halls.  He's rather cross, because we haven't talked about Shakespeare yet.   Speaking of which!  Just kidding, today's topic isn't about the bard himself.  It is about a superb musician and light bringer, though!  Lucifer!  Specifically Luci...

Welcome back to the Manor!  We hope you didn't get hung up at the crossroads.  Unless that's what you wanted, in case you were searching for the devil himself to tune your guitar.  Pull up a seat and listen to the myriad ways you can sell your soul to the devil at the crossroads.  Fame and fortune can be yours for the low, low price of your eternal soul! Next week's episode is about Lucifer the te...

Next week's episode is about how to sell your soul to the devil at the crossroads. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor You can also find our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and I Heart Radio; pretty much wherever fine (and our) podcast...

Welcome back to the Manor!  Allow us to introduce some special guests to the study, the women from A Kinda Creepy Podcast!  We had a spooky crossover event this year.  We guested on their podcast a couple weeks ago (look for their episode called The Flask) and now we get to guest them here at our place!  Get ready for some spooky creepy fun as we're regaled with a Halloween missing person story. N...

Welcome back to the Manor!  It's just the start of spooky season and we're sharing the books we plan on reading this year.  Who knows, maybe we'll even finish some in time to give a recap at the end of the month!  Especially since we recorded this in September!  Next week's episode is a creepy crossover with another Indiana spooky podcast!. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com...

Welcome back to spooky time in the Manor!  The skeletons are dancing and the cauldron is bubbling.  Get ready for lots of spooky fun!  This week is the history of the Ouija Board, plus a special bonus of what wood you should use when creating your own!  OOooOooooOOOoo!  Grab a spooky drink and join us. Next week's episode is about our spooky season reading list. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  h...

Welcome back to the Manor!  As promised, we're finishing our two episode series on the 40th anniversary of Heavy Metal, that most awesome of animated films from 1981!  Enjoy our talk on the music behind the movie and get ready for a soapbox venting or two.   So enjoy some heavy metal evilness! Next week's episode is in October and you know what that means... a plethora of Halloween awesomeness wit...

Welcome back to the Manor!  Our episode on pub poetry the other week caused this year's Hobbit Day episode to be a bit shorter, but more creative.  Rather than go on for hours about various things, we both wrote a poem about Hobbits!  Pour a pint of your favorite Green Dragon ale and enjoy!  Happy Hobbit Day (next week)! Next week's episode is about the soundtrack to the 1981 movie Heavy Metal. Ge...

Welcome back to the Manor!  Pour yourself a wee dram of whiskey (or whisky, if you'd rather have Scotch than Irish or American) and listen to our tale of the actual true story of the great, flaming, building destroying, alcohol poisoning, whiskey fire that took place in Dublin, Ireland, in 1875.  Fun times! Next week's episode is our annual Hobbit Day episode!   Get in touch with us at Podbean:  h...

Welcome back to the Manor!  We have a very special guest for today: Darin Wall, bassist and founding member of the heavy metal band Greyhawk!  The formed in 2016 in Seattle, Washington, USA and have released an EP and an LP that will cause involuntary headbanging.  If you like fantasy themed metal, with wizards/dragons/gems of power/more, then this band is for you.   The interview was so excellent...

Welcome to the Manor!  It's the perfect episode to light your pipe and pour yourself a nice pint of bitter.  James reads a couple selections of pub poetry and Jody reads Coleridge's "Kubla Kahn."   Why?  Because James has been reading pub history/folklore/culture all summer and wanted to and Jody picked a poem he very much enjoys.  Mmmmm... pub things... Next week's episode is the continuation of...

Welcome back to the Manor and pour yourself some more mead, as we finish our discussion on Beowulf as we get into a few of the adaptations.  Become some geekzerkers with us (a kinning of geek and berserker)! Next week's episode is about pub poetry.   Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabreman...

Welcome back to the Manor!  As you can tell, our "next time" from last week's episode has changed.  We almost missed the 40th anniversary of Heavy Metal, that most awesome of animated films!  It was released this month (just a few days ago in fact) in 1981.  There will be two parts, with the second part being the movie soundtrack.  Here, though, we discuss the movie itself!  The actual scenes and...