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Burial Plot Podcast
Michele and I were both interviewed on Brenda S. Tolian and Joy Yehle’s Burial Plot Podcast. We are both super honored and flattered to be invited onto their show were we talk horror academia, the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, our H. P. Lovecast Podcast, and much more. The episode can be streamed at the Burial Plot Podcast Buzzsprout website or via your podcast app of preference.
General Neo-Peplum News
“Iconic Encounter: Water and Bone”
Danielle DeLisle has written a sword and sorcery short story over at Paizo called “Iconic Encounter: Water and Bone.”
Taught by Time: Myth Goes Punk
Earlier this month, Writerpunk Press released their sixth anthology called Taught by Time: Myth Goes Punk.
Looking at the table of contents, there is a lot of neo-peplum stories dealing with mythology:
- AR DeClerck: “Drag Me Down”
(A cyber/biopunk story inspired by the Greek myths of Hades and Persephone) - Nils Visser: “The Skirring Dutchman: A Sussex Steampunk Tale”
(A steampunk story inspired by De Vliegende Hollander [The Flying Dutchman] by Piet Visser, 1901) - Lee French: “Little Red Riding Hood”
(A cyberpunk story inspired by the European folktale of Little Red Riding Hood) - Phoebe Darqueling: “Making Bones”
(A noirpunk story inspired by the European folktale of Cinderella) - Jeffrey Cook and Katherine Perkins: “Lured”
(A steampunk story inspired by Grimm’s fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel”) - Rachel Brune: “H-Bomb Over Paris”
(An atompunk story inspired by the various Greek myths of Helen of Troy) - Teel James Glenn: “Black Sails”
(A biopunk story inspired by the legend of Theseus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses) - Virginia Carraway: “The Lost Princess Returns”
(A steampunk story inspired by George MacDonald’s 1875 fairy tale novel The Lost Princess) - Rachel Brune: “Bea Wolf”
(A dieselpunk story inspired by the Old English epic poem Beowulf) - Bryce Raffle: “Threads”
(A dreadpunk story inspired by the Homerian myth of Althaea, Meleager and the Three Fates) - Carol Gyzander: “Dust to Dust”
(A biopunk story inspired by the legend of Echo and Narcissus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses) - H. J. Lopez: “Corporate G.O.D.S.”
(A nano/biopunk story inspired by Homer’s Odyssey)
The anthology can be ordered at Amazon.
Dr. Swist on Spartan History Podcast
Dr. Swist has made an appearance on the Spartan History Podcast. The episode can be streamed at their Buzzsprout website or via your podcast app of preference.