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Dark Libations

Starting another series of articles at this website called “Dark Libations” where I look at the usage of cocktails in horror and dark fiction. My first article is online and it is on the Jungle Bird in Nisi Shawl’s short story “Street Worm.”

King in Yellow Month Continues on H. P. Lovecast Podcast

New episode of the H. P. Lovecast Podcast is now online!

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In this episode Michele and I discuss the graphic novel adaptation of The King in Yellow done by I. N. J. Culbard. The episode can be streamed at our Buzzsprout website or via your podcast app of preference.

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This episode, along with all of our other programming this month, is all themed on Robert W. Chambers’ influential collection, the King in Yellow. The first episode that dropped this month was on the Hippocampus Press release of Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign, in which we talked about “The Yellow Crown” by Carol Gyzander and “Found and Lost” by Meghan Arcuri. This episode can be listened to at our Buzzsprout website.

The final day of the month on our Transmissions episode we will be publishing interviews with James Chambers, Gyzander, and Arcuri about their work with Under Twin Suns.

In addition, I’d like to highlight that the Horror Writers Association released their own version the The King in the Yellow via their Haunted Library of Horror Classics series. Consider plucking up a copy (Amazon link), being supportive of the organization, and following along our podcast this month.

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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.