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Wheel of Genre @UC-IeVsXWdSmkRBUKm8ji7aQ@youtube.com

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Each month we read a different genre. Spies, mystery, horror


53:44
Hagiwara Sakutaro's The Town of Cats (Featuring Chris of Liminal Spaces)
26:05
Algernon Blackwood's "A Psychical Invasion" — A Haunted Humorist Who Can No Longer Laugh?
07:13
Announcing Occult Detective October, Algernon Blackwood Edition
18:10
Clark Ashton Smith's “Genius Loci” and the Terror of a Living Landscape
22:55
We Read Five SF Books About Immortality, Here's What We Learned
20:55
Jean Ray's “The Shadowy Street” Baffled Us (We Loved It)
18:50
Jean Ray's “The Mainz Psalter” Shows Cosmic Horror on the High Seas
18:23
Margaret Irwin's “The Book” — The Scariest Book About a Book We've Read
40:42
Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love" Hurt Our Souls, But We Should Talk About It Anyways
30:52
H.P. Lovecraft's “The Dunwich Horror” — Here's What We Noticed on the Re-Read
18:03
H.F. Arnold's “The Night Wire” is One of Weird Tales Magazine's Most Legendary Yarns
21:02
Jorge Luis Borges' "The Immortal" Shows How the Fountain of Youth is a Curse
21:35
Stefan Grabinski’s “The White Wyrak” — A Folksy Polish Tale About A Beast That Eats Chimneysweeps
29:46
Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" Is Funnier And Weirder Than You Remember
34:09
Philip K. Dick's Dr. Futurity: A Future Trying To Destroy Its Past
14:21
Francis Stevens's (aka Gertrude Barrows Bennett's) "Unseen–Unfeared" Reveals The Horrors Of Our Mind
24:11
Poul Anderson's The Boat of a Million Years — Humanity’s Entire Story in One Novel
54:27
Ryunosuke Akutagawa's The Hell Screen (Featuring Chris of Liminal Spaces)
23:39
A. Merritt's The People of the Pit — Trail Closed Due To Unfathomable Horror
15:14
Luigi Ugolini's The Vegetable Man — Body Horror With A Side of Salad
50:39
Robert Silverberg's The Book of Skulls (Featuring Speculative Reader)
16:04
Rabindranath Tagore's "The Hungry Stones" — Nostalgia As Cruel Devouring Jaws
13:45
Our Next Five Stories Explore Immortality
17:07
Hahns Heinz Ewers' "The Spider" Is A Classic
14:16
Georg Heym's "The Dissection" — Pray There Is No Afterlife
14:16
Gustav Meyrink's "The Man in the Bottle" Shows Us Murder At It's Most ""Playful""
17:25
Lord Dunsany's "How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles" — A Perfect Little Nightmare
19:48
M.R. James’s "Casting The Runes" Disguises Weird Cosmic Terror as a Children's Tale
32:42
Umberto Eco's Baudolino: The Patron Saint of Unreliable Narration
10:28
Saki’s "Sredni Vashtar" Disguises Weird Cosmic Terror as a Children's Tale
25:55
Abir Mukherjee's A Rising Man: Exploring Colonial India Through A Historical Murder Mystery
38:42
Algernon Blackwood’s "The Willows" Proves How Only Friendship Can Save You From The Void
34:37
Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory: An Ethereal Western Depicting Faith On The Run
12:53
F. Marion Crawford's “The Screaming Skull” Is Perfect Campfire-Core
34:14
Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day Explores The Stories We Don't Realize We Are Telling
07:42
Here's Our Next Four Historical Fiction Reads
11:37
Alfred Kubin's “The Other Side” Was Mad, Messy, & Just A Little Brilliant
36:33
Jeff VanderMeer's Absolution: It Gets Weirder
19:34
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's “Introduction to The Weird” is a Map to Weird Fiction's Darkest Corners
37:25
Jeff VanderMeer's Acceptance: No Answers, Just Echoes
31:54
Listener Q&A #1
30:46
Jeff VanderMeer's Authority: The Controversial Sequel That Actually Gets It Right
34:03
Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation: Shapeshifting Eco-Terror That's More Than It's Influences
12:46
We Finished Dangerous Visions. These Stories Stuck With Us.
22:25
Ian Fleming's Diamonds Are Forever: Experimental, Melancholy, and Divisive
12:33
Samuel R. Delany's “Aye, and Gomorrah...” Was The Perfect End to Dangerous Visions
31:53
Ken Follett’s The Eye of the Needle: Masterpiece or Miss?
12:13
Roger Zelazny’s “Auto-da-Fé” Give Us Matador vs. Machine
20:42
Norman Spinrad's Carcinoma Angels: Sci-Fi or Psy-Fi?
35:03
Charles McCarry's The Miernik Dossier is the Best Road Trip / Spy Thriller Mashup We've Ever Read
19:48
Keith Laumer’s Test to Destruction Made Us Think More About Craft Than Ideas
20:52
You Think It’s a Spy Story. It’s Not.
22:46
Betraying the Robot Christ — John Brunner's Judas
32:25
A Total Rejection of Espionage Thrillers — John le Carré's The Looking Glass War
34:23
John Le Carré Tried a Murder Mystery — and It’s Good
17:45
J.G. Ballard's The Recognition Was An Eerie Riddle We Couldn't Solve
38:47
Vengeance is Mine: Hardboiled Noir at Its Very Best
16:35
The Strangest 'Dangerous Vision' Yet — What If Los Angeles Was Scooped Away By Aliens?
22:42
Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely: The Pulp Classic That Should’ve Been Better
17:13
A 'Dangerous Vision' of Childhood — Reading Kris Neville's "From the Government Printing Office"