by Lucy Hounsom | June 28, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPart of a murder mystery’s charm is the narrative movement from chaos to order. The natural balance of justice is overturned and it’s up to ordinary people – rather than the law – to fix it. The...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 30, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFairy tale retellings are always popular. Fairy tales are some of the first stories we learn as children. As well as being entertaining, they are instructive. Don’t stray from the path. Don’t trust wolves, or men....
by Lucy Hounsom | February 27, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe are back for 2025! We took a hiatus during the second half of 2024 due to our lives becoming that much busier. But loving what we have built with the show over the almost 10 years we’ve been running (!) we...
by Lucy Hounsom | February 15, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWelcome to our first episode of 2024. Yes, the title’s a quote from our incredible guest. As a podcast dedicated primarily to speculative fiction, we rarely find ourselves taking a deep dive into history. But...
by Lucy Hounsom | November 23, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe love our folk horror. The genre has been growing in popularity these past years, and it’s not hard to see why. Writers take pastoral settings such as windswept hills or rugged sea coasts and imbue them with a...
by Lucy Hounsom | November 2, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWelcome to our Halloween episode! Romance has always been big business and these days there are plenty of subgenres. Despite its popularity, however, some snobbery still exists, often dismissing romance as...
