This week we’re sharpening our swords and checking our armpits for boils!

Christopher Buehlman is the guest, author the hugely-acclaimed 2012 medieval horror fantasy, Between Two Fires – now being reissued for a new, wide audience. It’s a book that everyone has been screaming at me to read, and I’m glad I did.

Christopher and I get hellishly geeky, talking history, plague, angelology and demonology, Biblical reference and epic poetry. But he also tells us about his past career insulting drunk people at ren-fairs.

Enjoy!

Other books mentioned:

Those Across the River (2011), by Christopher Buehlman

The Blacktongue Thief (2021), by Christopher Buehlman

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death (2005), by John Kelly

Angel Down (2025), by Daniel Kraus

The Starving Saints (2025), by Caitlin Starling

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