Backlist and Chill

Backlist: LISA JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE is back on her bullshit and so are we! This month we're talking about DARK VISIONS: THE STRANGE POWER, published December 1st, 1994 and HOO BOY does it feel like it. LJ is back and indulging in her worst habits, and Ollie is NOT having it.

Next time:  DARK VISIONS VOL 2: THE POSSESSION

Stay safe, friends.

(1h 35m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of racism, misogyny, acephobia, homophobia, ableism.)

We're alive! And so is LJ! We're back with an intro to Season 11: Dark Visions, which features our semi-annual State of the LJ and also a shocking amount of chat about Gen 13 for some reason? Listen, it's rough out here - Dark Visions is LJ's most obscure trilogy and not even SHE seems to remember that she wrote it. No worries though, she's definitely writing a sequel.

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.  See y'all next time (with booze!) for Episode 1: The Strange Power!

Thanks for sticking with us, folks, and stay safe! Come check in with us on twitter @BacklistPodcast!

Backlist: RAISE A GLASS, FRIENDS, because we have MADE IT to the end of the Return to Den of Shadows with PROMISES TO KEEP (published January 2013), and after all this, we're left with just one question: what editor looked at this premise and said "Yeah, no, this seems fine." 

Chill:  Cyna is drinking a Fuck This Book (just a whole bottle of Barefoot Bubbly Pink Moscato), and Ollie is drinking an 'Everyone Benefits From Slavery So You're All Complicit' is a Bad Theme (absinthe + ginger ale + crushed up candycane shards) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.

Next time:  WHO CAN SAY????

Stay safe, friends.

(2h 35m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, intense discussion of suicide, abuse, slavery, racism, and incest. )  

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Backlist: Ollie was asked to edit some text for ToD and couldn't remember the title Token of Darkness, and all they could get to was "Time of Death". And frankly, they're not wrong. TOKEN OF DARKNESS by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (published February 9, 2010), a book that maybe existed. We're not sure.

Chill:  Cyna is drinking a Liquified Ghost (coconut rum, crème de cacao, 2% milk, and green food coloring for streaks!) followed by... a bottle of wine lolol. Ollie is drinking a Hey There, Delilah (Cîroc Black Raspberry, Wollersheim Absinthe Blanche, pineapple juice, lemon juice, lime juice, and a sugar-dipped pineapple chunk) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.

Next time:  POISON TREE.

Stay safe, friends.

(2h 30m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language from the hosts; discussions of death and ghosts, car accidents, witchcraft, girlhate, shaming of one teenage girl for basically existing, relationship zoning, shitty dudes, classism, hospitals, and weird questions about who gets to decide what happens to a body after your mind/soul is no longer home from the book.)

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It's season ten, and what else could we return to but Amelia Atwater Rhodes' return to the world that they created almost ten years prior? Yes, it's time for the Return to Den of Shadows, and we're firing up the WayBack machine to answer our burning questions: why these stories? Why this order? And has it all really been building to this?

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.  No drinks this time, but fear not! Alcohol will return in Episode 1: Persistence of Memory!

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Backlist: It is time, at long last, to return to the series Cyna and Ollie have been eagerly awaiting. We've mentioned it several times in the past, how far away it was, but the wait is over... It's 9 o'clock and Julian is here. That's right, get your game tables ready for LJ Smith's FORBIDDEN GAME. Starting us out is THE HUNTER. Not that titles matter. These three books are one big story, in our opinion.

Spoilers for books two and three start at 31:07. Skip to 44:56 to avoid!

Chill: Cyna is drinking Blue Curacao, Sprite, sour mix, cranberry juice, and Ollie back on that absinthe train with what they're calling a Community of Sorrow (Wollersheim Dancehall Absinthe Blanche + POM white tea with orange blossom, and a sugared rim). Pics! Cyna - Ollie.

Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.

Next time:  Season 9 Episode 2: FORBIDDEN GAME: THE CHASE! Chiller and Chillest tier patrons will receive this episode before it goes public!

Happy New Years, Backlist listeners! May 2022 bring a whole lot better than 2021 did. Get your boosters and keep those masks up!

(3h 10m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of suicide, incest, sexual assault, child molestation, violence, mental illness, depression, and death.)

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