Chapter by Chapter

*Guitar Squeal* Yeeeeeeeaaaah! Welcome to the most bitchin' power metal Jane Austen book club my tubular lads. On this episode we discuss pointy vaginas and get a visit from an old friend who frankly needs to keep better company. Meanwhile Catherine Moorland opens a box. Seriously. That's it. 

Gouty, laudanum guzzling Wilkie Collins drops by to discuss beards and polyamory. Meanwhile, in Austenland, Catherine Morland's got to deal with her crush's lame dad on an awkward road trip to the eponymous abbey. 

In which Catherine is maybe just a little too naive at this point. I mean comeon. Meanwhile Annie reveals her necromantic powers over life and death and Eric takes you on a trip to the guy zone. 

G.K. Chesterton pops by from beyond the vale to talk about cheese, paradoxes, and how distributism will make every day a ren faire day. 

In which Eric and Annie finally get to the point where they mention the actual factual Northanger Abbey for the first time. Meanwhile we discuss a spinoff podcast where we analyze the Witches of (br)Eastwick one minute at a time, and Annie sentences Eric to be tortured by the castle hunchback. 

H.P. Lovecraft surprises Annie and Eric by coming out from beyond the vale and having a full on Cthulhu stroke in Annie's living room. Also Catherine Morland, aka Lil Miss Straight Puss Cinnamon Bun, gets chastened by her non-binary beau for her maddening naïveté. 

Folks, Annie & Eric are exhausted from dancing all night and partying every day. Plus Eric barely did the reading. Somehow we still scrape together a freakin diamond of an episode complete with Garfield references, starving urchins, and a surprise visit from the landlord to Annie's gothic castle. We're just that good.

We are joined by Julia Alekseyeva: author of Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution and Assistant Professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. 

In this episode Eric, Annie, and Julia rattle on about three-headed Chihuahuas, gothic manscaping, and the blowjob ellipses...of Victorian novels. 

😭😭😭 FRIENDSHIP WITH ISABELLA CANCELED 😭😭😭. So we've had it up to here with the Thorpe family and their shenanigans, so much so that Annie nearly broke our reverb machine. But three cheers to our little cinnamon bun for standing up for herself!

Catherine Morland's adorkability is weaponized and she finally corners her man! Too bad Henry Cool Fox's dad turns out to be a serious skeeze. 

Eric harmonizes and Annie reveals the secret behind her phantom visitations. 

Be warned, an attempt at a manifesto is made.