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This week Abby and Alan explore the history of Doppelgängers in film and literature, focusing on horror and science fiction. 

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Sources for today's episode:

• Self As Other; The Doppelganger by Gry Faurholt of Aahus University, the article can be found here.
• IMDB for general information on the films we are going to discuss today
• Edgar Allan Poe’s The Story of William Wilson
• An article by Terry Thompson (1998) James's the Jolly Corner, The Explicator
• A fandom.com entry on The Therered from Us (2019)
• Vox.com article by Emily St. James Jordan Peele’s Us — and its ending — explained. Sort of.
• Article by Katherine Bowers, Gothic Doubling and The Double, Gothically

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