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Julie and Jarad discuss their personal beliefs about Hell and the afterlife. (Julie is finishing a book and researching is not in the cards.) Get some tea and a cat, and pop in for a natter.

Sources:

The Last Train Out of Hell

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Meet us here at Perdition City Station every week for another excursion into Hell. 

Hosted by Julie Price Carpenter and Jarad Johnson.

Podcast artwork by Carmen Jones; intro, intermission and outro music by Essie Lee; episode artwork by Julie Carpenter; this is a production of Sacred Chickens. 

Produced by Julie Carpenter

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This podcast has adult language and topics and stories related to Hell and the devil. We occasionally discuss death, suicide, and other unpleasant topics, usually related to religion, folklore or mythology.

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Since Jarad is consulting with Julie on her upcoming novel about Granny magic, she decided to ask him what it is that he likes in a book with magic and witches. And what he doesn't.

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Meet us here at Perdition City Station every week for another excursion into Hell. 

Hosted by Julie Price Carpenter and Jarad Johnson.

Podcast artwork by Carmen Jones; intro, intermission and outro music by Essie Lee; episode artwork by Julie Carpenter; this is a production of Sacred Chickens. 

Produced by Julie Carpenter

Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack

Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1

This podcast has adult language and topics and stories related to Hell and the devil. We occasionally discuss death, suicide, and other unpleasant topics, usually related to religion, folklore or mythology.

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Julie and Jarad interview speculative writer Jeffrey Ford about Ahab's Return: Or the Last Voyage: or, The Last Voyage—Julie's current favorite Ford novel—and a jolly host of other things. (To get that reference read the book!) This episode is for readers and writers alike! Ford discusses his writing style, the mysticism of the book life, and even a little about Heaven and Hell. Join us for a great time and then check below to enter the Jeffrey Ford world through one of his books. You'll be hooked in no time.

Jeffrey Ford List of Awards and Nominations - You can see the accolades here, but please use this list to start reading!

Chronological List of Jeffrey Ford Books  - This is a very useful list, but the shopping links are from Amazon. If you don't love Amazon, there are more links below!

IndieBound List Including Anthologies - This list is a better way to support independent bookstores, and it includes anthologies that contain Ford's stories.

Author Website - A Well Built City

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Meet us here at Perdition City Station every week for another excursion into Hell. 

Hosted by Julie Price Carpenter and Jarad Johnson.

Podcast artwork by Carmen Jones; intro, intermission and outro music by Essie Lee; episode artwork by Julie Carpenter; this is a production of Sacred Chickens. 

Produced by Julie Carpenter

Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack

Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1

This podcast has adult language and topics and stories related to Hell and the devil. We occasionally discuss death, suicide, and other unpleasant topics, usually related to religion, folklore or mythology.

Send us Fan Mail

Julie and Jarad discuss Jesus as a revenant. What does it mean to conquer death and why have some Christians turned the only positive revenant into a horror story?

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Meet us here at Perdition City Station every week for another excursion into Hell. 

Hosted by Julie Price Carpenter and Jarad Johnson.

Podcast artwork by Carmen Jones; intro, intermission and outro music by Essie Lee; episode artwork by Julie Carpenter; this is a production of Sacred Chickens. 

Produced by Julie Carpenter

Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack

Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1

This podcast has adult language and topics and stories related to Hell and the devil. We occasionally discuss death, suicide, and other unpleasant topics, usually related to religion, folklore or mythology.

Send us Fan Mail

Julie and Jarad discuss a feline revenant this week, Pluto, the black cat, who returns from the dead side to deliver justice. The episode takes some interesting turns as Julie and Jarad discuss how turning people and pets into objects may backfire. A cat might just cash in several of its nine lives to make sure you get what you deserve. 

Topics: Alcohol abuse, animal abuse, the inherent domestic violence in this story that often gets glossed over for the more supernatural elements.

Sources: The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe

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Meet us here at Perdition City Station every week for another excursion into Hell. 

Hosted by Julie Price Carpenter and Jarad Johnson.

Podcast artwork by Carmen Jones; intro, intermission and outro music by Essie Lee; episode artwork by Julie Carpenter; this is a production of Sacred Chickens. 

Produced by Julie Carpenter

Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack

Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1

This podcast has adult language and topics and stories related to Hell and the devil. We occasionally discuss death, suicide, and other unpleasant topics, usually related to religion, folklore or mythology.

Send us Fan Mail

In a precursor to a discussion about non-vampire revenants, Julie and Jarad discuss how the instead of overcoming Death, theology centered on Hell gives Death ultimate power. Come think about the (maybe) ultimate ending with us. 

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Meet us here at Perdition City Station every week for another excursion into Hell. 

Hosted by Julie Price Carpenter and Jarad Johnson.

Podcast artwork by Carmen Jones; intro, intermission and outro music by Essie Lee; episode artwork by Julie Carpenter; this is a production of Sacred Chickens. 

Produced by Julie Carpenter

Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack

Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1

This podcast has adult language and topics and stories related to Hell and the devil. We occasionally discuss death, suicide, and other unpleasant topics, usually related to religion, folklore or mythology.

Send us Fan Mail

Julie and Jarad discuss how vampires represent the voracious nature of Hell, how vampires became erotic figures, and how rampant, unregulated capitalism may be changing the way we think about these undead creatures.

Sources:

A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture: Love at First Bite

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Meet us here at Perdition City Station every week for another excursion into Hell. 

Hosted by Julie Price Carpenter and Jarad Johnson.

Podcast artwork by Carmen Jones; intro, intermission and outro music by Essie Lee; episode artwork by Julie Carpenter; this is a production of Sacred Chickens. 

Produced by Julie Carpenter

Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack

Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1

This podcast has adult language and topics and stories related to Hell and the devil. We occasionally discuss death, suicide, and other unpleasant topics, usually related to religion, folklore or mythology.

Send us Fan Mail

Warning ahead listeners! Julie lost her research glasses and went on a rant instead of writing a script. Listen as Julie asks her sixteen-year-old evangelical self to weigh in on whether picturing yourself as Jesus would have been theologically acceptable in her church. From there our hosts go off on a right old rant about politics in general. 

Content warning: Tangential discussion of abortion (which can be upsetting for some current or former evangelicals) 

Sources: 

Trump Supporters Are Now Asking If He's the Antichrist

Trump Post of Himself as Jesus Includes Strange Horned Creature Not in Original

Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?

Why Trump's AI Image Is Reviving Old Antichrist Claims in New Ways

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Meet us here at Perdition City Station every week for another excursion into Hell. 

Hosted by Julie Price Carpenter and Jarad Johnson.

Podcast artwork by Carmen Jones; intro, intermission and outro music by Essie Lee; episode artwork by Julie Carpenter; this is a production of Sacred Chickens. 

Produced by Julie Carpenter

Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack

Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1

This podcast has adult language and topics and stories related to Hell and the devil. We occasionally discuss death, suicide, and other unpleasant topics, usually related to religion, folklore or mythology.

Send us Fan Mail

This week, Julie and Jarad talk to writer Naomi Ulsted about her upcoming memoir, her book, The Apology Box, and how the fires of Hell from her evangelical upbringing influenced her work. Our conversation runs the gamut from Hell on Earth to finding a little hope along the way. Naomi writes about family connections, church connections, lasting damage and the healing power of the environment.

Naomi Ulsted writes fiction and non-fiction. She’s the author of the YA novel The Apology Box (2021), which was runner-up in the Indies Today contest and a finalist in the Next Generation Indies Book Award contest. Her memoir, A Bouquet of Weeds: Growing Up Wild in the Pacific Northwest, is forthcoming from High Frequency Press. She’s been published in The Nomad, Rumpus, and The New Guard, among others. She lives in North Bend, Oregon. 

Naomi's Blog

Sacred Chickens' Review of The Apology Box

Purchase The Apology Box

Glamor Shots, by Naomi Ulsted

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Meet us here at Perdition City Station every week for another excursion into Hell. 

Hosted by Julie Price Carpenter and Jarad Johnson.

Podcast artwork by Carmen Jones; intro, intermission and outro music by Essie Lee; episode artwork by Julie Carpenter; this is a production of Sacred Chickens. 

Produced by Julie Carpenter

Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack

Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1

This podcast has adult language and topics and stories related to Hell and the devil. We occasionally discuss death, suicide, and other unpleasant topics, usually related to religion, folklore or mythology.

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On this episode Jarad and Julie discuss the movie Sinners (with spoilers) and some of the rumination they had afterwards about racism and religion. If you didn't like this movie, you won't like this episode, because our hosts were all in. If you haven't seen this movie, it's a beautiful rendering of American mythology and folk horror and we highly recommend it. It's genre film with depth and broad appeal, a well told story with layers of history and American experience.

Support the show

Meet us here at Perdition City Station every week for another excursion into Hell. 

Hosted by Julie Price Carpenter and Jarad Johnson.

Podcast artwork by Carmen Jones; intro, intermission and outro music by Essie Lee; episode artwork by Julie Carpenter; this is a production of Sacred Chickens. 

Produced by Julie Carpenter

Follow Julie: @sacredchickens.bsky.social and Substack

Follow Jarad: https://substack.com/@jaradjohnson1

This podcast has adult language and topics and stories related to Hell and the devil. We occasionally discuss death, suicide, and other unpleasant topics, usually related to religion, folklore or mythology.