The Dark Descent – A Spooky Stories Podcast!

There’s just something about a good ol’ WTF story. Jean Ray’s “The Shadowy Steet” feels like it could have been written yesterday, and we’re gonna talk about it!

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When is a room not a room? when it’s a LITTLE ROOM! This episode, Willow and Phil are talkin’ ’bout Madeline Yale Wynne’s “The Little Room”, a story so weird, she had to write a sequel. So, we’re also talkin’ ’bout the sequel to “The Little Room” titled “The Sequel to The Little Room” I kid you not.

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Get ready to hear two people yellin’ about shoggoths! That’s right, we’re going deep deep DEEP under Antarctica and finding out just WHERE WE CAME FROM and HOW BAD IT SMELLS with Part 2 of our coverage of H. P. Lovecraft’s AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS!

We talk timelines, Old Ones, Mi-Go, Cthulhu Spawn, and lots of goopy glop! PLUS, Del Toro’s perhaps ill-advised take of the story and a few comic adaptations as well! It’s WELL ROUNDED CONVERSATION!

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Antarctic exploration? Grotesque penguins? Elder Things? Warning signs everyone should probably have taken more seriously?! Let’s descend into the first half of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness!

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Let’s darkly descend into Robert A. Heinlein’s “They,” a reality-bending tale from David G. Hartwell’s Foundations of Fear. Is its unnamed protagonist delusional, imprisoned in a simulation, or right but for all the wrong reasons?

Along the way, we’ll talk paranoia, isolation, collective consciousness, suspiciously localized rain, and the story’s connections to The Matrix, The Truman Show, and Heinlein’s later novel Job: A Comedy of Justice.

Spoilers abound!

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In this episode of whatever we’re calling this show now, Willow and Phil pick apart the incredible “Don’t Look Now” by Daphne du Maurier!

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Willow and I FINALLY managed to get together to record an episode! Because we’re OBLIGATED TO for this PODCAST we OSTENSIBLY do. It’s Guillermo del Toro’s first and dozenth iteration of “Frankenstein!”

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It’s Del Toro Time returns with a deep dive into Steven Spielberg’s haunting 2001 sci-fi fairy tale, A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Originally developed by Stanley Kubrick and completed by Spielberg, this movie mashes up Pinocchio, Frankenstein, and a whole lot of emotional trauma—plus teddy bears and Jude Law as a robot gigolo. What more could you want?

In this episode, we break down the film’s chaotic production history, themes of abandonment, sentient love, del Toro connections, Kubrick’s ghost, and the one robot we’d die for: Teddy.

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What do you get when three of the most powerful men in Hollywood decide to produce an animated film about the life of Moses? You get “The Prince of Egypt!”

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It’s anime! It’s a thriller! It’s bizarre! It’s awesome! It’s Satoshi Kon’s “Perfect Blue” on The Ecstasy of Influence on It’s Del Toro Time!

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