In their latest Ligotti side episode, Ligeia and Leraje are joined by Chris from the Doom Folk Metal band Buzzard, a fellow Ligotti enthusiast - a fact that often comes through clearly in the lyrics he writes for Buzzard.

Transcript (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep8-5.pdf

Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe: https://www.librarything.com/work/15932254/t/Songs-of-a-Dead-Dreamer-and-Grimscribe

Buzzard on: Bandcamp / Ampwall / YouTube / Bluesky / Instagram

Contra Odium: https://contraodium.cc

In this episode The Devil's Librarians get to grips with the beautiful, enigmatic horror of Jeff VanderMeer's novel Annihilation. Please note! Leraje made a mistake with a reference - when he mentions The Dunwich Horror he means The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Transcript (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep8.pdf

Annihilation (novel): https://www.librarything.com/work/14034594/t/Annihilation

Southern Reach Series: https://www.librarything.com/nseries/5939/The-Southern-Reach

Annihilation (2018 movie): https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/300668-annihilation

Stalker (movie): https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1398

Alien franchise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(franchise)

In this episode, The Devil's Librarians are honoured (and slightly giddy) to be joined by Heather Parry, the author of Carrion Crow (which we talked about a couple of episodes ago) and Orpheus Builds A Girl.

Transcript: https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep7.pdf

Carrion Crow: https://www.librarything.com/work/32884942/t/Carrion-Crow

Orpheus Builds A Girl: https://www.librarything.com/work/28299177/t/Orpheus-Builds-A-Girl

The Devil's Library Carrion Crow Episode: https://thedevilslibrary.libsyn.com/episode-6-carrion-crow-by-heather-parry

The People In The Trees: https://www.librarything.com/work/13585455/t/The-People-in-the-Trees

Wide Sargasso Sea: https://www.librarything.com/work/27239/t/Wide-Sargasso-Sea

The Yellow Wallpaper: https://www.librarything.com/work/32824870/t/The-Yellow-Wallpaper-%5Bshort-story%5D

Flowers In The Attic: https://www.librarything.com/work/12155/t/Flowers-in-the-Attic

Perfume: https://www.librarything.com/work/36980/t/Perfume-The-Story-of-a-Murderer

The Pigeon: https://www.librarything.com/work/171252/t/The-Pigeon

Tampopo (movie): https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11830

Leraje, with help from some familiar voices, looks at the Romantic Satanism movement and how it informed and became the bedrock of our interpretation of Modern Atheistic Satanism.

The Carducci quotes spoken in Italian were performed by Valter Zanardi, published on YouTube (https://youtu.be/hfPR0aQ61g8) under a Creative Commons license on 17th October 2019.

Transcript (PDF)

QueerSatanic on LaVey and Church of Satan.

Free Society Satanists Podcast (ep 1 of 6) on Might is Right.

Paradise Lost.

Cain: A Mystery.

Prometheus Unbound.

Hymn to Satan.

Who Are You Lucifer.

Enquiry Regarding Political Justice.

God and the State.

Concerning Justice in the Revolution and in the Church.

The Scorceries and Scandals of Satan.

The Devil is Red - Socialist Satanism in the 19th Century.

The Philosophy of Defiance or, A Pardon for Cain.

Recommended Reading.

Ligeia, Pike, Lithos and Leraje get gothic with Heather Parry's visceral, deeply affecting novel Carrion Crow.

Transcription (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep6.pdf

Carrion Crow: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL57547213M/Carrion_Crow

The Madwoman In The Attic: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL545633W/The_madwoman_in_the_attic

Fruits of Knowledge Book Campaign: https://helltraef.org/fruitsofknowledge

Devil's Discourse Podcast: https://devilsdiscourse.org

Ligeia and Leraje continue their in-depth breakdown of the unsettling short story collections of Thomas Ligotti.

Transcription (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep5-5.pdf

Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe on Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20016684W/Songs_of_a_dead_dreamer_and_Grimscribe

Ligotti Part 2: https://thedevilslibrary.libsyn.com/episode-35-songs-of-a-dead-dreamer-grimscribe-by-thomas-ligotti

Ligotti Part 1: https://gospod.chat/e/minisode5-grimscribe

This episode Pike, Lithos, Ligeia and Leraje get our Satan all the way on and talk about the Ira Levin 1960's classic Rosemary's Baby. Hail, uh, Adrian I guess.

Transcript: https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep5.pdf

Rosemarys' Baby on OpenLibrary: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28322W/Rosemary's_Baby

Rosemary's Baby Movie on TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/805-rosemary-s-baby

Tanis Podcast: https://tanispodcast.com

In this episode, Ligeia, Lithos, Pike and Leraje discuss Ursula K Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness.

Transcription (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep4.pdf

The Last Archive podcast episode 'The Word For Man Is Ishi': https://www.thelastarchive.com/season-4/episode-2-the-word-for-man-is-ishi

The Left Hand of Darkness on OpenLibrary: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59800W/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness

The Hainish Cycle on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainish_Cycle

The Culture series on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series

In this episode, Ligeia and Leraje follow up on their original Ligotti episode and talk about three different short stories from Grimscribe and Songs of a Dead Dreamer.

Episode Transcript (PDF)

Grimscribe and Songs of a Dead Dreamer on OpenLibrary.org

Original episode on GOSPod

In this episode, Ligeia, Leraje, Pike and Lithos talk about reading 'Sundial' by Catriona Ward. Special thanks to Bohema for the excellent outro music! Episode Transcript (PDF)

Sundial on OpenLibrary.org

Our review on Storygraph