Another episode rescued from the pre-Devil's Library abyss, in which Ligeia and Leraje talked for the very first time about the hugely influential work of Thomas Ligotti.

Transcript (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep12-6.pdf

Book: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20016684W/Songs_of_a_dead_dreamer_and_Grimscribe

Previous Ligotti episodes:

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

Part 3: https://thedevilslibrary.libsyn.com/episode-55-songs-of-a-dead-dreamer-grimscribe-by-thomas-ligotti-part-3

Part 4: https://thedevilslibrary.libsyn.com/episode-85-songs-of-a-dead-dreamer-grimscribe-by-thomas-ligotti-part-4

In this bonus minisode Ligeia and Leraje read and discuss the final two short stories from Clarke's short story collection set in the Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell universe.

Non-Spotify options for listening/subscribing to this podcast are at https://devilslibrary.org

Transcript (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep12-5.pdf

Part I episode: https://thedevilslibrary.libsyn.com/episode-105-the-ladies-of-grace-adieu-by-susanna-clarke

Part II episode: https://thedevilslibrary.libsyn.com/episode-115-the-ladies-of-grace-adieu-by-susanna-clarke-part-ii

The Ladies of Grace Adieu: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8892294M/The_Ladies_of_Grace_Adieu_and_Other_Stories Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (novel): https://openlibrary.org/books/OL18395675M/Jonathan_Strange_Mr_Norrell Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (TV show): https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/62717-jonathan-strange-mr-norrell

The short story Leraje couldn't recall the name or author of was 'A Sound of Thunder' by Ray Bradbury from his short story collection 'The Golden Apples of the Sun': https://openlibrary.org/works/OL31528729W/The_Golden_Apples_of_the_Sun huge thanks to the Book community at lemmy.world for reminding Leraje!: https://lemmy.world/post/45879444

The three Greek fates and the cutting of the thread of life is explained here: https://www.greecehighdefinition.com/blog/2026/4/17/the-role-of-fate-in-greek-tragedy

Blencathra!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blencathra

This month we discuss Pike's choice of 'Roadside Picnic' a stone-cold classic of the Sci-Fi genre first in print in 1972 that has inspired countless imitators and directly influenced Andrei Tarkovsky's movie 'Stalker' and games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R - Shadow of Chernobyl

Non-Spotify options for listening/subscribing to this podcast are at https://devilslibrary.org

Transcript (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep12.pdf

Roadside Picnic (novel): https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24648194M/Roadside_Picnic

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

S.T.A.L.K.E.R - Shadow of Chernobyl (game): https://backloggd.com/games/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-shadow-of-chernobyl

Another episode rescued from the pre-Devil's Library abyss, in which Ligeia and Leraje talk about the sequel to The Exorcist, Legion.

Transcript (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep11-6.pdf

The Exorcist Devil's Library Episode: https://thedevilslibrary.libsyn.com/episode-96-the-exorcist-by-william-peter-blatty

Legion (novel): https://openlibrary.org/works/OL927214W/Legion

In this bonus episode (that we really need to stop calling minisodes as there's nothing mini about them!) Ligeia and Leraje read and discuss three more short stories from Clarke's short story collection set in the Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell universe.

Transcript (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep11-5.pdf

Part I episode: https://thedevilslibrary.libsyn.com/episode-105-the-ladies-of-grace-adieu-by-susanna-clarke

The Ladies of Grace Adieu: https://www.librarything.com/work/1363050/t/The-Ladies-of-Grace-Adieu-and-Other-Stories Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell (novel): https://www.librarything.com/work/1060/t/Jonathan-Strange-Mr-Norrell Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell (TV show): https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/62717-jonathan-strange-mr-norrell

In this episode, The Devil's Librarian's go to purgatory.

Transcript (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep11.pdf

Book: https://www.librarything.com/work/35595680/t/A-Blackened-Heart-A-Blackened-Soul

In this bonus episode, Ligeia and Leraje take a Ligotti break (but don't worry, we will get back to him!) and talk about 3 stories from Susanna Clarke's short story collection, The Ladies of Grace Adieu.

Transcript (PDF) - https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep10-5.pdf

The Ladies of Grace Adieu - https://www.librarything.com/work/1363050/t/The-Ladies-of-Grace-Adieu-and-Other-Stories

Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell (novel) - https://www.librarything.com/work/1060/t/Jonathan-Strange-Mr-Norrell

Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell (TV show) - https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/62717-jonathan-strange-mr-norrell

In this episode, Lithos, Pike, Ligeia and Leraje talk about Lithos' choice 'Play Nice' by Rachel Harrison - another episode with mixed opinions!

Transcript (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep10.pdf

Play Nice: https://www.librarything.com/work/33411221/t/Play-Nice

Another episode rescued from pre-Devil's Library time, Leraje's audio quality is not great due to a misconfigured mic. In this episode Ligeia and Leraje talked about The Exorcist, how it compared to the arguably more famous movie and what we took from it as a novel.

Transcript (PDF): https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep9-6.pdf

The Exorcist (novel): https://www.librarything.com/work/38484/t/The-Exorcist

The Exorcist (movie): https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9552-the-exorcist

Check out our sister podcast Devil's Discourse.

In January of 2025, on a different podcast, Ligeia and Leraje started doing episodes about books and reading. The original intent was to keep them short - but they soon got long! In the summer of '25, we started The Devil's Library but we thought it was a shame we had left the older episodes behind and so here they are. Be warned - the audio quality is dodgy in places!

In this short episode we talk about Steven Peck's short but impactful book A Short Stay In Hell.

Transcript: https://devilslibrary.org/t/ep9-5.pdf

A Short Stay In Hell: https://www.librarything.com/work/12411595/t/A-Short-Stay-in-Hell

The Library of Babel: https://www.librarything.com/work/22395084/t/The-Library-of-Babel-%5Bshort-story%5D

House of Leaves: https://www.librarything.com/work/1488/t/House-of-Leaves

The Backrooms: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVAh-MgDVqvDUEq6qDXqORBioE4Yhol_z

Check out our sister podcast, Devil's Discourse: https://devils-discourse.podbean.com