It’s Halloween! So I shamelessly discuss things I love about it.

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In this episode, we join the horde and go walking with the most popular—and perhaps most relevant—monster of our era. It’s time for zombies.

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In this episode, we discuss the uncanny tradition of the house as monster.

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The most requested episode finally comes a-knocking, and moaning, and rattling chains. It’s time to talk about ghosts.

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From the Mines of Moria, to the sewers of New York City, to the factories of the year A.D. 802,701, there’s a world going on underground.

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From primordial chaos to the twilight of the gods, here be dragons.

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They’re wild, widespread, and weirder than you think. In this episode, I talk werewolves with Pinckney Benedict, author of, among many other things, one of the best modern werewolf stories, “The Beginnings of Sorrow.”

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The many iterations of Dracula have captivated us for generations, yet each Dracula has been markedly different from the others. In this episode, we welcome them across the threshold.

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Witches have been with us throughout time, across the world, across cultures, and in many ways are with us still. Join me in meeting some of them, if you dare.

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Literature is full of monsters, and always has been. But who are these monsters, and what do they mean, and why do they matter? We’ll answer those questions with a chronological survey in three episodes. In this episode, we go from Cthulhu to Hellboy.

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