The Raconteur Roundtable

Join us this week as we talk with filmmaker Jesse Thomas Cook about his body of work, including such films as Monster Brawl and Septic Man. (Originally presented May 24, 2016.)

Join us this week as we talk with comics legend Dave Elliot, writer, artist, publisher. We discuss some of his more recent work, including The Weirding Willows and The Odyssey, and our guest makes some amazing surprise announcements regarding some innovative ideas that may change the industry! (Originally presented May 17, 2016.)

Join us this week as the TVCU Crew chat with Sam Gafford, theworld's foremost expert on William Hope Hodgson. We discuss the influences Hodgson has had on the literary world, Lovecraft's own love affair with Hodson's work, how Hodgson's Carnacki may have influenced modern occult detectives, the time Hodgson took on Houdini and how it changed both their lives, the modern resurgence of Hodgson in popular culture, and so much more. (Originally presented May 10, 2016.)

Join us this week as the TVCU Crew chat with award nominated author Hannah Lackoff. We discuss her large body of work, especially her more recent releases, The Speckled Band and After the World Ended. We also chat with her about the elements of her stories and the story writing process. The discussion goes deep into fairy tales, the symbolism of mirrors, what is gothic feminism, twins, the naming of characters, what happens to characters after a story ends, the beauty of confusion, taking a predictable trope and taking it on a wild tangent, and so much more. (Originally presented May 3, 2016.)

Join the TVCU Crew and M.H. Norris, the mystery maven and sci-fi sorceress, as we chat with Phil Hornshaw & Nick Hurwitch of QUAN+UM, authors of the time travel guide, So You Created a Wormhole, and The Space Hero's Guide to Glory: How to Get Off Your Podunk Planet and Master the Final Frontier. We talk to them a lot about the perils and perplexities of time travel using films and television shows to illustrate the theories of time travel. (Originally presented April 19, 2016.)

Join us this week as we chat with author Tim Lebbon. We discuss his body of work, including his licensed work, such as Cabin in the Woods, Hellboy, Star Wars, Alien, and Predator, and his original universe stories, such as Pay the Ghost (now a movie with Nicolas Cage), The Silence, The Hunt, and Borrowed Time.

Join us this week as we chat with author Peter Rawlik. We discuss his body of work, including Reanimators, the Weird Company, and his upcoming Reanimatrix. Peter reveals the origin and evolution of his stories and characters. And we dive into in-depth discussion about Lovecraft, the characters, the stories, the writers who have carried on his work, the television shows that reference his work, the movies that adapt his work, and the crossovers that attempt to combine Lovecraft's world with other series, with varying success. (Originally presented, April 12 2016.)

Join us this week as we chat with author, poet, musician and podcaster Murray Ewing. We talk Alice in Wonderland, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, and self-help books for monsters. (Originally presented April 5, 2016.)

Join us this week as the TVCU Crew talks with the one man show, comic writer, artist, and publisher Jerre Winsborrow. We chat with the creator about his interconnected works from Pyramid Graphic Novels, including Natalia Hyde, Azeneth, Night War, and SEAK the bounty hunter, featuring Jekylls, Hydes, Draculas, Frankensteins, monsters, vampires, werewolves, vigilantes, super-villains, women who kick ass, and so much more. (Originally presented March 29, 2016.)

Join us this week as the TVCU Crew talk about shared realities. We cover a wide range of areas, including Universal Horror, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Batman v. Superman, the evolution of the DC and Marvel shared universes, why reboots screw things up, and why monsters can't be heroes. (Originally presented March 22, 2016.)