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Steampunk romance author (and writing friend) Anne Renwick joined me to talk about Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, how it relates to her work in progress, and what we did and didn’t remember about this book. We also...

Thumper Forge, author of the newly released The Chaos Apple, joined me to talk about this romp of a novel by Raymond Buckland, better known for his books on witchcraft and Wicca. We cover a lot of ground including representation of witchcraft, new-paganism, and other...

A note that the audio for this episode isn’t the best it could be. We had a few internet connectivity issues and Julian, our editor, did his best with what I gave him. Folkrist and author Mark Norman of The Folklore Podcast joined me this month to talk about reading...

Judika Illes joined me this week to discuss the classic Russian novel The Master and Margarita in all its weird and wonderful glory. We also covered growing up in a house of books that were never off limits, publishing, divination, what she’s up to these days and...

This month author and professional tarot reader Cassandra Snow joins me to discuss Rachel Pollack’s classic Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. While it’s been called the tarot bible, it does have some detractors. Cassandra and I discuss the impact the book and Pollack...

This month romance author Katta Kis joined me to chat about the controversial classic, The Satanic Witch, originally published as The Compleat Witch or What to do When Virtue Fails. I’m not sure what either of us really expected but I think we both left feeling like...

This month, author and tarot deck creator Charles Harrington joined me to discuss The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley. There’s a lot of ground to cover with a book this expansive, but we hit on what fiction gets right and wrong about reading the future, thoughts...