Episodes

  • The Dark Descent – “A Little Something for Us Tempunauts” by Philip K. Dick

    The Dark Descent – “A Little Something for Us Tempunauts” by Philip K. Dick
    Apr 16 2024
    Aaaaaaaand, we’re done! It’s “A Little Something For Us Tempunauts” by Philip K. Dick and “The Dark Descent” is over! PARTY HORN NOISE!
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  • The Dark Descent – “The Hospice” by Robert Aickman

    The Dark Descent – “The Hospice” by Robert Aickman
    Apr 9 2024
    WE’RE SO CLOSE TO THE END! It’s the penultimate “Dark Descent” story and it’s a whopper! “The Hospice” is quintessential Robert Aickman: it’s creepy, offbeat, weird, strange, chilling and inexplicable. We really loved it and now… only one story to go!
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  • The Dark Descent – “The Asian Shore” by Thomas M. Disch

    The Dark Descent – “The Asian Shore” by Thomas M. Disch
    Mar 30 2024
    What a mystery this story is! Willow isn’t sure if she likes it, or if it even qualifies as horror. I’m enamored of it, but can’t really decide what it’s about! PERFECT! It’s “The Asian Shore” by Thomas M. Disch!
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  • The Dark Descent – “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood

    The Dark Descent – “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood
    Mar 23 2024
    This week, it’s one of the most terrifying and terribly intimate stories we’ve yet covered. The cosmic horror of “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood!
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  • The Dark Descent – “Afterward” by Edith Wharton

    The Dark Descent – “Afterward” by Edith Wharton
    Mar 16 2024
    This week, Willow and I take a look at the creepy effects of UNFETTERED CAPITALISM with Edith Wharton’s “Afterward!”
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  • The Dark Descent – “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce

    The Dark Descent – “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce
    Feb 19 2024
    Whaddaya get when you take a dead guy, an invisible monster and a heaping dose of post-Civil War Traumatic Stress Disorder? “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce! The missingest author in the history of Weird Fiction!
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  • The Dark Descent – “The Beautiful Stranger” by Shirley Jackson

    The Dark Descent – “The Beautiful Stranger” by Shirley Jackson
    Jan 28 2024
    This week, Willow and Phil take a quick look at a quick story: “The Beautiful Stranger” by Shirley Jackson. We throw out a lot of theories as to the actual nature of this story, but the one thing we can agree on? That stranger is beautiful.
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  • The Dark Descent – “What Was It?” by Fitz-James O’Brien

    The Dark Descent – “What Was It?” by Fitz-James O’Brien
    Jan 6 2024
    Sometimes, you don’t even need to ask. “What Was It?” by Fitz-James O’Brien!
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