This short off-format episode is intended as a sort of fireside reading to beenjoyed by our overfull American listeners as they struggle to digest their Thanksgiving dinners. Its from the late 1st-

Our survey of villainous Victorian women examines six individuals associated with some of the most ghastly crimes of the era, many directed against children (and for this reason possibly a bit of a ro

During the Satanic Panic, the notion of Halloween as a Satanic High Holy Day came to prominence, but the elements necessary to this mythology were set in place much earlier. This episode focuses parti

A short and somewhat extra episode for the Halloween season, a presentation of the 1910 horror story by Ambrose Bierce, A Vine on a House. Also, some show updates. Well have a full episode, Who Pu

Spirits of the corn (grain) fields from the United Kingdom to Russia have been imagined as embodiments of the harvest and guardians of the fields, sometimes evolving into fantastically cruel fear-figu

The Master of the Wolves is a supernatural figure central to Transylvanias (modern Romanias) voluminous body of wolf lore, a mythology that extends more broadly into Balkan regions once occupied, li

As a summer intermezzo Bone and Sickle is offering three episodes this August in our Marvelous and Rare: Antiquarian Circle format. These are shorter episodes normally enjoyed once a month by our

As a summer intermezzo Bone and Sickle is offering three episodes this August in our Marvelous and Rare: Antiquarian Circle format. These are shorter episodes normally enjoyed once a month by our

As a summer intermezzo Bone and Sickle is offering three episodes this August in our Marvelous and Rare: Antiquarian Circle format. These are shorter episodes normally enjoyed once a month by our

Dark fairy tale elements including floating heads and bags of bones are featured in a familyof talesclassified under the Aarne-Thompson system asType 480, Kind and Unkind Girls. Imaginative puni