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We’re back and we’re still under lockdown. Like the rest of you, we’re turning to books, films, podcasts and other media to take us beyond these four walls, if only mentally. We thought it might be fun to share some recommendations with you, hence this series of special episodes.

These lockdown episodes are also a way of thanking our Patreon backers for sticking with us in these difficult times. We’re releasing them on the off-weeks between normal episodes. We hope they can provide some distraction from, well, everything.

If you would like to gain access to these special episodes, simply back us on Patreon at any level. We will continue to release our standard episodes every fortnight as usual.

If you are already a backer, you will find a post in your Patreon feed with a download link, and the episode will appear in our special Patreon RSS feed.

In this episode, we discuss a few horror or weird fiction books we’ve read recently. As ever, we also offer our thoughts about how they might inspire games.

Things we mention in this episode include:

Arkham House
Tartarus Press
Valancourt Books
Paperbacks From Hell by Grady Hendrix
John Brosnan
Slimer by Harry Adam Knight (1983)
The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight (1985)
Proteus (1995)
The Fog by James Herbert (1975)
The Dark by James Herbert (1980)
Shrine by James Herbert (1983)
Carnivàle
James Herbert
The Rats by James Herbert (1974)
The Survivor by James Herbert (1976)
The Jonah by James Herbert (1981)
Fluke by James Herbert (1977)
The Magic Cottage by James Herbert (1986)
Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch
Project Gutenberg
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Our episode on subterranean spaces in Call of Cthulhu
Vril
Theosophy
The Time Machine by HG Wells
“Oh! You Pretty Things” by David Bowie
Bovril

We’re back and we’re keeping ourselves busy while quarantined. This largely involves catching up with books, films, television, and other inspirational media. It was either that or necromancy, and books smell nicer.

So we thought we’d help keep you entertained at the same time. This is the first of a limited run of special lockdown episodes for our Patreon backers. We’re releasing them on the off-weeks, between normal episodes, where they will lurk like the entities that live in the spaces between spaces. The specials are less likely to eat you, however. We hope.

If you would like to gain access to these special episodes, simply back us on Patreon at any level. We will continue to release our standard episodes every fortnight as usual.

If you are a backer, you will find a post in your Patreon feed with a download link, and the episode will appear in the Patreon RSS feed.

In this episode, we discuss a few horror films we’ve seen recently. As ever, we also offer our thoughts about how they might inspire games.

The particular films we discuss are:

The Lighthouse (2019)
The Room (2019)
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012)
Color Out of Space (2020)

We also mention the Tear Them Apart podcast’s lively dissection of Color Out of Space. Highly recommended if you want to hear a much less positive take than ours.