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The Dark Crusade
by Jordan Douglas Smith
A podcast dedicated to the works of horror/fantasy writer, editor, and publisher Karl Edward Wagner.
Episodes
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FROM THE VAULT: Episode 3.6 ‘Mirage’ — “It’s Not About Vampires”
“Mirage”First Appearance: Death Angel’s Shadow, Warner Paperback Library, 1973Translations: “Miraggio” (1992) Italian (EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS!) I am back with another sampling FROM THE VAULT! This is an episode Jonathan and I recorded around two years ago that never saw the light of day. It is...
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Episode 3.5 ‘Cold Light’ — “Showdown at the Sebbei Corral” with special guest Oliver Brackenbury
Cold LightFirst Appearance: Death Angel’s Shadow, Warner Paperback Library, 1973Translations: German (1979) Italian (1992)(Warning: Sexual assault and suicide are discussed in this episode.) In this episode, we continued our Dark Crusade through Death Angel’s Shadow with the Kane story “Cold...
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Episode 3.4 ‘Reflections for the Winter of My Soul’ — “The Beast Must Die” with special guest Phil Gelatt
Reflections for the Winter of My SoulFirst Appearance: Death Angel’s Shadow, Warner Paperback Library, 1973Translations: German (1979) Italian (1992) (EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS!) It has been a long time coming, and it is good to be back. This episode is from the vaults, recorded over a year ago!...
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Episode 3.3 ‘Dark Crusade’ — Part 2 — “Joyously They March to Their Deaths”
Back in the saddle again! We’re offering you the conclusion of our coverage of Dark Crusade. Dear listeners, it pains me that I sat on the raw audio of this episode for roughly two months before I had a chance to sit down and assemble everything. Needless to say, we are all doing our best …...
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Episode 3.2 ‘Dark Crusade’ — Part 1 — These Vibes are Bad
First published: 1976 Warner Books (“In the Lair of Yslsl” first published in Midnight Sun 1, 1974 edited by Gary Hoppenstand) Nominated: 1977 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel This month we are bringing you Part 1 of our coverage of Karl Edward Wagner’s Kane novel Dark Crusade. I recently read...
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Episode 3.1 ‘Raven’s Eyrie’ — Gothic by the Numbers
Raven’s EyrieFirst Appearance: Chacal #2, Spring 1977 eds. Pat Cadigan and Arnie Fenner (Warning: Sexual Assault is discussed in this episode) We are back for season three of The Dark Crusade podcast. Once again I’ll be joined by Jonathan Gelatt as co-host as we delve into the second third of…
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NecronomiCon Guest of Honor Interview: Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle is the author of seven works of fiction and one comic book. His most recent novel, The Changeling, received the World Fantasy Award, the British World Fantasy Award and the Dragon Award for Best Horror novel, among others. His novella, The Ballad of Black Tom, won the Shirley…
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NecronomiCon Guest of Honor Interview: Molly Tanzer
Molly Tanzer Molly Tanzer is the author of Creatures of Will and Temper, Creatures of Want and Ruin, and the forthcoming Creatures of Charm and Hunger. She is also the author of the weird western Vermilion, which was an io9 and NPR “Best Book” of 2015, and the British Fantasy Award-nominated...
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NecronomiCon Guest of Honor Interview: Peter Cannon
Peter Cannon is the author of H. P. Lovecraft, a volume in Twayne’s U.S. Authors Series; Sunset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft, an essay collection;The Chronology out of Time: Dates in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft; and Long Memories: Recollections of Frank Belknap Long, a memoir. He’s the editor…
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NecronomiCon Guest of Honor Interview: Sonya Taaffe
Sonya Taaffe reads dead languages and tells living stories. Her short fiction and poetry have been collected most recently in Forget the Sleepless Shores (Lethe Press) and previously in Singing Innocence and Experience, Postcards from the Province of Hyphens, A Mayse-Bikhl, and Ghost Signs. She...
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NecronomiCon Guest of Honor Interview: Kenneth Hite
Kenneth Hite has written or designed 100+ tabletop roleplaying games and supplements, including GURPS Horror,Call of Cthulhu d20, Trail of Cthulhu, Bookhounds of London, the Delta Green RPG, The Fall of DELTA GREEN, The Dracula Dossier, Night’s Black Agents, and Vampire: the Masquerade 5th…
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NecronomiCon Guest of Honor Interview: Paul Tremblay
Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book Awards and is the author of The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His short story collection…
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Episode 2.8 ‘The Treasure of Lynortis’ & ‘Lynortis Reprise’ -Development of a Storyteller
The Treasure of Lynortis Originally Written: 1961 Originally Published: Kadath V. 2 #2/3 Fall 1984 ed. Francesco Cova Lynortis Reprise Originally Written: 1974 Originally Published: Midnight Sun, 1974 ed. Gary Hoppenstand Thus ends our season of Kane. But fret not dear listeners, Jonathan and I...
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Episode 2.7 ‘Misericorde’ – The Kingdom is Dying
Misericorde Originally Published: Sorcerer’s Apprentice #17 1983, edited by Liz Danforth “Kane. The name is familiar, chilling, timeless. Karl Edward Wagner’s fell hero walks again, and leaves no promised work undone, to the undoing of others. If this is your introduction to Kane, settle in for…
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Episode 2.6 ‘Sing a Last Song of Valdese’ – Fantasy Murder Ballads 101
Sing a Last Song of Valdese Originally Published: Chacal #1, Winter, 1976, edited by Byron L. Roark and Arnie Fenner ‘Sing a Last Song of Valdese’ is Karl Edward Wagner’s fantasy take on the tradition of the murder ballad. We covered his earlier ode to the murder ballad in episode 2 and 3 where…
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Episode 2.5 ‘The Dark Muse’ – You say O-pee-ros I say O-pie-ros.
The Dark Muse Originally published: Midnight Sun, Summer-Fall 1975, edited by Gary Hoppenstand Just made it back in time from summer vacation to get this episode in under the wire. I wanted to share this blurb from Gary Hoppenstand from the inside cover of Midnight Sun V. 1 N. 2 “Midnight Sun is…
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Episode 2.4 ‘Bloodstone’ Part 2 – Chapter XV: Lord of Bloodstone thru Epilogue
Bloodstone Originally Published: 1975 by Warner Paperback Library Lo! Now arrives the conclusion of our coverage of Karl Edward Wagner’s Bloodstone. Such a large undertaking to try and tackle a novel in only two episodes. I feel like so many topics and themes hit the cutting room floor. One such...
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Episode 2.3 ‘Bloodstone’ Part 1 – Prologue thru Chapter XIV: Flight into Nightmare
Bloodstone Originally Published: 1975 by Warner Paperback Library Excited to be covering the novel that got me hooked on Wagner. A Special thank you to the John Hay Library and Brown University for allowing me access to the original Bloodstone manuscript and the ur-text Wagner wrote as a high...
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Episode 2.2 ‘Two Suns Setting’- Hear me, Sabertooth!
Two Suns Setting Originally published: Fantastic, May 1976 edited by Ted White Awards: Won 1977 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story, Nominated for 1977 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction Happy to be back with another Kane episode, and such a great story too. In my recent library...
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Episode 2.1 ‘Undertow’-Never Bring your Demon to a Sword Fight
Undertow Originally published: Whispers #10, August 1977, edited by Stuart David Schiff Awards: Nominated for 1979 Balrog for short fiction I’m very excited to be starting off a new season of The Dark Crusade especially a season that is focused on Kane. This season I’m joined by comic writer...
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Kane is coming!
Kane is coming! I’m excited to announce Season 2 of The Dark Crusade will be starting next week- Thursday, July 5th, 2018. The entire season will be dedicated to Karl Edward Wagner’s dark fantasy character Kane. With the new season comes a new co-host. I’ll be joined by comic book writer and…
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Episode 9 ‘Where the Summer Ends’-A Thousand Stealthy Assassins w/ guests Michael Bukowski and Tim Mucci
Where the Summer Ends Originally Published: Dark Forces, August 1980, edited by Kirby McCauley Drink Pairing: Monkey Shoulder Batch 27 and Stewart’s Root Beer I was honored having two amazing guests this week. Tim Mucci, who was in Episode 7 discussing River of Night’s Dreaming, and Michael...
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Bonus Episode #5: Author Interview with Victoria Dalpe
Victoria Dalpe stuck around after recording and we got a chance to talk about her recently published modern-gothic vampire novel Parasite Life published by ChiZine. Pick it up here. It’s a perfect stocking stuffer or present for that horror-loving friend. For those of you in the Providence, Rhode...
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Episode 8 ‘Beyond Any Measure’-Dr. Ingmar Magnus I presume
Beyond Any Measure Originally Published: Whispers #15-16, March 1982 edited by Stuart David Schiff Awards: Won 1983 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella Whiskey Pairing: High West Double Rye Special thanks for this episode to Lincoln Brown for helping with the afterward by Wagner in the Scream...
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Bonus Episode #4: Year’s Best Horror 8-Week 4
A Fly One By Steve Sneyd Needle Song by Charles L. Grant All the Birds Come Home to Roost by Harlan Ellison The Devil Behind You by Richard A. Moore We’ll be back in two weeks with Wagner’s story Beyond Any Measure. The Dark Crusade is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode…
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Episode 7 ‘The River of Night’s Dreaming’-Camilla, I mean Cassilda?
WARNING: EPISODE CONTAINS CONTENT RELATED TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE The River of Night’s Dreaming Originally published: Whispers III edited by Stuart David Schiff (1983) Awards: Nominated for 1982 Balrog for Short Fiction, Nominated 1982 World Fantasy for Best Novella Whiskey Pairing: Kings County...
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Bonus Episode #3: Year’s Best Horror 8-Week 3
Sheets by Alan Ryan Billy Wolfe’s Riding Spirit by Kevin A. Lyons Lex Talionis by Russell Kirk Entombed by Robert Keefe The Dark Crusade is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://thedarkcrusade.wordpress.com/
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Bonus Episode #2: Year’s Best Horror-Week 2
The Baby-Sitter by Davis Grubb The Well at the Half Cat by John Tibbetts My Beautiful Darkling by Eddy C. Bertin A Serious Call by George Hay The Dark Crusade is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://thedarkcrusade.wordpress.com/
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Bonus Episode #1: Year’s Best Horror 8-Week 1
If you missed my blog entries here they are as a bonus episode! Enjoy. Introduction: Access to Horror by Karl Edward Wagner The Dead Line by Dennis Etchison To Wake the Dead by Ramsey Campbell In the Fourth Year of the War by Harlan Ellison From the Lower Deep by Hugh B. Cave The Dark Crusade is...
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Episode 6 ‘The Fourth Seal’- And Behold A Pale Horse
Link to the blog entry where John Mayer talks about Wagner’s suspension from medical school. here Link to ‘The Last Interview’ in Dark Troubador Magazine here Though I called it the last interview in the episode it is only one of the last. The last interview was done by Bradley H. Sinor for…
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Episode 5 ‘.220 Swift’ Part 2 – Machen to Howard to Wagner
For an in depth reading of Howard’s Men of the Shadows and the pictish connection to Machen’s work I suggest Nameless Tribes: Robert E. Howard’s Anthropological World-Building in “Men of the Shadows” by Jeffrey Shanks in Skelos 1 : The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy. As a further...
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Episode 4 ‘.220 Swift’ Part 1- The Mines of the Ancients
This story truly has it all, action, humor, romance, mystery, horror, and myth. I think the first time I read this story all the moving parts went over my head and on re-examination I decided this is one bad-ass yarn. The heart of this tale to me is greed. It’s the pursuit of gold and … Continue...
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Episode 3 ‘In the Pines’ Part 2-And I Shiver When the Wind Blows Cold
Welcome to the third episode of The Dark Crusade where we finish up our coverage of ‘In the Pines’. I’m so glad to have discovered the writing of Oliver Onions through this story. The parallels between ‘The Beckoning Fair One’ and ‘In the Pines’ are strong but Wagner has really inserted his own...
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Episode 2 ‘In the Pines’ Part 1-Where the Sun Never Shines
Welcome to the second episode of The Dark Crusade. This week we’re featuring ‘In the Pines’ which we split into two episodes. I have to say this is probably one of my favorite Wagner tales. To the left is the the cover for the first appearance of this story in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science…
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Episode 1 ‘Sticks’-A Weird and Wild Country
Here it is our first episode! We lay out what we hope to accomplish, our plans for the first season, as well as a discussion of Wagner’s BFA winning short story ‘Sticks’. A special thank you to our reader Malcolm Mills and to the artist Andrea Sparacio for the beautiful portrait of Wagner. Check...
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A podcast dedicated to the works of horror/fantasy writer, editor, and publisher Karl Edward Wagner.
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