All Episodes

What We Do for Country: "War," by Luigi Pirandello

Death, Daughters and Bugs Bunny: The Sixth Fragment of the Canterbury Tales

Ghosts of the Middle Class: "A Strange Christmas Game," by Charlotte Riddell

Bedrot and the Rest Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Nobody Loves Edwardian Farce Anymore: P.G. Wodehouse with Zach Weinersmith

Kid Lit and Preparing to Die: John Newbury's "The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes"

Christmas Pride in July: "My Visitation," by Rose Terry

"His America," by Susan Glaspell

More Marriage, More Problems: The Fifth Fragment of the Canterbury Tales

Extravagant Morals & Hat Bribery: Katherine Mansfield's "The Garden Party"

Vintage Smut With Things to Say: Eliza Haywood's "Fantomina," with Kathleen Lubey

100 Years of Fiction: Happy Birthday to the New Yorker!

Imaginary Mammal Algorithms: Tove Jansson's "The Storm" and "The Squirrel"

Creepy Janitors & Perfect Apartments: Richard Matheson's "Shipshape Home"

We're All Crazy Here: Shirley Jackon's "Colloquy"

Male Friendship & Cornish Shipwrecks: "The Roll Call of the Reef," with Jake Phillips

Didn't Read It Throwback: Jane Rice's "The Refugee"

Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep," Part Two!

Dizzy Dames & Private Eyes: Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep," Pt 1

From Victoriana to Tech Billionaires: Nosferatu, Nosferatu, and Dracula

Part Two: Solzhenitsyn, the American Right Wing, & Censorship: "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," with Goad Gatsby

Who Doesn't Love a Gulag? "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," with Goad Gatsby

A Smutty Valentine's Day Spectacular: Anne Rice's "Sleeping Beauty" Series

Farmers and Forgotten Radicals: Susan Glaspell's "Pollen," with Cat Baab

Tattoos, Starving Artists, and Being Eaten by the Rich: Roald Dahl's "Skin"

True Crime and Spouse Disposal: Anthony Shaffer's "Murderer"

Part Two - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Chivalry and Right-Wing Propaganda

Mud, Chivalry, and A24: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on Page & Screen

They Can't All Be Classics: Smilin' Jack and the Daredevil Girl Pilot

Another Holiday Haunt: "A Christmas Meeting," by Rosemary Timperley

Holiday Haunt: "The Man Who Came Back," by Margery Lawrence

Going on Strike for Christmas: Maeve Binchy's "This Year It Will Be Different."

Daddy Issues and Festive Shafts: L.P. Hartley's "Someone in the Lift"

Part Two! Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey": A Little Jane in These Hard Times

A Bit of Escapism, As A Treat: Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey"

"F*ck Your Truth": Farley Mowat, Ironic Wolf T-Shirts, and Defining Nonfiction

Mawwiage Story: The Fourth Fragment of "The Canterbury Tales"

The Nerd and the Succubus: "Amore Dure: Passages from the Diary of Spiridion Trepka," by Vernon Lee

Italian Witchcraft and a Mad Madonna: Alicia Ramsey's "A Modern Circe"

Uterine Fury and Bloodlust: "The White Maniac," by Mary Helene Fortune

Undead Trad Wives: "The Nature of the Evidence," by May Sinclair

Volume Three - Mary Shelley's Prophetic Apocalypse: "The Last Man."

Volume Two - Hamster Wheel of Doom: Mary Shelley's "The Last Man"

Volume One - From Frankenstein to the End of the World: Mary Shelley's "The Last Man"

Pt 2! Be Gay Do Crime: The Crossdressing Jacobean Antics of "The Roaring Girl"

Be Gay Do Crime: The Crossdressing Jacobean Antics of "The Roaring Girl" - Part One

Cruising in the Catacombs: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"

A Hauntingly Good Special: Plot Me Baby One More Time, Summer Edition

Blackmail, Gay Besties, and Too Much Hand Licking: The Triumphant Conclusion of Georgette Heyer's "Regency Buck"

Attempted Himbo Murder, Carriage Scandal, and More Bridgerton Inspiration: Georgette Heyer's "Regency Buck," Part Two

The Birth of Bridgerton and So Much Horse Girl Content: Georgette Heyer's "Regency Buck"

Double Lives and Color Codes: Oscar Wilde's "The Sphinx Without a Secret"

Stop Eating the Spinsters: Mary Wilkins Freeman's "Luella Miller"

Old Man Besties & Metaphorical Boots: "Waiting for Godot," by Samuel Beckett

Queer Prince Charming, Decadence, and the End of the World: "Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned"

Fart division, Shallow Hal, and Chaucer: the Third Fragment of "The Canterbury Tales"

Patricia Highsmith Was a Terrible Dinner Guest: "Where the Action Is" and Art vs. Artist

Edith Wharton's "Kerfol": Gals, Ghosts, & Very Good Boys

Plant Daddies, Empire, and H.G. Wells: "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid"

Sad Art Boys and the Housewives Who Love Them: Thomas Hardy's "An Imaginative Woman."

More Mules More Problems: "The Unvanquished," Part Two

Lost Causes and Stolen Mules: William Faulkner's "The Unvanquished," with Maddie Wood - Part One

Raising the Stakes with Your Wine Bros: Roald Dahl's "Taste," with Michael Smith

Leigh is #TeamKitty: Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier," Part Two

Crimes Against Fashion AND Humanity: Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier" - Part One

World War One Propaganda and the Original Main Character Girlie: Arthur Machen's "The Bowmen."

Pay Us in Wine: The First Fragment of the Canterbury Tales, with Toni DiNardo

Shameless Filler - Plot Me Baby One More Time

Cursed Books and Bad Architecture: Robert W. Chambers' "The King in Yellow," with Ty Phelps

James Joyce's "Ulysses," with Marilyn Drew Necci - Part Two

James Joyce's "Ulysses," with Marilyn Drew Necci - Part One

"How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery" - Holiday Horror Story Theater

Holiday Horror Story Theater - "Lucky's Grove"

Part Two! Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" on Page vs. Screen

Muppets and Lobsters: Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" on Page vs. Screen

War Tourists & Werewolves: Jane Rice's "The Refugee," with William Albritton

Part Two: Domestic Dystopias & Interwar Eugenics: Rose Macaulay's "What Not"

Domestic Dystopias & the Ministry of Brains: Rose Macaulay's "What Not."

Happy Halloween!

Surely Not, "Shirley": Shirley Jackson's Life & the Lies We Tell About It

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," with Kayleigh Hughes

Back from the grave, it's Carmilla Part Two!

They Were Vampire Roommates: Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla"

That. Girl. Is. Poiiiisoooooon: Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter.”

The Metamorphosis Part Two: Now With More Bug!

Bug in the Bed: Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," Part One

The Ones Who Post About Omelas

The Faust and the Furious: Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus," Part Two

Condemn Me, Daddy: Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus"