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Weird Studies — 236 episodes

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Episode 215 – Where No One Can Hear You Scream: On Ridley Scott's 'Alien'

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Episode 214 – Fortune's Fools: On Gordon White's Philosophy of Fortune-Telling

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Episode 213 – Comics, Surf Rock, and the Weirdness of Time: On Tom Manning's 'Eric'

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Episode 212 – Beyond Music and Back Again: On Glenn Gould

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Episode 211 – You've Always Been the Caretaker: On Kubrick's 'The Shining'

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Special Episode: M.C. Richards's "Wrestling with the Daimonic," read by Phil Ford
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Episode 210 – Angels & Daimons, with Cristina Campo and M.C. Richards

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Episode 209 – At Home in the Labyrinth, with Murakami and Borges

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Episode 208 – Unbridled Creation: On Kenneth Batcheldor's Theory of the Paranormal

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Episode 207 – Magic Mirror: On J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Fellowship of the Ring'

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Episode 206 – On Ken Russell's 'Altered States': Live at Indiana University Bloomington

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Episode 205 – Discipline and Delight: On the Hierophant Card in the Tarot

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Episode 204 – The Perilous Realm: J.R.R. Tolkien's 'On Fairy Stories'

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Holiday Bonus: Scavengers in the Ruins of Heaven

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Episode 203 – Distant Early Warnings: A Return to Marshall McLuhan's 'Book of Probes'

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Episode 202 – The Human is Two: On 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'

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Episode 201 – On James Whale's 'Frankenstein' and 'Bride of Frankenstein,' with Peter Bebergal

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Halloween Special: A Reading of Arthur Machen's "The White People"
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Episode 200 – On 'The Call of Cthulhu'

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Episode 199 – On Michael Jackson, with Shannon Taggart

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Episode 198 – Breaking the Frame: On the High Priestess in the Tarot

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Episode 197 - Sounding the Otherworld: On Bryn Chainey's 'Rabbit Trap'

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Mid-Break Bonus: On Trust

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Episode 196 – Lost and Never Found: On 'The Blair Witch Project'

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Episode 195 – On John Keel: Live at the Lily Dale Symposium, with Erik Davis

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Episode 194: Animal Songs, with Meredith Michael
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Episode 193: On Conversion, or Arousing the Bodhi-Mind

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Episode 192 - A Dream of Landscape: On Walking

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Special Episode: Theory, Philosophy, and Uranus

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Special Episode: Myth, History, and Form

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Episode 191 — The Acid Queen, with Susannah Cahalan
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Episode 190 – Here Be Shrubs: On Algernon Blackwood's 'The Willows'

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Episode 189: Care of the Dead, with Jacob G. Foster
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Episode 188: Pioneers of the Untimely: On the Hermit Card in the Tarot

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Episode 187: The Affirmation of Imagination: On John Crowley's 'Little, Big,' with Erik Davis

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Episode 186: Meeting at the Center: The Wedge, Part Two

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Episode 185: Intuition and Reality: The Wedge, Part One

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Special Release: Poltergeists, Fairies, Skeptics, and the Managerial Class

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Episode 184: On David Lynch

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Episode 183: On Hermann Hesse's 'Siddhartha'

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Episode 182: Providence of Evil: On Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu'

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Holiday Bonus: Waiting for the Next Sentence

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Episode 181: On 'The X Files,' with Meredith Michael

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Episode 180: The Player: On the Magician Card in the Tarot

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Episode 179: The Final Frontier, with Lionel Snell

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Episode 178: Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'

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Episode 177: Riddles in the Dark: On Fairy Tales, Interpretation, and 'Rapunzel'

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Episode 176: On Charles Burns' 'Black Hole' and the Medium of Comics

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Mid-Break Bonus: The Quiet Earth

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Episode 175: Don't Look Now: Live at Lily Dale

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Episode 174: Magick and Enlightenment, with Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford

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Episode 173: By Heart: On Memory, Poetry, and Form

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Episode 172: Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot

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Episode 171: The Beauty and the Horror

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Episode 170: Art is Another Word for Truth: On Orson Welles's 'F for Fake'

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Episode 169: On Free Expression

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Episode 168: Visions of the Wasteland: On George Miller's 'Mad Max' Films

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Episode 167: The Hand of Ithell, with Amy Hale

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Episode 166: Make Believe: On the Power of Pretentiousness

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Episode 165: Tatters of the King: On Robert Chambers' 'The King in Yellow'

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Episode 164: Towards a Weird Materialism: On Expressionism in Cinema

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Episode 163: The Source of All Abysses: On the Devil Card in the Tarot

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Episode 162: The Incarnation of Meaning: Greenwich Village After the War

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Episode 161: Scene of the Crime: On Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's 'From Hell'

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Mid-Hiatus Bonus: On Horror and the Retail Experience

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Episode 160: The Way of All Flesh: On John Carpenter's 'The Thing'

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Episode 159: Three Songs, with Meredith Michael

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Episode 158: As Above, So Below: On Plato's 'Timaeus'

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Episode 157: Long Live the New Flesh: On David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome'

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Episode 156: The Only Possible End: On Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'

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Episode 155: Dispatches From the Inside: On Planet Weird's 'The Unbinding'

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Episode 154: Into the Night Land, with Erik Davis

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Episode 153: Celestial Machine: On the Temperance Card in the Tarot

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Summer Bonus #2: Art and AI

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Summer Bonus: On Affectation, with a Special Announcement

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Episode 152: The Science of Things Spiritual: Live in Lily Dale

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Episode 151: The Real and the Possible: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, with Jacob G. Foster

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Episode 150: Sacramental Reality: On Arthur Machen's "A Fragment of Life"

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Episode 149: Song Swap: On Judee Sill's 'The Kiss' and Wilco's 'Jesus, Etc.'

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Episode 148: Mythos of the Moment: On 'Twin Peaks,' Season 3

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Episode 147: You Must Change Your Life

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Episode 146: An Air of Great Power: On the Chariot in the Tarot

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Episode 145: Waiting for the Miracle: On Vanessa Onwuemezi's "Dark Neighbourhood"

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Episode 144: On Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' and 'The Hellbound Heart,' with Conner Habib

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Episode 143: On UFOs

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Episode 142: The Music of the Spheres: On Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Last and First Men"

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Episode 141: Actual Magic: On Ramsey Dukes' SSOTBME

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Episode 140: That Ain't Plot: On Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away,' with Meredith Michael

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Episode 139: Sex, Money, and Power are YOURS with our SECRET Art-Power Formula!

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Episode 138: Yours and Yours Alone: On the Death Card in the Tarot

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The Weird Studies Christmas Special

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Episode 137: Brute Force: on Sunn O)))'s 'Life Metal'

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Episode 136: The Things That Were And Shall Be Again: On 'Evil Dead II'

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Episode 135: On 'The Secret Life of Puppets,' with Victoria Nelson

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Episode 134: On Federico Campagna's 'Technic and Magic'

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Episode 133: On Weirding, and the Virtues of Unknowing Everything

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Episode 132: Art Is an Alien Technology: Live at the Supernormal Festival

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Off-Week Bonus: On Worlds and Stories, with a Special Announcement

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Episode 131: Knocking on the Abyssal Door: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute

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Episode 130: Holiday Memories

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Episode 129: Luminous Miasma: On Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"

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Episode 128: Demon Workshop: On Victoria Nelson's 'Neighbor George'

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Episode 127: Leaving the Mechanical Dollhouse: On Abeba Birhane's "The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity"

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Episode 126: The Daemon Speaks, with Matt Cardin

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Episode 125: Strange Brews: Weird Studies Live at Illuminated Brew Works

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Episode 124: Dark Night Radio of the Soul, with Duncan Barford

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Episode 123: Off-Week Patreon Bonus: On Modern Miracles

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Episode 122: Spirals and Crooked Lines: On the Star Card in the Tarot

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Episode 121: Dream Theater: On 'Mandy' and 'The Band Wagon'

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Episode 120: On Radical Mystery

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Episode 119: Behind the Cosmic Curtain: On Stanislaw Lem's 'The New Cosmogony,' with Meredith Michael

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Episode 118: The Unseen and the Unnamed, with Meredith Michael

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Episode 117: Time is a Child at Play: On the Mystery of Games

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Episode 116: On 'Blade Runner'

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Episode 115: Transience & Immersion: On Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports'

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Episode 114: On the Wheel of Fortune, the Tenth Card of the Tarot

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Episode 113: Framing the Invisible, with Shannon Taggart

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Episode 112: Readings from the 'Book of Probes': The Mysticism of Marshall McLuhan

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Episode 111: What Is Best in Life: On "Conan the Barbarian"

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Episode 110: Monks of the Cultural Apocalypse: 'The Glass Bead Game,' Part Two

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Episode 109: Infinite Play: On 'The Glass Bead Game,' by Hermann Hesse

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Episode 108: On Skepticism and the Paranormal

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Episode 107: On Joy Williams' 'Breaking and Entering,' with Conner Habib

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Episode 106: The Wanderer: On Weird Studies

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Episode 105: Fire Walk with Tamler Sommers

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Episode 104: We'd Love to Turn You On: 'Sgt. Pepper' and the Beatles

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Episode 103: On the Tower, the Sixteenth Card of the Tarot

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Episode 102: On Pan, with Gyrus

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Episode 101: Our Fear of the Dark: On Tanizaki's 'In Praise of Shadows'

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Episode 100: The Price of Beauty is Horror: On the Films of John Carpenter

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Episode 99: Curing the Human Condition: On 'Wild Wild Country'

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Episode 98: Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica

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Episode 97: Art in the Age of Artifice

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Episode 96: Beautiful Beast: On Jean Cocteau's 'La Belle et la Bête'

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Episode 95: Demon Seed: On Doris Lessing's 'The Fifth Child'

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Episode 94: All is Mysterious: On the Moon Card in the Tarot

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Episode 93: Living and Dying in a Secular Age: On Charles Taylor and Disenchantment

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Episode 92: Glitch in the Matrix: A Conversation with Rodney Ascher

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Episode 91: On Susanna Clarke's 'Piranesi'

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Episode 90: 'The Owl in Daylight': On Philip K. Dick's Unwritten Masterpiece

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Episode 89: On Ishmael Reed's 'Mumbo Jumbo,' or, Why We Need More Magical Thinking

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Holiday Bonus: Magic, Madness, and Sadness

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Episode 88: On Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean's 'Mr Punch'

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Episode 87: Glyphs, Rifts, and Ecstasy: On Arthur Machen's Vision of Art

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Episode 86: On E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman," and Freud's Sequel to It

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Episode 85: On 'The Wicker Man'

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Episode 84: Mona Lisa Smile: On the Empress, the Third Card in the Tarot

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Episode 83: On David Lynch's 'Lost Highway'

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Episode 82: On The I Ching

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Episode 81: Gnostic Lit: On M. John Harrison's 'The Course of the Heart'

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Episode 80: The Pit and the Pyramid, or, How to Beat the Philosopher's Blues

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Episode 79: Love, Death, and the Dream Life

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Episode 78: On John Keel's 'The Mothman Prophecies'

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Episode 77: What a Fool Believes: On the Unnumbered Card in the Tarot

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Episode 76: Below the Abyss: On Bergson's Metaphysics

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Bonus: The Duke of Ellington
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Episode 75: Our Old Friend the Monolith: On Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'

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Episode 74: A Luminous Parasite: Jung on Art, Part Two

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Episode 73: Carl Jung and the Power of Art, Part One

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Episode 72: Morning of the Mutants: On the Castrati

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Episode 71: The Medium is the Message

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Episode 70: Masks All the Way Down, with James Curcio

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Episode 69: Special Episode: On Some Mental Effects of the Pandemic

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Weird Stories: "On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake" by William James
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Episode 68: On James Hillman's 'The Dream and the Underworld'

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Episode 67: Goblins, Goat-Gods and Gates: On 'Hellier'

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Episode 66: On Diviner's Time

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Episode 65: Touched by that Fire: On Visionary Literature, with B. W. Powe

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Episode 64: Dreams and Shadows: On Ursula Le Guin's 'A Wizard of Earthsea'

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Episode 63: Faculty X: On Colin Wilson's 'The Occult'

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Episode 62: It's Like 'The Shining', But With Nuns: On 'Black Narcissus'

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Episode 61: Evil and Ecstasy: On 'The Silence of the Lambs'

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Episode 60: Space is the Place: On Sun Ra, Gnosticism, and the Tarot

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Episode 59: Green Mountains Are Always Walking

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Episode 58: What Do Critics Do?

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Episode 57: Box of God(s): On 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

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Episode 56: On Jean Gebser, with Jeremy D. Johnson

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Episode 55: The Great Weird North: On Algernon Blackwood's 'The Wendigo'

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Episode 54: Lobsters, Pianos, and Hidden Gods

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Episode 53: Astral Jet Lag: On William Gibson's 'Pattern Recognition'

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Episode 52: On Beauty

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Episode 51: Blind Seers: On Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood'

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Episode 50: Demogorgon: On 'Stranger Things'

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Episode 49: Out of Time: Nietzsche on History

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Episode 48: Walking the Tightrope with Erik Davis

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Episode 47: Machines of Loving Grace: Technology and the Unabomber

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Episode 46: Thomas Ligotti's Angel

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Episode 45: Jeffrey J. Kripal on 'Flipping' Out of Materialism

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Episode 44: Doomed to Enchantment: The Psychical Research of William James

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Episode 43: On Shirley Jackson

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Episode 42: On Pauline Oliveros, with Kerry O'Brien

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Episode 41: On Speculative Fiction, with Matt Cardin

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Episode 40: On Jonathan Glazer's 'Under the Skin'

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Episode 39: The Challenge of the Paranormal, with Jeffrey J. Kripal

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Episode 38: Style as Analysis

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Episode 37: Entities, with Stuart Davis

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Christmas Bonus: Hyperstition Addendum

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Episode 36: On Hyperstition

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Episode 35: Whirl Without End: On M.C. Richards' 'Centering'

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Episode 34: The Weird Realism of Robert Aickman

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Episode 33: The Fine Art of Changing the Subject: On Duchamp's 'Fountain'

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Episode 32: Orbis Tertius: Borges on Magic, Conspiracy and Idealism

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Episode 31: Scarcely Human at All: On Glenn Gould's 'Prospects of Recording'

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Episode 30: On Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'

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Episode 29: On Lovecraft

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Episode 28: Weird Music, Part Two

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Episode 27: Weird Music, Part One

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Episode 26: Living in a Glass Age, with Michael Garfield

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Episode 25: David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch'

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Episode 24: The Charlatan and the Magus, with Lionel Snell
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Episode 23: On Presence

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Episode 22: Divining the World with Joshua Ramey

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Episode 21: The Trash Stratum - Part 2

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Episode 20: The Trash Stratum - Part 1

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Episode 19: Intermezzo

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Episode 18: Does 'Consciousness' Exist? - Part Two

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Episode 17: Does 'Consciousness' Exist? - Part One

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Episode 16: On Dogen Zenji's 'Genjokoan'

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Episode 15: On Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' - Part Two

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Episode 14: On Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' - Part One

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Episode 13: The Obscure: On the Philosophy of Heraclitus

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Episode 12: The Dark Eye: On the Films of Rodney Ascher

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Episode 11: Art is a Haunting Spirit

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Weird Stories: M. R. James' "The Mezzotint"

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Episode 10: Philip K. Dick: Adrift in the Multiverse

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Episode 9: On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick

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Episode 8: On Graham Harman's "The Third Table"

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Episode 7: The Unspeakable Mystery at the Heart of Boxing

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Episode 6: Dungeons & Dragons, or the Reality of Illusions

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Episode 5: Reading Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool"

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Episode 4: Exploring the Weird with Erik Davis

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Episode 3: Ecstasy, Sin, and "The White People"

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Weird Stories: Arthur Machen's "The White People"

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Episode 2: Garmonbozia

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Episode 1: Introduction to Weird Studies

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