Halloween is rampaging towards us and, following some technical issues, we managed to get our Halloween Special recorded and in the can…
SABAT!
And Holy shit. It was not what I expected, but I’ll keep my powder dry on that one. Thoughts of Phil, Graham and me coming up in a couple of weeks.
Meanwhile though, I had a great time discussing The House in the Borderland with Allister – a book I’ve loved for a long time and one that is indelibly marked by my memories of Pops and some of those conversations we shared after my Nan passed away and I spent long evenings with him and his recollections of all sorts of things, some whimsical and light, others drenched in the grief, loss and trauma that a widower of his age and generation had inevitably suffered due to his place in time.
Also, and this was a last minute addition to the slate, it was great to welcome Loz back to the Derry & Toms kitchen to drink daft booze, eat haggis and talk about another horror novel that’s failed to make the grade in the patron polls this past couple of years… Slimer!
I’m not sure horror is Loz’s bag, but we had fun either way. When you listen to that one be sure to stick with it to the end because we did watch Proteus, but I put that bit of chat after the end music for some reason. I was going to leave it out, because we were a bit battered by the time we recorded that segment (and you can tell) but I thought “bah whatevs” and just bunged it on the end.
In other news, a package arrived at D&Ts today… a mysterious package c/o Dan Charnley AKA Dan’s Monsters…
Some ghost stories, a couple of westerns including an Edge volume (always meant to check one out), a bit of Survivalist action and… THAT BEAUTY PICTURED ABOVE!
Many thanks for that Dan, it now has pride of place alongside my signed Ebola Hunter photo from Wakaliwood.
It just occurred to me earlier that by the time our Sabat episode goes out on Halloween, we’ll have knocked out five episodes this month. Probably our busiest-ever period, but none of it Moorcock-related (other than talking generally about Bastable with Robert). Therefore, in November, we’ll be going back to the well and picking up some of our dangling threads with a return to Corum, the finale of The Coming of the Terraphiles and possibly some other bits and bobs, and then it will be December!
And that means another birthday episode that might… just might, by some coincidence… end up being episode 100.
Yes, our centenary approaches.
I wonder if we can crowbar in something special for that? Well, mayhap we can and mayhap we can’t…. we’ll just have to see. I’m nothing if not disorganised and terrible at planning, so it might just finally be part two of Phoenix in Obsidian or something.
Finally for today, if you don’t subscribe to Jim Kirkland’s Dreaming City Books newsletter, Pursuit of the Pale Prince, you absolutely should. There are some great updates in this latest instalment, one of which I referred to in the Slimer episode, but there’s more to see too, including details of a new Monsieur Zenith trilogy, the Bob Haberfield art shop and more.
Take care all, and see you in a week or so for Sabat (uuurgh… Sabat).
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