SLIMER (Halloween 2024)

In this, our third (?) Halloween episode for 2024, we tackle the book Loz describes as, “crass, bluff and gittish”!

It’s SLIMER… our second experience of Harry Adam Knight action on Breakfast in the Ruins and it certainly was a book. Interesting developments on the ‘base under siege by weird monster’ are brought low by some of the unfortunate tropes of the genre at the time. Still, fortunately, the D6 Wandering Beer Table made a welcome return and generally we rolled rather well!

Content warning for sexual violence (in the book, not between me and Loz) and really shitty characters.

Our last look at Harry Adam Knight was our 2023 Uncosy Catastrophe read of The Fungus

The House on the Borderland (Halloween 2024)

We are firmly in our Halloween groove. The eco-horror of Pisces Rising may have given us a light step into the season, but now we’re up to our necks in it and our choices for this year not only include the winner and one of the runners-up from this year’s patron poll, but we’re also taking a look at one that has featured on past polls but never reached the top…

William Hope Hodgson’s classic of weird fiction and cosmic dread… The House on the Borderland.

Author, editor and musician Allister Thompson is back for this one (check out his musical retrospective and his debut novel The Music of the Spheres), and this was a pretty deep reading (by my standards anyway). We also touch on Lovecraft and some musical interpretations, including one by Nostalgia and Borderlands by Tactile, an extract of which can be heard at the end of the show.

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