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 … Continue reading Entropic State Report 22nd October 2024
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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 … Continue reading SLIMER (Halloween 2024)
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 … Continue reading The House on the Borderland (Halloween 2024)
Breakfast with Robert (a Prelude to Bastable)
In this bonus fix-up episode, I meet up with our pen-pal Robert MacMillan in a coffee shop in Bradford to set the scene for our journey into the worlds of Bastable… this wasn't our initial plan. Still, life intervenes in strange ways sometimes and we follow the moonbeam roads as we must. As well as Moorcock, … Continue reading Breakfast with Robert (a Prelude to Bastable)
Entropic State Report 13th September 2024
We're into September and ten days from the autumn equinox, so technically it's still summer. You wouldn't believe it from the thermometer though. It's a balmy eight degrees C this morning in the hills of Bradford. Brrrrrr. So we need activity to keep us warm and as you may have seen, we fired out a … Continue reading Entropic State Report 13th September 2024
BARBARIAN BINGO: Thongor and Brak
From the North he came, to seek knowledge and fortune. Cast out by his tribe for offending Ulfr, God of the Wastes, he is driven by mirth, restrained by melancholy. One day he will return to make offerings to the Bear Druids, particularly Mewler the Claw. She thinks he’s an idiot but owes him a … Continue reading BARBARIAN BINGO: Thongor and Brak
BEFORE ARMAGEDDON
New traveller Liam Jones drops by Derry & Toms to discuss one of his favourite things... Victorian Invasion literature... as we tackle the Moorcock-edited anthology Before Armageddon, a collection of Victorian and Edwardian imaginative fiction. Liam also teaches me about the Parisian dandy criminals, the Apaches! (Who I must now write into my next game...) And … Continue reading BEFORE ARMAGEDDON
Halloween Poll Live on Patreon
Over on the patreon page, the Halloween poll is live and the patrons are already making their opinions known on what we will cover for the October Halloween Special. First up (and currently in the lead) we have the first installment of Guy N Smith's Sabat series. OK, technically it's called Sabat: The Graveyard Vultures … Continue reading Halloween Poll Live on Patreon
Hither Came Conan!
Dave is back in Derry & Toms to talk about some stories that were as formative for him as they were for me back in our teens... The Robert E Howard Conan stories, The Phoenix on the Sword and The Scarlet Citadel. Dave also gives us an update on the latest SÖNUS news and we delve … Continue reading Hither Came Conan!
Entropic State Report 29th July 2024
We're two-thirds of the way through summer already and here in Blighty the weather is only now reflecting the time of year with any real level of commitment. It is a nice afternoon though so I'm sitting in the yard with a cold one musing on the contents of the third and long overdue volume … Continue reading Entropic State Report 29th July 2024
Breakfast in the Ruins Podcast 