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Feedback 40 - Borges and Booty Calls (Patreon)

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The Library of Babel

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Rick Hound

Now I want to write something that has endless steam tunnels

Matthew Henry

I am not much of a reader and, despite listening to your show for almost a decade, have never once read any of the stories featured on your podcast. I found myself with some free time on vacation a couple of weeks ago and so downloaded an ebook of Bob Leman short stories, including The Tehama. Man, they were so good! Why didn't anyone tell me to try some of this "weird fiction" a long time ago?

Jason Thompson

Whoa, I enjoyed several of his novels, but I didn’t even realize Peter Straub had written short stories! I don’t know anything about them but I’d love if you read some!

Cole Caron

I’m still convinced that the resurrected medieval sorcerer who left to vanquish Joseph Kerwin’s correspondents in Europe was one of Clark Ashton Smith’s Averoigne protagonists, probably Gaspard du Nord from The Colossus of Ylourgne. It explains why the note was written in “barbarous” latin, and why the resurrected person wasn’t afraid to go blow up some necromancers. This makes at least as much sense as “BF” being Ben Franklin.

Steve

All the talk of disembodied human butts made me wonder what the disembutted human bodies are up to. And with regards to the early reference to Piranesi, check out the Susanna Clarke book of the same name. She's not dead, yet, and still has a butt as far as I know, but it has much to recommend.

Steve

For anyone interested in the Dallas Egbert III tragedy, there's a two part article on this in a webzine I used to edit 23 years ago: http://www.ptgptb.org/0006/egbert.html. In the same issue from 26 years ago, there's an article by me, talking about how I got into gaming 29 years earlier.

Alan Ricks

I’d also like to hear some Straub. I’m a newbie with him.

Our old pal Brendan Gardiner

Instead of a land acknowledgment, I want to hear a band acknowledgment. Specifically, “Welcome everyone. We encourage you to research who used to be here, but right now it happens to be us, and we are Pitch Black Manor!”

Matt Baldwin

I’ve been meaning to say thanks for all the strange studies and stranger stories. I’ve been listening since episode 50 and now know more about weird fiction than any normal person should. After I drop my son off at his mum’s (about 40 minutes away), I always put your podcast on for the drive home. You two make that trip way more entertaining—and occasionally unsettling—in the best way possible. Thanks for keeping me company out there in the weird. P.s I love Dean!

Mooncubus

I think you hit the nail on the head with social media. There's is just way too much negativity all over the place because it's the easy thing to do. It's easy to complain about something and it's what gets the most clicks. But if we all just put that energy into more positive things the world would be a better place. Unrelated to that, but literally the only thing I ever knew about Necroscope until I read it was the teleporting thing. My dad thought it was so cool that he used math to teleport lol So I thought that was the main focus of the books. I would absolutely buy anthologies from you guys. Even better would be if you did audiobooks for them with your usual VAs.

Corey Wittig

Was just thinking of how I always loved the Leman couplets (?) and immediately after that Chris spat some new ones! Well, for me, My eyes they are a gleamin’ / when I think of y’all and Andrew Leman.

witchhousemedia

THANKS MATT! We're glad to be on the trip with you. Never can know too much about weird fiction!

Ben A

I'm late to reply, but I will highlight Straub's story, "Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle," which is kinda a pastiche of Aickman's ambiguous story structure. As a Straub story to cover, this one may lead to an interesting conversation.

Andrew M. Reichart

jfc I’m finally getting around to listening to this now and I’m doing dishes

Nicholas Sturch-Flint

I'm so late to comment, but I see little about Straub. He is my favourite author, The Blue Rose Trilogy is amazing, Koko being a personal standout. I've read a few of his stories but will start with a warning, Do NOT read The Juniper Tree without looking up a synopsis, it is an explicit look at a child sexual assault, I believe Straub himself may have been working through something himself as CSA is a common theme in his stories, however it was one of the most awful things I've ever read. With that out of the way: Mrs. God is a convoluted look at a haunted house in a vein you've visited before, but it may be too long. Blue Rose is a look at the childhood of my favourite person to hate, Harry Beevers (yes, that is his real name). The Buffalo Hunter I think is the one you'll both most enjoy because it's about a sexually repressed man named Bob Bunting who gains an unhealthy addiction to Baby Binkies. Please for the love of all that is Straub-y, cover this man! There is a reason he is often noted as one of King's favourite authors. The Talisman is good, but The Black House is fantastic.