Strange Studies of Strange Stories: Recent Episodes
Strange Studies of Strange Stories
We’ve been creating podcasts since 2009 - first The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast and now Strange Studies of Strange Stories! Each week, hosts Chad Fifer and Chris Lackey discuss a piece of genre fiction. Talented voice actors bring the text to life. Music and sound effects create atmosphere while occasional guest experts show up to make things classy. One free show a month and five more for Patreon subscribers!
Author Robin D. Laws joins us to discuss The Crawling Horror by Thorp McClusky, a protoplasmic pulp tale that prefigures Body Snatchers and The Thing!
We're joined by guest Kenneth Hite as we cover the very first Conan the Barbarian story by Robert E. Howard, The Phoenix on the Sword!
A space traveler wrestles with the need for human companionship... and LOSES! Join us as we discuss the pastoral sci-fi story Founding Father by Clifford D. Simak!
A king loses his crown and his bald spot is exposed! Join us as we chart his quest to regain his royalty in The Voyage of King Euvoran by Clark Ashton Smith!
We're kicking off a month of Shirley Jackson stories with All She Said Was Yes, a suburban take on the Cassandra complex from her collection Dark Tales. Boats, bad neighbors and psychics - IT'S AMAZING!
Vampires, espionage, weird sex and math! Join us as we dig into Brian Lumley's Necroscope, a novel about a man who can speak to the dead.
King Kull converses with a cat, licks lake monsters and gets smack-talked by Thulsa Doom in Robert E. Howard's Delcardes' Cat!
We're starting sci-fi month with a smart-home story set in 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury!
“Haunted” was written, read and scored by Chad Fifer, with the generous participation of Heather Klinke.
We're casting weird fairy tale magic all month, beginning with the Russian classic The Soldier and Death!
Get unstuck in time with us as we begin Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, a profound novel about war, trauma and plunger-shaped aliens.
Start Spooky Season Spookily with Blind Man's Buff, a haunted house tale by H.R. Wakefield!
It's a double-feature of Lovecraftian tales by Jorge Luis Borges: There Are More Things & The Book of Sand!
We're joined by special guest Jamie Brittain to discuss the uncanny tale Who or What Was It? by Kingsley Amis!
Imperial Rome collides with the Cthulhu Mythos in The Sword of Spartacus by Richard L. Tierney!
H.G. Wells breaks into the energy drink market with his short story The New Accelerator. We've consumed it! Hear our review!
Earth is stuck in a war between alien races with devastating consequences, and it's somehow funny! Join us as we discuss Liberation of Earth by William Tenn!
Listen in as we discuss Robert Aickman's strange short story of sexual trauma, The Swords.
We're kicking off March is for Draculas with a FANGER of a vampire story by Bob Leman: The Pilgrimage of Clifford M.!
We're looking into Window by Bob Leman, and we're seeing some scary stuff! Join us as we discuss this crazy scifi-horror-fantasy story!
What happens when people suddenly get shaggy like wookies? Find out as we pick through Hyperpilosity by L. Sprague de Camp!
It's time for some weird fairy tales, starting with the Russian classic Vasilisa the Fair as presented by Alexander Afanasyev!
It's an October double feature narrated by two spooky little girls: Dress of White Silk by Richard Matheson and I Can't Help Saying Goodbye by Ann Mackenzie!
It's ghouls vs. government grunts in the New York subways! We're discussing Far Below by Robert Barbour Johnson - JOIN US!
Happy 4th of THEWLY!! We're kicking off a month of sword-and-sorcery stories with a tale about Charles Saunders' IMARO!
Nobody would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that we'd be celebrating 15 years of podcasting with The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, yet here we are!
Ghouls in session with Amina by Edward Lucas White, kicking off a month of monster madness!
March is for Draculas begins with the Manly Wade Wellman story School for the Unspeakable -- special guest Jamie Brittain in attendance!
We're laser-blasting into a month of science fiction, starting with Isaac Asimov's beloved short story, The Last Question!
We're celebrating 101 years of Weird Tales with a look at The Thing of a Thousand Shapes by Otis Adelbert Kline - straight outta the first issue!
We're celebrating the holidays with a month on Grimm's Fairy Tales. First up: Snow White, featuring 100% more torture than we anticipated!
Treat that Halloween hangover with a shot of Blochtober! We're discussing Robert Bloch's Nazi vampire fable, The Living Dead!
We're launching back into the Lovecraft universe via the T.E.D. Klein mythos novella Black Man with a Horn!
We're gathering evil kid stories this month, starting with It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby - a story made famous by The Twilight Zone!
We're joined by Andrew Leman and Sean Branney of the podcast Voluminous as we discuss The Black Abbot of Puthuum by Clark Ashton Smith!
Join us as we discuss Robert Aickman's award-winning short story The Stains with special guest, writer/director Jeremy Dyson!
Join the conversation as we discuss The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin!
We're kicking off October with the haunt that you want: A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny!
Acclaimed author J.R.R. Tolkien makes his first appearance on the show with the short story "Leaf by Niggle"!
We're investigating non-Euclidian geometry once again with Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett!
We're launching the rebranded show with Rod Serling's classic tale The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, featured in Stories from The Twilight Zone!
We're giving the treatment to Child's Play by Villy Sorensen, the first selection from Fine Frights: Stories that Scared Me, edited by Ramsey Campbell. Original Airdate: 5/6/2022
We're tracking a killer robot in Alfred Bester's Fondly Fahrenheit, and it's a blast! Original Airdate: 4/26/2021
Listen in as we discuss The Screwfly Solution by Raccoona Sheldon! Original Airdate: 6/9/2019
Join us as we decode the mysterious transmissions of The Night Wire by H.F. Arnold! Original Airdate: 01/03/2019
We're covering Tsathoggua by Michael Shea with special guest PATTON OSWALT! Original Airdate: 5/4/2018
Folks don't know this, but THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD is a reference to The Day of the Dragon by Guy Endore! Original Airdate: 5/6/2017
Clasp our clammy hands as we dig into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein! Original Airdate: 3/4/2017
Black History Month kicks off with the excellent Octavia E. Butler story Bloodchild! Original Airdate: 2/3/2017
'Tis the season to sit in laps, whether you want to or not! It's The Human Chair by Edogawa Ranpo! Original Airdate: 12/2/2016
We're covering the horrific "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" by Robert Bloch, and you've been invited! Original Airdate: 10/02/2015
Join us and outstanding reader Heather Klinke as we creep into The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman!
Join us for a very special, super-sized episode of the show covering the epic poem Beowulf! Original Airdate: 5/26/2015