sword and sorcery

Continuing our reading of Out-Dweller, Glimmer Vale Chronicles #2. This episode, Chapters 32 & 33. Pre-Order Stories From The Great Challenge: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/stories-from-the-great-challenge/ https://books2read.com/greatchallenge/ Buy Out-Dweller here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/out-dweller/ https://books2read.com/b/outdweller Buy Stories From Glimmer Vale here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/stories-from-glimmer-vale/ https://books2read.com/b/GVStories1 If you like my podcast and stories, sign up here to become a member/patron on my site: https://www.michaelkingswood.com/membership/join/ Visit My Website - http://michaelkingswood.com Sign up for my newsletter - http://www.michaelkingswood.com/newsletter-signup/ You can also find me on Gab - https://gab.com/michaelkingswood You can leave me a tip at https://paypal.me/SSNStorytelling Or send some crypto: BTC: 3QQ7EhBDMwdG8YypHJjErwpW6hbP4mC14W LTC: LNG2qRCJHJSybidtNw3os1tayfXjLU8b4g ETH: 0x5842c89FD421c4B92bf826bf7bA5214841B0f660

Finishing our reading of Out-Dweller, Glimmer Vale Chronicles #2. Pre-Order Stories From The Great Challenge: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/stories-from-the-great-challenge/ https://books2read.com/greatchallenge/ Buy Out-Dweller here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/out-dweller/ https://books2read.com/b/outdweller Buy Stories From Glimmer Vale here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/stories-from-glimmer-vale/ https://books2read.com/b/GVStories1 If you like my podcast and stories, sign up here to become a member/patron on my site: https://www.michaelkingswood.com/membership/join/ Visit My Website - http://michaelkingswood.com Sign up for my newsletter - http://www.michaelkingswood.com/newsletter-signup/ You can also find me on Gab - https://gab.com/michaelkingswood You can leave me a tip at https://paypal.me/SSNStorytelling Or send some crypto: BTC: 3QQ7EhBDMwdG8YypHJjErwpW6hbP4mC14W LTC: LNG2qRCJHJSybidtNw3os1tayfXjLU8b4g ETH: 0x5842c89FD421c4B92bf826bf7bA5214841B0f660

Continuing our reading of Out-Dweller, Glimmer Vale Chronicles #2. This episode, Chapters 30 & 31. Buy Out-Dweller here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/out-dweller/ https://books2read.com/b/outdweller Buy Stories From Glimmer Vale here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/stories-from-glimmer-vale/ https://books2read.com/b/GVStories1 If you like my podcast and stories, sign up here to become a member/patron on my site: https://www.michaelkingswood.com/membership/join/ Visit My Website - http://michaelkingswood.com Sign up for my newsletter - http://www.michaelkingswood.com/newsletter-signup/ You can also find me on Gab - https://gab.com/michaelkingswood You can leave me a tip at https://paypal.me/SSNStorytelling Or send some crypto: BTC: 3QQ7EhBDMwdG8YypHJjErwpW6hbP4mC14W LTC: LNG2qRCJHJSybidtNw3os1tayfXjLU8b4g ETH: 0x5842c89FD421c4B92bf826bf7bA5214841B0f660

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 9: Reaper Man. The auditors of reality have had enough of Death's obsession with humans and their personalities, so they fire him, forcing him to join the human world with Binky and what little time he is given. He finds work as a field hand, but adjusting to human life is harder and more terrifying than he ever imagined. Meanwhile, Windle Poons is a wizard, and wizards always know the exact time of their death. But when Death doesn't show up to take him, Windle must adjust to his new life as a zombie and investigate why there is so much life force building up in Ankh-Morpork. Theme: Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3470-call-to-adventure License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Continuing to read Out-Dweller, Glimmer Vale Chronicles #2. This episode, Chapters 26 & 27. Buy Out-Dweller here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/out-dweller/ https://books2read.com/b/outdweller Buy Stories From Glimmer Vale here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/stories-from-glimmer-vale/ https://books2read.com/b/GVStories1 If you like my podcast and stories, sign up here to become a member/patron on my site: https://www.michaelkingswood.com/membership/join/ Visit My Website - http://michaelkingswood.com Sign up for my newsletter - http://www.michaelkingswood.com/newsletter-signup/ You can also find me on Gab - https://gab.com/michaelkingswood You can leave me a tip at https://paypal.me/SSNStorytelling Or send some crypto: BTC: 3QQ7EhBDMwdG8YypHJjErwpW6hbP4mC14W LTC: LNG2qRCJHJSybidtNw3os1tayfXjLU8b4g ETH: 0x5842c89FD421c4B92bf826bf7bA5214841B0f660

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 8: Sourcery. On the Discworld, it is common knowledge that the eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard. But the eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son is a sourcerer, a wizard squared, a being too powerful to be held by reality. But one wizard deliberately has an eighth son out of vengeance, prophesying that he will destroy the world. Eight years later, the sourcerer, Coin, arrives at the Unseen University on the eve of the confirmation of a new Archchancellor, claiming the University, and the Disc, for his own. But his magic is too powerful, bringing out the worst in the wizards, and attracting the attention of the beings of the Dungeon Dimensions. And the only one who can stop him is the failed wizard Rincewind. Theme: Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3470-call-to-adventure License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 7: Equal Rites. In Equal Rites, Drum Billet the wizard knows that he is dying and wishes to bequeath his power to someone. He arrives in the Lancre village of Bad Ass right before the birth of a new wizard, the eighth son of an eighth son. He gives up his power, not realizing that the infant, Eskarina Smith, is a girl, and he dies before he can fix his mistake. Everyone on the Disc knows that magic falls along gender lines: women are witches and men are wizards. But Drum Billet's wizard staff recognizes Esk as a wizard when she is eight years old, and she needs to find a teacher before her uncontrollable power attracts the attention of monsters from the Dungeon Dimensions. Theme: Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3470-call-to-adventure License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 6: Pyramids. In Pyramids, Teppic is the heir to the throne of Djelibeybi, an ancient tiny river kingdom wedge between Ephebe and Tsort. All his life, Teppic has known that time goes on in Djelibeybi, but nothing really changes and the dead must be placed into pyramids. When he is sent to Ankh-Morpork to learn a trade at the Assasin's Guild, he is introduced to a whole new life and way of thinking. But when his father dies, he is drawn back to Djelibeybi to take his place and build his father a pyramid bigger than any built before. But no one is prepared for the dimensional distortion caused by such a structure, and things get weird when the gods start to roam the kingdom and the dead refuse to stay dead... Theme: Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3470-call-to-adventure License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

A brief history of.... The Night Club: https://thenightclub.fireside.fm/ Fixi's Playground: https://darkfixius.podbean.com/ Nick Szostakiwskyj: http://www.afarewelltokings.com/?cpt_team=nick-szostakiwskyj Jerik Thibodeaux of Golgothan: https://golgothan.bandcamp.com/ USBEscape: https://www.usbescape.com/ Talking With Shadows: https://onecandlesociety.podbean.com/ Poltergeist OD: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpmPZjVeuPNvvbO5RTxwQ Joe Blow Horror Show: https://joeblowhorrorshow.podbean.com/

A wish-fulfilment fantasy for pubescent boys of all ages, or a subtle disquisition on the ethics of a sorcerous world? John Milius' Conan the Barbarian (1982) manages to be both, although one may be easy to overlook. In this episode, JF and Phil leave the heights of Hesse's The Glass Bead Game with a headlong dive to the trash stratum. Their wager: that Conan the Barbarian, a film without a hint of irony, is a spiritual statement that is equal parts empowering and disquieting, and a prime of example of how fantasy is sometimes the straightest way to the heart of reality. REFERENCES John Milus (dir.), Conan the Barbarian (1982) Richard Fleischer (dir.), Conan the Destroyer (1984) Robert E. Howard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Howard), American writer, author of the Conan stories Jack Smith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(film_director)), "On the Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez" Weird Studies #3: Ecstasy, Sin, and "The White People" (https://www.weirdstudies.com/3) H. P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx) Fritz Leiber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber), American writer Weird Studies #95: Demon Seed: On Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child (https://www.weirdstudies.com/95) Dungeons & Dragons Weird Studies #20: The Trash Stratum (part 1 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/20), part 2 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/21)) Masaki Kobayashi (dir.), Kwaidan (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058279/) Jerry Zucker (dir.), Ghost (1990) Roget's Thesarus of English Words and Phrases (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099653/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) Maria Montez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Montez), Dominican-American actress

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 5: Guards! Guards! Guards! Guards! takes place mainly in the famed city of Ankh-Morpork. Everyone on the Disc thought that the legendary dragons were just that, legends. But when one begins to appear out of thin air to terrorize the city of Ankh Morpork, Captain Vimes of the almost defunct Night Watch is one of the few people to realize that things are not as they seem. A crime has been committed, a crime involving a magical theft, a secret society, swamp dragons, and a plot to reinstate the monarchy. Along with the three remaining members of the Night Watch—Sergeant Colon, Corporal Nobbs, and trainee Constable Carrot—Vimes is on the case. Theme: Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3470-call-to-adventure License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 4: The Light Fantastic. The Light Fantastic picks up right where The Colour of Magic left off with Rincewind falling off the edge of the Disc. The Octavo saves him so as not to lose one of the eight great spells that has been stuck in Rincewind's head since before he was kicked out of Unseen University. But it turns out that the Discworld is in danger. An ominous red star has appeared in the sky, and magic has become unreliable as the Great A'Tuin travels further into the shores of reality. The eight spells of the Octavo need to be said, precisely at the right time, in order to save the Discworld, but will Rincewind and Twoflower be able to return to the Unseen University in time to say them? Theme: Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3470-call-to-adventure License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 3: The Colour of Magic. Unlike subsequent Discworld novels, The Colour of Magic is divided into 4 main sections that almost act as interconnected short stories or novellas. Each of these sections remixes and satirizes classic Sword and Sorcery genres tropes and texts that were very popular in the seventies  and eighties. The overall plot introduces us to the failed wizard Rincewind, a cowardly loser who has the worst luck in the universe and only knows one spell that he cannot say for fear of what it does. He is coerced by the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork into becoming a guide/protector for Twoflower, the Discworld's first tourist from the Counterweight Continent, little knowing that this job will lead him on a journey to the literal edge of the Disc. Theme: Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3470-call-to-adventure License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The Coven again visits Castle Moonskull to open the tap at The House of The Setting Sun and discuss the 1977 medieval romp, Jabberwocky. This episode also contains a special Creature Featured segment dedicated to what is perhaps the most famous legendary monster ever, the dragon.

Continuing to read Out-Dweller, Glimmer Vale Chronicles #2. This episode, Chapters 24 & 25. Buy Out-Dweller here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/out-dweller/ https://books2read.com/b/outdweller Buy Stories From Glimmer Vale here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/stories-from-glimmer-vale/ https://books2read.com/b/GVStories1 If you like my podcast and stories, sign up here to become a member/patron on my site: https://www.michaelkingswood.com/membership/supporting-patronage/ Visit My Website - http://michaelkingswood.com Sign up for my newsletter - http://www.michaelkingswood.com/newsletter-signup/ You can also find me on Gab - https://gab.com/michaelkingswood You can leave me a tip at https://paypal.me/SSNStorytelling Or send some crypto: BTC: 3QQ7EhBDMwdG8YypHJjErwpW6hbP4mC14W LTC: LNG2qRCJHJSybidtNw3os1tayfXjLU8b4g ETH: 0x5842c89FD421c4B92bf826bf7bA5214841B0f660

Continuing to read Out-Dweller, Glimmer Vale Chronicles #2. This week, Chapters 23 & 24. Buy Out-Dweller here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/out-dweller/ https://books2read.com/b/outdweller Buy Stories From Glimmer Vale here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/stories-from-glimmer-vale/ https://books2read.com/b/GVStories1 If you like my podcast and stories, sign up here to become a member/patron on my site: https://www.michaelkingswood.com/membership/supporting-patronage/ Visit My Website - http://michaelkingswood.com Sign up for my newsletter - http://www.michaelkingswood.com/newsletter-signup/ You can also find me on Gab - https://gab.com/michaelkingswood You can leave me a tip at https://paypal.me/SSNStorytelling Or send some crypto: BTC: 3QQ7EhBDMwdG8YypHJjErwpW6hbP4mC14W LTC: LNG2qRCJHJSybidtNw3os1tayfXjLU8b4g ETH: 0x5842c89FD421c4B92bf826bf7bA5214841B0f660

Continuing to read Out-Dweller, Glimmer Vale Chronicles #2. This week, Chapters 21 & 22. Buy Out-Dweller here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/out-dweller/ https://books2read.com/b/outdweller Buy Stories From Glimmer Vale here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/stories-from-glimmer-vale/ https://books2read.com/b/GVStories1 If you like my podcast and stories, sign up here to become a member/patron on my site: https://www.michaelkingswood.com/membership/supporting-patronage/ Visit My Website - http://michaelkingswood.com Sign up for my newsletter - http://www.michaelkingswood.com/newsletter-signup/ You can also find me on Gab - https://gab.com/michaelkingswood You can leave me a tip at https://paypal.me/SSNStorytelling Or send some crypto: BTC: 3QQ7EhBDMwdG8YypHJjErwpW6hbP4mC14W LTC: LNG2qRCJHJSybidtNw3os1tayfXjLU8b4g ETH: 0x5842c89FD421c4B92bf826bf7bA5214841B0f660

Continuing to read Out-Dweller, Glimmer Vale Chronicles #2. This week, Chapters 19 & 20. Buy Out-Dweller here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/out-dweller/ https://books2read.com/b/outdweller Buy Stories From Glimmer Vale here: https://ssnstorytelling.com/product/stories-from-glimmer-vale/ https://books2read.com/b/GVStories1 If you like my podcast and stories, sign up here to become a member/patron on my site: https://www.michaelkingswood.com/membership/supporting-patronage/ Visit My Website - http://michaelkingswood.com Sign up for my newsletter - http://www.michaelkingswood.com/newsletter-signup/ You can also find me on Gab - https://gab.com/michaelkingswood You can leave me a tip at https://paypal.me/SSNStorytelling Or send some crypto: BTC: 3QQ7EhBDMwdG8YypHJjErwpW6hbP4mC14W LTC: LNG2qRCJHJSybidtNw3os1tayfXjLU8b4g ETH: 0x5842c89FD421c4B92bf826bf7bA5214841B0f660