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Delve into worlds of urban fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and the weird. Join our midnight skull sessions for advice on moving up the supernatural dating hierarchy, travel tips for the world's trendiest magical undergrounds, and suggestions on how to break into the increasingly overcrowded undea…

Greg Chatham


    • Aug 20, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 11m AVG DURATION
    • 109 EPISODES


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    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 129

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2022 57:08


    Books Discussed This Episode: Children Of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky Midnight Water City by Chris McKinney Yakudoshi: Age Of Calamity by Chris McKinney Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates Screams From the Dark edited by Ellen Datlow Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson Jay's Journal by Beatrice Sparks

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 128

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2022 46:18


    Books Discussed This Episode: The Thousand Eyes by AK Larkwood Truth Of The Divine by Lindsay Ellis When Things Get Dark edited by Ellen Datlow Dark Stars edited by John FD Taff Providence by Caroline Kepnes Gloria by Bentley Little A Psalm For The World-Built by Becky Chambers

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 127

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2021 50:21


    Books Discussed This Episode: A Mouse And His Child by Russell Hoban The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman The Fall Of Babel by Josiah Bancroft Chasing The Bogeyman by Richard Chizmar The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa Plus: Inscryption

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 126

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2021 51:26


    Books Discussed This Episode: The Broken God by Gareth Hanrahan Worst Laid Plans edited by Samantha Kolesnik When Things Get Dark edited by Ellen Datlow Last House On Needless Street by Catriona Ward Mastermind by Andrew Mayne Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven Plus: What If?

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 125

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2021 50:20


    Books Discussed This Episode: A Master Of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark The Broken God by Gareth Hanrahan Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells Game Wizards by Jon Peterson True Believer by Abraham Riesman Plus: Morkborg

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 124

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2021 47:58


    Books Discussed This Episode: Questland by Carrie Vaughn Beneath The Rising by Premee Mohamed The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman Plus: Space Jam The A New Legacy

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 123

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2020 63:10


    Books Discussed This Episode: Peace Talks and Battle Ground by Jim Butcher Tiny Nightmares edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto The Haunting Of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark The Black God's Drums by P. Djeli Clark The Last Smile In Sunder City by Luke Arnold Rule Of Capture by Christopher Brown Plus: Evil ( season 1 ) Kipo and the Age Of Wonderbeasts ( seasons 1-3 )

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 122

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2020 47:23


    Books Discussed This Episode: Automatic Reload by Ferrett Steinmetz Night Of The Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones Stoker's Wilde West by Melissa Prusi and Steven Hopstaken Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark Sid Meier's Memoir by Sid Meier Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 121

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2020 49:49


    Books Discussed This Episode: The End Of October by Lawrence Wright The Bank by Bentley Little Ghostland by Duncan Ralston Goldilocks by Laura Lam

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 120

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2020 79:25


    Books Discussed This Episode: False Value by Ben Aaronovitch Forced Perspectives by Tim Powers The Unspoken Name by AK Larkwood The Shadow Saint by Gareth Hanrahan Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky 88 Names by Matt Ruff Made To Order edited by Jonahthan Strahan Darkworlds Paris: A Cthulhu Lit RPG by Tony Walker Plus: Cthulhu Death May Die Westworld (season 2 and 3)

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 119

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2020 70:43


    Books Discussed This Episode: The Shadow Saint by Gareth Hanrahan The Dagger And The Coin Series by Daniel Abraham It Came From Something Awful by Dale Beran Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein Plus: Mr. Boogedy  

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 118

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2020 35:26


    Books Discussed This Episode: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Gideon The Ninth by Tasmyn Muir The Troop by Nick Cutter Sealed by Naomi Booth Thirteen: The Serial Killer Isn't On Trial, He's On The Jury by Steve Cavanagh Plus: Disco Elysium

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 117

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2019 46:26


    Books Discussed This Episode: The Cabin At The End Of The World by Paul Tremblay The Lightest Object In The Universe by Kimi Eisele The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 116

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2019 40:18


    Books Discussed This Episode: Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino On The Clock by Emily Guendelsberger Catch And Kill by Ronan Farrow Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor by Peter Watts

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 115

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2019 45:13


    Books Discussed This Episode: Gods Of Jade And Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Best Horror Of The Year Volume 11 edited by Ellen Datlow The Empress Of Forever by Max Gladstone This Is How You Lose The Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 114

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2019 58:20


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Ancillary Mercy and Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie When Darkness Loves Us by Elizabeth Engstrom Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds Superman Year One by Frank Miller The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan The Golden State by Ben H. Winters The Arm Of The Spinx by Josiah Bancroft (Books Of Babel #2)

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 113

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2019 76:06


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Tiny Crimes edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto Looming Low edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan Stoker's Wilde by Steven Hopstaken and Melissa Prusi Tap, Tap by David Martin Plus: Miracle Mile ATOM RPG Charterstone

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 112

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2019 82:51


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds Senlin Ascends, by Josiah Bancroft Bad Blood by John Carreyrou A Dead Jinn In Cairo by P. Djeli Clark Conspiracies Of Conspiracies by Thomas Milan Konda Challenge To Dracula by Robert Lory (Dracula Horror Series #9) Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Seek by Anthony O'Neill Plus: True Detective (season 3) Enderal (Skyrim full-conversion mod)

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 111

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2019 76:13


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Dracula's Gold by Robert Lory (Dracula Horror Series #4) Murder Theory by Andrew Mayne (Naturalist #3) Famous Men Who Never Lived by K Chess Vigilance by Robert Jackson Bennett Attack Of The Necron by Cavan Scott (Warped Galaxies #1)

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 110

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2019 56:32


    Books Discussed This Episode: Dungeons & Dragons: Art & Arcana by Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, and Sam Witwer Plus: Hereditary (spoilers) Suspiria (spoilers) Glass Far Cry 5 Celeste

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 109

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2019 71:31


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Dracula's Brothers by Robert Lory (Dracula Horror Series #3) Wonder Woman Earth One: Vol. 2 by Grant Morrison Batman: White Knight by Sean Gordon Murphy Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft Plus: The X-Files (final final final final season)

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 108

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2019 67:16


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Fancies And Goodnights by John Collier From These Ashes by Frederic Brown Demons Of King Solomon edited by Aaron J. French Ways To Die In Glasgow by Jay Stringer (Sam Ireland #1) The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher The Clockwork Boys and The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers   'Each To Each' by Seanan McGuire Dark Side Of The Road by Simon R. Green (Ishmael Jones #1) Plus: Gremlins Return Of The Obra Dinn

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 107

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2018 73:18


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Habeas Porpoise by Paul Levine (Solomon And Lord #4) A Man With One Of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell Demons Of King Solomon edited by Aaron J. French Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (Murderbot #4) Multiversity by Grant Morrison Timeless by RA Salvatore (Drizzt: Friendship Is Magic #34)

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 106

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2018 58:27


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Bite by Richard Laymon The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett Burning Sky by Weston Ochse The Snagglepuss Chronicles by Mark Russell Blue Curse by Brad Magnarella (Blue Wolf #1) Plus: The House With A Clock In Its Walls Jacked Ryan (season one)

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 105

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2018 76:58


    Books Discussed This Episode: Monsters Of The Week by Zack Handlen and Todd VanDerWerff The Dream-Quest Of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson Deep Roots by Ruthanna Emrys (Innsmouth Legacy #2) A Night In Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 104

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2018 64:27


    Stories Discussed This Episode: The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (Murderbot #3) Alternate Routes by Tim Powers Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel (Themis Files #3) Fear by Bob Woodward (Legend Of Drizzt #35) Plus: The Predator Wolf Warrior 2  

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 103

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2018 86:12


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Saga by Brian K. Vaughan (entire series to date) Batman by Tom King (entire series to date) The Beelzebub Business by Gray Brandner (The Big Brain #2) Walking Alone by Bentley Little Plus: Castle Rock (episodes 1-5)

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 102

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2018 85:48


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (Murderbot Diaries #2) Impostor Syndrome by Mishell Baker (Arcadia Project #3) Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Plus: The Handmaid's Tale (season two)

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 101

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2018 72:43


    Stories Discussed This Episode: The Outsider by Stephen King Tanis (podcast) A Darker Shade Of Magic by V.E. Schwab Autonomous by Annalee Newitz Brief Cases by Jim Butcher Acres Of Perhaps by Will Ludwigsen The Night Ocean by Paul LaFarge

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 100

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2018 63:31


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Differently Morphous by Yahtzee Croshaw Graveyard Shift by Michael F. Haspil The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts Live Work Work Work Die by Corey Pein A Guide For Murdered Children by Sarah Sparrow The Armored Saint by Myke Cole Plus: Westworld (season two)

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    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 99

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2018 99:31


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Modesty Blaise series by Peter O'Donnell Kill Creek by Scott Thomas The Bullet Catcher's Daughter by Rod Duncan The Ritual by Adam Nevill (book and film) Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie Fire Code by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Death Instinct by Bentley Little

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 98

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2018 90:08


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Black Monday Murders by Jonathan Hickman Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates Batman: War Of Jokes And Riddles by Tom King Destroyer by Victor LaValle Skullpocket by Nathan Ballingrud Kings Of The Wyld by Nicholas Eames Autonomous by Annalee Newitz Paperbacks From Hell by Grady Hendrix Occult Crimes Unit series by Justin Gustainis Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregellis

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 97

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2018 94:02


    Stories Discussed This Episode: The X-Files (Season 11, Episodes 1 and 2) Dark (Season 1) Happy (Season 1) Mannequin Squirrel Girl The Dark Knight: The Master Race Skyline Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 96

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2018 83:05


    Stories discussed this episode: Stabilimentum by Livia Llewellyn Sea Of Death by Gary Gygax Empire Of Imagination: Gary Gygax And The Birth Of Dungeons & Dragons by Michael Witwer The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 95

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2017 42:07


    Stories discussed this episode: The Handyman by Bentley Little The Hatching and Skitter by Ezekiel Boone Dawn Of Heresies by Brian Hodge Plus: Isaac: A Star Wars Story ("Last Jedi" spoilers)

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 94

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2017 72:18


    Stories discussed this episode: After The End Of The World by Jonathan L. Howard The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris To Wake The Dead by Richard Laymon  

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 93

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2017 107:34


    Stories discussed this episode: Strange Weather by Joe Hill Revival by Stephen King It Devours by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor The Room Of White Fire by T. Jefferson Parker The X-Files: Cold Cases by Joe Harris and Dirk Maggs Star Wars: From A Certain Point Of View Them and So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson The Burning by Bentley Little

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 92

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2017 104:07


    Stories discussed this episode: The Changeling by Victor LaValle Night School by Lee Child King Maybe, Fields Where They Lay, and Pulped by Timothy Hallinan Plus: The Leftovers (season three)  

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 91

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2017 74:28


    Stories discussed this episode: H.H. Holmes: The True Story Of The White City Devil by Adam Selzer Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz The Changeling by Victor LaValle London Falling and The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell (Shadow Police #1 and #2) Meddling Kids by Edward Cantero The Last Clean Bright Summer by Livia Llewellyn

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 90

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2017 66:52


    Stories discussed this episode: Survival Quest (Way Of The Shaman #1) by Vasily Mahanenko Grimoire Bound by Jeff Sproul The Searing by John Coyne Baron Orgaz (Doctor Orient #4) by Frank Lauria Fallen Angel (The Satan Sleuth #1) by Michael Avallone

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 89

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2017 63:50


    Stories discussed this episode: City Of Miracles (The Divine Cities #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells River Of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Plus: American Gods (season one) The Man In The High Castle (season two) 

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 88

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2017 79:45


    Stories Discussed This Episode: The Retrieval Artist by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Faller by Will McIntosh Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Plus: Thimbleweed Park

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 87

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2017 66:56


    Stories Discussed This Episode: We Are Legion, We Are Bob by Dennis E. Taylor The Return by Joseph Helmreich Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker Viscera by Gabriel Squailia Dr. Orient by Frank Lauria

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 86

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2017 111:16


    Stories Discussed This Episode: The Darkness Before The Dawn by Ryan Hughes The Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff Strand To Be A Machine by Mark O'Connell Plus: Legion (season one)  

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 85

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2017 86:16


    Stories Discussed This Episode: The Heart Of What Was Lost by Tad Williams X-Files Origins: Agent Of Chaos by Kami Garcia X-Files Origins: Devil's Advocate by Jonathan Maberry Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson Plus: LEGO Batman

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 84

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2017 82:42


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Revenger by Alastair Reynolds Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds The Atomic Sea by Jack Conner Plus: Kubo And The Two Strings

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 83

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2016 77:01


    Books Discussed This Episode: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff Nids by Ray Garton Doctor Orient by Frank Lauria Rivers Of London by Ben Aaronovitch Single Version by Scott Barsotti

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 82

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2016 38:59


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Star Wars: Rogue One

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 81

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2016 94:55


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Dragons Vs. Drones by Wesley King It Was The Day Of The Robot by Frank Belknap Long Night Of The Werewolf by Dean Koontz

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 80

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2016 76:56


    Stories Discussed This Episode: The Stagnant Breath Of Change by Brian Hodge On These Blackened Shores Of Time by Brian Hodge Mad Dogs by Brian Hodge The Vision by Tom King The Dark Side by Anthony O'Neill The Rib From Which I Remake The World by Ed Kurtz American Gods by Neil Gaiman  

    Midnight Skull Sessions - Episode 79

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2016 57:06


    Stories Discussed This Episode: Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie Hammers On Bone by Cassandra Khaw The Mirage by Matt Ruff Plus: Shin Godzilla Doctor Strange

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