The FrankenPod - A Gothic Literature and Cinema Podcast

Swears, Spoilers and the ever growing list of Dorian Gray's fetishes.  Whoops! I cut off a bit of episode 1. So here is the rest of episode 1 and then Episodes 2 & 3. Courtney from Cult of Domesticity and Morgan wander through the very gothic alleyways and opium dens of Penny Dreadful (the tv show). Our Blog: thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Our email: thefrankenpod@gmail.com Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. And Jazz Vampire by Marion Harris available on the free music archive

Swears, Spoilers and Patricia Arquette's massive platform heels.   Brent and Morgan watched the same David Lynch movie... With very different results. Our website: thefrankenpod.wordpress.com   Theme song is by the Underscore Orkestra by attribution 4.0 creative commons license.  

Swears, Spoilers and Ethan Chandler who is definitely NOT a werewolf... Vampires, Demons and Corpses oh my! Courtney from Cult of Domesticity and Morgan wander through the very gothic alleyways and opium dens of Penny Dreadful (the tv show). Our Blog: thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Our email: thefrankenpod@gmail.com Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. And Jazz Vampire by Marion Harris available on the free music archive

Part Two Swears, Spoilers and things that might upset the fandom Kat joins us to chat about Harry Potter. We think it might be gothic... Our blog thefrankenpod.wordpress.com  Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.  

Swears, Spoilers and things that might upset the fandom Kat joins us to chat about Harry Potter. We think it might be gothic... Our blog thefrankenpod.wordpress.com  Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.      

Swears, Spoilers and Assassin Monks... Morgan tells Brent about Ann Radcliffe, the hermetic aunt of the gothic novel. Our blog thefrankenpod.wordpress.com  Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Swears, Spoilers and Kat in correction corner! Morgan read the 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Brent watched the 2007 BBC series Jekyll Our blog thefrankenpod.wordpress.com  Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.  

Spoilers, Swears and One Very Grumpy Statue Morgan tells Brent about the original gothic hipster (he did it before it was cool) Horace Walpole, his novel The Castle of Otranto and his ridiculous mansion Strawberry Hill. Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Our blog is thefrankenpod.wordpress.com VOTE FOR US by the 14 of February 2019 Australian Podcast Awards  

Swears, Spoilers and Saline Solution It's a tale as old as time Man creates male creature, man creates female creature, female creature hates man, man is Sting. The Bride of Frankenstein 1935 vs. The Bride 1985 Promo is The Novel Predictions Podcast Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Our blog is thefrankenpod.wordpress.com

Swears, Spoilers and Scrooge/Snape comparisons Who wants a Christmas special after Christmas? That's right! No one. We missed the window... or we are super early for Christmas 2019.  Promo is The Electric Monks podcast Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Our blog is thefrankenpod.wordpress.com

Warning Swears, Spoilers and Child Death Brent watched the 2012 Hammer Horror film 'The Woman in Black' Morgan read Susan Hill's 1982 book 'The Woman in Black' Promo is The Fataliteas podcast Promo Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Our blog is thefrankenpod.wordpress.com

Swears, Spoilers and Weird Scorch Marks We examine the movie The Mothman Prophecies (2002) with a little contextual help from the source material (The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel 1975) and the urban legend background that only Wives Tales could provide. Promo Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Picture credit "Mothman IMG_1819" by OZinOH is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Our blog is thefrankenpod.wordpress.com  

Swears, Spoilers and Kids with Guns Melissa and Morgan both read Rage. Then we both had a bit of a rage. What is it about this terrifyingly suburban gothic and thoroughly unrealistic novel that inspires real teenagers to do some very real and horrific acts? How much of these acts can really be attributed to King's juvenalia? And what would it take for you to kill your own creation? We also discuss gun control, cultural violence and King's status as a gothic author. Promo Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Thanks to the U.S. Army Blues Band for making Kelli's No. available in the public domain. Image: Front Cover of Rage by Stephen King Our blog is thefrankenpod.wordpress.com    

Swears, Spoilers and Morgan's Deep Seeded Infatuation with Harper Lee. We're so happy to be back! This time we are examining Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (1965-6), the movie In Cold Blood (1967) and Capote (2005)     Promo Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Image: Perry Smith and Truman Capote by Richard Avedon Our blog is thefrankenpod.wordpress.com    

The Frankenpod season two starts in just four days on the 31st of October! Halloween Spppooooookyyy. Not really intentional, it just seemed as good a time as any. Promo Music: Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Image: A digitized image of the original painting American Gothic that Grant Wood, a master artist of the twentieth century, created in 1930 and sold to the Art Institute of Chicago in November of the same year. Our blog is thefrankenpod.wordpress.com

Swears, Spoilers and Naked Stephen Fry Megan talks to us about the many many versions of her favourite detective boy. Megan is one half of the hilarious Oh no! Lit Class! podcast Our Blog thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Twitter @thefrankenpod Kelli's Number by U.S. Army Blues is licensed under a Public Domain Mark 1.0 License. Amari Szi by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Swears, Spoilers and Bisghetti Meg and Morgan not just spoil but absolutely RUIN What we do in the Shadows. Meg is from the Indoorswomen podcast! She is also on redbubble at Meh productions Our Blog thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Twitter @thefrankenpod Kelli's Number by U.S. Army Blues is licensed under a Public Domain Mark 1.0 License. Amari Szi by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This week we are dabbling in The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz by for making the song Kelli's no. available in the public domain. Promo from Not another X Files Podcast Our blog is Thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Our Twitter is @thefrankenpod

Mary Shelley submitted many short stories to a 'young lady's' literary annual called The Keepsake. This is just one of those Our Blog thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Twitter @thefrankenpod Thanks as always to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's no. available on the Free Music Archive Promo this week from Loaded Literature  

Damp stains, the sound of scuttling insect feet and a creeping sense of Imperialist dread This week Morgan talks to Olivia of What'shername Podcast about the often overlooked gothic tale The Beetle by Richard Marsh Picture from The British Library  Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz band for making Kelli's no. available on the free music archive. Our Blog thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Twitter @thefrankenpod

This week we're on Fleet Street The razors are sharp The pies are gushing We're all feeling a bit nauseous Let's Go Promo from @letstlkabtsects Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz band for making Kelli's no. available on the free music archive. Our Blog thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Twitter @thefrankenpod  

Morgan tells Brent a story. Brent gets upset Our Blog thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Promo this week from 6 Degrees of Wiki Podcast Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's No. available on the free music archive.

Swears, Spoilers and Everyone's new favourite game show If you don't like giggly gothic discourse best move thyself elsewhere Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz band for making Kelli's No. available on the free music archive Twitter @thefrankenpod Blog thefrankenpod.wordpress.com

Spoilers, swears and mental illness Kate joins me to talk about the 1999 movie Girl Interrupted. ANOTHER Winona Ryder movie, we are so close to becoming a Winona Ryder fan cast Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's No. available on the free music archive. Twitter: @theFrankenpod @IWBpodcast Episode image By Navy2004 [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

We talk about black cats, cat myths, literary cats, podcast cats, cats in government, cats in walls, cats in Soviet Russia and cats on your dead wife's face. Podcast Promos are Fanatic Fics and Brook Reading Club. Our Blog is thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Twitter is @thefrankenpod And as always thank you to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's No. available on the Free Music Archive Thanks to Kai Engel for making his track Evermore available under an attribution license on the Free Music Archive

Mystery! Scandal! Ellipses!  Linzi from 33% Pulp joins me to break down the elusive and almost entirely unromantic romance that is Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.  Spoilers, Swears and Unreliable Narrators Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's number available on the Free Music Archive Promos this week are High Expectations and The Thirst Our Blog

Sorry guys we are running late! Hopefully there will be an episode in the next couple of days but if not we will see you next Saturday.

It's time for another Mary Shelley Story! One that did not get such favourable reviews and has nowhere near the following that Frankenstein does... Also, we end up talking about the death of Natalie Wood for some reason Our Blog: Thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Twitter @thefrankenpod Thank you as always to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's number available on the Free Music Archive. Promos are Cult of Domesticity and Two Broads Talking Politics

Morgan ACTUALLY lost her voice at the end of this one. Here on The FrankenPod we take symbolism seriously. Our Blog: Thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Twitter @thefrankenpod Thank you as always to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's number available on the Free Music Archive.

We explore the Sherlock/Watson origin story with A Study in Scarlet vs A Study in Pink and react like 13-year-olds in a health class to Arthur Conan Doyle's use of 'ejaculated'. Our Blog: thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Rache pronounced by The Turk Automaton on Youtube. Thank you to Cadere Sounds for making Impending Strings of the Macabre available on Freesound.org Thank you to the U.S. Army Jazz band for making Kelli's Number available on the free music archive.

Warning: SPOILERS AND SWEARS Poor Polidori! We talk literary scandal, vampires, pubic hair love tokens and Mary Shelley's revisionist history of her great literary creation. Our Blog: Thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Alix's primary source: Dracula's Guest: a connoisseur's collection of Victorian vampire stories, edited by Michael Sims, published in 2010 Thanks as always to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's Number available on the Free Music Archive.

Morgan explores the genesis of the detective novel. Our Blog: TheFrankenPod.wordpress.com Thanks as always to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's number available on the Free Music Archive Thumbnail image By Harper & Brothers Co. - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/File:The_Moonstone.djvu, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48093749

Morgan explains the gothic city as setting to Brent. Brent makes his case for Dark Angel as a gothic text worth studying Morgan acquiesces Thanks so much to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's number available on the Free Music Archive  Our blog is thefrankenpod.wordpress.com   Thumbnail image is "Gothic city" by Michael Rehfeldt Licensed under CC-BY 2.0 Original source via Flickr  

In this episode, we talk about the Frankenstein-esque tale Peter Carey's 'My Life as a Fake' To explain the book in any real way you need to know about Ern Malley... And to tell the tale of Ern Malley you need to know about Angry Penguins... You can find the images from this story thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Thank you to the U.S. Army Jazz band for making Kelli's Number available on the Free Music Archive.

Spoilers, Swears and one homophobic slur in particular. Brent gets to explore the urban gothic tale of Sin City that he has a deep and abiding love for. Morgan is unimpressed. Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's Number available at the Free Music Archive Other music this week was Carry Me Again by GeeNerve is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Image source: Sin City by Transformer18 on Flickr CC-By 2.0

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS AND SWEARS Erin @Ravie13 walks Morgan through some of the underappreciated elements of Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Dracula.  There's so much going on that went right over our heads! Thanks so much to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's Number available on The Free Music Archive I'm a Jazz Vampire by Marion Harris is licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License. Erin is the host of SubverCity, Jenny Walker on Congeria Podcast, Voice on No Sleep Podcast, Fitz the Werewolf, Ghost Hunter, Owner of Never Not Clever Find us thefrankenpod.wordpress.com The image is Jacek Malczewski "Polish Hektor" from 1913. Included by virtue of its place within the symbolist movement mentioned by Erin.

WARNING: Swears, spoilers, literary racism and misogyny Alix tells me all about 19th-century Vampiric Women, about what made them scary and more than one reason why some of the books she's studied are more than a little problematic. And the internet conspires against us. A massive Thank you as always to the U.S. Army Blues band for making their song Kellie's Number available for free on the Free Music Archive. Cold War and Evermore are from Sustains by Kai Engel and is licensed under an Attribution License. Find his work on the Free Music Archive Image By No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Chetwyn (Sgt) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons  

Sarah from Good Nightmare shares her personal love of Dracula. Morgan is NOT scared of armadillos. And Brent makes a claim. thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz band for making Kelli's number available in the public domain    

Dracula Blah blah Blah Brent tackles the 1992 special effects nightmare that is Bram Stoker's Dracula and does his best Winona Ryder impersonation. Morgan tackles the ACTUAL 1897 story Dracula by Bram Stoker and gets really angry. Our Blog is TheFrankenPod.wordpress.com Thank you to Kai Engel for making Evermore available for use with attribution. Thank you to The U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's Number available in the creative commons.  

Swears and Spoilers Morgan and Megan from Oh no! Lit Class, try to talk Brontes and kind of succeed... Megan's friend who wrote the story about the haunting of the second wife is called Monique, you can find her portfolio here: https://moniquemcintosh.com/category/fiction/ Thanks to U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's number available in the creative commons Promo this week: 33% Pulp

In which Morgan demonstrates her poor knowledge of Jungian philosophy and mispronounces abhorred. Enjoy A massive Thank you as always to the U.S. Army Blues band for making their song Kellie's Number available for free on the Free Music Archive. Other music in this episode: Cold War is from Sustains by Kai Engel and is licensed under an Attribution License. Thumbnail is By Ericxpenner (Own work) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

It's all romantic intrigue, stalker behaviour and gothic nightmares on Lake Geneva this week. Let's fling our undergarments out the window and talk telescopes and origin stories! Podcast promo: Relic Our website: thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's Number available in the public domain.  

This episode is about the Wildes and their sad and all too brief lives. It's a bit of a sad one but the promo in the middle isn't! Podcast promo: 33% pulp A massive Thank you as always to the U.S. Army Blues band for making their song Kellie's Number available for free on the Free Music Archive. Other music in this episode: Echo is from Sustains by Kai Engel and is licensed under an Attribution License.

SWEARS AND SPOILERS! Morgan read the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and revelled in the wordplay, for at least the first two reads. Brent watched the 2009 movie Dorian Gray and rolled his eyes at a stylized, unrealistic view of the Victorian era. Visit our blog to get to all the usual bits and bobs. Thanks to the U.S. Army Blues Band for making Kellie's Number available on creative commons. It is our intro, outro and interlude music Listen to OH NO Lit Class!

SPOILERS AND SWEARS as usual  This is a not so minisode while we wait patiently for the main episode on the 13th. Courtney from Cult of Domesticity Joins Morgan to talk about cadavers, creeps and coffins. Oh and serial killers... It's all in the name of medical science people! A huge thanks to Courtney and Ashley from the Cult of Domesticity for having Morgan on their show. And another huge thank you to Tom of Gallus Girls and Wayward Women for reading the Burke and Hare poem. Visit our blog to get to all the usual bits and bobs. Thanks to the U.S. Army Blues Band for making Kellie's Number available on creative commons. It is our intro, outro and interlude music.

Just something a little spooky from me to you... No fully fledged bonus episode this week! We'll be back next week with something a little more elaborate! Visit our blog to get to all the usual bits and bobs. Thanks to the U.S. Army Blues Band for making Kellie's Number available on creative commons. It is our intro, outro and interlude music.

SPOILERS AND SWEARS as usual I'll leave much of this episode to the superior eloquence of Oscar Wilde and his defence of his art, and aestheticism as a whole. Visit our blog to get to all the usual bits and bobs. Thanks to the U.S. Army Blues Band for making Kellie's Number available on creative commons. It is our intro, outro and interlude music.

Oh no!  Morgan and Brent rerecord their promo with the new microphones and they try to be clever. Does it work? Probably not. But I am experiencing cognitive dissonance and hitting publish and letting you guys deal with it. Good Talk

Morgan goes over the life and times of Mary Shelley in under 10 minutes. Blink and you might miss how awful Percy is. thefrankenpod.wordpress.com

In this mini episode, I am going to introduce the myth of Prometheus as it is so critical to Frankenstein or the modern day Prometheus by Mary Shelley.  I was going to retell the story of Prometheus the same way I first read it, in a 1920s children's adaption very similar to the kind I used to read at my Nanna and Grandpa's house when I was a kid. But I hadn't anticipated how woefully inaccurate this retelling would be. So instead I'm going to attempt to break the myth down myself. This could be rough. Visit us at TheFrankenPod.wordpress.com The music featured in this episode is Kellie's number as played by the U.S. Army Blues Band which has been generously shared in the public domain.

This is our pilot episode in which Brent and I stumble through the disparate plot points of the 1818 novel Frankenstein or the Modern day Prometheus by Mary Shelley and the 1931 movie Frankenstein directed by James Whale.   Visit our blog to get to all the usual bits and bobs. Thanks to the U.S. Army Blues Band for making Kellie's Number available on creative commons. It is our intro, outro and interlude music.