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‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' has baffled readers and critics ever since it was published in Men and Women in 1855. It baffled its author, too. It ‘came upon me as a kind of dream', Browning recalled. ‘I had to write it then and there, and I finished it the same day.' The result, inspired by a line spoken by Edgar (as Poor Tom) in Act III of King Lear, is a grim, hallucinatory quest poem that exemplifies Browning's talent for what G.K. Chesterton called ‘the poetry of mean landscapes'. In this episode, Seamus and Mark read Browning's mysterious poem as a rejection of the resources and consolations established by the Romantics. They then turn to an earlier narrative poem, ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin' (1843), in which Browning uses a comical, Byronic tone to tell the story of another prophetic figure. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and to all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/applesignupnp⁠ Other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/scsignupnp Read more in the LRB: Barbara Everett: https://lrb.me/npep901 Matthew Reynolds: https://lrb.me/npep902 Donald Davie: https://lrb.me/npep903 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Upcoming Episodes Grimdark Grandparents: Warhammer 40,000 and Its Pulp DNA 0. What's a W.H.40.K? — An introduction to Warhammer 40,000's immense science-fantasy horror setting, where a corpse-worshipping human empire fights aliens, daemons, ancient machines, and its own terrible history. 1. The Imperium of Man — From Dune, Foundation, Roman decline, and medieval Christendom comes a galactic empire where the future is not progress but a dead civilization kept moving through faith, fear, and paperwork. 2. Space Marines — The Imperium's iconic super-soldiers combine power armor and military science fiction with crusading knights, Spartan myth, warrior monks, kidnapped children, and the seductive imagery of authoritarian heroism. 3. Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard — Drawing from trench literature, British war comics, Kipling, and future-war fiction, the Guard are ordinary people sent into cosmic horror with little more than courage and a lasgun. 4. Adeptus Mechanicus — Frankenstein, Metropolis, invention pulp, and lost-technology stories meet in a machine cult where science survives, understanding does not, and repairs are performed like religious rites. 5. Adepta Sororitas / Ecclesiarchy — Gothic convents, martyr legends, Joan of Arc, witchfinders, and Hammer horror become armored saints who turn faith, suffering, and flamethrowers into instruments of Imperial power. 6. The Inquisition — The occult detective and witch-hunter become one terrifying Imperial investigator who may uncover the truth only to burn every witness, building, and planet touched by it. 7. Rogue Traders — Planetary romance, colonial adventure fiction, space opera, pirates, and merchant princes combine in explorers licensed to discover strange worlds, trade with them, rob them, or claim them for the Imperium. 8. Adeptus Custodes — Ancient palace guards, sacred kingship, Achilles, and Gilgamesh stand behind the Emperor's golden companions: philosopher-warriors created to protect a god who is already dead. 9. Adeptus Titanicus / Titan Legions — Giant robots descend from Martian tripods, dreadnoughts, siege engines, golems, and war gods to become walking cathedrals capable of teaching entire cities to kneel. 10. The Horus Heresy — Warhammer's great betrayal myth draws from Lucifer, Cain and Abel, Arthur and Mordred, Roman civil wars, and fallen-hero stories to explain how the Emperor's favored son broke the human future from within. 11. Chaos Space Marines — Fallen angels, Byronic rebels, cursed champions, and Milton's Satan become immortal super-soldiers whose genuine grievances have curdled into rebellion, bitterness, and damnation. 12. Chaos Daemons — Medieval demonology, grimoires, occult pulp, weird fiction, and nightmare cinema become psychic entities made from mortal rage, despair, ambition, obsession, and desire. 13. World Eaters / Khorne — Sword-and-sorcery pulp, berserker sagas, gladiator spectacle, and revenge tragedy create warriors who reduce every political, emotional, and moral problem to an axe blow. 14. Death Guard / Nurgle — Plague literature, danse macabre, zombie films, body horror, and graveyard humor meet in rotting soldiers who have surrendered to decay and discovered that the joke is that they are happy. 15. Thousand Sons / Tzeentch — Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, mummy fiction, occult scholarship, and forbidden-book stories become sorcerers who sought perfect knowledge only to discover that the book was reading them back. 16. Emperor's Children / Slaanesh — Decadent literature, Gothic aristocrats, glam horror, cursed art, and The Picture of Dorian Gray shape warriors who pursued perfection until beauty became an endlessly hungry mouth. 17. Chaos / Imperial Knights — Haunted castles, ancestral armor, chivalric romance, feudal bloodlines, and giant-robot fiction become seventy-foot war machines carrying generations of family pride, duty, resentment, and curses. 18. Orks — Fantasy orcs, Mad Max, British hooligan comedy, fungus horror, and invasive-species stories combine in a joyful alien ecosystem where killing the enemy may only plant the next war. 19. Tyranids — Alien, The Thing, bug-war fiction, parasite horror, and cosmic naturalism become an extragalactic appetite that does not hate humanity because hatred would interfere with digestion. 20. Genestealer Cults — Body-snatcher films, changeling folklore, secret-cult pulp, family curses, and invasion paranoia create an alien uprising that begins not in the sky but at the dinner table. 21. Necrons — Killer robots and artificial-labor nightmares combine with mummy curses, tomb kings, and cursed archaeology to produce immortal metal dynasties waking from the grave with better weapons than the living. 22. Aeldari / Drukhari — Elves, cruel fairy courts, dying-earth fiction, lost civilizations, decadent aristocrats, and vampire cities become two responses to apocalypse: mourning the fall or continuing the party forever. 23. Night Lords — Batman, slashers, serial killers, Gothic villains, Grand Guignol, and public-execution culture become terror troops who transform punishment into theatre and fear into government. 24. T'au Empire and Leagues of Votann — The T'au combine utopian science fiction, anime mecha, and benevolent imperialism, while the Votann draw from mining frontiers, company towns, clone labor, ancestor cults, and corporate survivalism. 25. [REDACTED] — ▀▀▀ thrillers, ▀▀▀▀▀▀ societies, ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀, invasion ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀, Dr. ▀▀▀▀▀▀, and ▀▀▀▀▀ mythology become a Space Marine legion so committed to ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ that truth itself is rendered operationally ▀▀▀▀▀▀.     Audio Book Stories   01 Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve   02 The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe   03 Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James   04 The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton   05 The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert   06 Banshees   07 The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson   08 The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood   09 The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews   11 The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce   12 The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan   13 Some Real American Ghosts Part 1   14 Some Real American Ghosts Part 2   PGttCM Season 23 Order(all episodes will be recorded  1. Sinners (2025) August week 4 Story: “The Music of Erich Zann,” H. P. Lovecraft Music becomes a weapon, a barrier, and an opening into something beyond the human world. Complete YouTube reading   2. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) September week 1 Story: “Rappaccini's Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne A scientist transforms his daughter into something beautiful, deadly, and isolated from ordinary human intimacy. The created woman is treated simultaneously as experiment, daughter, monster, and possible lover. Complete YouTube reading   3. Ready or Not (2019) September week 2 Story: “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell Wealthy predators turn the hunting of a human being into sport and tradition.  Complete YouTube reading   4. Blade II (2002) September week 3 Story: “The Room in the Tower,” E. F. Benson A recurring nightmare leads to a room occupied by a ravenous female vampire. Complete YouTube reading   5. Obsession (2026) September week 4 Story: “The Birth-Mark,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Love curdles into the conviction that another person must be altered and perfected. Complete YouTube reading   6. RoboCop (1987) October week 1 Story: “The Man That Was Used Up,” Edgar Allan Poe A celebrated military hero is gradually revealed to be an assemblage of manufactured replacement parts. Prosthetic reconstruction, militarism, masculine propaganda, and brutal satire. Complete YouTube reading   7. Johnny Mnemonic (1995) October week 2 Story: “A Logic Named Joe,” Murray Leinster Information technology becomes dangerously helpful, invasive, and impossible to contain. Complete YouTube audiobook   8. Strange Days (1995) October week 3 Story: “The Crystal Egg,” H. G. Wells A mysterious device allows its owner to watch another world—and may allow that world to watch him. The voyeurism, addictive looking, and technologically mediated experience. Complete YouTube reading   9. Brainstorm (1983) October week 4 Story: “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham,” H. G. Wells A wealthy old scientist finds a way to transfer his consciousness into a young man's body. It turns recorded experience and technological immortality into an intimate identity nightmare. Complete YouTube reading   10. Burst City (1982) November week 1 Story: “The Machine Stops,” E. M. Forster A society has surrendered its bodies, relationships, and environment to an enormous technological system. Complete YouTube reading   11. Neo Tokyo (1987) November week 2 Story: “The City of the Singing Flame,” Clark Ashton Smith A traveller discovers a magnificent alternate city whose alien music and architecture exert an increasingly irresistible pull. Complete YouTube reading   12. Total Recall (1990) November week 3 Story: “The Defenders,” Philip K. Dick Humanity's understanding of its war and surrounding reality has been deliberately manufactured. Complete YouTube reading   13. Sorry to Bother You (2018) November week 4 Story: “The Business Man,” Edgar Allan Poe A self-satisfied entrepreneur explains his increasingly violent career as though criminal ingenuity were merely sound business practice. Complete YouTube reading   14. Little Shop of Horrors (1986) December week 1 Story: “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” H. G. Wells A mild collector brings home an exotic plant that proves predatory. Carnivorous botany, human loneliness, and the inability to recognize danger until it is wrapped around your throat. Complete YouTube reading   15. Slither (2006) December week 2 Story: “The Derelict,” William Hope Hodgson An explorer returns from an ancient ruin carrying something that has taken root inside his body. Complete YouTube reading   16. Swiss Army Man (2016) December week 3 Story: “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost,” H. G. Wells A lonely, ineffectual dead man cannot remember how to leave the living world, and an overconfident living man attempts to help him.  Complete YouTube reading   17. Happy Death Day (2017) December week 4 Story: “The Clock That Went Backward,” Edward Page Mitchell A clock literally carries its characters backwards through time. Complete YouTube reading   18. The Gorge (2025) January week 1 Story: “The People of the Pit,” A. Merritt An isolated traveller discovers an abyss containing an ancient, inhuman civilization and something that calls irresistibly from below. Complete YouTube reading   Reality Comes Apart January week 2 19. The Fourth Kind (2009) Story: “The Hanging Stranger,” Philip K. Dick An ordinary man notices an impossible event that everyone else accepts, then discovers that his community may no longer be human.  Complete YouTube reading   20. Dark City (1998) January week 3 Story: “The Street That Wasn't There,” Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi Familiar pieces of a city begin disappearing as reality is quietly revised around its inhabitants. Complete YouTube reading   21. Stir of Echoes (1999) January week 4 Story: “The Beckoning Fair One,” Oliver Onions A man living alone becomes increasingly dominated by an unseen female presence whose influence may be supernatural, psychological, or both.  Complete YouTube reading  

Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Upcoming Episodes Grimdark Grandparents: Warhammer 40,000 and Its Pulp DNA 0. What's a W.H.40.K? — An introduction to Warhammer 40,000's immense science-fantasy horror setting, where a corpse-worshipping human empire fights aliens, daemons, ancient machines, and its own terrible history. 1. The Imperium of Man — From Dune, Foundation, Roman decline, and medieval Christendom comes a galactic empire where the future is not progress but a dead civilization kept moving through faith, fear, and paperwork. 2. Space Marines — The Imperium's iconic super-soldiers combine power armor and military science fiction with crusading knights, Spartan myth, warrior monks, kidnapped children, and the seductive imagery of authoritarian heroism. 3. Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard — Drawing from trench literature, British war comics, Kipling, and future-war fiction, the Guard are ordinary people sent into cosmic horror with little more than courage and a lasgun. 4. Adeptus Mechanicus — Frankenstein, Metropolis, invention pulp, and lost-technology stories meet in a machine cult where science survives, understanding does not, and repairs are performed like religious rites. 5. Adepta Sororitas / Ecclesiarchy — Gothic convents, martyr legends, Joan of Arc, witchfinders, and Hammer horror become armored saints who turn faith, suffering, and flamethrowers into instruments of Imperial power. 6. The Inquisition — The occult detective and witch-hunter become one terrifying Imperial investigator who may uncover the truth only to burn every witness, building, and planet touched by it. 7. Rogue Traders — Planetary romance, colonial adventure fiction, space opera, pirates, and merchant princes combine in explorers licensed to discover strange worlds, trade with them, rob them, or claim them for the Imperium. 8. Adeptus Custodes — Ancient palace guards, sacred kingship, Achilles, and Gilgamesh stand behind the Emperor's golden companions: philosopher-warriors created to protect a god who is already dead. 9. Adeptus Titanicus / Titan Legions — Giant robots descend from Martian tripods, dreadnoughts, siege engines, golems, and war gods to become walking cathedrals capable of teaching entire cities to kneel. 10. The Horus Heresy — Warhammer's great betrayal myth draws from Lucifer, Cain and Abel, Arthur and Mordred, Roman civil wars, and fallen-hero stories to explain how the Emperor's favored son broke the human future from within. 11. Chaos Space Marines — Fallen angels, Byronic rebels, cursed champions, and Milton's Satan become immortal super-soldiers whose genuine grievances have curdled into rebellion, bitterness, and damnation. 12. Chaos Daemons — Medieval demonology, grimoires, occult pulp, weird fiction, and nightmare cinema become psychic entities made from mortal rage, despair, ambition, obsession, and desire. 13. World Eaters / Khorne — Sword-and-sorcery pulp, berserker sagas, gladiator spectacle, and revenge tragedy create warriors who reduce every political, emotional, and moral problem to an axe blow. 14. Death Guard / Nurgle — Plague literature, danse macabre, zombie films, body horror, and graveyard humor meet in rotting soldiers who have surrendered to decay and discovered that the joke is that they are happy. 15. Thousand Sons / Tzeentch — Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, mummy fiction, occult scholarship, and forbidden-book stories become sorcerers who sought perfect knowledge only to discover that the book was reading them back. 16. Emperor's Children / Slaanesh — Decadent literature, Gothic aristocrats, glam horror, cursed art, and The Picture of Dorian Gray shape warriors who pursued perfection until beauty became an endlessly hungry mouth. 17. Chaos / Imperial Knights — Haunted castles, ancestral armor, chivalric romance, feudal bloodlines, and giant-robot fiction become seventy-foot war machines carrying generations of family pride, duty, resentment, and curses. 18. Orks — Fantasy orcs, Mad Max, British hooligan comedy, fungus horror, and invasive-species stories combine in a joyful alien ecosystem where killing the enemy may only plant the next war. 19. Tyranids — Alien, The Thing, bug-war fiction, parasite horror, and cosmic naturalism become an extragalactic appetite that does not hate humanity because hatred would interfere with digestion. 20. Genestealer Cults — Body-snatcher films, changeling folklore, secret-cult pulp, family curses, and invasion paranoia create an alien uprising that begins not in the sky but at the dinner table. 21. Necrons — Killer robots and artificial-labor nightmares combine with mummy curses, tomb kings, and cursed archaeology to produce immortal metal dynasties waking from the grave with better weapons than the living. 22. Aeldari / Drukhari — Elves, cruel fairy courts, dying-earth fiction, lost civilizations, decadent aristocrats, and vampire cities become two responses to apocalypse: mourning the fall or continuing the party forever. 23. Night Lords — Batman, slashers, serial killers, Gothic villains, Grand Guignol, and public-execution culture become terror troops who transform punishment into theatre and fear into government. 24. T'au Empire and Leagues of Votann — The T'au combine utopian science fiction, anime mecha, and benevolent imperialism, while the Votann draw from mining frontiers, company towns, clone labor, ancestor cults, and corporate survivalism. 25. [REDACTED] — ▀▀▀ thrillers, ▀▀▀▀▀▀ societies, ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀, invasion ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀, Dr. ▀▀▀▀▀▀, and ▀▀▀▀▀ mythology become a Space Marine legion so committed to ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ that truth itself is rendered operationally ▀▀▀▀▀▀.     Audio Book Stories   01 Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve   02 The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe   03 Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James   04 The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton   05 The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert   06 Banshees   07 The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson   08 The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood   09 The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews   11 The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce   12 The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan   13 Some Real American Ghosts Part 1   14 Some Real American Ghosts Part 2   PGttCM Season 23 Order(all episodes will be recorded  1. Sinners (2025) August week 4 Story: “The Music of Erich Zann,” H. P. Lovecraft Music becomes a weapon, a barrier, and an opening into something beyond the human world. Complete YouTube reading   2. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) September week 1 Story: “Rappaccini's Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne A scientist transforms his daughter into something beautiful, deadly, and isolated from ordinary human intimacy. The created woman is treated simultaneously as experiment, daughter, monster, and possible lover. Complete YouTube reading   3. Ready or Not (2019) September week 2 Story: “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell Wealthy predators turn the hunting of a human being into sport and tradition.  Complete YouTube reading   4. Blade II (2002) September week 3 Story: “The Room in the Tower,” E. F. Benson A recurring nightmare leads to a room occupied by a ravenous female vampire. Complete YouTube reading   5. Obsession (2026) September week 4 Story: “The Birth-Mark,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Love curdles into the conviction that another person must be altered and perfected. Complete YouTube reading   6. RoboCop (1987) October week 1 Story: “The Man That Was Used Up,” Edgar Allan Poe A celebrated military hero is gradually revealed to be an assemblage of manufactured replacement parts. Prosthetic reconstruction, militarism, masculine propaganda, and brutal satire. Complete YouTube reading   7. Johnny Mnemonic (1995) October week 2 Story: “A Logic Named Joe,” Murray Leinster Information technology becomes dangerously helpful, invasive, and impossible to contain. Complete YouTube audiobook   8. Strange Days (1995) October week 3 Story: “The Crystal Egg,” H. G. Wells A mysterious device allows its owner to watch another world—and may allow that world to watch him. The voyeurism, addictive looking, and technologically mediated experience. Complete YouTube reading   9. Brainstorm (1983) October week 4 Story: “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham,” H. G. Wells A wealthy old scientist finds a way to transfer his consciousness into a young man's body. It turns recorded experience and technological immortality into an intimate identity nightmare. Complete YouTube reading   10. Burst City (1982) November week 1 Story: “The Machine Stops,” E. M. Forster A society has surrendered its bodies, relationships, and environment to an enormous technological system. Complete YouTube reading   11. Neo Tokyo (1987) November week 2 Story: “The City of the Singing Flame,” Clark Ashton Smith A traveller discovers a magnificent alternate city whose alien music and architecture exert an increasingly irresistible pull. Complete YouTube reading   12. Total Recall (1990) November week 3 Story: “The Defenders,” Philip K. Dick Humanity's understanding of its war and surrounding reality has been deliberately manufactured. Complete YouTube reading   13. Sorry to Bother You (2018) November week 4 Story: “The Business Man,” Edgar Allan Poe A self-satisfied entrepreneur explains his increasingly violent career as though criminal ingenuity were merely sound business practice. Complete YouTube reading   14. Little Shop of Horrors (1986) December week 1 Story: “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” H. G. Wells A mild collector brings home an exotic plant that proves predatory. Carnivorous botany, human loneliness, and the inability to recognize danger until it is wrapped around your throat. Complete YouTube reading   15. Slither (2006) December week 2 Story: “The Derelict,” William Hope Hodgson An explorer returns from an ancient ruin carrying something that has taken root inside his body. Complete YouTube reading   16. Swiss Army Man (2016) December week 3 Story: “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost,” H. G. Wells A lonely, ineffectual dead man cannot remember how to leave the living world, and an overconfident living man attempts to help him.  Complete YouTube reading   17. Happy Death Day (2017) December week 4 Story: “The Clock That Went Backward,” Edward Page Mitchell A clock literally carries its characters backwards through time. Complete YouTube reading   18. The Gorge (2025) January week 1 Story: “The People of the Pit,” A. Merritt An isolated traveller discovers an abyss containing an ancient, inhuman civilization and something that calls irresistibly from below. Complete YouTube reading   Reality Comes Apart January week 2 19. The Fourth Kind (2009) Story: “The Hanging Stranger,” Philip K. Dick An ordinary man notices an impossible event that everyone else accepts, then discovers that his community may no longer be human.  Complete YouTube reading   20. Dark City (1998) January week 3 Story: “The Street That Wasn't There,” Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi Familiar pieces of a city begin disappearing as reality is quietly revised around its inhabitants. Complete YouTube reading   21. Stir of Echoes (1999) January week 4 Story: “The Beckoning Fair One,” Oliver Onions A man living alone becomes increasingly dominated by an unseen female presence whose influence may be supernatural, psychological, or both.  Complete YouTube reading  

Hey everyone, this is a Zero episode of an upcoming project David Heath and DB Spitzer are working on. It is an exploration of the sources of Warhammer 40,000, and their sources. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Season 23 bonus episodes 1-25 1 The Imperium of Man Dune, Foundation, Roman Empire in space, religious dystopias Edward Gibbon, imperial decline literature, medieval Christendom, future-history fiction 2 Space Marines Starship Troopers, action-movie super soldiers, power armor, comic-book warriors Heinlein military SF, crusading orders, Spartan myth, warrior monks, fascist hero imagery 3 Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard World War movies, Starship Troopers, British war comics, doomed infantry stories H. G. Wells future-war fiction, Kipling, trench literature, boys' military papers, pulp battlefield fiction 4 Adeptus Mechanicus Metropolis, cyberpunk machine cults, mad scientists, techno-priests Gernsback invention fiction, H. G. Wells, Frankenstein, lost-technology stories, mad-science pulp 5 Adepta Sororitas / Ecclesiarchy Hammer horror, warrior nuns, Joan of Arc cinema, witchfinder movies Gothic novels, martyr stories, saint legends, witch-trial pamphlets, religious melodrama 6 The Inquisition The X-Files, witchfinder films, secret-police thrillers, occult detectives M. R. James-style scholars, Blackwood, Machen, witch-hunter tracts, secret-society fiction 7 Rogue Traders Star Trek, Flash Gordon, space pirates, merchant princes Planetary romance, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, colonial adventure fiction 8 Adeptus Custodes Golden demigod bodyguards, imperial palace guards, mythic super-soldiers Achilles, Gilgamesh, sacred kingship, Praetorian Guards, immortal companions of god-kings 9 Adeptus Titanicus Pacific Rim, Gundam, giant robot anime, kaiju movies, walking battleships, cathedral mecha Wells' Martian tripods, “The Land Ironclads,” dreadnoughts, siege engines, bronze giants, golems, sacred statues, war-gods 10 The Horus Heresy Star Wars, fallen Jedi, dark lords, civil-war space opera, tragic chosen ones Milton's Paradise Lost, Lucifer's rebellion, Cain and Abel, Arthur and Mordred, Roman civil wars, succession crises 11 Chaos Space Marines Fallen angels, heavy metal villains, corrupted super-soldiers, black knights, rebel legions Milton's Paradise Lost, Moorcock's Chaos, Byronic rebels, cursed champions, Satanic romance, Gothic villains, revenge tragedy 12 Chaos Daemons Hellraiser, Event Horizon, occult horror, possession films, nightmare dimensions Medieval demonology, grimoires, witch-trial literature, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, occult pulp, weird menace fiction 13 World Eaters / Khorne Conan, gladiator films, berserker metal, chainsaw action horror, grindhouse revenge Robert E. Howard, sword-and-sorcery pulp, berserker sagas, blood cults, Homeric rage, arena spectacle, revenge tragedy 14 Death Guard / Nurgle Zombie plague films, body horror, gross-out comedy, infection horror, fungal rot, swamp monsters Poe's “The Masque of the Red Death,” plague literature, danse macabre, memento mori, corpse folklore, leper saints 15 Thousand Sons / Tzeentch Wizard cults, cursed books, Egyptian sorcerers, cosmic chessmasters, forbidden libraries H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, E. R. Eddison, mummy fiction, forbidden-book stories, Decadent occultism, Renaissance magic 16 Emperor's Children / Slaanesh Glam rock horror, decadent villains, body modification nightmares, cursed artists, aristocratic monsters Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Huysmans, fin-de-siècle decadence, Gothic aristocrats, cursed art, aestheticism 17 Chaos / Imperial Knights Haunted mecha, cursed noble machines, demonic war engines, Gundam, BattleTech, Pacific Rim Gothic castles, cursed armor, haunted inheritance, family-doom melodrama, chivalric romance, sins of the fathers 18 Orks Mad Max, fantasy orcs, biker gangs, football hooligans, British comic violence, slapstick war movies William Hope Hodgson's “The Voice in the Night,” fungus horror, Matango, invasive-species stories, goblins, comic grotesques 19 Tyranids Alien, Aliens, The Thing, bug-war movies, swarm horror, hive minds, biological weapons John W. Campbell's “Who Goes There?”, H. G. Wells' Martians, insect-hive fiction, invasion literature, cosmic naturalism 20 Genestealer Cults Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alien, cult horror, red-scare paranoia films, sleeper cells Hidden-bloodline stories, secret cult pulp, infiltration fiction, changeling folklore, cuckoo-child fears, apocalyptic sects 21 Necrons The Terminator, killer robots, metal skeletons, space undead, immortal android kings Karel Čapek's R.U.R., robot rebellion, automaton fiction, artificial labor nightmares, mummy pulp, Egyptomania, tomb curses 22 Aeldari / Drukhari Tolkien elves, dying space aristocrats, psychic aliens, dark elves, vampire cities, cruel fairy courts Lord Dunsany, Jack Vance's Dying Earth, fairy otherworlds, decadent elder-race fiction, Atlantis, Gothic aristocrats 23 Night Lords Batman turned inside out, The Crow, slasher films, serial-killer thrillers, torture horror, vigilante movies Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gothic villains, penny dreadfuls, Jack the Ripper panic, Grand Guignol, Dracula, public punishment 24 T'au Empire / Leagues of Votann Clean anime mecha empire, sleek battlesuits, utopian coalitions, space dwarves, hard-SF miners Utopian SF, technocracy fiction, Cold War futures, missionary empire, company towns, mining-company frontier stories, labor colonies 25 REDACTED Spy thrillers, Mission: Impossible, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Manchurian Candidate, The Prisoner, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse John Buchan, Joseph Conrad, G. K. Chesterton, Erskine Childers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Norbert Jacques, invasion-scare fiction, fifth-column paranoia

Hey everyone, this is a Zero episode of an upcoming project David Heath and DB Spitzer are working on. It is an exploration of the sources of Warhammer 40,000, and their sources. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Season 23 bonus episodes 1-25 1 The Imperium of Man Dune, Foundation, Roman Empire in space, religious dystopias Edward Gibbon, imperial decline literature, medieval Christendom, future-history fiction 2 Space Marines Starship Troopers, action-movie super soldiers, power armor, comic-book warriors Heinlein military SF, crusading orders, Spartan myth, warrior monks, fascist hero imagery 3 Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard World War movies, Starship Troopers, British war comics, doomed infantry stories H. G. Wells future-war fiction, Kipling, trench literature, boys' military papers, pulp battlefield fiction 4 Adeptus Mechanicus Metropolis, cyberpunk machine cults, mad scientists, techno-priests Gernsback invention fiction, H. G. Wells, Frankenstein, lost-technology stories, mad-science pulp 5 Adepta Sororitas / Ecclesiarchy Hammer horror, warrior nuns, Joan of Arc cinema, witchfinder movies Gothic novels, martyr stories, saint legends, witch-trial pamphlets, religious melodrama 6 The Inquisition The X-Files, witchfinder films, secret-police thrillers, occult detectives M. R. James-style scholars, Blackwood, Machen, witch-hunter tracts, secret-society fiction 7 Rogue Traders Star Trek, Flash Gordon, space pirates, merchant princes Planetary romance, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, colonial adventure fiction 8 Adeptus Custodes Golden demigod bodyguards, imperial palace guards, mythic super-soldiers Achilles, Gilgamesh, sacred kingship, Praetorian Guards, immortal companions of god-kings 9 Adeptus Titanicus Pacific Rim, Gundam, giant robot anime, kaiju movies, walking battleships, cathedral mecha Wells' Martian tripods, “The Land Ironclads,” dreadnoughts, siege engines, bronze giants, golems, sacred statues, war-gods 10 The Horus Heresy Star Wars, fallen Jedi, dark lords, civil-war space opera, tragic chosen ones Milton's Paradise Lost, Lucifer's rebellion, Cain and Abel, Arthur and Mordred, Roman civil wars, succession crises 11 Chaos Space Marines Fallen angels, heavy metal villains, corrupted super-soldiers, black knights, rebel legions Milton's Paradise Lost, Moorcock's Chaos, Byronic rebels, cursed champions, Satanic romance, Gothic villains, revenge tragedy 12 Chaos Daemons Hellraiser, Event Horizon, occult horror, possession films, nightmare dimensions Medieval demonology, grimoires, witch-trial literature, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, occult pulp, weird menace fiction 13 World Eaters / Khorne Conan, gladiator films, berserker metal, chainsaw action horror, grindhouse revenge Robert E. Howard, sword-and-sorcery pulp, berserker sagas, blood cults, Homeric rage, arena spectacle, revenge tragedy 14 Death Guard / Nurgle Zombie plague films, body horror, gross-out comedy, infection horror, fungal rot, swamp monsters Poe's “The Masque of the Red Death,” plague literature, danse macabre, memento mori, corpse folklore, leper saints 15 Thousand Sons / Tzeentch Wizard cults, cursed books, Egyptian sorcerers, cosmic chessmasters, forbidden libraries H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, E. R. Eddison, mummy fiction, forbidden-book stories, Decadent occultism, Renaissance magic 16 Emperor's Children / Slaanesh Glam rock horror, decadent villains, body modification nightmares, cursed artists, aristocratic monsters Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Huysmans, fin-de-siècle decadence, Gothic aristocrats, cursed art, aestheticism 17 Chaos / Imperial Knights Haunted mecha, cursed noble machines, demonic war engines, Gundam, BattleTech, Pacific Rim Gothic castles, cursed armor, haunted inheritance, family-doom melodrama, chivalric romance, sins of the fathers 18 Orks Mad Max, fantasy orcs, biker gangs, football hooligans, British comic violence, slapstick war movies William Hope Hodgson's “The Voice in the Night,” fungus horror, Matango, invasive-species stories, goblins, comic grotesques 19 Tyranids Alien, Aliens, The Thing, bug-war movies, swarm horror, hive minds, biological weapons John W. Campbell's “Who Goes There?”, H. G. Wells' Martians, insect-hive fiction, invasion literature, cosmic naturalism 20 Genestealer Cults Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alien, cult horror, red-scare paranoia films, sleeper cells Hidden-bloodline stories, secret cult pulp, infiltration fiction, changeling folklore, cuckoo-child fears, apocalyptic sects 21 Necrons The Terminator, killer robots, metal skeletons, space undead, immortal android kings Karel Čapek's R.U.R., robot rebellion, automaton fiction, artificial labor nightmares, mummy pulp, Egyptomania, tomb curses 22 Aeldari / Drukhari Tolkien elves, dying space aristocrats, psychic aliens, dark elves, vampire cities, cruel fairy courts Lord Dunsany, Jack Vance's Dying Earth, fairy otherworlds, decadent elder-race fiction, Atlantis, Gothic aristocrats 23 Night Lords Batman turned inside out, The Crow, slasher films, serial-killer thrillers, torture horror, vigilante movies Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gothic villains, penny dreadfuls, Jack the Ripper panic, Grand Guignol, Dracula, public punishment 24 T'au Empire / Leagues of Votann Clean anime mecha empire, sleek battlesuits, utopian coalitions, space dwarves, hard-SF miners Utopian SF, technocracy fiction, Cold War futures, missionary empire, company towns, mining-company frontier stories, labor colonies 25 REDACTED Spy thrillers, Mission: Impossible, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Manchurian Candidate, The Prisoner, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse John Buchan, Joseph Conrad, G. K. Chesterton, Erskine Childers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Norbert Jacques, invasion-scare fiction, fifth-column paranoia

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between 1 February 1887 and 5 January 1888. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, human interference with nature, and the effects of trauma. a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

Farmer Dave(Podcasting's David Heath) talks of Byronic anti-heros. No not a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

Farmer Dave(Podcasting's David Heath) talks of Byronic anti-heros. No not a bisexual moron, that would be a Niciezaian anti-hero. A Byronic anti-hero is a moody, rebellious, and intelligent character archetype popularized by Lord Byron, blending charming charisma with dark, brooding flaws. Unlike traditional heroes, they are cynical, emotionally tortured, and often haunted by a mysterious past, acting in ways that defy social norms. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

This week on The Literary Life Podcast with Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks, we continue our series on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. In today's episode, they talk about the main plot points and follow threads of meaning in chapters 27-33. Some of the ideas they discuss include Romanticism in literature, Rochester's Byronic qualities, pictures of Jane's awakening, the eucatastrophe in this section of the book, parallels to the story of Cupid and Psyche, and more contrasts between fire and ice. You can check out all the latest offerings of mini-classes and webinars, both upcoming and recorded in the past. Find everything at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, where you can also sign up for the HHL newsletter to stay in the loop about all the latest happenings! Don't forget to visit https://theliterary.life/323 for the full show notes for this episode.

Send us a textThis week we review the season five episode Strange Relations.Mike (mostly) refuses to buy Gucci, Joe explains line of sight rules in telepathery, and Sarah calculates the "Ivanova was always right" quotient.Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:56:54Spoiler Zone: 0:56:54 - 0:59:35Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:59:35Music from this episode:"Surf Punk Rock" By absentrealities is licensed under CC-BY 3.0"Please Define The Error" By Delta Centauri is licensed under CC-BY 3.0"The Haunted McMansion" By Megabit Melodies is licensed under CC-BY 3.0

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys In this week's episode, we begin part one of a 2-part series describing the life and times of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, the famous Romantic poet of the early 19th century who went to Greece in hopes of fighting for independence against the Ottomans, and immediately died. But, who was this man? And is describing something as "Byronic" a good thing? Spoiler: uh-oh. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bostridge, Mark. “On the Trail of the Real Lord Byron.” The Independent, November 4, 2002. https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/on-the-trail-of-the-real-lord-byron-126324.html. Brand, Emily. The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England. Paperback edition. John Murray, 2021. Brewer, David. The Greek War of Independence: The Struggle for Freedom from Ottoman Oppression and the Birth of the Modern Greek Nation. Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2001. http://archive.org/details/greekwarofindepe0000brew. Burton, Danielle. “Lord Byron and His Pet Bear.” Derbyshire Record Office, October 22, 2024. https://recordoffice.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/lord-byron-and-his-pet-bear/. Byron, George Gordon, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, and Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle. The Words of Lord Byron. London : J. Murray; New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1898. http://archive.org/details/worksoflordbyron11byro. Byron, William Byron. The trial of William Lord Byron, Baron Byron of Rochdale, for the murder of William Chaworth, Esq; before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, ... On Tuesday the 16th, and Wednesday the 17th of April, 1765: on the last of which days the said William Lord Byron was acquitted of murder, but found guilty of manslaughter. ... 1765. 1765. http://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-trial-of-william-lor_byron-william-byron-ba_1765. “Edward Blaquiere, British Officer, Founding Member of the Philhellenic Committee of London.” Εταιρεία Για Τον Ελληνισμό Και Τον Φιλελληνισμό, October 27, 2020. https://www.eefshp.org/en/edward-blaquiere-british-officer-founding-member-of-the-philhellenic-committee-of-london/. Jones, Thomas. “On Top of Everything.” Review of Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame, by Benita Eisler. London Review of Books, September 16, 1999. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v21/n18/thomas-jones/on-top-of-everything. Kunst Museum Winterthur. “Bildtext: Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer.” Accessed December 9, 2025. https://www.kmw.ch/ausstellungen/friedrich/digital/wanderer/. Marchand, Leslie A. Byron: A Portrait. The University of Chicago Press, 1979. MacCarthy, Fiona. Byron: Life and Legend. London: John Murray, 2014. Patanè, Vincenzo, James Schwarten, and John Francis Phillimore. The Sour Fruit: Lord Byron, Love & Sex. John Cabot university press Copublished by the Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. Rizzoli, G. B. “Byron's Unacknowledged Armenian Grammar and a New Poem.” Keats-Shelley Journal 64 (2015): 43–71.

In this episode I'm joined by Caily to unpack the enduring allure of Fitzwilliam Darcy. Together, we explore The Darcy Effect—why this seemingly aloof gentleman continues to captivate readers over two centuries later. Is Mr. Darcy truly the archetype of the Romantic hero, or does he lean closer to the brooding complexities of a Byronic figure? We take a deep dive into his character. Join us for a rich discussion full of nuance and theory

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Andy Barr would be Byronic if Byron weren't an absolute nightmare and wore more interesting shirts. The tragic clown, a master of turns of phrase and void-staring. I wish I could describe him better but the fact is I'm not as good at describing Andy Barr as Andy Barr would be because he's amazing. Alongside a superb set, Andy talks to host and MC James Ross about mental health, the 3 Act Structure of sets and just checking in on whether he's ok. CW: Alcoholism, Depression If you'd like to have more of Andy in your ears and eyes, you can find his website HERE, or listen to his (and other wonderful comedian Alexander Bennet's) superb podcast Born Yesterday HERE. Do you want to see Andy's incredible shirt? Then consider joining our Patreon where you can get early access to podcast episodes and watch full videos of Quantum Leopard comedy shows, from the high-energy openers to the loveliest of headliners, including the set from this very episode! Quantum Leopard is a lovely comedy night for lovely people and you can find more links to info about us here: https://linktr.ee/quantumleopard   Edited by Rhys Lawton Original show recording by Aniruddh Ojha Music is by ROOKES production services (https://www.iamrookes.com/)

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~· The Romantic Poets were among the first celebrities in history.o Famous for their talent and their scandalous lives.· William Blakeo Born in London on November 28, 1757, Blake was not only a poet but also a painter and printmaker. § His prints and artworks are known just as much as his poems.o Blake's work often explores themes of spirituality, imagination, and the nature of reality. § He often had visions as a child, including angels in a tree and God looking at him through a window.§ Also, known for being a pioneer in the free love movement. o In poems like "The Tyger" and "The Lamb," he explores the dualities of existence—good and evil, innocence and experience. § His most famous poem is Jerusalem which is now considered to the unofficial anthem for England. o Influenced many poets, writers and is considered the inspiration for comic literature.· Lord Byrono Born George Gordon Byron on January 22, 1788, in London, Byron was both a poet and a nobleman. o His life was marked by scandal, adventure, and a fierce dedication to personal freedom. § “Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know”§ He was disabled and bulimic who suffered with body image issues.§ Byron used to drink out of a skull he found and made flower pots out of the rest. § He had numerous affairs with both men and women as well as his own half-sister.o Byron's most famous works include Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. § In Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Byron introduced the "Byronic hero," a brooding, rebellious, and charismatic figure that became a staple of Romantic literature. § Don Juan, on the other hand, is a satirical epic that parodies the traditional hero by presenting its protagonist as a flawed yet sympathetic character. § He was one of the first writers whose works were pirated!o Byron fought for Greek independence and died in Greece in 1816· Percy Shelleyo Born on August 4, 1792, in Sussex, England. § Also, he was famous vegetarian. o He was expelled from Oxford for writing an essay promoting atheism.o Married a 16-year-old girl Harriet Westbrook.§ Shelley was cut off by his father and lost a huge fortune.§ Harriet eventually drowned herself when Shelley abandoned her.§ Married Mary Shelley, the writer of Frankenstein, three weeks later.· Also was having a relationship with Mary's step-sister!o Shelley's poetry is known for its lyrical beauty, philosophical depth, and revolutionary spirit. o He was a passionate advocate for political and social reform, and his works often express a longing for a more just and free world. o Shelley's life was cut short when he drowned in a boating accident at the age of 29. Hi, everyone and welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】. Hi, 安澜. Hi lulu, hi everyone. So 安澜, you know that we have been developing this new course, this new 四合一literature classics course. Yeah, that's when we've been going through pretty much the whole of English literature very very carefully.Yeah, and when we say English literature, we don't just mean England, we mean like English speaking.English speaking literature.Yeah, so I thought let's do a literature episode. Sounds great. But like English literature is huge, which area do you want to focus on?I would like to do the romantic poets.Woo, yes.就是浪漫主义诗人. When you hear this title, you probably think "oh, it's just going to be very romantic and sentimental lyrics or like verses.No.No, we're gonna talk about their 狗血 life. Yes, the romantic poets were pretty scandalous. And in some cases, pretty horrible as well.Yeah. Well, unlike the name suggests.

“The Greatest In Goth Pop Culture” is admittedly a weird topic to be talking about today but with the new Crow movie bombing it made us think about how truly ubiquitous goth culture was in the 80's and 90's.  What happened? Why did this brand of melancholic existentialism / nihilism fall out of fashion after being basically the aesthetic of 90's action movies and many of the teens going to see them.  The discussion of greatest works in goth movies and literature is truly inspired and one of our proudest moments.  So lay on a grave, turn your walkman on and listen to this episode with a sense of ennui and Byronic yearning.    Follow us! Here's everybody's Twitter: https://twitter.com/NerdGoatPodcast (Our Twitter account) https://twitter.com/EdGreerDestroys https://twitter.com/dorkyswallow Please leave a 5 star review on your podcast app, it really helps! Subscribe and like our videos on YouTube and Please share our stuff.   Support our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/TheGreatestPod to get exclusive pods on subjects we can't tackle here and also physical art prints. Watch REBOOT IT, our YouTube Show where we update your favorite franchises alongside Fandom Producer Billy Business here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/REBOOTITSHOW https://www.youtube.com/@ronswallow   Buy Ron's album here: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=on+the+wing+of+a+dragon+ron+swallow&i=digital-music&crid=19V9JSITSY4QX&fbclid=IwAR1pNRvTsJXRfyPj0hu4MFINx6bUXy9KTdy7_3_UJZNB9Zr8j7fe8FUIiVA&sprefix=%2Cdigital-music%2C187&ref=nb_sb_ss_recent_1_0_recent https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-wings-of-a-dragon/1687418796

Sailor Noob is the podcast where a Sailor Moon superfan and a total noob go episode by episode through the original Sailor Moon series!Luna is in trouble this week when she falls for the enigmatic Yaten! But can she pull her head out of the clouds in time to save herself and her Byronic boyfriend from Sailor Mademoiselle?In this episode, we discuss the history of cosmetics in Japan. We also talk about having an open face, Eclair de Luna, Shakespeare Moon, Old School Sailor V, shojo nosebleeds, sex farce stuff, Hangin' with Mr. Higashi, going seinen, "almost like girlfriend", #freeJuliana, sorry ladies, Sailor Fredericks of Hollywood, a moaning after, and Love Benedryl!#RIP Donald SutherlandWe're on iTunes and your listening platform of choice! Please subscribe and give us a rating and a review! Arigato gozaimasu!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sailor-noob/id1486204787Answer this week's show question on Spotify!Listen to our new podcast, Mona Lisa Overpod!https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mona-lisa-overpod--6195851Become a patron of the show and get access to our live-action PGSM, Animedification, Utena, Ghibli, and Evangelion podcasts!http://www.patreon.com/sailornoobPut Sailor Noob merch on your body!http://justenoughtrope.threadless.comSailor Noob is a part of the Just Enough Trope podcast network. Check out our other shows about your favorite pop culture topics and join our Discord!http://www.twitter.com/noob_sailorhttp://www.justenoughtrope.comhttp://www.instagram.com/noob_sailorhttps://discord.gg/49bzqdpBpxBuy us a coffee on Ko-Fi!https://ko-fi.com/justenoughtrope

Emily Princess is a tragic, Byronic heroine in this one and also SO Pretty! Join James and Bee as they talk about Emily's wet dog energy and her need for hot soup. This one is 3 hours long, so strap in! We're talking Season 4 Episode 17 - DEMONOLOGY --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wheelsuppod/message

This is Episode 244 of Celebrate Poe - Darkness - the second of three episodes about Lord ByronWhere we left off, it is said that Lord Byron awoke one morning and found himself famous. The first run of his latest book of 500 copies sold out in three days.  Pretty impressive for the time!This episode also takes a deep dive into Byron's apocalyptic poem - Darkness, as well as a look at the concept of the Byronic hero.

OK Annabel is still OOO, so Emilie has roped in a friend of the pod, the marvellous Esther Coren to help. Esther has her own podcast, Giles Coren Has No Idea and a Substack called The Spike and she also gives excellent book recommendations. Given we're all feeling mad, bad and dangerous to know (not in a swashbuckling-Byronic-way but in a teetering on The-Brink-kind-of-way) perhaps books can soothe us tiny bit: little umbrellas for the mind. We talk about The Paleo Life by Clare Foges (out June 6), Quint by Robert Lautner, The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (May 14), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Egg & I by Betty MacDonald (out of print, but will be on World of Books, which, incidentally, is the preloved Amazon), Hugo Rifkind's Rabbits (also June 6), and In Memoriam by Alice Winn. Plus there's a cameo from Esther's cat Iris.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He brought forth the eponymous Byronic hero, inspired musicians from Liszt to Leonard Cohen, and despite a roguish reputation, he is still regarded today as one of the great poets.

Tune in to this episode of The Lit Pickers where Deepanjana and Supriya set out to explore the allure of the literary bad boy, a.k.a Byronic heroes. From Bronte's brooding Heathcliff to the hero of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera, they navigate the treacherous terrain of men from literature who challenge convention and also uphold them in often dark and mysterious ways. Beware of anti-heroes, unflattering husbands, and the evolving definition of virtue as they explore how this trope has evolved over time and spilled even into Byronic heroines. Grab your books and a strong cup of coffee for this literary soiree where the only dish up for grabs is sass.   You can find Supriya Nair at @supriyanair and Deepanjana Pal at @dpanjana on Instagram.    If you have any books, reading or literature-related questions, please email us at contact@maed.in.    For a list of all the books mentioned in the season so far, check out: https://thelitpickers.fanlink.to/books   This is a Maed In India Production; check us out at www.maedinindia.in.  Creative Director: Mae Mariyam Thomas Project Manager: Shaun Fanthome Head of Audio: Kartik Kulkarni Producer: Meghna Gulati  Sound Editor: Lakshman Parsuram Artwork: Alika Gupta Theme Music: Easy Wanderlings - Here's to You

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Byronic Hero Always Loses, published by Cole Wyeth on February 23, 2024 on LessWrong. Why do we root for the antiheroes? Walter White, Light Yagami, Lucifer Morningstar, Doctor Frankenstein... It seems to be natural to root for the bad guys, and perhaps even more natural for rationalists. "I must confess I have always had some sympathy with villains. Heroism makes fine entertainment but sooner or later someone has to get things done." - Bayaz, Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy. I think this is the reason, at least for me. Villains (particularly the most beloved villains) are agentic. They know what they want and they attempt to obtain it through their own actions. Sometimes those actions are even reasonable. This is notable because it's usually untrue of heroes. Heroes tend to be called to adventure, accepting a goal thrust upon them by circumstances or a bearded stranger or both. Then they pursue it, but often alongside a handful of other eclectic goals which cause internal conflict when they can't all be satisfied (getting distracted rescuing some civilians when the fate of the world is at stake). There's also something fairly un-agentic about following an absolute "honor" code, which is much more common among heroes than villains. Finally, heroes have teams of friends instead of minions, and are often forced to go out of their way to help their friends. A hero's friendships might even change his terminal values! So, why do we often find villains so fascinating? I think it's the same reason that rationalists don't run the world. Being highly agentic just isn't easy in real life, because it's inherently individualistic. Individuals tend to be outcompeted by large organizations. Large organizations are approximately agentic, but the people making up a large organization don't necessarily have to be. In fact, it might be better if they aren't! The military seems to optimize much more strongly for loyalty and discipline than agency - in fact, an army of agents with diverse goals seems tricky to control, since most will instrumentally value their own survival (though an army of agents with one cohesive goal may be even more formidable). In industry, principles of comparative advantage can imply that it is best for each employee to become highly specialized, which seems opposed to developing their agency. A more capable agent might generalize (building the type of skill set that a startup found might need, including "executive nature" as in Competent Elites). Though agentic employees can create a lot of value, I think it is typically more cost effective to create additional cogs in the machine than it is to increase agency. I think this is also why politicians are not very clever (epistemic status: I don't know any politicians). The things we value in a leader include costly trustworthiness signals (see https://www.elephantinthebrain.com/). In fact, the risk of an actively corrupt leader may be great enough that some would prefer a candidate with actively irrational beliefs (say, expecting moral judgement in the afterlife). I would almost go so far as to say that the idea of becoming a Machiavellian scheming mastermind and changing the world (for better or worse) through sheer cleverness is a childish fantasy. Maybe that's not a bad thing; children might be naive, but at least they aren't bitter. Perhaps it's just my American upbringing, but I think I want to live in a world where agents can get what they want, even with the world set against them, if only they are clever and persistent enough. So when I read about another despicable villain sacrificing it all and throwing the natural order out of balance in the name of cursed immortality or to avenge their family or to grasp untold riches, I can't help but root for them a little. In a way, Milton's Lucifer is the ...

Byron's early poems – his so-called 'dark tales' – have been dismissed by critics as the tawdry, slapdash products of an uninteresting mind, and readers ever since have found it difficult not to see them in light of the poet's dramatic and public later life. In a recent piece for the LRB, Clare Bucknell looked past the famous biography to observe the youthful Byron's mind at work in poems such as The Giaour (1813), The Corsair (1814) and Lara (1814), where early versions of the Byronic hero were often characterised by passivity, rumination and choicelessness.Clare discusses the piece with Tom, and talks about her new Close Readings series, On Satire, with Colin Burrow, which features Don Juan alongside works by Jane Austen, Laurence Sterne, John Donne, Muriel Spark and others.Read Clare's piece on Byron: https://lrb.me/byronpodJoin Clare and Colin Burrow for their series on satire next year, and receive all the books under discussion, access to online seminars and the rest of the Close Readings audio, with Close Readings Plus: https://lrb.me/plusytTo subscribe to the audio only, and access all our other Close Readings series:Sign up directly in Apple here: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/byronsc Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What do you do when you find out your lover intends to destroy the world? Listen now as the girls discuss Byronic heroes, hubris and shame, and falling in love so hard it's frightening. We were joined at the end by best friend of the pod and fellow Solasmancer, Cloudy Atlas! We tangent as usual, we like to shoot the shit here. Please like, subscribe, and leave a review! Watch live on Fridays at 10:30pm ET: https://www.twitch.tv/twogirlsoneship Follow us on all the socials https://linktr.ee/twogirlsoneship Advertise with us & business inquiries: twogirlsoneship@gmail.com Theme song: TGOS Theme from Pipeman Studios Find all the other Robots Radio Network shows at https://www.robotsradio.net/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The beautiful tone and pure British diction of Nicholas Boulton are put to fine use in this history of the mutiny on HMS BOUNTY. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile's Alan Minskoff discuss how this history differs from previous explorations of the BOUNTY mutiny. Golden Voice Boulton has a masterful ability to let this fascinating re-creation of events unfold for listeners. His performance highlights how this often romanticized story made Captain Bligh into a monster and Fletcher Christian a Byronic hero, interpretations that the record doesn't reveal or corroborate. This is a long but satisfying listen. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by Penguin Audio. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com Support for this podcast comes from #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben's explosively fast thriller Shelter is now an Amazon Prime Original Series. Listen to the series that started it all at Audible.com/Shelter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the spirit of excess and self-indulgence, the rakes inspect our own characters. What is a historical romance rake, and can they be categorized by type? Join us as we discuss Byronic rakes, malevolent seducers, charming rakes, loquacious weirdos, and so much more. This is a fun one with lots of recommendations, so ignore your gambling debts and hop in your curricle, we're on our way to the Hellfire Club! For further reading, check out A Taxonomy of Rakes on Chels' Subastack. Support us on our PATREONFollow us on social media: Twitter: @reformedrakesInstagram: @reformedrakesBeth's TikTokChels' TikTokEmma's TikTokChels' SubstackEmma's Substack Visit our website for transcripts and show notes: reformedrakes.comThank you for listening!

Nancy, who needs enrichment in her habitat, is persuaded (ridiculously easily) to follow up on the faintest clue in the three year old disappearance of a hot rock star (John Stamos). Bess persuades veejay Luke from General Hospital to sponsor Nancy's improv murder-mystery destination vacation at his MTV-lite station. L Ron also appears as the channel president with mutton chop sideburns, and Tawny Kitaen has a fun cameo. Lots about “just because we can, should we?” and “how much do we owe Byronic heroes?”

Notes:The Verbivore mentions a book that she read on how we create that talks about Picasso and his creative inspirations and influences. That book is The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt.Here are a few articles and videos we referenced for this conversation:- New York Public Library Article “A Brief History of Gothic Romance”- The Hub YALSA Article “Genre Guide: Paranormal Romances for Teens”- YouTube Video “Vampires: Folklore, fantasy and fact - Michael Molina - TedED”- YouTube Video “How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire? - Stanley Stepanic” - YouTube Video “Lessons from a terrified horror researcher | Mathias Clasen | TEDxAarhus”- YouTube Video “What horror films teach us about ourselves and being human | Dr. Steven Schlozman | TEDxNashville”- YouTube Video “Crimson Peak 2015 Extras - A Primer on Gothic Romance” - YouTube Video “Tom Hiddleston Explains Gothic Romance (Oct. 20, 2015) | Charlie Rose”- YouTube Video “The Byronic Hero: Isn't it Byronic? (Feat. Princess Weekes) | It's Lit” - YouTube Video “Jane Eyre: Why We Keep Reading It (Feat. Princess Weekes) | It's Lit”- YouTube Video “Literary References in Reylo: Jane Eyre”- GreekMythology.com Article “The Myth Of Hades And Persephone”- BuzzFeed Article “22 Books With The Grumpy/Sunshine Trope That You'll Absolutely Love” We touch on several of our previous podcast episodes. They are as follows:- Episode 161: Monster In The House Stories- Episode 162: Setting as a MonsterBooks and Films Mentioned: - Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer- Crave (Crave Book 1) by Tracy Wolff - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - The Invitation – Directed by Jessica Thompson - The Beautiful (The Beautiful Quartet Book 1) by Renée Ahdieh - Dracula by Bram Stoker - An American Werewolf in London – Directed by John Landis - An American Werewolf in Paris – Directed by Anthony Waller - Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix - The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause - Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice - The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt - Underworld (Film Series) – Directed Len Wiseman - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K Rowling - The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black - The Beauty and the Beast by Marie Le Prince de Beaumont - Beauty and the Beast – Directed by Bill Condon - Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge - The Rise of Skywalker – Directed by J. J. Abrams - The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazlewood Music from: https://filmmusic.io ‘Friendly day' by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Notes:The Verbivore reads some of the introductory description to the house High Place from Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic. Here are those words:- “Francis took out a key and opened the heavy door. Noemí walked into the entrance hall, which gave them an immediate view of a grand staircase of mahogany and oak with a round, stained-glass window on the second landing. The window threw shades of reds and blues and yellows upon a faded green carpet, and two carvings of nymphs—one at the bottom of the stairs by the newel post, another by the window—stood as silent guardians of the house. By the entrance there had been a painting or a mirror on a wall, and its oval outline was visible against the wallpaper, like a lonesome fingerprint at the scene of a crime.”Here are a few articles and videos we referenced for this conversation:- The Strand Magazine “The Necessity of an Antagonistic Setting”- MasterClass Article “How to Create Atmosphere and Mood in Writing”- MasterClass Article “How to Describe Setting in Literature”- MasterClass Article “What Is Setting in Writing? Plus Dan Brown's 5 Tips on Writing Setting” - Storyboard That “Character vs. Nature / Man vs. Nature” - New York Public Library Article “A Brief History of Gothic Romance”- BL.UK Article “The Gothic in Great Expectations” - YouTube Video “Crimson Peak 2015 Extras - A Primer on Gothic Romance” - YouTube Video “Tom Hiddleston Explains Gothic Romance (Oct. 20, 2015) | Charlie Rose”- YouTube Video “The Byronic Hero: Isn't it Byronic? (Feat. Princess Weekes) | It's Lit” - YouTube Video “Jane Eyre: Why We Keep Reading It (Feat. Princess Weekes) | It's Lit”We touch on several of our previous podcast episodes. They are as follows:- Episode 58: Let's talk about Mexican Gothic- Episode 131: Jurassic Park Books Mentioned: - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - Masterpiece Theater: Northanger Abbey - Directed by Jon Jones - The House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca – Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - Crimson Peak – Directed by Guillermo del Toro - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King - Uprooted by Naomi Novik - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton - Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert Music from: https://filmmusic.io ‘Friendly day' by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

What makes certain types of crime cool and are there any rules? Why is it that the arts and media glorify different forms of criminality over others? In this week's podcast, we delve into the world of cool criminals. We discuss the difference between pirates and privateers, the Byronic hero, the mafia, Baader Meinhof and Narco ballads. Nick presents his theory on how to make crimes cool and we speculate on the origins of coolness itself. Finally, we share some of our favourite crimes and criminals. A few things we mentioned in this podcast: - Lance Gooden wants to make privateering great again https://texassignal.com/lance-gooden-wants-to-make-privateering-great-again/ - Too Great a Cruelty: ARCHAEOLOGY's Top Ten Vicious Pirate Actshttps://archive.archaeology.org/online/reviews/pirates/poll.html - Baader-Meinhof: The glamorous and beguiling face of militant violencehttps://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads/baader-meinhof-germany-terrorists-b829163.html For more information on Aleph Insights visit our website https://alephinsights.com or to get in touch about our podcast email podcast@alephinsights.com

What is beastliness? Little Red Riding Hood stories used to be tales of warning for young women to manage their sexuality in the face of the dangerous beasts of court, who were smooth on the outside, but hairy on the inside. In the 21st century, paranormal teen romances use enchantment to transform the beasts into objects of desire. Dr. Nicola Welsh-Burke, a scholar of fairy tales and romance, is here to discuss hot wolf boys, brooding Byronic figures, pseudomarriage and pseudovirginity, hot villain discourse, and why young women need beastly men to unlock their sexuality.Shelf Love:Join the Conversation on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/ShelfLoveSign up for the email newsletter list | Website | Patreon | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: Andrea@shelflovepodcast.comGuest: Dr. Nicola Welsh-BurkeTwitterDr. Welsh-Burke is an academic and lecturer at Western Sydney University in Sydney, Australia. She's an early-stage researcher in folklore and fairy tales and the romance genre, and her PhD was on contemporary YA supernatural romance, retellings of little red riding hood from the 21st century.fDiscussed:Nicola's Texts:Wolves of Mercy Falls Series by Maggie StiefvaterSister's Red by Jackson PierceLow Red Moon by Ivy DevlinRed Riding Hood, the novelization of the 2011 filmThe Toast: A Day In The Life Of A Brooding Romantic HeroAarne-Thompson-Uther indexLittle Red Riding Hood is: ATU 425Famous Folklorists & scholars:Angela Carter: “hairy on the inside”Charles Perrault: “smooth-faced wolves”Countess d'Aulnoy: coined the term “fairytale”Cristina Bacchilega: “the fairy tale web”Dr. Jodi McAllister: The Consummate VirginDr. Christina Seifert: pseudovirginityThe complex fantasy (Diamond, 2011): to have the bad boy, to never come to harm, to have his wildness for one's self.

In the last episode of this podcast, we took apart Ulysses' speech to discover its poetics and uncover some of its historical roots. Now it's time to turn to the interpretation of his words. Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I build a case against Ulysses. Yes, he's in hell. But that's not enough for us readers to condemn him, given his rousing rhetoric and gorgeous poetics. What can we learn from his speech that will help us put him far down in hell, as Dante does? Here are the segments of this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE: [01:46] Once again, my English translation of the passage: INFERNO, Canto XXVI, lines 85 - 141. If you'd like to read along or drop a comment on this episode, go to my website, markscarbrough.com. [05:09] The eight pieces of our case against Ulysses: 1. Why even make a case against him if he's already in hell? Because he's been turned into a Byronic hero over the years. [06:33] 2. Ulysses is a Greek, enough in itself for Dante to condemn him. [07:46] 3. Ulysses is not forthright about his motivations. [11:04] 4. Ulysses rouses his companions with a speech that begins by quoting one by Julius Caesar in Lucan's PHARSALIA. [13:48] 5. What then are Ulysses' motivations? Perhaps to find immortality without death. [15:32] 6. Ulysses is a tempter toward destruction, like the snake in Eden. [18:20] 7. Ulysses repeatedly uses a word--"picciola"--that minimizes his guilt and the humanity of the men who die with him. [20:42] 8. Ulysses' entire speech is a masterpiece of false counsel toward Virgil, Dante the pilgrim, and, well, us, as we come to sympathize with him.