Words to That Effect

Episode 15: The Scarlet Pimpernel & Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel is a character now long disconnected from his origins in a 1903 novel. The Pimpernel is a mysterious Englishman who uses elaborate disguises to heroically rescue…

The American writer H.P. Lovecraft wrote weird fiction. His work is both weird, in the conventional sense of the word, and Weird, in a more specific sense. His tales are not typical horror stories, but instead invoke a type of cosmic…

I've been working hard for the last 2 months to get a brand new season of Words To That Effect ready to go. If you're stopping by for the first time - great! All the episodes of Season 1 are available here If you’re already a fan and you’ve…

This week’s episode, the end of Season 1, is a Christmas Special. It’s a collaboration with the disturbingly good horror podcast, Down Below The Reservoir. The result is an episode about the ghost stories of MR James, followed by an…

This week literary and culture themed podcast Words To That Effect joins the HeadStuff Podcast Network. Episode 12 delves into the history of zombies in myth, literature and science, and like other episodes offers up a listening experience…

Episode 12: The Horrifically Complicated History of Zombies Whether we like it or not, the zombies are coming for us all. Films, books, computer games, comics and TV shows. From historical and mythical zombies to claims to have proven the…