This is an off-the-cuff episode, wherein I cover a variety of things.

Free PDFs:

Cairn: Barebones Edition by Yochai Gal https://yochaigal.itch.io/cairn-barebones-edition

Intergalactic Bastionland: Beyond Into The Odd: Playtest by Chris McDowall https://open.substack.com/pub/bastionland/p/bastionland-goes-intergalactic?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Books:

Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science by Xavier Aldana Reyes for British Library Tales of the Weird

The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud

It Was All A Dream: An Anthology of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right by Brandon Applegate

Films:

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) dir. Rouben Mamoulian

The Black Cat (1934) dir. Edgar G. Ulmer

Black Pit of Dr. M (1959) dir. Fernando Mendez

The Plague of the Zombies (1966) dir. John Gilling

Theatre of Blood (1973) dir. Douglas Hickox

Frightmare (1974) dir. Pete Walker

Messiah of Evil (1974) dir. Willard Huych, Gloria Katz

Phantasm (1979) dir. Don Coscarelli

Weapons (2025) dir. Zach Cregger

RPG Material:

Cosmic Dark by Graham Walmsley

The No-Prep Gamemaster: Train Your Brain to Run Tabletop Roleplayng Games Second Edition by Matt Davids https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/524180/the-no-prep-gamemaster-train-your-brain-to-run-tabletop-roleplaying-games

Cloud Empress Core Boxed Set by Watts

Honourable Mentions:

Dave Aldridge of dPercantile (podcast)

Weird Studies podcast Episode 86: On E.T.A. Hoffmann's “The Sandman” https://open.spotify.com/episode/5LwYzcmq29EJXXa9C5SSH4?si=vDE7gzUfQQay5i-gWK8uXQ&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A7MtLPVWIcFbl5XPsMiF9f8

Scott Doward of The Good Friends of Jackson Elias (podcast)

Andy Goodman of Grizzly Peaks Radio (podcast)

Jen Fridy at GrimHumor https://www.jenfridy.com/

Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/

This month’s Movie Monday is The Golden Voyage of Sinbad from 1973. Directed by Gordon Hessler and featuring stop-motion effects of Ray Harryhausen. That episode will air on February 23rd, so please send in your submissions by the 21st if you’d like to be included in the show.

Also, be sure not to miss the new podcast I’m involved with, entitled With Wife and I. My wife, Isla, suggested we take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

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Games, Books, Movies & Improv (Cloud Empress) (E314)