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Action! Excitement! Horror! Romance! Thrills and Chills! Swords and Sorcery! Rockets and Rayguns! Hosts Adam Prosser and Philip Rice take a journey through the history of SF, Fantasy, horror, and pulp fiction.
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S5E143 -Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Three: Blood of the Evil-Doer! (opens the original)
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Philip's retrospective through the works of Anne Rice continues, and at this point even Anne Rice herself seems to be getting a little tired of things, as she snarks at the audience via Lestat and starts to twist the formula out of shape. Apparently things get REALLY weird in the last few books, but we'll get there, we'll get there... Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! [Adams Patreon]( https://patreon.com/phantasmictales ) [Phils Patreon]( https://www.patreon.com/Spearhaf
S5E142 -Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Two: The Lady Bird! (opens the original)
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Superheroes have their origins in a dozen different places and eras, some well known, some less so (at least here in North America). Pre-WWI French pulp has actually been a surprisingly fertile ground for early proto-superheroes--or what some might call full-blown superheroes, long before the era they're usually associated with. L'Oiselle (The Bird), an early pulp story about a female daredevil with a flying suit, is certainly a strong contender for one of the first superheroes, so let's dig in
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