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Oct 2024
59m 53s

Grimoire of Horror, Volume 1

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This Halloween, Robert and Joe take a seasonal tradition in a new direction with Grimoire of Horror, in which they’ll each present a horror short-story of note and discuss its connections to science and culture at large. In this volume, they discuss Clark Ashton Smith's "The Maker of Gargoyles" and Stephen Graham Jones's "Thirteen."

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