Season 3, Episode 5 - The Moon of Skulls (with guest host Jeffrey Shanks!)

Hile, adventurers! Today's show focuses on the Solomon Kane epic, The Moon of Skulls. We were lucky to have Howard scholar Jeffrey Shanks join us to discuss this controversial story. Our discussion was a doozy! Be sure, this is an episode for the ages!

Our One Things for this episode include...

Jeffrey: Dungeons and Dragons, Fifth Edition

Jon: The BBC series, Black Mirror

Josh: The Netflix original series, Marco Polo

Luke: Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles 

Also be sure to check out the new book from Brian Keene, The Lost Level. All of our Cromrades will receive a 50% discount off either the trade paperback or digital copy of this book if you order it from Apex Publications and use the promo code mentioned in this episode... Listen for that promo code! And get your hands on a tale of high adventure!

Be sure to check out Jeffrey Shanks' blog, An Age Undreamed Of, for a taste of Mr. Shanks' perspective on all things pulp! Consider picking up the book that Jeff edited, "Zombies From the Pulps!" And, for a bit of info about Howard's adaptation of Atlantean themes, check out this presentation by Jeff at the 2011 PCA/ACA National Conference.

Our episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 

Beginning theme: "Sudden Defeat" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. 

Our closing theme for this episode is "Vengeance is Mine" performed by Alice Cooper from the 2008 album "Along Came a Spider". All music was obtained legally; we hope our discussion of this content makes you want to go out and purchase the work!

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