Cromtober 2022 Episode 2: Dickens' 'The Signalman' and Leiber's 'Belsen Express'

Hile, Cromrades! We return for our second spooktacular episode for this October. Our Halloween festivities this year are focused on spectral locomotives! For this episode we read Dicken's 'The Signalman' and Leiber's 'Belsen Express.' Heady talk around the firepit await you!

One Things

Josh: Is absolutely DIGGING some Scott Oden, particularly 'A Gathering of Ravens!' If you are new to Scott's work, this is a great place to start. If you are looking for a shorter, free option to check out this author, be sure to check out his entries in Issues 4 and 5 of Whetstone. You will NOT regret it!

Jonathan: Getting cosmic with some 'Kirby and the Forgotten Land!'

Luke: Lovin' on some Type O Negative, and has been relistening to the Requiem Metal Podcast. Check Episodes 265 and 266 for a great 10-hour effort to work through their oeuvre. Also be sure to check out Radical Research for other heady criticism. These dudes are 1000% legit deep-dives into metal and prog.

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Cromtober 2022 Episode 1: Get on the Ghost Train and Head to Willoughby

 

Howdy Cromrades! It's the most wonderful and spooktacular time of the year, around these parts we call it Cromtober. Our 2022 Halloween festivities are focused on spectral locomotives, you know,  ghost trains! Trains have long inspired tales of ghosts and haints and even sometimes serve as means of conveyance to get your soul down to hell. 

For our first episode, we focus most of our discussion on the class Twilight Zone episode "A Stop at Willoughby" where our protagonist "Mr. Gart Williams, an ad agency exec, who in just a moment, will move into the Twilight Zone—in a desperate search for survival."

Beyond our stop in the Twilight Zone, we also discuss why trains are kind of scary and the different things they symbols in folklore and ghost stories. Last but not least, let's learn about President Abraham Lincoln's Ghost Train! Hope aboard, won't you? 

 

One things

Josh: Has been enjoying The Rings of Power and House of the Dragon

Jonathan: Has been dipping his toes into some true crime with the podcast Le Monstre 

Luke: Loves books, especially the Valancourt Books edition of "In a Lonely Place" by Karl Edward Wagner

Show Notes

Check out a deep dive into Railway Ghosts with our podcast pal Blurry Photos

Some other shows that have hit this topic, make sure you check 'em out Bone & Sickle, Haunted Garage, Listen with the Lights on, Unrest Podcast. 

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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/ Themes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 

Outro: "This Train" by blues legend Big Bill Broonzy. Music obtained legally; we hope our discussion of this content makes you want to go out and purchase the work!