The Cromcast: A Weird Fiction Podcast: The Cromcast Episode Archive

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Last updated August 22, 2019.

SEASON ONE: THE ROAD OF KINGS

Episode 01: The Phoenix on the Sword (Or, How Thoth-Amon Got His Groove Back)

Episode 02: The Scarlet Citadel (Or, Pelias Likes to Party!)

Episode 03: The Tower of the Elephant (Or, Sayonara Yara! An Elephant Alien Demon God Man Never Forgets!)

Episode 04: Black Colossus (or, You Say Natohk, I say Khotan!)

Episode 05: Xuthal of the Dusk (Or, What Happens in Xuthal, Stays In Xuthal)

Episode 06: The Pool of the Black One (Or, When Figurine Collecting Goes Too Far...)

Episode 07: Rogues in the House (Or, Conan finds the missing link and helps us learn about evolution!)

Episode 08: The Frost Giant's Daughter (or, Gods of The North)

Episode 09: Howard's Horrors: The Haunter of the Ring and Pigeons From Hell (or Zuvembies Just Wanna Have Fun...) Note: this is technically the first Cromtober episode!

Episode 0 - Secret Files and Origins of The Cromcast! Note; This is where the idea for The Cromcast took shape!

Episode 10: Iron Shadows in the Moon (Or, Nothing Surprises Conan)

Episode 11: Time for a Finnterview! (or, We Can't Believe It!)

Episode 12: Queen of the Black Coast

Episode 13: The Devil in Iron (or, Khosatral Khel's Big Day Out!)

Episode 14: Conan vs. Heavy Metal

Episode 15: Savage Sword of Comics! (Or, Conan vs. Sequential Art)

Episode 16: The People of the Black Circle (or, Conan Heads East!)

Bonus Episode: The Violet Crown Radio Players' "Waterfront Fists!"

Episode 17: A Witch Shall Be Born

Episode 18: The Jewels of Gwahlur & an Interview with John R. Fultz!

Episode 19: Beyond the Black River (Or, we zigged when we should have Zogar zagged...) (with special guest Mark Finn!)

Bonus Episode: Side Quest #1 (or, The Long Con) (Coverage of the Lexington Comic and Toy Con!)

Episode 20: Shadows in Zamboula (or, Conan Lays the Totra-Smack Down!)

Episode 21: The Hour of the Dragon (Part One)

Episode 22: The Hour of the Dragon (Part Two)

Episode 23: Red Nails (Or,"A Gang War in T-Town")

Episode 24: Conan the Barbarian [1982] (Or, Thorgrim is Beside Himself With Grief)

Episode 25: Our Year With Conan

SEASON TWO: THE ROAD OF QUEENS

Episode 01: The Isle of Pirate's Doom

Bonus Episode: Interview with publisher and author Jason Sizemore of Apex Publications

Episode 02: Sword Woman

Episode 03: Blades for France (Or, The Cromcast Apologizes to the Nation of France)

Episode 04: The Shadow of the Vulture (Or, Suleiman's Big Day Out)

Episode 05: The Black God's Kiss by C.L. Moore

Episode 06: The Cromcast versus Red Sonja 1985 (or, The She-Devil with a Mullet)

Episode 07: Finale to The Road of Queens

SEASON THREE: THE ROAD OF VENGEANCE

Episode 01: Skulls in the Stars and Right Hand of Doom (An Introduction to Solomon Kane)

Episode 02: Red Shadows

Episode 03: Rattle of Bones

Episode 04: The Castle of the Devil and Death's Black Riders

Episode 05: The Moon of Skulls (with guest host Jeffrey Shanks!)

Episode 06: The Blue Flame of Vengeance

Episode 07: The Hills of The Dead

Episode 08: Wings in the Night

Episode 09: The Footfalls Within

Episode 10: Solomon Kane Goes to The Movies

Episode 11: The Fragmented Solomon Kane pt. 2

Episode 12: The Poems of Solomon Kane (or, The Rhyming Scheme of Revenge!)

Episode 13: Season Finale - Solomon Kane in Review

SEASON FOUR: THE LOST ROAD

Episode 01: Howard and Atlantis (with special guests Jeffrey Shanks, Mark Finn, and Rusty Burke!)

Episode 02: The Shadow Kingdom!

Episode 03: The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune

Episode 04: Dive Into The Deep With Lovecraft - The Doom that Came to Sarnath and The Temple!

Episode 05: (Sippin' on) a Vintage from Atlantis with Clark Ashton Smith

Episode 06: Part I Addressing The Wizard of Lemuria by Lin Carter

Episode 07: Part II Addressing The Wizard of Lemuria by Lin Carter

Episode 08: The Lost World (1925 Film Adaptation)

Episode 09: King Kong, With El Goro (Or, All Things Kongsidered) (Featuring El Goro of Talk Without Rhythm!)

Episode 10: Tigers of the Sea

Episode 11: Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of

Episode 12: Join us in "The Temple of Abomination"!

Episode 13: King Solomon's Mines, Part One

Episode 14: King Solomon's Mines, Part 2 (or, Let me Gagool That For You)

Cromcast Special: Roadtrip to REH Days 2016!

Episode 15: She (1965 Film)

Episode 16: Men of the Shadows with Rusty Burke!

Episode 17: Kings of the Night

Episode 18: The Dark Man

Episode 19: Worms of the Earth

Episode 20: The Lost Road Finale

SEASON FIVE: THE ROAD OF CHAMPIONS

Season 5 Episode 1: Boxing Training with Chris Gruber and Mark Finn!

Season 5 Episode 2: The Pit of the Serpent (The Original Thrilla in Manila!)

Season 5 Episode 3: The VCRP Present Waterfront Fists!

Season 5 Episode 4: The Bulldog Breed

Season 5 Episode 5: Champ of the Forecastle

Season 5 Episode 6: The TNT Punch!!! (DYNAMITE!!)

Season 5 Episode 7: Men of Iron Essay and Rocky (1976)

Season 5 Episode 8: The Destiny Gorilla (or Who in the Heck is Dennis Dorgan?!)

Season 5 Episode 9: His Brother's Keeper by Dashiell Hammett

Season 5 Episode 10: Talking The Set Up (1949) with Johnny Wolfenstein and Dynamo Marz from Trick or Treat Radio!

Season 5 Episode 11: Serving up Some Bare-knuckle Boxing Cinema with El Goro (Hard Times 1975)

Season 5 Episode 12: Texas Fists! (We crave NUTRIMENT!)

Season 5 Episode 13: The Breed of Battle!

Season 5 Episode 14: The Apparition in the Prize Ring

Season 5 Episode 15: Vikings of the Gloves (Steve's in a Pickle!)

Season 5 Episode 16: Sluggers of the Beach (The Final Round)

SEASON SIX: THE ROAD TO LANKHMAR

Season 6, Episode 01: Ill Met in Lankhmar ("Her Dad Was a Duke, He's Kind Of a...")

Season 6, Episode 02: Ill Met in Lankhmar pt. 2 and The Circle Curse

Season 6, Episode 03: Jewels in the Forest

Season 6, Episode 04: Thieves' House

Season 6, Episode 05: The Bleak Shore and The Howling Tower

Season 6, Episode 06: The Sunken Land and Seven Black Priests

Season 6, Episode 07: Claws From The Night & The Price of Pain-Ease

Season 6, Episode 08: Bazaar of the Bizarre

Season 6, Episode 09: Wrapping Up the Road to Lankhmar

Season 6 Interlude: Howard Days 2018!

SEASON SEVEN: THE ROAD TO MAGIC (GRIMOIRES IN THE PULPS!)

Season 7, Episode 01: Grimoires in the Pulps!

Season 7, Episode 2: Behold the Necronomicon!

Season 7, Episode 3: Have You Found The Yellow Sign?

Season 7, Episode 4: The Book of Eibon!

Season 7, Episode 5: De Vermis Mysteriis

Season 7, Episode 6: Grimoires on Film! Evil Dead, In The Mouth of Madness, and The Ninth Gate

Season 7, Episode 7: The Black Stone (Epic Closer for Season 7)

SEASON 8: THE ROAD EAST (EL BORAK AND OTHERS!)

Season 8, Episode 1: The Daughter of Erlik Khan

Season 8, Episode 2: The Soul of a Regiment

Season 8, Episode 3: Hawk of the Hills

Season 8, Episode 4: Meet Khlit the Cossack

Season 8, Episode 5: The Man Who Would Be King

Season 8, Episode 6: The Soul of a Turk by Achmed Abdullah

Season 8, Episode 7: The Blood of the Gods by Robert E. Howard

Season 8, Episode 8: The Sowers of the Thunder with Rusty Burke!

SEASON 9: THE ROAD OF REVISIONS

Season 9, Episode 1: The Initiation - Kull and Conan with Karen Joan Kohoutek!

Season 9, Episode 2: The Extension – "The God in the Bowl" with Mark Finn!

Season 9, Episode 3: The Inspiration – "The Striking of the Gong" by Howard & Carter

Season 9 Episode 4: The Transformation of "The Black Stranger" with Rusty Burke!

Season 9 Episode 5: The Adaptations of "Queen of the Black Coast"!

Season 9 Episode 6: The Progression of "The Spears of Clontarf" by Robert E. Howard

Season 9 Episode 7: The Weirdification of "The Fire of Asshurbanpal" and The Dark Man Journal with Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney and Jason Ray Carney!

Season 9 Episode 8: The Expansion – "Nekht Semerkhet" by RE Howard and expanded by Andrew J. Offutt

Season 9 Episode 9: The Recapitulation – End of The Road of Revisions!

CROMTOBER EPISODES

Cromtober 2014, Part I: "The End of the Story," by Clark Ashton Smith

Cromtober 2014, Part II: "The Music of Erich Zann" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Cromtober 2014, Part III: Robert E. Howard's "The Cairn on the Headland"

Cromtober 2015 Episode 1: Ghosts of our Homelands

Cromtober 2015 Episode 2: A Jamesian Halloween!

Cromtober 2015 Episode 3: University Ghost Stories

Cromtober 2016 Part One: A Monstrous Conversation, featuring Justin Stewart and Kentucky Kaiju!

Cromtober 2016 Part 2: Bonfire Ghost Stories

Cromtober 2017 Part I: Howard's Werewolf Stories!!!

Cromtober 2017 Part II: Terrifying Tales by Ambrose Bierce and Laird Barron!

Cromtober 2017 Part III: Spooky Dreams

Cromtober 2018 Part One: Howard and Poe

Cromtober 2018 Part Two: Dorothy Quick's "The Witch's Mark"

Cromtober 2018 Part 3: Wine and Witches (It's Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus!)

Cromtober 2018 The Coda

Bourbon & Barbarians

Bourbon & Barbarians: Episode 1

Bourbon & Barbarians: Episode 2: In which our Heroes Journey North of the Keep

Bourbon & Barbarians: Episode 3 - Into The Wild

Bourbon & Barbarians: Episode 4 - No Secondary Title!

Bourbon & Barbarians: Episode 5

Bourbon & Barbarians: Episode 6 - "We're Gonna Die Here..."

Bourbon & Barbarians: Episode 7 - "There's Some Weird Shit Out There!"

Bourbon & Barbarians: Episode 22: 'I Slept on My Head Wrong...'

Bourbon & Barbarians: Episode 23: Staying Out (After Dark)...

Bourbon & Barbarians: Episode 24: (The Party Enters) the Shrine of Evil Chaos

Bourbon & Barbarians: Episode 25: Embrace the Cold Shadow

Bourbon & Barbarians: Episode 26: Season 1 Finale... Run to the Hills!

Bourbon & Barbarians: Season 3 Episode 1: A Bildungsroman Begins in the Borderlands

Bourbon & Barbarians: Season 3 Episode 2: Into the Lair of the Slobbertooth Kobolds!

Bourbon & Barbarians: Season 3 Episode 3: Spider Fight!

Bourbon & Barbarians: Season 3 Episode 4: Fire & Ice!

Bourbon & Barbarians: Season 3 Bonus Episode with Planet X Games!

Bourbon & Barbarians: Season 3 Episode 5: Casks of Oil!