The Cromcast: A Weird Fiction Podcast
A Hyborian Age podcast featuring the works of Robert E. Howard, his pop culture legacy, and other weird fiction.
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Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Hile, adventurers! Our adventurers continue their exploration of Castle Ravenloft, and stand against STRAHD!!! Our episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. "Gnarled Situation" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Likewise Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/r . Our final track
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
Welcome, Cromrades! It has been a while, but we are still rolling down that Manly Road through the Appalachian Mountains with Manly Wade Wellman and his Silver John stories! This week, we take a ride on The Little Black Train (read it here) and see that, though death comes for each of us, a sinful life leads to a ride on the little black train to the bad place! Note: Josh meant Josh Turner,
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Hile, adventurers! Our adventurers continue their exploration of Castle Ravenloft, and we further explore the catacombs of Ravenloft! Our episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. "Gnarled Situation" and "Black Vortex" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Likewise Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Howdy, y'all! Come on back in this holler a spell and learn a bit about the Silver John tale, "Vandy, Vandy". This is another terrific yarn by Manly Wade Wellman and features a witch man trying his magic on an innocent young gal. Luckily for her, Silver John has come a calling and he's carrying a quarter!
One Things
Jon - Garth Ennis' War Stories, they are stories of war
Josh -
Friday Jun 12, 2020
Friday Jun 12, 2020
Hile, adventurers! Our adventurers continue their exploration of Castle Ravenloft, and we further explore the catacombs of Ravenloft! Our episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. "Gnarled Situation" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Likewise Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Welcome back, Cromrades! We're excited to kick off Season 12 with O Ugly Bird (read it here), a John the Balladeer story first published in the December 1951 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. We have a backwoods wizard, a local populace under siege, and John, who breezes through the mountains writing wrongs and singing songs!
Friday May 15, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
Hile, adventurers! We interrupt your regularly-scheduled Bourbon & Barbarians broadcast for this special release... We are joined by an old school friend from way back, Levi Combs, who spearheads Planet X Games!
Planet X has previously released Jungle Tomb of the Mummy Bride, and An Occurrence at Howling Crater. You may remember a previous episode we did with Levi about a year ago? Well,
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Howdy, Cromrades! The end of The Road West is in sight, but we've got one more stop to make this week along the dusty trail, in a town called Whapeton. Or is it Wahpeton? We've been excited to get here, and now we're discussing The Vultures of Whapeton by Robert E. Howard! This is a fitting way to finish off the season, with discussions of classic vs. revisionist westerns, the trappings of
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Howdy, howdy cromrades! Get ready for funny bone tickling and mule kicking in an episode that features the humorous western character Breckenridge Elkins. We're going to be covering the Howard story "Mountain Man" and talking about why tall tales appeal to us. It's a rip roaring good time full of corn juice and giggles.
Things to check out
Mountain Man comic
Mountain Man,
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Hile, adventurers! Our adventurers continue their exploration of Castle Ravenloft, and we encounters the BRIDES OF STRAHD. Our episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. "Gnarled Situation" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Likewise Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Our