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Now displaying: January, 2017
Jan 31, 2017

In our second episode devoted to the occult, we talk about the lore and history behind one of its most famous and enigmatic figures: Aleister Crowley. We also talk about some of the other secret occult societies influenced by him.

 

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/knowfearcast. As a thank you, our donors can get early access to episodes and exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

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Jan 17, 2017

In our first episode on the occult, we discuss the Victorian Spiritualist movement that had mystics and psychics trying to contact the dead, though many of them turned out to be frauds and con artists. 

Also, please go to http://www.thisishorror.co.uk/awards/ and vote for us for best nonfiction podcast of 2016. Voting ends Sunday January 22!

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon. As a thank you, our donors get access to exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

Mixed and edited by Matt

Theme music composed by Matt

 

Jan 3, 2017

In this special episode, Mel and Lisa interview author and book critic Ruth Franklin to discuss her critically acclaimed book Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, which was a New York Times Notable Book and appears on "best of 2016" lists, from Time, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and The Boston Globe, to name a few.

Ruth Franklin is a book critic, who has contributed to The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Times Book Review, and The New York Review of Books. Along with Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, she is also the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction published by Oxford University Press in 2011.

 

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon. As a thank you, our donors get access to exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

Mixed and edited by Matt

Theme music composed by Matt

 

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