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Get ready for a story that’ll make you feel really bad for everything you’ve ever done to your SIMS. It’s “Passengers” by Robert Silverberg! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

There’s just something about a good ol’ WTF story. Jean Ray’s “The Shadowy Steet” feels like it could have been written yesterday, and we’re gonna talk about it! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

When is a room not a room? when it’s a LITTLE ROOM! This episode, Willow and Phil are talkin’ ’bout Madeline Yale Wynne’s “The Little Room”, a story so weird, she had to write a sequel. So, we’re also talkin’ ’bout the sequel to “The Little Room” titled “The Sequel to The Little Room” I … Continue reading "The Dark Descent – “The Little Room” by Madeline Yale Wynne" The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

Get ready to hear two people yellin’ about shoggoths! That’s right, we’re going deep deep DEEP under Antarctica and finding out just WHERE WE CAME FROM and HOW BAD IT SMELLS with Part 2 of our coverage of H. P. Lovecraft’s AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS! We talk timelines, Old Ones, Mi-Go, Cthulhu Spawn, and … Continue reading "The Dark Descent – “At The Mountains of Madness” Part Two!" The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

Antarctic exploration? Grotesque penguins? Elder Things? Warning signs everyone should probably have taken more seriously?! Let’s descend into the first half of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

Let’s darkly descend into Robert A. Heinlein’s “They,” a reality-bending tale from David G. Hartwell’s Foundations of Fear. Is its unnamed protagonist delusional, imprisoned in a simulation, or right but for all the wrong reasons? Along the way, we’ll talk paranoia, isolation, collective consciousness, suspiciously localized rain, and the story’s connections to The Matrix, The … Continue reading "The Dark Descent – “They” by Robert A. Heinlein" The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

In this episode of whatever we’re calling this show now, Willow and Phil pick apart the incredible “Don’t Look Now” by Daphne du Maurier! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

Willow and I FINALLY managed to get together to record an episode! Because we’re OBLIGATED TO for this PODCAST we OSTENSIBLY do. It’s Guillermo del Toro’s first and dozenth iteration of “Frankenstein!” The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

It’s Del Toro Time returns with a deep dive into Steven Spielberg’s haunting 2001 sci-fi fairy tale, A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Originally developed by Stanley Kubrick and completed by Spielberg, this movie mashes up Pinocchio, Frankenstein, and a whole lot of emotional trauma—plus teddy bears and Jude Law as a robot gigolo. What more could you … Continue reading "The Ecstasy of Influence – A. I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)" The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

What do you get when three of the most powerful men in Hollywood decide to produce an animated film about the life of Moses? You get “The Prince of Egypt!” The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

It’s anime! It’s a thriller! It’s bizarre! It’s awesome! It’s Satoshi Kon’s “Perfect Blue” on The Ecstasy of Influence on It’s Del Toro Time! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

Finally! The movie people have been DEMANDING! Oops, I mean, finally the movie no one has ever seen. Yes, this is the video that will most likely go the most unwatched! It’s Pupi Avati’s “L’Arcano Incantatore” and it’s really good! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

Who is the biggest GO-BO-LIN of them all?! The Monster! The Creation! The FRANKENSTEIN! Yes, it’s out BAZILLIONTH version of Frankenstein and we’d like to remind everyone that THE MONSTER IS NOT VERY NICE! It’s “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” y’all on the Ecstasy of Influence! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

We’re back with “Tim Burton’s Henry Selick’s Everyone Else’s The Nightmare Before Christmas!” We’ve seen it a billion times! Spooky! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/

In 1992, Martin Scorsese directed a movie that is either his magnum opus, or a load of HOGWASH. It’s “The Age of Innocence” and we really get into it! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wordpress.com/