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876. Beth Cato (a.k.a. The Haunted Housesitter) — A House Between Sea and Sky

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-876-beth-cato/SandF_876_BethCato.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSStrange homes, Hollywood secrets, and cozy bones, oh my! Shaun Duke and Paul Weimer interview Beth Cato about A House Between Sea and Sky! Together, they explore Cato’s approach to historical fantasy, the curious uses for bones, Golden Age Hollywood, and much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

Cover of Cassandra Khaw's Find Me Where It Ends, featuring an indistinct picture of a black dog with red eyes and a snarling mouth, against a gray background.
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Book Review: Find Me Where It Ends, by Cassandra Khaw

I first heard of the Black Dog (of death), as a psychopomp rather than a terrifying hellhound, in a 2023 reading of Peter S. Beagle’s story, “Mr. McCaslin.” That’s a gentle, sweet, and occasionally funny story. Cassandra Khaw’s upcoming short novel, Find Me Where It Ends, has some gentle moments and occasional humor, even bits of beauty, but it’s far more brutal and harsh, too; maybe that makes it more honest. In the end, however, it’s a story that provides some solace and strength. Find Me Where It Ends demands some content warnings, but it’s well worth reading.

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875. Norman’s Awesome Experience (1988; dir. Paul Donovan) — Torture Cinema #166

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-875-normans-awesome-experience/SandF_875_NormansAwesomeExperience.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSBalloons, confused Romans, and Omni, oh my! Shaun Duke, Paul Weimer, and Trish Matson join forces to talk about 1988’s Norman’s Awesome Experience. Together, they try to make sense of its plot, rip it apart for its treatment of the Romans, tear apart its ridiculous view of science, and much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

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874. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Eastman + Laird) — Reading Rangers

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-874-tmnt/SandF_874_TMNT.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSMutants, benign aliens, and feet clans, oh my! Shaun Duke, Stephen Geigen-Miller, and Daniel Haeusser join forces to talk about the first compendium of Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Together, they talk about the history of TMNT, how to read action comics, TMNT’s themes and its connections of the comics to its adaptations, and much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

Movie poster for Electric Meat (2026), directed by Dan Schaffer, featuring a bound body, a woman's face mostly covered in blood, a face with very intense eyes staring at the viewer, and a wall covered with photographs.
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Electric Meat (2026), directed by Dan Schaffer

Just making its world premiere at Tubi FrightFest 2026, Dan Schaffer’s directorial debut Electric M eat will likely polarize viewers with its experimental minimalist form and its psychosexual and artistic themes. Jarring throughout, the film opens with its high contrast black & white image and relatively quick cuts on scenes of abstract expressionism that immediately convey violence, hysteria, and insanity. And after what might be considered a brief prologue, the film continues in the same fashion, without dialogue beyond ethereal whispers barely detectable and a soundtrack of industrial or discordant intrusions. The latter fit not just with the atmosphere of madness in Electric Meat, but also its urban setting amid smokestack-saturated industrial wasteland.

Cover of A House Between Sea and Sky, by Beth Cato, featuring a small house in a natural setting with a few pine trees.
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Book Review: A House Between Sea and Sky, by Beth Cato

After the self-assigned inundation of reading to vote in the Hugo Awards this summer, I took a break and read A House Between Sea and Sky, by Beth Cato. This semi-urban fantasy turned out to be a perfect recovery book for me, a little bit mysterious, creepy, and suspenseful, but ultimately quite cozy and comforting.

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