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.
Episodes
Welcome back, Cromrades! We are finishing up The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White this week, wherein we learn about the various versions of this work, discuss growing up, learning how to be a good person, and chivalry through it all. Join us, won't you?
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Jon: The Lost Tomb by Douglas Preston. Science adventure!
Josh: Murder 101, on Amazon Prime Video.
Luke: Homebrew D&D adventures!
Ques...
Hello Cromrades, and welcome to our latest season which takes place in storied Camelot! We will be reading and analyzing various stories featuring the one and only King Arthur and his various comrades. We begin today with the first half TH White's incomparable "The Sword in the Stone". Join us, won't you?
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Luke: "Pressure" Starring Brendan Fraser as Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hile, Cromrades! Take a final Cyberpunk trip with us to 2019... Or 2049? Herein, we discuss the Bladerunner duology! This one is a big 'un, hope you enjoy it!
What road will we embark on for our next season? Only time will tell :)
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Luke: Sammon's 'Future Noir: The Making of Bladerunner'
Josh: Guntharp's 'The VCR That Dripped Blood: 50 of the Best, Worst, and Most Bizarre (Non-Franchise) Slasher Films of the 1980s'
Jon: ...
Johnny Mnemonic is a cyberpunk short story published in 1981 by William Gibson.
Johnny Mnemonic is also a cyberpunk movie from 1995 starring Keanu Reeves and Dina Meyer, directed by Robert Longo with a screenplay by William Gibson.
And this week, we talk about both Johnny Mnemonics! We are very technical boys.
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Jon: The Parker novels by Donald E. Westlake
Josh: The Blade Itself, by Joe Abercrombie
Luk...
Welcome back, Cromrades! This is it, the final run towards the end of Neuromancer. The hacking is upon us, in more ways than one. Will Case get out of this job alive? Will the world sustain the fusion of Wintermute and Neuromancer? Will Molly and Case fall in love and buy a farm, somewhere upstate? To find out, you'll have to join us, won't you? Plug in and turn off, and let the sweet sounds of our voices take you to a future not s...
Welcome Cromrades to the 4th episode of the 23rd season wherein we discuss the 3rd part of William Gibson's 'Neuromancer!' Too many numbers in that first sentence to compute? Wintermute laughs at your numbers.
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Joshua: Fallout, forever Fallout.
Luke: A24 movies, specifically 'The Blackcoat's Daughter' and 'Midsommar!'
Jonathan: The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library!
Questions? Comments? Curses?
Call us at (859) 429-CROM...
Welcome back, Cromrades! This week, we take a look at the second section of Neuromancer, titled The Shopping Expedition. Time to gear up for a job - but what gear do we need? And what additions to the party are we making? How about a mind reading illusionist and a ghost within a phylactery? Sounds like a fantasy story, but when Gibson applies his signature cyberpunk style it adds another layer of cool to the story. Join us, won't y...
Greetings to all you console cowboys and razorgirls. Are you ready to join the hosts of The Cromcast and jack into cyberspace? Well then crack open that carton of beer and join us for the first installment in our three part exploration of William Gibson's "Neuromancer"
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Luke: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Joshua: IT by Stephen King
Jonathan: Rogues by Patrick Radden Kiefe
Questions? Comments? Curses?
...Welcome Cromrades to the first episode of our journey down the Neon Road with William Gibson. Before we hop into 'Neuromancer,' we'll first discuss the short story 'Burning Chrome' in the same-titled collection! Join us on the darkened oil-slick streets, won't you?
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Joshua: Fleabag, on Amazon!
Luke: The Last Invention, from Mills and Warner on The Longview!
Jonathan: Geoff Johns' Green Lantern run!
Questions? Comments? ...
Happy Cromtober, and Happy Halloween! This year, we decided to spend some time around the seasonal Cromtober fire ruminating on hauntings - haunted places, haunted houses, haunted people... with Ambrose Bierce's The Spook House and HP Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch House as discussion fodder. It's a good one.
Stay spooky, Cromrades!
Welcome Cromrades to the final episode of our Clark Ashton Smith journey. We've loved our time with the poet of Auburn, CA and we hope you are all finding more to read from him. We send him off with a creepy, twisted, parasitic episode focused on "The Vaults of Yoh Vombis". Join us in the shadows won't you...?
Show Notes: Story
http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/231/the-vaults-of-yoh-vombis
Evaluation o...
Hile, Cromrades! We return with a new story, one from MARS! Herein we discuss 'The Dweller in the Gulf,' by none other than Clark Ashton Smith. You can access an open source version of the text here! Join us, won't you?
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Jon: No Man's Sky, on a ton of gaming platforms!
Josh: Salt and Sanctuary, on a ton of gaming platforms!
Luke: Sinners, which is his fave movie of the year (so far)!
Welcome back, Cromrades! We hope you are eagerly anticipating this episode of the big show, where we discuss Clark Ashton Smith's Mother of Toads.
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Jon: Tom Scioli's Stan Lee biography "I Am Stan".
Josh: The D&D Adventure System board game, "Castle Ravenloft".
Luke: Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields by Charles Bowden.
Behold listeners! A colossal Cromcast episode, stuffed with meat and bones and ready for your earholes. Join the crew as they dissect the Clark Ashton Smith tale, "The Colossus of Ylourgne". This tale of revenge and woe is our first foray into Smith's version of France known as Averoigne. Read it here if you dare: http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/27/the-colossus-of-ylourgne
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Luke: "The Last of Us"...
Hile, Cromrades! We return with another yarn from Zothique by one Clark Ashton Smith. You can access an open source version of the text here! Join us, won't you?
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Jon: John Gwynne's 'The Shadow of the Gods'!
Josh: 'Grotten,' by Sunzenaut!
Luke: The Smith Circle, a CAS Conference coming 10 Jan 2026!
Questions? Comments? Curses?
Call us at (859) 429-CROM!
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Hello there, Cromrades! We hope you are hale, healthy, and well rested! Pray, won't you join us on holiday? We are planning a visit to the island of
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Jon: Mike Mignola - Drawing Monsters documentary
Josh: Mini Mork Manual - a Mork Borg Solo Experience.
Luke: Soundtracks for Reading - Remember the Future by Nektar, or maybe you'd be more interested in some cosmic banjo?
Here is the March 1933 issue of Weird ...
The Cromcast is going down deep to its roots, but this time we're digging into the literature of Clark Ashton Smith. In this first episode of our 22nd season, we discuss the man and author himself and reveal our reading list. Tune in for weird tales fun!
Welcome back, all! We're rounding out our 21st season with a series of Howardian film selections from the Cromrades:
Jon - All the President's Men (1976)
Luke - Ladyhawke (1985)
Josh - Hidalgo (2004)
Where do we go from here, you may ask? You'll have to listen 'til the end to find out!
Welcome back, Cromrades! This week, we take on two combat sports movies that damage us right where it hurts - the emotions! We're talking Million Dollar Baby directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman. Then, we enter the squared circle to face off against the Von Erich family in The Iron Claw, directed by Sean Durkin and starring Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, , Maura Tiern...
Hile, Cromrades! Join us brave the dark solstice of the year and welcome in Old Man Winter... Herein we discuss Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans (1992) alongside Alejandro Iñárritu's The Revenant (2015)! We hope you have stoked the fire, and have a few blankets at hand.
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