It’s the hottest toy of the 1989 Christmas season and a retro sensation that’s sweeping the nation—the Ultimate Cosmic Sound Machine TM has landed on the podcast, leaving the Antiques Freaks frightened and confused. Where did it come from? What does it want? How did you find this? Who sent you?
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T - The Sailor’s Word Book (1867) with Hannah
Tap the admiral. Timber-taster. Tom Astoners. Tumble up. All these nautical terms and more defined in this, the twentieth chapter of The Sailor’s Word-Book.
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Ch. 40 - Varney the Vampire, or, The Feast of Blood (1845)
Our friend James Wake joins us for an action-packed episode of mob violence against a vampyre!
Check out James's cyberpunk novel THE SAPPHIRE SHADOW, available now wherever fine books are found.
Varney the Vampire is a genuine penny dreadful, read aloud one chapter per week just like the original Victorian working class audience would do for the authentic 1840s Chartist coffeehouse experience.
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The New York Antiquarian Book Fair
The Antiques Freaks have ventured out into the wider world and returned with tales of wonder, including the most ironic possible book for sale, the most charming bookseller disclaimer, the smuggest item listing we’ve ever seen, and why you should always write your shop name on your price tag.
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Revenge of the Horse of the Invisible - Carnacki the Ghost-Finder with Terrible Book Club
Once upon a time in April of 2020 we read our first Carnacki story - but we did not read it on air. Now the Horse of the Invisible has returned to wreak its revenge, and only Chris and Paris of the Terrible Book Club podcast can rescue the Antiques Freaks from its horrible haunting.
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