Interviews
Shelley Adina: Author of the Magnificent Devices Series
Benedict Jacka: Author of the Alex Verus Series
Diana Rowland: Author of the White Trash Zombie Series and Kara Gillian Series
Gail Carriger: Author of the Parasol Protectorate Series
Kevin Hearne: Author of the Iron Druid Chronicles
Clay and Susan Griffith: Authors of the Vampire Empire Series
Syfy Q&A: Meaghan Rath from Being Human (US)
Syfy Q&A: Kristen Hager and Sam Huntington from Being Human (US)
Syfy Q&A: Richel Nichols, Victor Webster and Simon Barry from Continuum
Syfy Q&A: Sam Witer and Anna Frick from Being Human (US)
Syfy Q&A: Laura Mennel: Alphas Actor
Syfy Q&A: Malik Yoba: Alphas Actor
Syfy Q&A: Ryan Cartwright: Alphas Actor
Syfy Q&A: Anna Fricke and Jeremy Carver, Executive Producers/Writers of Being Human (US)
Syfy Q&A: Anna Silk & Ksenia Solo: Lost Girl Actors
Syfy Q&A: Anna Silk, Zoie Palmer and Kris Holden-Ried
Syfy Q&A: Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington and Meaghan Rath: Being Human (US) Actors
Fangs for the Fantasy Podcast:
Episode 120: Game of Thrones, the new episode of the Vampire Diaries with its Originals Pilot and Once Upon a Time. Our book of the week was First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson #1) by Darynda Jones
Episode 119: The new show Defiance as well as Game of Thrones, Grimm, Vampire Diaries, Beauty and the Beast Our book of the week is the Stepsister Scheme by Jim C Hines
Episode 118: The premier of Da Vinci's Demons as well as Orphan Black, Game of Thrones and the season finale of Lost Girl and Being Human (US). Our book of the week is The Queen is Dead by Kate Locke
Episode 117: Tonight we discuss the ending of Being Human (US). We talk about the return of Revolution, Game of Thrones continued introduction and the new show, Orphan Black. Our book of the week is Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger
Episode 115: Season Finale of The Walking Dead. Season premier of Game of Thrones, the return of Revolution. We also look at Being Human (US) and In the Flesh. Our book of the week is The Struggle by L.J. Smith
Episode 113: The Walking Dead, Once Upon a Time, Lost Girl. Our book of the week is Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
Episode 109: The Walking Dead, Grimm, Being Human (US), Lost Girl, Once Upon a Time. Our book of the week is Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs
Episode 107: The Walking Dead, Being Human (US), Lost Girl and the new show Cult. Our book of the week this week is Brilliant Devices by Shelley Adina
Episode 106: The Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries and Being Human (US). We also discuss out book of the week, the Kingmakers by Clay and Susan Griffiths.
Episode 105: Being Human (US), Vampire Diaries and the upcoming spin off, the Originals. We also look at Walking Dead and Michonne’s angry eyes. Our book of the week is Moonshifted by Cassie Alexander
Episode 103: We discuss Being Human (US), Lost Girl and the endless angst of Vampire Diaries. We also discuss the books of the week, Ever After by Kim Harrison and Magnificent Devices by Shelley Adina
Episode 101: This week we discuss the return of the Vampire Diaries and Being Human (US). We also looked at the season finale of Fringe and Haven as well as the struggling American Horror Story. Our book of the week was Grave Memory by Kalayana Price.
Episode 100:This week we discuss Once Upon a Time, Lost Girl, Fringe and American Horror Story. Our book of the week is The Awakening by L.J. Smith
Episode 99: The return of Lost Girl and all of its many issues. We also look at the Walking Dead computer game. We also discuss Fringe. Our book of the week is the extremely awesome Touch of the Demon by Diana Rowland that we love in all its glory
Episode 98: We discuss our usual shows: American Horror Story, The Vampire Diaries and Fringe as well as our book of the week, The Turning, by Jennifer Armintrout, we also looked back on the year
Episode 97: We discuss American Horror Story, Fringe and The Vampire Diaries. We also discuss the stark differences in behaviour between male and female protagonists in Urban Fantasy. Our book of the week is Hunted by the Others by Jess Haines
Episode 96: Season finales of The Walking Dead and Revolution. We also look at The Vampire Diaries and American Horror Stories. Our book of the week is Kindling the Moon by Jenn Bennett
Episode 94: This week we discuss The Walking Dead, Haven, the Vampire Diaries, American Horror Story and we look at how Misfits has developed. Our book of the week is Her Own Devices by Shelley Adina
Episode 93: We discuss the awful appropriation in American Horror Story. We also look at the Walking Dead, Grimm, Fringe and Once Upon a Time. We also discuss the issues of how to display prejudice without perpetrating it. Our book of the week is Runelight by Joanne Harris.
Episode 92: The Walking Dead, Haven, Grimm, American Horror Story, 666 Park Avenue, and Revolution. Our book of the week is Dark Descendant by Jenna Black
Episode 91: The season finale of Alphas as well as American Horror Story, Fringe, The Walking Dead and 666 Park Avenue. We also discuss erasure and how it is exacerbated by series with large numbers of characters.Our book of the week is Grave Dance by Kalayana Price.
Episode 90: New series of American Horror Story and the major twist direction the series have taken. We also discuss the Walking Dead and the way this season has massively improved over the last season. We look at the Vampire Diaries and how Damon has changed. We also look at Haven, Grimm, 666 Park Avenue and Once Upon a Time. Our book of the week is Holidays from Hell, by Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Vicki Pettersson and Marjorie Liu.
Episode 89: We have a new seasons of Vampire Diaries and Walking Dead. We also discuss the brand new show Beauty and the Beast. We check in on the newest season of Fringe which is not thrilling us as well as following Once Upon a Time and its treatment of Mulan. Our book of the week is Lady of Devices by Shelly Adina
Episode 86: Our new shows are The Neighbours, 666 Park Avenue as well as the return of Grimm, Fringe and Once Upon a Time. We continue our discussion of Revolution. Our book of the week is Lies Beneath by Ann Greenwood Brown.
Episode 85: We have a brand new show, Revolution and a new season of Haven We also discuss the small towns and rural settings as an excuse for erasure as well as the pressures on marginalised writers. Our book of the week is Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
Episode 84: Many of our shows are on hiatus but we discuss Grimm, and Misfits. We also discuss what counts as inclusion, tokenism and cultural markers. We also look at the latest review dramas. Our book of the week is the Constantine Affliction by T Aaron Payton
Episode 83: Grimm, Alphas, Warehouse 13, Misfits and Sinbad. We also discuss ebook availability in different countries. Our book of the week is Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
Episode 82: True Blood Season Finale, Falling Skies season finale, Alphas, Grimm. Our book of the week is Nightshifted by Cassie Alexander.
Episode 81: True Blood, Teen Wolf Finale. New Season of Grimm. We discuss the ideal length of a season. Our book of the week is American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Episode 80: True Blood, Teen Wolf, Alphas, Warehouse 13, Sinbad. Our Book of the week is Biting Cold by Chloe Neill
Episode 79: True Blood, Alphas, Warehouse 13, Teen Wolf and the season finale of Continuum. Our book of the week is God Save the Queen by Kate Locke
Episode 78: True Blood, Alphas, Warehouse 13, Teen Wolf, Sinbad, Continuum. We discuss rooting for the villain. Our book of the week is Grave Witch by Kalayna Price
Episode 77: True Blood, Falling Skies, Teen Wolf and Continuum. We discuss the use of stereotyped areas as an excuse for bigotry. Our book of the week: Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Episode 76: True Blood, Falling Skies, Teen Wolf and Continuum. We discuss the infantilising of disabled people. Our book of the week: Carpe Demon, My Life as a Demon Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner
Episode 75: True Blood, Falling Skies, Teen Wolf, We discuss the effects of marginalised writers on TV programmes as well as the limits and controls they work under and how a marginalised writer is not a panacea for a problematic series or portrayal. We also discuss the “matriarchy” on Teen Wolf. Our book of the week: Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues by Diana Rowland
Episode 74: True Blood, Falling Skies, Teen Wolf, and our book of the week: The Fall by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Episode 73: True Blood, Continuum, Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Episode 72: Benedict Jacka: Author of the Alex Verus Series
Episode 71: True Blood, Falling Skies Premier and our book of the week: Raven Cursed by Faith Hunter
Episode 70:True Blood premier, Snow White and the Huntsman, Our book of the week is The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Higan
Episode 69: Game of Thrones finale, Teen Wolf, Continuum, The Almighty Johnsons. Our book of the week is Wicked by Gregory Maguire. We also discuss Class and its depiction in Urban Fantasy
Episode 68: Game of Thrones, Continuum, The Almighty Johnsons. Our Book of the Week is Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. We discuss appropriation and the glossing over of atrocities.
Episode 67: Game of Thrones, The Almighty Johnsons. 50 Shades of Grey, Charlaine Harris's series. Our Book of the Week is Jesse Petersen's Eat, Slay, Love
Episode 66: The Vampire Diaries, Secret Circle, Game of Thrones. Our Book of the week is Cassandra Clare's City of Lost Souls
Episode 65: The Vampire Diaries, Game of Thrones and the changing role of Sansa. Our book of the week is Charlaine Harris' City of Lost Souls
Episode 64: The Vampire Diaries, Game of Thrones. Our book of the week is Kevin Hearne's Tricked - which we fanpoodle extremely. We also consider with some displeasure, upcoming book releases we are not looking forward to. To balance we discuss some of our favourite authors as well. We also discuss the gratuitous female nudity in Game of Thrones
Episode 63: The Vampire Diaries, Game of Thrones. We also discuss null urban fantasy female protagonists and their implications. Our book of the week is Flip This Zombie by Jesse Petersen
Episode 62: Season Finale of Being Human (US), Game of Thrones. We discuss also real world prejudices being continued in fantasy worlds without explanation. Our book of the week is Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen
Episode 60: Being Human (US), Game of Thrones (which is back), Lost Girl, The Vampire Diaries. Our book of the week is Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin
Episode 59: Being Human (US), the Vampire Diaries. We also discuss actors perpetuating problematic portrayals. We look at books by Nicole Peeler, Laurell K Hamilton, Jaye Wells and Jeanne C Stein
Episode 58: The Walking Dead, Being Human (US), The Vampire Diaries, Game of Thrones. We also discuss musty vampires and vampire villains as well as Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter
Episode 57: the Walking Dead, Being Human (US), giving the benefit of the doubt to problematic media. Gail Carriger's Timeless
Episode 56: The Walking Dead, Bring Human(US), Grimm. We also discuss Kim Harrison's Perfect Blood
Episode 55:The Walking Dead, Being Human(US), Grimm. We also discuss CE Murphy's Urban Shaman.
Episode 54: Interview with Diana Rowland
Episode 53: Vampire Diaries, Being Human (US), The Walking Dead. We also discuss our book of the week, Sins of the Demon by Diana Rowland
Episode 52: Vampire Diaries, Being Human (US), The Walking Dead, Secret Circle. Book of the week: Secrets of the Demon by Diana Rowland
Episode 51: Vampire Diaries, Being Human (US), Lost Girl. We also discuss the last episode of True Blood. Blood of the Demon by Diana Rowlnd
Episode 50: Being Human (US): Season 2, Episode 2. Mark of the Demon by Diana Rowland, Book 1 of the Kara Gillian series. Dan Water's Generation Dead, Kelley Armstrongs Otherworld series. Autumn by David Moody
Episode 49: Secret Circle, Vampire Diaries, and the brand new season of Being Human (US). Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler
Episode 48: Vampire Diaries, Once upon a Time, Grimm, Secret Circle, Faith Hunter's Skinwalker
Episode 47: Hunger Games Special! Vampire Diaries, Once Upon a Time, Secret Circle, American Horror Story
Episode 46: INTERVIEW WITH GAIL CARRIGER, AUTHOR OF THE PARASOL PROTECTORATE
Episode 45: Grimm, Once Upon a Time, American Horror Story, Heartless by Gail Carriger, Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
Episode 43: The Walking Dead, Once Upon a Time, Lost Girl and American Horror Story
Cold Fire by Kate Elliott, as well as the books we're reading including JR Ward, DB Reynolds. We also mentioned Charlaine Harris and infamous Teagarden series.
Episode 42: The Walking Dead, Grimm, American Horror Story. Changeless by Gail Carriger, Embrace the Night by Karen Chance, Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong, Kitty Takes Holiday by Carrie Vaughn and Blood Bound by Rachel Vincent
We also discuss why we analyse Urban Fantasy through a social justice lens and what it means when we criticise a book.
Episode 41: The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Secret Circle, Once Upon a Time and Grimm. Chloe Neil's Chicagoland Vampires, Rachel Vincent's series and Rachel Caine's Morganville Vampires.
We also discuss the extremely problematic way many Urban Fantasy appropriates the language of equality movements
Episode 40: The Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries, Justin Gustainis' Quincey Morris series, the Friday Discussions
Episode 39: The Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries, American Horror Story, The Gilda Stories by Jewell Gomez, Death's Hand by SM Reine, Iron Duke by Meljean Brook, Evil Ways by Justin Gustianis
Episode 38: latest episodes of The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, The Secret Circle, American Horror Story as well as looking at new shows we'll be watching
Episode 37: The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead and The Secret Circle
Episode 36: Vampire Diaries "Disturbing Behaviour", The Walking Dead, Lost Girl, Secret Circle, JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood
Episode 35: Vampire Diaries "The Last Affair", Lost Girl, Secret Circle, JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood, Caitlin Kittridge's Black London, Nalini Singh's Psy/Changeling, Jewelle Gomez's Gilda Stories
Episode 34: Vampire Diaries "The Hybrid, Lost Girl, Susan and Glay Griffith's Vampire Empire, Richard Kadrey "Sandman Slim", JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood
Episode 33: Vampire Diaries "Happy Birthday Elena", Lost Girl
Episode 32: True Blood "And When I die", Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring, Lynsay Sand's Argenous series, Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld Series
Episode 31: True Blood "Soul of Fire", Richelle Mead's Succubus Series, Vicki Pettersson's Zodiac series
Episode 30: True Blood "Burning Down the House", Richelle Mead's Succubus Series, Jennifer Estep's Elemental Assassin, Morgan Rice's Turned, Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld Series
Episode 29: True Blood "Nobody Leaves", Yasmine Gallenorn's Dragonwych, Richlle Mead's Succubus series, Jennifer Estep's Elemental Assassin, Sophie Jordan's Firelight
Episode 28: True Blood "Spellbound", Yasmine Galenorn's Dragonwych, Richelle Mead's Succubus, Jennifer Estep's Spider, Jim Butcher's Dead Beat, DB Reynold's Raphael, Devon Monk's Dead Iron and Lynsay Sand's Love Bites
Episode 27: True Blood "the Cold Grey Light of Dawn", Yasmine Galenorn's Darkling, Lauren Beukes' Zoo City, Richelle Mead's Succubus, Rachel Caine's Glass Houses.
Episode 26: True Blood "I Wish I was the Moon", Vicki Pettersson's Signs of the Zodiac and Lauren Beukes' Zoo City
Episode 25: True Blood "Me and the Devil", Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
Episode 24: True Blood "Fever", "Vampire Tapestry" by Suzy McKee Charnas, Yasmine Galenorn's "Changeling" and LA Banks' "The Hunger"
Episode 23: True Blood "If You Love me Why Am I Dyin'" and Kevin Hearne's "Hammered"
Episode 22: True Blood “You Smell Like Dinner”, Yasmine Galenorn's “Changeling”
Episode 21: True Blood Season Premier “She's Not There, Adrian Phoenix's “Black Dust Mambo”
Episode 20: Interview with Kevin Hearne, writer of the Iron Druid Chronicles
Episode 19: Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn, Elemental Witches series by Anya Bast, Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon as well as references to Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid Chronicles and Christopher Moore
Episode 18: Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid Chronicles, Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Angel and Mortal Instruments series as well as touching on Anya Bast's Elemental Witches, Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake and the general subject of bad sex in Paranormal Romance. We also discuss erasure vs dubious portrayals and what it takes to write a decent protrayal
Episode 17: We discuss sexuality in Urban Fantasy, our favourite Urban Fantasy authors, erasure vs inclusion, Chloe Neil's Chicagoland vampires, Mark Del Franco's Connor Grey and Cassandra Clare
Episode 16: We discuss Mark del Franco's Connor Grey series, Anya Bast's Elemental Witches, Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Mysteries and Marjorie Liu's Drik & Steele
Episode 15: Season Finale of Vampire Diaries, Mark Del Franco's Connor Grey, Charlaine Harris, Marjorie Liu, Christopher Moore and Richelle Meade's Vampire Academy.
Episode 14: The Vampire Diaries, Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire series, Marjorie Liu's Dirk & Steele, Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld and Richelle Meade's Vampire Academy
Epsiode 13: Vampire diaries, Richelle Meade's Vampire Academy, River Marked by Patricia Briggs, latest Mercy Thomphson series
Episode 12: Vampire Diaries, Kim Harrison's Pale Demon, latest book in the Mercy Thomphson series and Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments
Episode 11: Vampire Diaries, Being Human (US), Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series, Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instrument series and True Blood considered next to Southern Vampire series.
Episode 10: Vampire Diaries, Being Human (US), Marjorie Liu, Anya Bast, Nalini Singh and Tony Hillerman
Episode 9: Being Human (US), Anya Bast, Marjorie Liu, Nalini Singh, Nalo Hopkinson and Charlaine Harris
Episode 8: Being Human (US). Twilight, the Hollows, Marjorie Liu, Christopher Moore. Also the difference between Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy as well as how fails in "light" entertainment is ignored"
Episode 7: Being Human (US), Octavia Butler's Fledgling, Marjorie Liu, Nalo Hopkinson
Episode 6: Being Human (US), Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld Series, Laurell K Hamilton's Meredith Gentry series, Ann Rice's Vampire series and Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries
Episode 5: Being Human (US), Kelley Armstrong, Charlaine Harris
Episode 4: Being Human US, The Vampire Diaries, the Vampire Diaries books, True Blood, Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, Octavia Butler, Ann Rice
Episode 3: The Vampire Diaries, Charlaine Harris, Christopher Moore, Marjorie Liu and diversity in the genre and the issue of erasure vs bad represenation
Vampires in Mystic Falls:
Vampire Diaries, Christopher Moore, LA Banks' Vampire Huntress Legend
Vampire Diaries, Charlaine Harris' Teagarden, LA Banks Vampire Huntress Legend, Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thomas, Stephenie Meyer's The Host
Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs and the problems of ignoring prejudice when examining fiction
Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, LA Banks, Ann Rice, Kim Harrison, Stephenie Meyer
Charlaine Harris, Laurell K Hamilton, Stephenie Meyer, Kim Harrison
Shelley Adina: Author of the Magnificent Devices Series
Benedict Jacka: Author of the Alex Verus Series
Diana Rowland: Author of the White Trash Zombie Series and Kara Gillian Series
Gail Carriger: Author of the Parasol Protectorate Series
Kevin Hearne: Author of the Iron Druid Chronicles
Clay and Susan Griffith: Authors of the Vampire Empire Series
Syfy Q&A: Meaghan Rath from Being Human (US)
Syfy Q&A: Kristen Hager and Sam Huntington from Being Human (US)
Syfy Q&A: Richel Nichols, Victor Webster and Simon Barry from Continuum
Syfy Q&A: Sam Witer and Anna Frick from Being Human (US)
Syfy Q&A: Laura Mennel: Alphas Actor
Syfy Q&A: Malik Yoba: Alphas Actor
Syfy Q&A: Ryan Cartwright: Alphas Actor
Syfy Q&A: Anna Fricke and Jeremy Carver, Executive Producers/Writers of Being Human (US)
Syfy Q&A: Anna Silk & Ksenia Solo: Lost Girl Actors
Syfy Q&A: Anna Silk, Zoie Palmer and Kris Holden-Ried
Syfy Q&A: Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington and Meaghan Rath: Being Human (US) Actors
Fangs for the Fantasy Podcast:
Episode 120: Game of Thrones, the new episode of the Vampire Diaries with its Originals Pilot and Once Upon a Time. Our book of the week was First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson #1) by Darynda Jones
Episode 119: The new show Defiance as well as Game of Thrones, Grimm, Vampire Diaries, Beauty and the Beast Our book of the week is the Stepsister Scheme by Jim C Hines
Episode 118: The premier of Da Vinci's Demons as well as Orphan Black, Game of Thrones and the season finale of Lost Girl and Being Human (US). Our book of the week is The Queen is Dead by Kate Locke
Episode 117: Tonight we discuss the ending of Being Human (US). We talk about the return of Revolution, Game of Thrones continued introduction and the new show, Orphan Black. Our book of the week is Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger
Episode 115: Season Finale of The Walking Dead. Season premier of Game of Thrones, the return of Revolution. We also look at Being Human (US) and In the Flesh. Our book of the week is The Struggle by L.J. Smith
Episode 113: The Walking Dead, Once Upon a Time, Lost Girl. Our book of the week is Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
Episode 109: The Walking Dead, Grimm, Being Human (US), Lost Girl, Once Upon a Time. Our book of the week is Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs
Episode 107: The Walking Dead, Being Human (US), Lost Girl and the new show Cult. Our book of the week this week is Brilliant Devices by Shelley Adina
Episode 106: The Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries and Being Human (US). We also discuss out book of the week, the Kingmakers by Clay and Susan Griffiths.
Episode 105: Being Human (US), Vampire Diaries and the upcoming spin off, the Originals. We also look at Walking Dead and Michonne’s angry eyes. Our book of the week is Moonshifted by Cassie Alexander
Episode 103: We discuss Being Human (US), Lost Girl and the endless angst of Vampire Diaries. We also discuss the books of the week, Ever After by Kim Harrison and Magnificent Devices by Shelley Adina
Episode 101: This week we discuss the return of the Vampire Diaries and Being Human (US). We also looked at the season finale of Fringe and Haven as well as the struggling American Horror Story. Our book of the week was Grave Memory by Kalayana Price.
Episode 100:This week we discuss Once Upon a Time, Lost Girl, Fringe and American Horror Story. Our book of the week is The Awakening by L.J. Smith
Episode 99: The return of Lost Girl and all of its many issues. We also look at the Walking Dead computer game. We also discuss Fringe. Our book of the week is the extremely awesome Touch of the Demon by Diana Rowland that we love in all its glory
Episode 98: We discuss our usual shows: American Horror Story, The Vampire Diaries and Fringe as well as our book of the week, The Turning, by Jennifer Armintrout, we also looked back on the year
Episode 97: We discuss American Horror Story, Fringe and The Vampire Diaries. We also discuss the stark differences in behaviour between male and female protagonists in Urban Fantasy. Our book of the week is Hunted by the Others by Jess Haines
Episode 96: Season finales of The Walking Dead and Revolution. We also look at The Vampire Diaries and American Horror Stories. Our book of the week is Kindling the Moon by Jenn Bennett
Episode 94: This week we discuss The Walking Dead, Haven, the Vampire Diaries, American Horror Story and we look at how Misfits has developed. Our book of the week is Her Own Devices by Shelley Adina
Episode 93: We discuss the awful appropriation in American Horror Story. We also look at the Walking Dead, Grimm, Fringe and Once Upon a Time. We also discuss the issues of how to display prejudice without perpetrating it. Our book of the week is Runelight by Joanne Harris.
Episode 92: The Walking Dead, Haven, Grimm, American Horror Story, 666 Park Avenue, and Revolution. Our book of the week is Dark Descendant by Jenna Black
Episode 91: The season finale of Alphas as well as American Horror Story, Fringe, The Walking Dead and 666 Park Avenue. We also discuss erasure and how it is exacerbated by series with large numbers of characters.Our book of the week is Grave Dance by Kalayana Price.
Episode 90: New series of American Horror Story and the major twist direction the series have taken. We also discuss the Walking Dead and the way this season has massively improved over the last season. We look at the Vampire Diaries and how Damon has changed. We also look at Haven, Grimm, 666 Park Avenue and Once Upon a Time. Our book of the week is Holidays from Hell, by Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Vicki Pettersson and Marjorie Liu.
Episode 89: We have a new seasons of Vampire Diaries and Walking Dead. We also discuss the brand new show Beauty and the Beast. We check in on the newest season of Fringe which is not thrilling us as well as following Once Upon a Time and its treatment of Mulan. Our book of the week is Lady of Devices by Shelly Adina
Episode 86: Our new shows are The Neighbours, 666 Park Avenue as well as the return of Grimm, Fringe and Once Upon a Time. We continue our discussion of Revolution. Our book of the week is Lies Beneath by Ann Greenwood Brown.
Episode 85: We have a brand new show, Revolution and a new season of Haven We also discuss the small towns and rural settings as an excuse for erasure as well as the pressures on marginalised writers. Our book of the week is Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
Episode 84: Many of our shows are on hiatus but we discuss Grimm, and Misfits. We also discuss what counts as inclusion, tokenism and cultural markers. We also look at the latest review dramas. Our book of the week is the Constantine Affliction by T Aaron Payton
Episode 83: Grimm, Alphas, Warehouse 13, Misfits and Sinbad. We also discuss ebook availability in different countries. Our book of the week is Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
Episode 82: True Blood Season Finale, Falling Skies season finale, Alphas, Grimm. Our book of the week is Nightshifted by Cassie Alexander.
Episode 81: True Blood, Teen Wolf Finale. New Season of Grimm. We discuss the ideal length of a season. Our book of the week is American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Episode 80: True Blood, Teen Wolf, Alphas, Warehouse 13, Sinbad. Our Book of the week is Biting Cold by Chloe Neill
Episode 79: True Blood, Alphas, Warehouse 13, Teen Wolf and the season finale of Continuum. Our book of the week is God Save the Queen by Kate Locke
Episode 78: True Blood, Alphas, Warehouse 13, Teen Wolf, Sinbad, Continuum. We discuss rooting for the villain. Our book of the week is Grave Witch by Kalayna Price
Episode 77: True Blood, Falling Skies, Teen Wolf and Continuum. We discuss the use of stereotyped areas as an excuse for bigotry. Our book of the week: Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Episode 76: True Blood, Falling Skies, Teen Wolf and Continuum. We discuss the infantilising of disabled people. Our book of the week: Carpe Demon, My Life as a Demon Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner
Episode 75: True Blood, Falling Skies, Teen Wolf, We discuss the effects of marginalised writers on TV programmes as well as the limits and controls they work under and how a marginalised writer is not a panacea for a problematic series or portrayal. We also discuss the “matriarchy” on Teen Wolf. Our book of the week: Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues by Diana Rowland
Episode 74: True Blood, Falling Skies, Teen Wolf, and our book of the week: The Fall by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Episode 73: True Blood, Continuum, Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Episode 72: Benedict Jacka: Author of the Alex Verus Series
Episode 71: True Blood, Falling Skies Premier and our book of the week: Raven Cursed by Faith Hunter
Episode 70:True Blood premier, Snow White and the Huntsman, Our book of the week is The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Higan
Episode 69: Game of Thrones finale, Teen Wolf, Continuum, The Almighty Johnsons. Our book of the week is Wicked by Gregory Maguire. We also discuss Class and its depiction in Urban Fantasy
Episode 68: Game of Thrones, Continuum, The Almighty Johnsons. Our Book of the Week is Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. We discuss appropriation and the glossing over of atrocities.
Episode 67: Game of Thrones, The Almighty Johnsons. 50 Shades of Grey, Charlaine Harris's series. Our Book of the Week is Jesse Petersen's Eat, Slay, Love
Episode 66: The Vampire Diaries, Secret Circle, Game of Thrones. Our Book of the week is Cassandra Clare's City of Lost Souls
Episode 65: The Vampire Diaries, Game of Thrones and the changing role of Sansa. Our book of the week is Charlaine Harris' City of Lost Souls
Episode 64: The Vampire Diaries, Game of Thrones. Our book of the week is Kevin Hearne's Tricked - which we fanpoodle extremely. We also consider with some displeasure, upcoming book releases we are not looking forward to. To balance we discuss some of our favourite authors as well. We also discuss the gratuitous female nudity in Game of Thrones
Episode 63: The Vampire Diaries, Game of Thrones. We also discuss null urban fantasy female protagonists and their implications. Our book of the week is Flip This Zombie by Jesse Petersen
Episode 62: Season Finale of Being Human (US), Game of Thrones. We discuss also real world prejudices being continued in fantasy worlds without explanation. Our book of the week is Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen
Episode 60: Being Human (US), Game of Thrones (which is back), Lost Girl, The Vampire Diaries. Our book of the week is Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin
Episode 59: Being Human (US), the Vampire Diaries. We also discuss actors perpetuating problematic portrayals. We look at books by Nicole Peeler, Laurell K Hamilton, Jaye Wells and Jeanne C Stein
Episode 58: The Walking Dead, Being Human (US), The Vampire Diaries, Game of Thrones. We also discuss musty vampires and vampire villains as well as Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter
Episode 57: the Walking Dead, Being Human (US), giving the benefit of the doubt to problematic media. Gail Carriger's Timeless
Episode 56: The Walking Dead, Bring Human(US), Grimm. We also discuss Kim Harrison's Perfect Blood
Episode 55:The Walking Dead, Being Human(US), Grimm. We also discuss CE Murphy's Urban Shaman.
Episode 54: Interview with Diana Rowland
Episode 53: Vampire Diaries, Being Human (US), The Walking Dead. We also discuss our book of the week, Sins of the Demon by Diana Rowland
Episode 52: Vampire Diaries, Being Human (US), The Walking Dead, Secret Circle. Book of the week: Secrets of the Demon by Diana Rowland
Episode 51: Vampire Diaries, Being Human (US), Lost Girl. We also discuss the last episode of True Blood. Blood of the Demon by Diana Rowlnd
Episode 50: Being Human (US): Season 2, Episode 2. Mark of the Demon by Diana Rowland, Book 1 of the Kara Gillian series. Dan Water's Generation Dead, Kelley Armstrongs Otherworld series. Autumn by David Moody
Episode 49: Secret Circle, Vampire Diaries, and the brand new season of Being Human (US). Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler
Episode 48: Vampire Diaries, Once upon a Time, Grimm, Secret Circle, Faith Hunter's Skinwalker
Episode 47: Hunger Games Special! Vampire Diaries, Once Upon a Time, Secret Circle, American Horror Story
Episode 46: INTERVIEW WITH GAIL CARRIGER, AUTHOR OF THE PARASOL PROTECTORATE
Episode 45: Grimm, Once Upon a Time, American Horror Story, Heartless by Gail Carriger, Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
Episode 43: The Walking Dead, Once Upon a Time, Lost Girl and American Horror Story
Cold Fire by Kate Elliott, as well as the books we're reading including JR Ward, DB Reynolds. We also mentioned Charlaine Harris and infamous Teagarden series.
Episode 42: The Walking Dead, Grimm, American Horror Story. Changeless by Gail Carriger, Embrace the Night by Karen Chance, Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong, Kitty Takes Holiday by Carrie Vaughn and Blood Bound by Rachel Vincent
We also discuss why we analyse Urban Fantasy through a social justice lens and what it means when we criticise a book.
Episode 41: The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Secret Circle, Once Upon a Time and Grimm. Chloe Neil's Chicagoland Vampires, Rachel Vincent's series and Rachel Caine's Morganville Vampires.
We also discuss the extremely problematic way many Urban Fantasy appropriates the language of equality movements
Episode 40: The Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries, Justin Gustainis' Quincey Morris series, the Friday Discussions
Episode 39: The Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries, American Horror Story, The Gilda Stories by Jewell Gomez, Death's Hand by SM Reine, Iron Duke by Meljean Brook, Evil Ways by Justin Gustianis
Episode 38: latest episodes of The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, The Secret Circle, American Horror Story as well as looking at new shows we'll be watching
Episode 37: The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead and The Secret Circle
Episode 36: Vampire Diaries "Disturbing Behaviour", The Walking Dead, Lost Girl, Secret Circle, JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood
Episode 35: Vampire Diaries "The Last Affair", Lost Girl, Secret Circle, JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood, Caitlin Kittridge's Black London, Nalini Singh's Psy/Changeling, Jewelle Gomez's Gilda Stories
Episode 34: Vampire Diaries "The Hybrid, Lost Girl, Susan and Glay Griffith's Vampire Empire, Richard Kadrey "Sandman Slim", JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood
Episode 33: Vampire Diaries "Happy Birthday Elena", Lost Girl
Episode 32: True Blood "And When I die", Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring, Lynsay Sand's Argenous series, Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld Series
Episode 31: True Blood "Soul of Fire", Richelle Mead's Succubus Series, Vicki Pettersson's Zodiac series
Episode 30: True Blood "Burning Down the House", Richelle Mead's Succubus Series, Jennifer Estep's Elemental Assassin, Morgan Rice's Turned, Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld Series
Episode 29: True Blood "Nobody Leaves", Yasmine Gallenorn's Dragonwych, Richlle Mead's Succubus series, Jennifer Estep's Elemental Assassin, Sophie Jordan's Firelight
Episode 28: True Blood "Spellbound", Yasmine Galenorn's Dragonwych, Richelle Mead's Succubus, Jennifer Estep's Spider, Jim Butcher's Dead Beat, DB Reynold's Raphael, Devon Monk's Dead Iron and Lynsay Sand's Love Bites
Episode 27: True Blood "the Cold Grey Light of Dawn", Yasmine Galenorn's Darkling, Lauren Beukes' Zoo City, Richelle Mead's Succubus, Rachel Caine's Glass Houses.
Episode 26: True Blood "I Wish I was the Moon", Vicki Pettersson's Signs of the Zodiac and Lauren Beukes' Zoo City
Episode 25: True Blood "Me and the Devil", Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
Episode 24: True Blood "Fever", "Vampire Tapestry" by Suzy McKee Charnas, Yasmine Galenorn's "Changeling" and LA Banks' "The Hunger"
Episode 23: True Blood "If You Love me Why Am I Dyin'" and Kevin Hearne's "Hammered"
Episode 22: True Blood “You Smell Like Dinner”, Yasmine Galenorn's “Changeling”
Episode 21: True Blood Season Premier “She's Not There, Adrian Phoenix's “Black Dust Mambo”
Episode 20: Interview with Kevin Hearne, writer of the Iron Druid Chronicles
Episode 19: Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn, Elemental Witches series by Anya Bast, Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon as well as references to Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid Chronicles and Christopher Moore
Episode 18: Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid Chronicles, Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Angel and Mortal Instruments series as well as touching on Anya Bast's Elemental Witches, Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake and the general subject of bad sex in Paranormal Romance. We also discuss erasure vs dubious portrayals and what it takes to write a decent protrayal
Episode 17: We discuss sexuality in Urban Fantasy, our favourite Urban Fantasy authors, erasure vs inclusion, Chloe Neil's Chicagoland vampires, Mark Del Franco's Connor Grey and Cassandra Clare
Episode 16: We discuss Mark del Franco's Connor Grey series, Anya Bast's Elemental Witches, Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Mysteries and Marjorie Liu's Drik & Steele
Episode 15: Season Finale of Vampire Diaries, Mark Del Franco's Connor Grey, Charlaine Harris, Marjorie Liu, Christopher Moore and Richelle Meade's Vampire Academy.
Episode 14: The Vampire Diaries, Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire series, Marjorie Liu's Dirk & Steele, Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld and Richelle Meade's Vampire Academy
Epsiode 13: Vampire diaries, Richelle Meade's Vampire Academy, River Marked by Patricia Briggs, latest Mercy Thomphson series
Episode 12: Vampire Diaries, Kim Harrison's Pale Demon, latest book in the Mercy Thomphson series and Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments
Episode 11: Vampire Diaries, Being Human (US), Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series, Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instrument series and True Blood considered next to Southern Vampire series.
Episode 10: Vampire Diaries, Being Human (US), Marjorie Liu, Anya Bast, Nalini Singh and Tony Hillerman
Episode 9: Being Human (US), Anya Bast, Marjorie Liu, Nalini Singh, Nalo Hopkinson and Charlaine Harris
Episode 8: Being Human (US). Twilight, the Hollows, Marjorie Liu, Christopher Moore. Also the difference between Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy as well as how fails in "light" entertainment is ignored"
Episode 7: Being Human (US), Octavia Butler's Fledgling, Marjorie Liu, Nalo Hopkinson
Episode 6: Being Human (US), Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld Series, Laurell K Hamilton's Meredith Gentry series, Ann Rice's Vampire series and Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries
Episode 5: Being Human (US), Kelley Armstrong, Charlaine Harris
Episode 4: Being Human US, The Vampire Diaries, the Vampire Diaries books, True Blood, Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, Octavia Butler, Ann Rice
Episode 3: The Vampire Diaries, Charlaine Harris, Christopher Moore, Marjorie Liu and diversity in the genre and the issue of erasure vs bad represenation
Vampires in Mystic Falls:
Vampire Diaries, Christopher Moore, LA Banks' Vampire Huntress Legend
Vampire Diaries, Charlaine Harris' Teagarden, LA Banks Vampire Huntress Legend, Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thomas, Stephenie Meyer's The Host
Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs and the problems of ignoring prejudice when examining fiction
Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, LA Banks, Ann Rice, Kim Harrison, Stephenie Meyer
Charlaine Harris, Laurell K Hamilton, Stephenie Meyer, Kim Harrison
