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.
One Things
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.
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