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! 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"
One Things
Luke: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Joshua: IT by Stephen King
Jonathan: Rogues by Patrick Radden Kiefe
Questions? Comments? Curse...
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?
One Things
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 of CAS sto...
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?
One Things
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.
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.
Check out the upcoming Clark Ashton Smith Conference in A...
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
One Things
Luke: "The Last of Us" on ...
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?
One Things
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
One Things
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 Tales, ...
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.
Oh greatest of podcast listeners, indulge us in this friendly holiday game. Let whichever of you is boldest of blood step forth, take up headphones and try with honor to consider new fantasy films. If you choose to engage, seek us out yonder to the Green Chapel six nights to the north. We will return your thoughts with our own, and then in trust and friendship, we shall part. Who, then, who is willing to watch "Valhalla Rising" an...
Welcome back, Cromrades! We are currently experiencing some difficulty posting our episode in the normal way. Archive.org is where we generally host our files, and they have had some great difficulties with hackers recently. We are trying to decide what to do. But in the interim, here is our second episode of the Howardian Film Festival, which also doubles as our Cromtober 2024 episode.
Edit 11/9/24: Here's the episode.
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