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Dungeons & Dragons plays a huge part in fiction and popular culture more generally, but it is often overlooked or misunderstood. In this episode I gather together an experienced Dungeon Master and some complete novices (including myself) to play D&D for t

From medieval ballads to the poetry of John Keats, stage productions to childrens songs, novels to comic books, silent movies to glorious technicolour, Disney classics to Kevin Costner blockbusters to Mel Brooks parodies to gritty reimaginings and lots,

What does the word "Gothic" mean to you? Gothic cathedrals and castles? Gothic fiction? Teenage goths dressed in black? Horror and the supernatural? This episode explores the origins of the gothic and one man's lasting influence on this most important of

A Word To That Effect is a new series of bonus mini-episodes about a single word or phrase with a distinctly literary origin. This week: serendipity.WTTE is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network. You can support the show and get bonus content and more

A Word To That Effect is a new series of bonus mini-episodes about a single word or phrase with a distinctly literary origin. This week: cliffhanger!WTTE is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network. You can support the show and get bonus content and more b

Sensation fiction was a hugely popular genre in the 1860s. The novels were sensationally popular, but they also caused a sensation, with their plots of bigamy and murder, forgery and blackmail. In so many ways the influence of sensation fiction can still

Knights in shining armour, damsels in distress, castles, chivalry and courtly love, heroic quests, dragons.King Arthur, Camelot, Merlin, the Knights of the Round Table, the Holy Grail.Think of King Arthur and the medieval romance and a huge number

Dragons have been around for a very long time.They are one of the very few mythological creatures that have become absolutely central to popular culture; everyone knows what a dragon is. There are other important and well-known mythological creatures

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