The FrankenPod - A Gothic Literature and Cinema Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Penny for your thoughts? Penny Dreadful Episode 1ish, 2 & 3 with Courtney of the Cult of Domesticity
25 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and the ever growing list of Dorian Gray's fetishes. Whoops! I cut off a bit of episode 1. So here is the rest of episode 1 and the...
Lost Highway (1997) but this time it's time travel
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and Patricia Arquette's massive platform heels. Brent and Morgan watched the same David Lynch movie... With very different results...
Penny for your thoughts? Penny Dreadful Episode 1 with Courtney of Cult of Domesticity
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and Ethan Chandler who is definitely NOT a werewolf... Vampires, Demons and Corpses oh my! Courtney from Cult of Domesticity and Morg...
Harry Potter and Alan Rickman's Tiny Tootsies - Harry Potter Part 2
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Part Two Swears, Spoilers and things that might upset the fandom Kat joins us to chat about Harry Potter. We think it might be gothic... Our blog thef...
Dumbledore and the continued endangerment of children - Harry Potter as Gothic
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and things that might upset the fandom Kat joins us to chat about Harry Potter. We think it might be gothic... Our blog thefrankenpod...
Who is Ann Radcliffe?
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and Assassin Monks... Morgan tells Brent about Ann Radcliffe, the hermetic aunt of the gothic novel. Our blog thefrankenpod.wordpress...
Jekyll - You're Not My Husband!
05 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and Kat in correction corner! Morgan read the 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Brent w...
Flipping Patriarchy - Horace Walpole & The Castle of Otranto
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Spoilers, Swears and One Very Grumpy Statue Morgan tells Brent about the original gothic hipster (he did it before it was cool) Horace Walpole, his n...
The Bride (of Frankenstein / Sting)
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and Saline Solution It's a tale as old as time Man creates male creature, man creates female creature, female creature hates man, man...
The Post Christmas Disappointment - A Muppet Christmas Carol vs. Dickens feat. The preteen Harry Potter book club
26 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and Scrooge/Snape comparisons Who wants a Christmas special after Christmas? That's right! No one. We missed the window... or we are ...
The Woman in Black vs. Spider the Wonderdog
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Warning Swears, Spoilers and Child Death Brent watched the 2012 Hammer Horror film 'The Woman in Black' Morgan read Susan Hill's 1982 book 'The Woman ...
Not My Mothman - The Mothman Prophecies feat. Wives Tales
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and Weird Scorch Marks We examine the movie The Mothman Prophecies (2002) with a little contextual help from the source material (The...
The Curse of Charlie Decker - Stephen King's Rage with Melissa of The Brook Reading Podcast
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and Kids with Guns Melissa and Morgan both read Rage. Then we both had a bit of a rage. What is it about this terrifyingly suburban g...
No one likes Dick - In Cold Blood & Capote
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and Morgan's Deep Seeded Infatuation with Harper Lee. We're so happy to be back! This time we are examining Truman Capote, In Cold Bl...
Season 2 Starts on the 31st of October
27 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Frankenpod season two starts in just four days on the 31st of October! Halloween Spppooooookyyy. Not really intentional, it just seemed as good a ...
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Upset Fandom with Megan of Oh No! Lit Class!
31 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and Naked Stephen Fry Megan talks to us about the many many versions of her favourite detective boy. Megan is one half of the hilario...
What we do in the Shadows w/ Meg from Indoorswomen
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and Bisghetti Meg and Morgan not just spoil but absolutely RUIN What we do in the Shadows. Meg is from the Indoorswomen podcast! She ...
The Devil's Dictionary
31 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are dabbling in The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz by for making the song Kelli's no. available in the...
The Keepsake
21 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Shelley submitted many short stories to a 'young lady's' literary annual called The Keepsake. This is just one of those Our Blog thefrankenpod.wo...
Unpleasant Odours - Richard Marsh's The Beetle with Olivia of What'shername podcast
14 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Damp stains, the sound of scuttling insect feet and a creeping sense of Imperialist dread This week Morgan talks to Olivia of What'shername Podcast a...
*Insert Bad Haircut Joke Here* The String of Pearls (1846) and Sweeney Todd (2007)
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're on Fleet Street The razors are sharp The pies are gushing We're all feeling a bit nauseous Let's Go Promo from @letstlkabtsects Thanks...
Drood!
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan tells Brent a story. Brent gets upset Our Blog thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Promo this week from 6 Degrees of Wiki Podcast Thanks to the U.S. Ar...
Everything is Gothic (Unless it's not, then it's something else)
01 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Swears, Spoilers and Everyone's new favourite game show If you don't like giggly gothic discourse best move thyself elsewhere Thanks to the U.S. Army ...
Girl Interrupted with Kate from Ignorance was Bliss
30 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Spoilers, swears and mental illness Kate joins me to talk about the 1999 movie Girl Interrupted. ANOTHER Winona Ryder movie, we are so close to becomi...
From Mousers to Pluto - Black Cats
22 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about black cats, cat myths, literary cats, podcast cats, cats in government, cats in walls, cats in Soviet Russia and cats on your dead wife'...
Playing Mrs De Winter... Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier with Linzi
09 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mystery! Scandal! Ellipses! Linzi from 33% Pulp joins me to break down the elusive and almost entirely unromantic romance that is Rebecca by Daphne ...
Sorry! 🙀
02 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sorry guys we are running late! Hopefully there will be an episode in the next couple of days but if not we will see you next Saturday.
Flights of Winzy - The Mortal Immortal
27 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's time for another Mary Shelley Story! One that did not get such favourable reviews and has nowhere near the following that Frankenstein does... Al...
The Missing and Silent Women of Frankenstein
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan ACTUALLY lost her voice at the end of this one. Here on The FrankenPod we take symbolism seriously. Our Blog: Thefrankenpod.wordpress.com Twitt...
Desperately Seeking Watson - A Study in Scarlet (1887) and A Study in Pink (2010)
13 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We explore the Sherlock/Watson origin story with A Study in Scarlet vs A Study in Pink and react like 13-year-olds in a health class to Arthur Conan D...
John Polidori and the Infinite Sadness (With Alix Roberts)
12 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: SPOILERS AND SWEARS Poor Polidori! We talk literary scandal, vampires, pubic hair love tokens and Mary Shelley's revisionist history of her g...
The First Detective Novel?
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan explores the genesis of the detective novel. Our Blog: TheFrankenPod.wordpress.com Thanks as always to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli...
The Cold Unfeeling City - The City as a Gothic Setting
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan explains the gothic city as setting to Brent. Brent makes his case for Dark Angel as a gothic text worth studying Morgan acquiesces Thanks so m...
The Ballad of Ern Malley
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk about the Frankenstein-esque tale Peter Carey's 'My Life as a Fake' To explain the book in any real way you need to know abou...
Black, White and Boobs - Sin City 1993 vs 2004
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Spoilers, Swears and one homophobic slur in particular. Brent gets to explore the urban gothic tale of Sin City that he has a deep and abiding love fo...
Frilled Neck Lucy - A Closer Look at Dracula (1992)
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS AND SWEARS Erin @Ravie13 walks Morgan through some of the underappreciated elements of Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Dracula. The...
An Interview About Vampires
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
WARNING: Swears, spoilers, literary racism and misogyny Alix tells me all about 19th-century Vampiric Women, about what made them scary and more than ...
My Favourite Vampire - Dracula with Sarah from Good Nightmare
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah from Good Nightmare shares her personal love of Dracula. Morgan is NOT scared of armadillos. And Brent makes a claim. thefrankenpod.wordpress.c...
Dracula 1992 vs. 1897
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dracula Blah blah Blah Brent tackles the 1992 special effects nightmare that is Bram Stoker's Dracula and does his best Winona Ryder impersonation. Mo...
The Brontes - 50 Shades of Heathcliff - A Goosebumps podcast
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Swears and Spoilers Morgan and Megan from Oh no! Lit Class, try to talk Brontes and kind of succeed... Megan's friend who wrote the story about the ha...
Creating a Monster - It's a mash up minisode
03 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In which Morgan demonstrates her poor knowledge of Jungian philosophy and mispronounces abhorred. Enjoy A massive Thank you as always to the U.S. Army...
The LEAGUE OF INCENSE! - The Villa Diodati
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's all romantic intrigue, stalker behaviour and gothic nightmares on Lake Geneva this week. Let's fling our undergarments out the window and talk te...
A Story Without A Moral - It's a Constance and Oscar Wilde Minisode!
17 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about the Wildes and their sad and all too brief lives. It's a bit of a sad one but the promo in the middle isn't! Podcast promo: 33% ...
Decorative Sex 🌺 - The Picture of Dorian Gray
12 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
SWEARS AND SPOILERS! Morgan read the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and revelled in the wordplay, for at least the first two reads. Brent watch...
The Body Snatchers - It's a Cult of Domesticity guest minisode
10 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
SPOILERS AND SWEARS as usual This is a not so minisode while we wait patiently for the main episode on the 13th. Courtney from Cult of Domesticity J...
Story Time! Ambrose Bierce's "A Vine on A House"
04 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Just something a little spooky from me to you... No fully fledged bonus episode this week! We'll be back next week with something a little more elabor...
Mini Episode A Quick Word With Mr Wilde
02 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
SPOILERS AND SWEARS as usual I'll leave much of this episode to the superior eloquence of Oscar Wilde and his defence of his art, and aestheticism as ...
Is this how you Promo? HALP!
31 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Oh no! Morgan and Brent rerecord their promo with the new microphones and they try to be clever. Does it work? Probably not. But I am experiencing c...
Our Lady Of Science Fiction, It's a Mary Shelley Minisode!
27 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan goes over the life and times of Mary Shelley in under 10 minutes. Blink and you might miss how awful Percy is. thefrankenpod.wordpress.com
Mini Episode - Pottery and Sculpture With Prometheus
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this mini episode, I am going to introduce the myth of Prometheus as it is so critical to Frankenstein or the modern day Prometheus by Mary Shelley...
It's Alive 💥 - Frankenstein
12 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is our pilot episode in which Brent and I stumble through the disparate plot points of the 1818 novel Frankenstein or the Modern day Prometheus b...
Guest minisode - Mackenzie has a PJ Masks Episode
11 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
She was super keen and... well... here it is Dill Pickles by Heftone Banjo Orchestra is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Bats Optional - What is Gothic Literature?
05 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know much about Gothic literature? Morgan knows a little bit, she likes to talk about it, a lot. Morgan has no life. And now you have an expect...