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Episode 441: Before they were KISS -- Gene and Paul

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  We're continuing on with episodes on KISS!  But we're actually going a bit back in time to talk about them before they w...

Episode 440: The London Beer Flood of 1814

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  This round we're talking about the London Beer Flood of 1814.  If you want more information than that, you'll have to li...

Episode 439: This Band Has No Past - Cheap Trick's beginnings (part 2)

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to episode two (of three) of the origins of Cheap Trick!  Going from around their Sick Man of Europe days throu...

Episode 438: Yorkshire Pudding Day and the Sunday Roast

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  We're fitting in a short episode this week, as James wanted to quickly discuss National Yorkshire Pudding Day, which occu...

Episode 437: Before they were KISS -- Peter and Ace

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  We're continuing on with episodes on KISS!  But we're actually going a bit back in time to talk about them before they w...

Episode 436: 42nd Anniversary of "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" HHGTTG and The Grand Hotel Paradox

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to another Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy episode!  This year is the 42nd anniversary of the fourth book in t...

Episode 435: This Band Has No Past - Cheap Trick's beginnings (part 1)

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  We've mentioned Cheap Trick many times over the course of the podcast and now we're finally getting into them!  This is ...

Episode 434: The Triple Crown Murder

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Join us in our time travel machine as we go back in time to the infamous Triple Crown Murder, a real life murder from 193...

Episode 433: D&D&D

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor! Although we took it a bit easy in November, a couple of those episodes were in-depth.  But along with the berserker spooky...

Episode 432: A Terrors' Tribute to Ace Frehley

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  We interrupt what was going to be the next episode, but...  Ace Frehley, founding member of KISS, passed away last year....

Episode 431: Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same 50th Anniversary

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to another of our Led Zeppelin album arcs!  Although in this case, it's an arc of one episode, as The Song Rema...

Episode 430: JRR Tolkien and The Nature of Middle-Earth

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to a new year!  We're starting out this year with an episode to celebrate JRR Tolkien's birthday, which is tomo...

Episode 429: Iron Maiden's B-Sides of the '80s

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the last episode of the year!  Which as usual, is focused on Iron Maiden!  If you harken back to the origin...

Episode 428: A Charlie Brown Yulemass

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to some more peanuts holiday fun!  This time, it's Charlie Brown and the gang during Christmas!  Pour you...

Episode 427: Ghost Stories for Christmas with the Terrors and Author John M Knight

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor! It is time for our annual Ghost Stories for Christmas episode!  This year, we're focusing a fair bit on M.R. James and our...

Episode 426: Snoopy's Christmas and Snoopy vs. the Red Baron

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the first of our three Yuletide episodes!  We're starting with two classic songs about that most excellent o...

Episode 425: The Thanksgiving Song - Over the River and Through the Wood

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  And welcome to our annual Thanksgiving episode!  Rather than have it come out a day late, after listening to our take on...

Episode 424: Foods we love inspired by books-music-movies-family-nerd-things

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more Food Month Fun!  In this episode, we're talking about foods we like that were inspired by nerd things, ...

Episode 423: Desert Island Foods

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor's Food Month!  It's Thanksgiving month and we're discussing food all month long.  This week is desert island foods.  If y...

Episode 422: Food month!

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Manor!  This month, after a grueling month or two or so of Halloween Spooky Season wonderfulness, we're taking it easy with a month of...

Episode 421: The History of Halloween Music

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the doubled up day of Halloween spookiness!  This is the second episode, a brief history of Halloween music,...

Episode 420: The History of Samhain in Ireland

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the final episodes of the spooky season!  Since Halloween falls on a Friday this year, rather than give you ...

Episode 419: Mulligan's Haunted Pub

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more extra spookiness!  This week's midweek spooky episode is about Mulligan's Pub, Dublin, Ireland, and its...

Episode 418: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - the book

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to more spooky season goodness.  This year, at the beginning of October in fact, marks the 75th anniversary of Peanuts.  It's the 59th anniv...

Episode 417: Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare 50th Anniversary

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more spooky season spookiness.  This episode is on that most nightmarish of albums from 1975, or any year fo...

Episode 416: The Return of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  What better way to continue spooky season than to discuss zombie flicks!  The Return of the Living Dead turned 40 this y...

Episode 415: Haint Blue

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back the Manor and welcome to more spooky season goodness! Or is it evilness?  Whichever or both! This episode was a suggestion.  From whom?...

Episode 414: Halloween Costumes and Ben Cooper

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and to more Halloween spooky fun!  This episode gets into the costumes of our youth and famous costume makes, specifically ...

Episode 413: Peter Cushing on Horror and Fantasy

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more spooky season goodness!  We're starting off October with one of the masters of horror... and stage and ...

Episode 412: The Eerie Doppelganger of Percy Bysshe Shelley

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to more spooky fun!  We're starting out October with an excellent creepy story on the final days of Percy ...

Episode 411: "8114" and Joshua Hull

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  And what better way to start the official start of spooky month than with a local Hoosier author!  Join us for a discuss...

Episode 410: The Rocky Horror Picture Show's 50th Anniversary

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more spooky season spookiness!  This episode is on the 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show!  ...

Episode 409: Hobbit Day 2025 -- the horror and etymology of The Fellowship of the Ring

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to Hobbit Day 2025!  Otherwise known as our anniversary, although I suppose this is technically coming out just...

Episode 408: Haunted Auburn Brewery

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to this year's extended spooky season!  Today we're talking about the haunted brewery in Auburn, Indiana, ...

Episode 407: The Black Cauldron (40th Anniversary)

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Macabre Manor!  And welcome to spooky season!  This year, we're starting early, but since most of us start celebrating Halloween...

Episode 406: The Guinness Episode #2 - blind taste testing and nitro can pour

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  A few episodes ago, James mentioned that while Guinness would be his beer of choice, he wasn't sure if he'd be able to pi...

Episode 405: Seamus' Historical Beer Trivia part V

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  As usual, when we're ramping up for spooky season, we find a few easier episodes to put out before then.  This time, Jam...

Episode 404: Nerd Dice

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  We briefly mentioned doing this episode a while back, during the Monty Python and the Holy Grail episodes, and here it is...

Episode 403: Farewell, Ozzy

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We interrupt our normal schedule (okay, we don't really have a normal schedule, so we're good anyway) to bring you a farewell and a tribute to Ozzy Os...

Episode 402 -- John Cougar Mellencamp and the Scarecrow album's 40th anniversary (part 2)

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  This year marks the 40th anniversary of the album "Scarecrow" by John Mellencamp.  After episode one, released back on J...

Episode 401: When is the Band Not the Band Redux

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to when is the band not the band anymore redux!  Our first episode was some time ago, when back in episode 47 i...

Episode 400: Tolkien Fan Theories

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to our 400th episode!  To celebrate the milestone, we're going back to one of our most beloved topics, Lord of ...

Episode 399: Literary Firsts

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  This week, we're discussing literary firsts.  That is, which were the first sci-fi and fantasy and general fiction books...

Episode 398 -- John Cougar Mellencamp and the Scarecrow album's 40th anniversary (part 1)

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  This year marks the 40th anniversary of the album "Scarecrow" by John Mellencamp.  Where's the Cougar you ask?  She's s...

Episode 397: Voltron's 40th anniversary

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  This episode is all about... Voltron!  Defender of the Universe!  Up the Lions!  Or whatever... Voltron celebrated its...

Episode 396: Monty Python and the Holy Grail 50th anniversary (part 2)

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to the second (of two) episode on Monty Python and the Holy Grail's 50th anniversary!  We'll continue our ...

Episode 395: Monty Python and the Holy Grail 50th anniversary (part 1)

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to another wonderful Monty Python episode.  This time it's on the 50th anniversary of their first full len...

Episode 394: Happy 13th Death Day, Ray (Bradbury)!

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  And welcome to a different episode than originally planned!  Today (Thursday, June 5th, 2025) is the 13th anniversary of...

Episode 393: The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Duck of the Whiskervilles

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Get ready to pour a pint of bitter or to light your pipe.  We're even okay if you play your violin while you listen, but...

Episode 392: Scottish Ales Shilling System and Belgian Trappist Ales Numbering System

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Have you ever wondered why some Scottish ales and some Belgian, particularly Trappist, ales have numbers on them?  Wonde...

Episode 391: The Pythons Arms Pub (Monty Python)

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to another Monty Python episode!  Well, more or less.  It definitely involves Monty Python, or at least 1/6th ...

Episode 390: Our Annual "Best of" Episode - 2024

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Welcome to our annual "best of" episode where Jody gives his top album picks and James gives his top picks of whatever he...

Episode 389: Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti 50th Anniversary part 5 (of 5)

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to the final episode of our Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti's 50th anniversary episode!  We're wrapping thi...

Episode 388: The Man on the Led Zeppelin IV (Signs) album

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  While the news of this broke a fair bit ago, for those who didn't know, the man on the Led Zeppelin IV album (Signs as Pe...

Episode 387: Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti 50th Anniversary (part 4 of 5)

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the 4th of 5 episodes on our Led Zeppelin 50th anniversary of Physical Graffiti arc!  This episode... tourin...

Episode 386: What happens when your pint size is reduced

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Okay, the title is a bit misleading.  But would the title "study analyzes what happens when full pints are reduced to 2/...

Episode 385: Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti 50th anniversary (part 3)

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the median point of our Led Zeppelin 50th anniversary of Physical Graffiti arc!  This episode... the songs! ...

Episode 384: The Pubs of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to another pub-ish episode and another HHGTTG episode!  We're talking about the pubs that go into the series......

Episode 383: Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti 50th anniversary (2 of 5)

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to another 50th anniversary arc for Led Zeppelin!  Physical Graffiti came out 50 years ago in 1975, so we're co...

Episode 382: Blood on Satan's Claw via HHGTTG

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Welcome to more folk horror spooky fun!  This episode goes into "Blood on Satan's Claw," mostly the movie, but also the ...

Episode 381: Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti 50th anniversary (part 1 of 5)

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to another 50th anniversary arc for Led Zeppelin!  Physical Graffiti came out 50 years ago in 1975, so we're co...

Episode 380: Jimmy Page and the Occult part 5 -- Jimmy Page

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the final episode of our Jimmy Page and the Occult arc!  We're finishing obviously, with Jimmy himself.  Be...

Episode 379: A Virtual Pub Crawl through Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Beyond

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  So we tried something new... a virtual pub crawl!  Since we're not in the same state, we shared a screen virtually and e...

Episode 378: Nerd Wings

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Jody sent a meme to James about why hot wing restaurants are always sports themed and not nerd themed.  What would it ta...

Episode 377: Jimmy Page and the Occult -- part 4 Alton Ales (The Crowley Family Brewery)

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to part 4 of our Jimmy Page and the Occult series!  This one wasn't initially planned, but once James started w...

Episode 376: British Meat Pie week - more meat (and fruit) pie fun from the Terrors

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Getting our meat pie episodes to at least a trilogy now, we're talking about British Meat Pie Week!  The first full week...

Episode 375: Jimmy Page and the Occult -- part 3 Aleister Crowley

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor! And finally!!! Welcome back to the Jimmy Page and the Occult arc, with part 3, Aleister Crowley!   We get into the backgr...

Episode 374: Jacks! In folklore, nicknames, literature, and boxes

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  An episode James had mentioned a handful of times in our long history has finally been made.  Jacks!  Jacks in folklore...

Episode 373: This is Spinal Tap's 40th anniversary (part 2)

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to the second (of two) episode on the 40th anniversary of "This is Spinal Tap," the mocumentary that showcases t...

Episode 372: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and happy birthday to the professor himself, JRR Tolkien!  For his birthday, we're discussing Sir Gawain and the Green Knig...

Episode 371: A Tribute to Paul Di'Anno (our annual year end Iron Maiden episode)

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Another calendar year has come and gone and we're ending the year as we always do, with an episode featuring Iron Maiden ...

Episode 370: Yuletide 2024 -- where did Santa's elves come from

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to our annual Yuletide episode!  Only one this year, as we're fitting in several anniversary episodes, as well,...

Episode 369: Meat pies and Mince pies

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Welcome to a semi-Yule themed episode, as well.  This episode, we're talking about meat pies.  Those gorgeous savory pi...

Episode 368: This is Spinal Tap (40th Anniversary) -- part 1

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Get ready to crank your volume up to 11 (forget making 10 louder)!  This is part 1 (of 2) on our "This is Spinal Tap" 40...

Episode 367: European Harvest Festivals and Charlie Brown Thanksgiving part 2

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  For our United States listeners, we hope you had an excellent Thanksgiving yesterday.  For our listeners around the worl...

Episode 366: Ghostbusters 40th Anniversary

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Did you know Ghostbusters (the movie) came out 40 years ago?  You do now!  Join us in feeling old as we talk about this...

Episode 365: Cooking with the Terrors 3 -- black and white pudding

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor! Welcome back to another "cooking with" episode! Have you ever wondered how you should cook black and/or white puddling?  T...

Episode 364: The Stairway to Heaven Court Case

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  We've done it!  We've finally done it!  We've mentioned doing this episode just about from the beginning and since this...

Episode 363: Irish Wakes, Keening, and Staying Up with the Dead

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  We're extending spooky season by one more day!  We recorded so many this year that it was tough finding a spot for all o...

Episode 362: Happy Halloween (2024) from the Terrors

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  It's Halloween Night... OOOoooooOOOoooOOOOooHHHhhhHHH!! We hope you enjoy your spooky fun and enjoy this short "Happy Hal...

Episode 361: Halloween 2024 - 50th Anniversary of Young Frankenstein

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to some more October spooky fun!  This episode really is both spooky and fun, as we delve into the 50th anniver...

Episode 360: Halloween 2024 - The History of the Jack-O-Lantern

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to more spooky fun at the Manor!  We had discussed doing an episode on the history of Halloween, but realized too late that it would tak...

Episode 359: Halloween 2024 -- Vampyr 1932

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Watch out for the hanging skeletons.  It's spooky season!  We're continuing our annual October blitz with another extra...

Episode 358: Halloween 2024 -- 50th anniversary of Vampyres

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to more spooky goodness at the Manor!  For our main episode this week, we're discussing the 1974 film Vampyres for its 50th anniversary,...

Episode 357: Halloween 2024 -- Horror Hosts

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  As is usual for October, this spookiest of months, we're releasing multiple episodes a week.  This week's bonus is our d...

Episode 356: Halloween 2024 -- Monster Cereals

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to more spooky fun at the Manor!  We're keeping the tradition alive (or at least undead) with more than the usual number of monthly episodes....

Episode 355: Halloween 2024 - Great Pumpkin Floods

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more spooky season goodness!  Or is it evilness?  Meh, either way!  This special episode is on Great Pumpk...

Episode 354: Halloween 2024 -- Rathcroghan and Oweynagat (Cave of the Cats) the birthplace of Halloween

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more spooky season fun!  We're finishing up James' Ireland/Scotland trip arc with a discussion about the bir...

Episode 353: Halloween 2024 The Haunted Ancient Ram Inn Pub

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to another eerie and spooky Halloween season!  Just as always, we're putting out extra episodes for Samhai...

Episode 352: The Cray and the Piranha Brothers, featuring The Firm

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to a Monty Python, Jimmy Page, mafia-style triple cross-over event!  Think we can't fit that in with the this s...

Episode 351: Hobbit Day 2024 - The Hobbit 1977 Rankin and Bass

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  And happy anniversary to us.  We started our podcast quite a few years ago on Hobbit Day and we're back at it again this...

Episode 350: Blazing Saddles 50th Anniversary

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor! We hope you brought a ton of dimes to get through all of the tolls.  This week we're talking about the 50th anniversary of...

Episode 349: D&D artist David Trampier's Strange Disappearance and Reappearance

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome back to some more 50th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons content!  We were going to say "fun," but this time ...

Episode 348: 1984 in Movies (part 1)

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  This time, we're talking about those movies that came out 40 years ago in 1984.  Are there enough for an episode?  Yes!...

Episode 347: Gen Con 2024

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to our episode on Gen Con 2024!  This year, we both got to hang out together during the greatest gaming convent...

Episode 346: Seamus' Celtic Adventure - Everything Else Irish and Scottish

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  James finishes up (except for the upcoming Halloween special episode) his trip things from over in Ireland and Scotland, ...

Episode 345: Pub Talk 13 -- memories and body switches

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  Honestly, we're not sure how many pub talk episodes we have recorded.  We didn't really intend for it to become a thing,...

Episode 343: Seamus' beer trip (Seamus' trip part 5)

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor!  James is nearly done with his trip overseas, this time getting into the beers he had while there.  Country, style, servi...

Episode 343: Tolkien and his Dwimmers

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to another J.R.R. Tolkien episode!  Have you ever wondered about the term dwimmerlaik when Eowyn uses this name...

Episode 342: Dolmens and Standing Stones (Seamus' Celtic adventures part 4)

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more of James' adventures in Ireland and Scotland.  Keeping to tradition, we're not only discussing James' t...