A weird fiction podcast from John Lombard

After inexplicably starting off these stories with a samurai tale, The Three Heads , one year later I wanted to go back to the samurai...

Of course, the main inspiration for this story is the Chinese novel Journey to the West , best known in Australia through the TV series...

Of course, we bow to the samurai. Leave the road. Touch the ground with your forehead. Don’t look in their eyes. Wait for them to pass....

Sometimes, Tripitaka wished the demons would just eat him. After they pounced on him in a swirl of fangs and horns and yellow eyes, he...

This story started with a rewatch of the charming Disney Robin Hood movie from 1973, the cartoon where Robin Hood and Maid Marian are...

The plaintiff: John, Prince of England. Brother to absent King Richard. Stewards a forfeit realm from a brittle cuckoo court. Dubbed...