We found 6 episodes of Weird Studies with the tag “fantasy”.
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Episode 154: Into the Night Land, with Erik Davis
Episode | September 26th, 2023 | 1 hr 23 mins
fantasy, literature, metaphysics, science fiction
JF and Phil are joined by Erik Davis to discuss William Hope Hodgson's masterfully weird 1912 novel.
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Episode 118: The Unseen and the Unnamed, with Meredith Michael
Episode | March 16th, 2022 | 1 hr 16 mins
fantasy, literature, metaphysics, short stories
Meredith Michael joins JF and Phil to discuss short fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin and J.G. Ballard.
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Episode 111: What Is Best in Life: On "Conan the Barbarian"
Episode | November 24th, 2021 | 1 hr 21 mins
cinema, fantasy, paganism, trash stratum
Phil and JF explore the ethics and metaphysics of sword and sorcery through the lends of John Milius' 1982 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones.
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Episode 64: Dreams and Shadows: On Ursula Le Guin's 'A Wizard of Earthsea'
Episode | January 22nd, 2020 | 1 hr 17 mins
fantasy, literature, metaphysics, politics
JF and Phil discuss Ursula Le Guin's great coming-of-age fantasy novel, the first of the Earthsea cycle.
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Episode 41: On Speculative Fiction, with Matt Cardin
Episode | February 27th, 2019 | 59 mins 52 secs
fantasy, horror, interviews
JF and Phil talk fantasy and horror with writer and editor Matt Cardin.
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Episode 6: Dungeons & Dragons, or the Reality of Illusions
Episode | March 21st, 2018 | 1 hr 18 mins
d&d, fantasy, imaginal, roleplaying games
Phil and JF use D&D as a lens to locate the vanishing point where fantasy converges with the real.