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234 – Katherine Arden & The Devil’s Train Timetable
Category: Arts
Duration: 01:19:54
Publish Date: 2025-04-15 17:00:00
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In the week that the world changed, we’re talking about the last time things got this crazy.

 

Katherine Arden is the author of The Warm Hands of Ghosts — a novel set in the trenches of the First World War and on the borderline between horror and fantasy. It’s a Faustian pact made in No-Man’s Land, where our memories are the price we pay for keeping ourselves alive.

 

In this episode we talk a lot about history, about inflection points and moments of no-return. We talk about how systems of power can seem so complex that they lead only to ruin – but we also talk devils and fairies and angels and brave, brave nurses with scarred hands.

 

It’s a joy of a conversation, about the most hideous time to be alive.

 

Enjoy!

 

Other books mentioned:

 

  • The Bear and the Nightingale (2017), by Katherine Arden
  • The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (2025), by Stephen Graham Jones
  • Wasteland: The Great War and the Origin of Modern Horror (2018), by W. Scott Pool
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), by Susanna Clarke
  • The Master and the Margarita (1940), by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Lud in the Mist (1926), by Hope Mirrlees
  • Ghosts Have Warm Hands: A Memoir of the Great War (1968), by Will R. Bird
  • Between Two Fires (2012), by Christopher Buehlman
  • Ghost Eaters (2022), by Clay McLeod Chapman
  • Wake Up and Open Your Eyes (2025), by Clay McLeod Chapman


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