We still exist! And now we're at the watchable, good part of Amicus. James and Holly return triumphantly to talk about Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.

Jane is back on Pex Lives! We kick things off with a chat about The Magician's Apprentice, the just-aired Peter Capaldi opener (which James seems to like more than anyone) then head into a combined fairground twister on Carnival of Monsters and Nightmare of Eden. 

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Phil Sandifer & Jack Graham discuss The Magician's Apprentice and much more.

Here's Shabcast 11, featuring myself in conversation with Phil Sandifer.  This was recorded before Eruditorum Press went live, so events have overtaken it somewhat.  We discuss Doctor Who (before the start of Series 9), Susan, Gareth Roberts, Thomas Ligotti, God, Alan Moore, H.P. Lovecraft, Jimmy Saville, Frank Miller, Vox Day (because Phil just can't help himself), Hegel, Marxism, technological determinism, the Situationists, Engels, evolution, revolution, the Anthropocene extinction, Jonathan Jones, and the existential terrors of the Right.

This time, I'm joined by the lovely and incredibly erudite Gene Mayes - of various Pex Lives appearances and his own excellent new blog Being and Time Lord - to chat about the Gothic.  We also focus specifically on the movie A Field in England, Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump's masterpiece of English Civil War-era madness, magic and mushrooms.  There be spoilers here, by the way.  We range pretty freely and get on to all sorts of other stuff including (but far from limited to) alchemy, John Dee, Hammer movies, Gothic novels, Marxism and Anarchism.  It's a long one (just over 3-hours, so feel free to listen in fits and starts) but I hope worth your time.  

Here's Gene's blog post about A Field in England: http://beingandtimelord.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/building-dwelling-tripping.html

Legendary blogger Phil Sandifer, of www.philsandifer.com, talks to Peter Harness, the writer of series eight's Kill the Moon, about that episode and adapting Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell for the BBC. 

Gene and James discuss the original film work of Orson Welles in this, the year of his centenary. 

The programmed pictures are:

Citizen Kane (1941)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 

The Stranger (1946)

The Lady From Shanghai (1947)

The Third Man (1949)

Mr Arkadin (1955)

Touch of Evil (1958)

The Trial (1962)

F For Fake (1973)

It's a long one. Don't feel obligated to listen all at once. Enjoy!

Gene writes about Arkadin here: http://beingandtimelord.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/the-dossier-found-in-saragossa.html

And F For Fake here

http://beingandtimelord.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/for-james-art.html

And a little more here

http://beingandtimelord.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/a-for-eigentlichkeit.html

Kevin and James spend the first half of this month's episode talking about American fascist comic creator, Frank Miller, and the second half considering the classic Caledonian serial, Terror of the Zygons. 

We're Pex Lives and we do this. 

Holly and James talk about the 1963's Just For Fun. They don't like it, but this is some good listening.