Episode #34 of the Weird Tales Radio Show podcast (available on iTunes, Spotify etc) contains part two of our interview with Brendan Keane on Celtic Revivalism, the Occult & the Irish Dimension. Janie Christian looks at the surprisingly recent origins of English church Harvest Festivals and the curious folklore of Chalk Back Thursday. And Inanna Arthen offers a handy guide to North American Neo-Pagan & Wiccan resources, including books and websites.

Episode #33 - 13th September of the Weird Tales Radio Show is available now on all the usual podcasts platforms, including Spotify. The show contains the first part of a major interview Brendan Keane on Celtic Revivalism, the Occult and the Irish Dimension. We also have news of the latest haunting: the Ghostly Nun of Fawkham Green – don’t look in the attic, that’s where her skull is stored! And we remember the curious tales of the New York Straw Hat Riot. No, really, people did take to the streets over wearing straw boaters out of season!

On September evenings the ghost of a murdered nun is said to haunt Pennis Lane (note the double 'N') in the Kent village of Fawkham Green. For reasons unexplained, her skull is now kept in the attic of a nearby house and it is deemed bad luck to remove it 

Also today - the 13th September - is the anniversary of the start of the Straw Hat Riots in New York City in 1922. Apparently it was socially unacceptable for men to wear straw boaters after 15th September and an invitation to have them knocked from your head and stomped on. The riots began when a mob of youths jumped the gun and started stomping on hats two days prematurely.

The next Weird Tales Radio Show podcast is in the can – recorded and edited – out this Thursday – everything from Screaming Skulls to Leprechauns and Riots over Straw Boaters!

Episode #32 - 6th September of the Weird Tales Radio Show podcast is available now on all the usual podcast platforms and contains the second in our series of interviews on neo-paganism today. The focus this time is the American revival of interest in Anglo-Saxon heathenism and the Theodish Belief in particular (which seems to involve a lot of eating and beer drinking). Our interviewee's favourite movie is The Wicker Man "because the good guys win"! We also have news on the latest hauntings and the ghost of the distinctly crazy Mad Jack Mytton. And, in our Practical Magick slot, we look at the Top 7 Reasons Why Your Magick Spells Fail.

As part of our strategy to make the Weird Tales Radio Show as widely available as possible, we're pleased to announce that the podcast can now also be heard on Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/show/48XPXq2J1cZROSDZOHo9JN?si=fnCP0i-YTSK1tysR-QMfzA