PodCastle is devoted to fantasy stories. It is one of the three Escape Artists podcasts spun off from EscapePod in July 2007. Fantasy tends to reside in sprawling fat trilogies and sequals, but PodCastle seeks out the elusive fantasy short story, which includes everything from swords and sorcery to modern day strange occurences, Arabian Nights, folklore, magical realism, and every other not quite mainstream fiction. Some of the popular authors on the show are Greg van Eekhout and Tim Pratt. The quality of stories and narration is first rate. For some reason the intros and outros have always been weak, however, especially compared to EscapePod and Pseudopod, the other two EscapeArtist sisters, although with the addition of Dave Thompson, this condition has changed. His intros are great.
Here are some fantastic shows to get you started:
PC005 The Ant King: A California Fairy Tale
PC003 Run Of The Fiery Horse
PC020 Cup and Table
PC029 Dead Languages
PC008 The Osteomancer’s Son
PC004 Goosegirl
PC006 Hotel Astarte
PC027 Red Riding-Hood’s Child
PC018 Illuminated Dragon
PC017 Goblin Lullaby
And one of my personal favorites, a seething indictment of racism in the Shire, Middle Earth
PC032 Senator Bilbo
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