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🥳 2020 is almost over! That’s a big reason to celebrate!🎄 Hello, friends! We are celebrating the end of the year with a huge GIVEAWAY! We wish you all a merry Christmas, a cool Yule, a happy Hanukkah, and a festive whatever your reason for the season! We haven’t been very celebratory this year, so […]

Dark? Light? Good? Bad? Where are we going, here? Description: Now that Diana, Matthew, Sarah, and Fernando have settled into life in the House, a comfortable routine has been established. Through a little Fernado story-time, we learn a little more about Fernando’s life with Hugh and Gallowglass. We observe how Sarah’s garden plays a major […]

Hey, 2021 — do better. Goodbye 2020. HELLO, 2021! We are going to just leave our negative comments behind, because there is so much to look forward to! Most immediately, the premiere of Season 2 of A Discovery of Witches! Yay! We’ll use this giveaway as sort of a countdown, because it’s going to end […]

Château de Murol – Deborah Harkness’ inspiration for La Pierre Description: A collection of the most blissful and the most frightening chapters rolled up in one discussion! This discussion opens with Matthew Clairmont’s return to Sept-Tours, and closes in a faraway dungeon with Diana Bishop and several spirits. We discuss those events, and what’s in […]

This installment of Weekly Geek is a theme continuation from the last time we published one of these: All Souls Trilogy titles. Having already covered A Discovery of Witches, this time we’re covering…you guessed it: Shadow of Night! You can thank none other than George Chapman.  It just so happens that one of his best known poems […]

Description: The reader, like the collective heap of vampire and witch, is splashed into 1590, and it seems the temperature not as quite as comfortable as we had hoped! In this episode, we explore the first two chapters of our favorite book in this series, Shadow of Night. We find that Matthew Clairmont’s past is […]

3 Daemons and a vampire walk into a bar . . . Description: 2017 All Souls Con has come and gone, and we exaggerate a bit when we say ‘disaster,’ because considering the circumstances, we came out way ahead! This episode is a huge thank you to Laura, Karen + the entire crew at All […]

First things first: All Souls Con! We have a coupon code for All Souls Con (good until July 15th 2017).  Coupon code: DISCUSSER – Passes:  now $99, virtual passes: $0 (! –> thanks goes to Penguin Books for sponsoring the live stream)  All early bird prices ended the 15th of June, 2017 — Virtual passes […]

Because it’s Black Friday . . . and giveaways are one of our favorite things! ‘Black is the badge of hell, the hue of dungeons, and the school of night’ — or you can go with the version by Kit, in Shadow of Night: Black is the badge of true love lost. The hue of […]

Description: We travel back to the future to visit with Marcus, Ysabeau, Sarah, Emily, Nathaniel and Sophie! With the good, we get the bad … we spy a Gerbert, a Peter, and a Domenico! We also get to meet Phoebe, who is new to us in this series, but we should probably pay attention to […]

Description:Ransome welcomes (HA!) Matthew to his home. Actually it’s more like Matthew needs Ransome’s support for this scion he’s forming. He’s wondering if he can count on some support? Ransome: NOT. SO. FAST. GRANDPA. SPOILER ALERT! We (The Daemons) approach this podcast with an assumption that the listener has read All Souls universe books, including […]

Gerbert — you rascal! Description: There are many things going on concurrently — the hunt for an errant son, the heist of a very important object in the story, and the extermination of a major pest (to mention a few of the things in this episode). If we say any more it would be spoilers […]

Considering our new found appreciation for him, Chris deserved a front/center spot this episode… Description: Father Hubbard is given an ultimatum from his sire, Benjamin — which leads him to desperate measures; go to Matthew to handle this problem, because he is the “break-in-case-of-emergency” option! The problem? Jack Blackfriers. Yes! He’s back! He’s a vampire […]

Description: We travel back to the future to visit with Marcus, Ysabeau, Sarah, Emily, Nathaniel and Sophie! With the good, we get the bad … we spy a Gerbert, a Peter, and a Domenico! We also get to meet Phoebe, who is new to us in this series, but we should probably pay attention to […]