It’s time for the second leg of the journey to Ashmole 782; Bohemia. Description: After departing France, Sept-Tours, and Philippe de Clermont, we feel road-weary — but the initial reason for this trip was to go to Bohemia and retrieve Edward Kelley and Ashmole 782. The Queen DID give her orders, so off we go. […]

Cue announcer voice: “… and this could all be yours!” Today is the day in real-time that we begin Shadow of Night! What better way to celebrate than to give away the book itself! Along with that, we are throwing in Diana’s commonplace book! We kicked in some things that look ahead, and look behind! Looking […]

Because, let’s face it . . . we’ve had better years, right? To commemorate our universal uncertainty this year, we offer this enamel pin. Have you felt the need to say “F*ck This Sh*t, I’m Out” more than once during this crazy year? Express it! This limited edition enamel pin is our offering to the […]

Description: Time has arrived for us to start diving into these books!  Now that we’ve covered many of the primer subjects, it’s given us sufficient foundation for the dissection of this trilogy called All Souls.  Join along as we revisit the beloved words in our favorite series!  Not so much a read along per se, […]

An unofficial podcast about the All Souls universe and the topics that orbit it. All Souls-ing since 2012, we are the Daemons – All Souls Trilogy (by Deborah Harkness) enthusiasts exploring the All Souls universe in this unofficial fan podcast. Hi! We’re Angela, Jean & Valerie — aka ‘The Daemons’ — we talk about the […]

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 […]

Between the traveling de Clermonts and the description of Hubbard, how could we NOT hearken back to vampire lore? Description: We meet Andrew Hubbard! According to Gallowglass and Hancock, we probably should’ve met him much earlier. Our initial impressions of him range from a creepy cult leader, to the altruistic ruler of a land of […]

Description: Endings, beginnings, change . . . we close the chapters of A Discovery of Witches. But first we observe Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont meeting Sophie and Nathaniel, and contemplate what their sudden unexpected appearance might mean. Later on, Hamish completes the conventicle, and with his leadership, the Bishop-Clairmont gang lay out a road […]

A promotional ‘poster’ from Armitage4Clairmont This is from someone we are now proud to call a friend!  She came down all the way from Alaska to to have an AST experience via this convention!  She found the All Souls Trilogy ironically enough from another entirely different/separate fandom (we’ll take a bit of responsibility for this […]

There she is…The Big Apple! We consider ourselves always learning – perpetual students, if you will.  So when an opportunity for a field trip presents itself, we take it!  This excursion took shape in the form a big apple – or rather the Big Apple!  (Sure we could talk about the apple, Diana’s unfortunate walk […]

Deborah Harkness’ inspiration for “The House” aka “The Bishop House” Description: ADOW ch 30-34 – Enter Baldwin Montclair! Valerie patiently indulges Angela and Jean (truthfully, she gleefully eggs them on — that might explain the episode length!) while they spend time with their favorite de Clermont. This has been named ‘The One With the Bite,’ because […]

Prizes are not shown to scale in the above graphic! Our favorite time of year is approaching!  Reason #1 this is our favorite time of year is that October 31st is the night that Diana and Matthew time-walked into the 16th Century, ushering in our personal favorite of the series: Shadow of Night!  Reason #2 […]

Since the theme is green, are we really surprised that Sarah’s witchball would take center stage? 🎃 Happy Halloween, everyone! Here’s a treat!  This year, our theme is GREEN! When we think of green, we think of The Book of Life (in this universe, anyway)! So, of course, we are including a signed copy of […]

The Alchemical Marriage by Emily Balivet The picture of the Alchemical Wedding in Ashmole 782 was a turning point for Matthew and Diana in A Discovery of Witches, and a huge turning point for the readers as well!   You are probably wondering what this picture is to the right (on the right if you […]