Art of Darkness

We cover the wonderfully woo-woo life and work of the chain-smoking, foul-talking, table-knocking mother of modern spirituality: Madame Blavatsky, the OG White Lotus.

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Andrew McLuhan joins the Dark Room to talk about the McLuhan Institute, media writ large, his exceptional wordplay posting, and the McLuhan legacy.

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Professor Robert M. Dowling joins the Dark Room to talk about the life and work of Eugene O'Neill, the great Sam Shepard, and the fine art of biography.

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Dr. Michael Ward joins the Dark Room to discuss his book, Planet Narnia, and his insights into Lewis' world as it relates to Christology and the medieval mind.

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Author Mark Booth (aka Jonathan Black) joins the Dark Room to talk about his latest book, his favorite book (Alice in Wonderland), Carl Jung, the occult and more.

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THE EARTHEN DARK author Brad Kelly makes his Core Episode return to talk about the essential work and life of artist Max Ernst.

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Author and savant poaster Dan Baltic, the show's lawyer, joins the pod to talk about Norm Macdonald's book and last special, cancer and more.

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Author Kenan Meral joins the show to talk John Lennon, eternal 1968, music, his writing and more.

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Jack from the Book Club from Hell joins us to talk about the life and work of English author J.G. Ballard.

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Futurist. Gallerist. Author. Consultant. Historian. Founder of Galleria Fiume. Rachel Haywire joins Kevin to talk McLuhan, the state of media and the arts, and more.

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C. Sandbatch joins the show to talk Faulkner, Fletcher, and Southern Modernism.

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We talk about C.S. Lewis’ great epistolary Christian apologetic novel: The Screwtape Letters.

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Publisher Will Ballard of Farthest Heaven joins us to tease our forthcoming Max Ernst episode with Brad Kelly, and more.

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Author and cultural critic Sean Murphy joins us in the Dark Room to talk Bukowski and how he speaks to our current technocratic situation.

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Psychotherapist, writer, and podcaster Mark Vernon joins us in the Dark Room to talk about Clive Staples Lewis, Owen Barfield, the Inklings, and his own work.

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Kelby Losack joins us to talk Clive Staples Lewis and more. He's the author of Texas Tea, Letting Out the Devils, Mercy, God Is Wearing Black, and more (and the co-host of Agitator).

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Matt takes us through the life and work of the author of the Chronicles of Narnia, the Great Divorce, the Screwtape Letters, and more: C.S. (Jack) Lewis.

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We get the band back together. Abbie, Brad, Kevin, Kirsten, and Matt talk all things Art of Darkness, ghosts of podcasts past, present, and future. Enjoy.

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Author Stephen Pimentel joins the pod to talk Jung, the Magus, Hesse, Hobbes, and more.

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We go there and back again, covering the life and work of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, noted Oxford philologist and author of the singularly influential novels: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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Actor Michael Bakkensen returns to the podcast to talk about the craft of acting, William Shakespeare and the Oxford / Stratford situation, Shakespeare as stoner and more.

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Ol' Slick (Brad Kelly) makes his anticipated return to Art of Darkness for a Dark Room to talk Jung, the Tarot, his new novel THE EARTHEN DARK and more.

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Forest of Symbols podcaster Aldous Asterion comes back to the Dark Room to discuss Jung and his work Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self.

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Matt breaks the seal and covers the life and work of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, and his shadow.

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Podcaster Dexter De La Paz joins the pod to talk Poe, Epstein, Grimdark and American macabre historically and now.

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Actor Amanda Forstrom joins the pod to talk about Shakespeare and her work with A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACATAR).

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Writer Samuel Buntz comes back on the pod to talk about the supernatural Kipling and more.

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In our first episode of Season VI, we change regimes as Matt Taylor joins the show and Kevin covers the wildly influential life and strange work of the father of psychoanalysis, Dr. Daddy Issues himself, Sigmund Freud.

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Abbie brings us the life story of the great Audrey Hepburn, in our last core episode of Season V. Enjoy!

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Filmmaker Josh David Jordan talks about his Orthodox film El Tonto Por Cristo, and inspirations (including Tarkovsky).

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Kevin and Matt introduce the plan for Art of Darkness Season VI (2026), including Freud, Jung, Tolkein, and Lewis. More to come.

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Matt Taylor (There Will Be Books) joins the Dark Room to talk about Roald Dahl, the Witches, James and the Giant Peach and our coming Season VI (2026) as the new co-host of the show.

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Kevin and Abbie traverse the life and the work of the incomparable genius of the American theatre, the granddaddy American playwright of them all: Eugene O’Neill.

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Abbie walks us through the life and work of Maori filmmaker Merata Mita.

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Kevin talks Roald Dahl with friend of the pod, abstract visual artist J.W. van Kaathoven.

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We cover the life and work of the wildly influential German philosopher of deep dark pessimism and will as representation, Arthur Schopenhauer.

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Out from behind the paywall, an evergreen core episode from November 2023 initially served to patrons only. Brad covers the life and work of the great American author of Jesus’ Son: Denis Johnson. Get this and other core episodes ad-free on Patreon or Substack.

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In this episode we cover the incredible, improbable, extraordinary life of the wildly talented and controversial author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and more: Roald Dahl. Get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod. x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/abbielucas x.com/kautzmania […]

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A Rash Impulse author Kenan Meral talks Mishima and Confessions of a Mask. Get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod. x.com/up_an_octave x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/abbielucas x.com/kautzmania […]

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We cover the life, work, infamous bigotry, and many problems of the wildly influential genius of opera as total art: Richard Wagner. Get the After Dark episode and more at patreon.com/artofdarkpod or substack.com/@artofdarkpod. x.com/artofdarkpod x.com/abbielucas x.com/kautzmania […]

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