Strange Matter: The Witch Who Came in From the Cold

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Welcome to Realm's newest feed, Strange Matter. Max Gladstone presents a collection of thrilling stories of magic and mystery rooted in the strangeness of our own world. Come back every week for a new spell-binding episode.First on Strange Matter, we have The Witch Who Came in From the Cold. The Cold War rages in the back rooms and dark alleys of 1970s Prague—and on one misty night an American discovers that the city and its spies have become the new front of another, more ancient war—a war of magic. Now a CIA agent and a KGB operative must...

The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E39
#39
05/29/2025

Company Time, Part 3. KGB and CIA alike find themselves little more than pawns in an old and deadly game.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E38
#38
05/27/2025

Company Time, Part 2. Gabe and Tanya are forced to take drastic action.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E37
#37
05/22/2025

Company Time, Part 1, A long-buried mole comes to light, sending Operation ANCHISES off the rails.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E36
#36
05/20/2025

She’ll Lie Down In The Snow, Part 3. Gabe and Tanya must decide once and for all where their loyalties lie.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E35
#35
05/15/2025

She’ll Lie Down In The Snow, Part 2. The precarious balance of power between KGB and CIA, Ice and Flame, friend and foe, is threatened.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E34
#34
05/13/2025

She’ll Lie Down In The Snow, Part 1. Double- and triple-crosses are the order of the day as the shockwaves of Operation ANCHISES spread in unexpected directions.



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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E33
#33
05/08/2025

King’s Gambit Accepted, Part 3. As Dom and Josh prepare for the final stage of Operation ANCHISES, disturbing rumors about Gabe come to light . . . and Tanya faces a crisis of faith.



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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E32
#32
05/06/2025

King’s Gambit Accepted, Part 2. A mysterious Flame Construct stalks the streets of Prague.



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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E31
#31
05/01/2025

King’s Gambit Accepted, Part 1. Maksim Sokolov is stashed in a CIA safe house. But how safe is it, really, with Tanya and Nadia hot on the trail?


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E30
#30
04/29/2025

ANCHISES, Part 3. Tanya and Nadia find themselves mixed up in plots and magic that add up to more than the loss of one Soviet defector.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E29
#31
04/24/2025

ANCHISES, Part 2. Gabe must tread carefully through a minefield of danger as CIA, KGB, Ice, and Flame influences impinge on the delicate mission.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E28
#28
04/22/2025

ANCHISES, Part 1. Operation ANCHISES is set in motion—but nothing is simple when the target, Russian scientist Maksim Sokolov, turns out to be a Host.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E27
#27
04/17/2025

Head Case, Part 3. Josh, walking a tightrope between duty and desire, decides to take a plunge . . . or is it a fall?


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E26
#26
04/15/2025

Head Case, Part 2. Gabe and Tanya learn that some breaches cannot be prevented.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E25
#25
04/10/2025

Head Case, Part 1. As zero hour for Operation ANCHISES approaches, Prague’s CIA presence moves into place and the KGB tightens security.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E24
#24
04/08/2025

Cover the Silence, Part 3. In Bar Vodnář, Jordan must call upon all her magical powers—and all the favors she’s owed—to defend her home turf.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E23
#23
04/03/2025

Cover the Silence, Part 2. Behind the glitter and flirtation, an intricate game of influence and power plays out in which secrets become weapons and friendships are only weaknesses to be exploited.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E22
#22
04/01/2025

Cover the Silence, Part 1. When a Soviet socialite throws a party, all of fashionable Prague attends.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E21
#21
03/27/2025

Radio Free Trismegistus, Part 3. Unexplained deaths spark concern among the intel communities and rumors of golem sightings have the citizens of Prague on edge.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E20
#20
03/25/2025

Radio Free Trismegistus, Part 2. His options dwindling, Gabe turns to Tanya—but she needs help of her own as her confiscated radio raises questions with the KGB.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E19
#19
03/20/2025

Radio Free Trismegistus, Part 1.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E18
#18
03/18/2025

A Week Without Magic, Part 3. Where can two enemy spies turn for help . . . except each other?


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E17
#17
03/13/2025

A Week Without Magic, Part 2. A new arrival from Washington, D.C., arrives in Prague to command the ANCHISES operation.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E16
#16
03/11/2025

A Week Without Magic, Part 1. When an unwanted interloper from Moscow Center intrudes on local KGB operations in Prague,Tanya finds that red tape can strangle as effectively as any garrote.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E15
#15
03/06/2025

The Golem, Part 3. Sasha makes an unexpected move in his real-life game of chess.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E14
#14
03/04/2025

The Golem, Part 2. Tanya, disturbed by Gabe’s accusations about Ice, looks for answers of her own . . . and finds more than she bargained for.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E13
#13
02/27/2025

The Golem, Part 1. Gabe and Jordan seek answers in Prague’s ancient Jewish Cemetery.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E12
#12
02/25/2025

Stasis, Part 3. Gabe recalls the terrifying circumstances of a botched operation in Cairo.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E11
#11
02/20/2025

Stasis, Part 2. Gabe’s interest in the missing student has not gone unremarked by agents of the Flame or the KGB.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E10
#10
02/18/2025

Stasis, Part 1. Spurred on by his visions, Gabe decides to do a little digging of his own into the Host’s fate.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E9
#9
02/13/2025

Double Blind, Part 3. Attuned to the Host thanks to his own burgeoning magic, and desperate to atone for past failures, Gabe races to catch up with Tanya and Nadia.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E8
#8
02/11/2025

Double Blind, Part 2. Tanya and Nadia employ spycraft and witchcraft to elude the agents of the Flame and get a terrified young Host to an Ice safehouse.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E7
#7
02/06/2025

Double Blind, Part 1. A high-stakes cat-and-mouse game unfolds across the frozen streets of Prague.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E6
#6
02/04/2025

A Voice on the Radio, Part 3. As preparations for a major CIA operation get underway, Gabe and his young partner Joshua Toms—a man with secrets of his own—find themselves in over their heads.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E5
#5
01/30/2025

A Voice on the Radio, Part 2. Gabe, seeking to redeem himself after his botched assignment, sets out to thwart Tanya, believing her to be in the midst of a KGB recruitment effort.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E4
#4
01/28/2025

A Voice on the Radio, Part 1. Andula Zlata is a Host—a conduit of magic—and Tanya and Nadia have to find the young Czech before their rivals in the Flame do.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E3
#3
01/23/2025

A Long Cold Winter, Part 3. Gabe seeks the help of Jordan Rhemes, the mysterious owner of Bar Vodnář.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E2
#2
01/21/2025

A Long Cold Winter, Part 2. While trying to recruit a member of the Czech Ministry of Economics to spy on his Russian masters. CIA agent Gabe Pritchard is plagued by headaches and otherworldly visions.


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The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, S1 E1
#1
01/16/2025

A Long Cold Winter, Part 1. When Ice operative Tanya Morozova and KGB agent Nadia Ostrokhina save a Czech student from a sorcerous construct, a deadly supernatural power struggle erupts in Cold War Prague.


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Introducing: Strange Matter, The Witch Who Came in From the Cold
01/14/2025

Bookburners is shapeshifting into Realm's newest feed: Strange Matter. Every week, we'll bring you thrilling stories of magic and mystery rooted in the strangeness of our own world.


The Witch Who Came in From the Cold premieres January 16, 2025.