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Skeleton Songs

Skeleton Songs

Lottie Bevan & Alexis Kennedy

A games and literature podcast all about stories, from London-based indie developers Weather Factory. Forgotten myths, fantastic sources, gothic tropes and ghoulish tales. All with a list of the games / texts we talk about at the bottom of the episode summary, so you can go away and play/read to your black heart's content.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Skeleton Songs episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Skeleton Songs for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Skeleton Songs episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Skeleton Songs - 500,000 Sociopaths

500,000 Sociopaths

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03/25/21 • 47 min

Join Alexis and Lottie for a discussion of antagonists and villains! Via witches, Belgium, Simon Baron-Cohen, a charming Irish vagabond and, of course, Nazism. Alexis talks about how rubbish games are and destroys Lottie's argument; Lottie talks about five-hour Polish art films and producers stopping developers from kicking each other in the nads.
Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:
- Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army, by Rebellion
- Zero Degrees of Empathy, by Simon Baron-Cohen
- Disco Elysium, by ZA/UM
- Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L Sayers
- Batman: Arkham Asylum, by Rocksteady Studios
- Bioshock, by 2K Games
- "First they came...", by Martin Niemöller
- "Who goes Nazi?", by Dorothy Thompson
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Skeleton Songs - Twisty Little Passages All Alike
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03/05/21 • 41 min

What's the connection between the Labyrinths of Night and the Bright Ditches? This question and many more we don't really answer in this episode on mazes, labyrinths and game design.
Meet labrys, the lesbianic double-headed axe. Leave kittens in mazes and form human chains in swampy MUDs. Learn Alexis Kennedy's First Law of Narrative. Cake. Also, Lottie gets cross about a pretend man 'buggering off with a sex witch and having a baby'. So there's that.
Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:
- Cultist Simulator, by us
- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, by The Astronauts
- From Dusk Till Dawn, by Robert Rodriguez
- The Garden of Forking Paths, by Jorge Luis Borges
- Firewatch, by Campo Santo
- Dragon Age: Origins, by BioWare
- Fallen London, by Failbetter Games
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Skeleton Songs - Are Panthers Chairs?

Are Panthers Chairs?

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01/28/21 • 42 min

Skeleton Songs season two, baby! This season's all about GAMES, but not as you know 'em. Join Alexis and Lottie as we discuss genre via Aristotle and Wittgenstein, cyberpunk and film noir, the Berlin Interpretation and, er, fish genitalia. Also there is an odd bit about tortoises in the rain but perhaps Alexis's medicine was wearing off then.
Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:
- Cultist Simulator, by us
- Cyberpunk 2077, by CDPR
- Skyrim, by Bethesda
- Neuromancer, by William Gibson
- "Lycidas", by John Milton
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Skeleton Songs - Endgame

Endgame

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11/11/20 • 38 min

Ragnarok! Gotterdammerung! Armageddon outta here! In the final episode of season one, we talk eschatology, chocolate, fake news and the bloody gothness of Old Germanic literature. Sexy zombie apocalypses and millennial doomsday cults make an appearance too, because of course they do. And even though we say 'everyone's gonna die' a lot in this episode, we realise it's small acts of everyday niceness that really save us. Nawwww.
Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:
- Cultist Simulator, by us
- The Road, by Cormack McCarthy
- The Fallout series, by Bethesda
- The Apocalypse of Paul
- The Cthulhu Mythos, by H. P. Lovecraft
- The Prose Edda, by Snorri Sturluson
- The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, by the Venerable Bede
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Skeleton Songs - DIONYSIAN NO PICNIC

DIONYSIAN NO PICNIC

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10/28/20 • 33 min

Maenads! Who are they, what do they want, and how do they wear their fox-skins? Kittens! How can they be so cute and so murderous at the same time? Join Alexis and Lottie as they discuss why frenzied Bassarids and Cutie McFloofcat are both the same Gothic trope of violent comeuppance. Via boring werewolves, Nosferatu and beautiful, naughty Clodius, of course. Also, there is a surprise storm half-way through.
Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:
- Cultist Simulator, by us
- BOOK OF HOURS, by us
- True Blood, by HBO
- 'A Case of Murder', by Vernon Scannell
- 'The Squaw', by Bram Stoker
- Dracula, by Bram Stoker
- 'The Black Cat', by Edgar Allan Poe
- Nosferatu, by F. W. Murnau
- Cat People, by
- The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
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Skeleton Songs - An Inheritance of Stones
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08/18/20 • 32 min

Join Alexis and Lottie on a deep-dive into WORLDBUILDING. Why it's menacing to be told to start with a timeline, how Twin Peaks' BOB came to be, why you must never call pulled pok 'flesh-spicing', and why the architect of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao probably didn't start with the toilets. Alexis, unsportingly, refuses to get cross.
Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:
- Cultist Simulator, by us
- Fallen London and Sunless Sea, by Alexis Kennedy & Failbetter Games
- The Silmarillion, by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Beowulf, by ???
- Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake
- Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
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Skeleton Songs - Top Hat, Flight Guy & Tales
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07/03/20 • 32 min

This week we take a break from literature and talk about the weird stories in our own lives. Join Sheep-Stealer and Big Head as they introduce you to Great Uncle Gilbert, the teenage flying ace and real-life Great Escape artist, and David the contract officer for the Sultan of Oman who brought a wolf to tea. All shot through with poisonous headwear, what Britain wants for Christmas, and gentlemen flying kites.
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Skeleton Songs - (Un)reliable Narrators
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06/12/20 • 34 min

Can you really trust anyone? Join Alexis and Lottie as they roundly conclude that you can't. We talk unreliable narrators via toilets, relevance theory, echoic mentions, the four levels of Star Wars canonicity and Lovecraft being surprisingly confident that his monsters were real.
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Skeleton Songs - Women, Bloody Women

Women, Bloody Women

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05/01/20 • 33 min

Madness, blood and ladies! We talk all things bloody, from Freud to Pliny to the Red Grail to Queen Elizabeth the First to murdering an entire hive of bees. The Madonna / whore complex? Check. Horrible Norse mythology about men being scared of ladies, and gods being made out of spit? Check. Etymology that devolves into single entendre riddles about vegetables? We gotchu. Also, Lottie gets increasingly cross.
Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:
- Cultist Simulator, by us
- Natural History, by Pliny the Elder + John Healey
- The Joy of Sex, by Alex Comfort
- Paradise Lost, by John Milton
- Various Norse mythology, which Kevin Crossley-Holland translates excellently
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Skeleton Songs - An Early Symptom of Schizophrenia
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06/25/21 • 40 min

Real talk: APOPHENIA. Alexis and Lottie discuss subliminal pattern-seeking from its coinage by a Nazi psychologist to its use by modern indie game developers to cover up the fact we don't have any budget. Wait! We meant to make clever, co-operative immersive experiences. All via werewives, apophanies and Zhou Enlai.
Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:
- Cultist Simulator, by us
- Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
- Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
- Ulysses, by James Joyce
- A Dark Room, by Doublespeak Games
- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Steven Donaldson
- Return of the Obra Dinn, by Lucas Pope
- Against Worldbuilding, by Alexis Kennedy
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FAQ

How many episodes does Skeleton Songs have?

Skeleton Songs currently has 24 episodes available.

What topics does Skeleton Songs cover?

The podcast is about Stories, Narrative, Leisure, Fiction, Videogames, Games, Podcasts, Books, Video Games and Arts.

What is the most popular episode on Skeleton Songs?

The episode title 'This Episode Is About Sex' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Skeleton Songs?

The average episode length on Skeleton Songs is 43 minutes.

How often are episodes of Skeleton Songs released?

Episodes of Skeleton Songs are typically released every 35 days, 23 hours.

When was the first episode of Skeleton Songs?

The first episode of Skeleton Songs was released on Jan 21, 2020.

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