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A Fear Beyond Fear

A Fear Beyond Fear

By: Paul Butler
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Why do we love ghost stories? A fear Beyond Fear will look at literature, stage, film and tv and try to figure out why we keep coming back to this most specialized strand of horror. Why do ghosts scare us? Why do we like being scared? We will journey into this fear, teasing the dark side of immortality. We will explore our fears, rather than our hopes, regarding what may lie beyond the veil. Hosted by author Paul Butler with Jemma Butler. Technical advisor, Coleson Dyck.Paul Butler Art
Episodes
  • Queen of Spades Teaser

    Queen of Spades Teaser
    May 25 2026

    Tomorrow, we talk about Alexander Pushkin's 1834 supernatural short story The Queen of Spades and Thorold Dickinson's 1949 brilliant, but often overlooked, film version.

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    1 min
  • Ghost Stories Begging to be Filmed, Part III

    Ghost Stories Begging to be Filmed, Part III
    May 12 2026

    Informed by parapsychology, rich in philosophy and metaphysics, this brilliant 1922 story is also as bloody as Robert Block's Psycho and as disturbing as anything in Poe.

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    14 mins
  • Shifting Trees and Endless Forests: Charis Cotter's Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall

    Shifting Trees and Endless Forests: Charis Cotter's Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall
    Apr 28 2026

    The classic ghost story meets delicious nostalgia for 1960s summer camps for children and teens. I talk to acclaimed author Charis Cotter about coming of age ghost stories in general and in particular about The Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall (Tundra Books) about to be released in paperback.

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    26 mins
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