Titles discussed:

• Weird Tales (periodical)
• The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
• The Weird, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
• Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Welcome to Night Vale (podcast)
• Prairie Home Companion, hosted by Garrison Keillor
• The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way
• Bojack Horseman, created by Raphael Bob-Wacksberg
• Twin Peaks, created by David Lynch
• Stranger Things, created by the Duffer Brothers
• Donnie Darko, directed by Richard Kelly
• Blue Velvet, directed by David Lynch
• Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
• Providence by Alan Moore
• In the Earth, directed by Ben Wheatley
• Midsommar, directed by Ari Aster
• Kill List, directed by Ben Wheatley
• The Wicker Man, directed by Robin Hardy
• Antlers, directed by Scott Cooper
• The Other Lamb, directed by Małgorzata Szumowska
• The Weigh Down, directed by Maria Zenovich
• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle
• The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
• The City and the City by China Miéville

Authors mentioned:

• H. P. Lovecraft
• Gabriel García Márquez
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Bruno Schultz
• Franz Kafka
• Neil Gaiman
• Stanley Kubrick

Topics noted:

• The “we live in a simulation” theory
• Revisionist Westerns
• Magical realism

Titles from the RA Corner:

• Control (video game)
• Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Vivarium, directed by Lorcan Finnegan
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• The artwork of Andrew and Jamie Wyeth
• “Emphasis on the Magic: A Wyeth Perspective” from Art in America
• “Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled” by Brandywine Valley Museum of Art