Welcome to the Apocalist Book Club. I’m Nella, and I know it’s been a while.  Before we get back to it with season 2, I have some other work to wrap up on our sister podcast. See, in 2007 a supernatural horror book by Dan Simmons was published and by 2016 the story was adapted by AMC for a 10 episode season called THE TERROR.  Now, I’ll grant you, it’s not an apocalypse. But it is a fictionalized version of what might have happened to the Franklin Expedition. And listeners, you know how this podcast feels about Doomed Polar Exploration. I have joined my wife Joy and our friend Daniel ..read more

Hope you visited Concessions at intermission, because here's part 2! Nella continues her Zombie Triple Feature Picture Show with Danielle Ngo and Joy Seldin from the podcast Binge O'Clock with DAWN OF THE DEAD! Send help, one actor looks so much like Jeeves and Wooster era Hugh Laurie I'm dying.  And remember kids, if you go through all the trouble of cleverly disguising the entrance to your tricked out living quarters, DON'T. LEAVE THEM. WHEN. THE BIKER GANG. COMES.  Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. You can find ..read more

While Raven and Nella are still prepping for Season 2: The Atomic Age for the Apocalist, Danielle Ngo and Joy Seldin from the podcast Binge O'Clock joined Nella to watch zombie movies...and not just any zombie movies, the ones that started it all!  This first episode explores the history of the zombie movie, and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Part 2 will continue with DAWN OF THE DEAD, and we'll end Part 3 with DAY OF THE DEAD (and a touch of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD for that 80s spicy brain flavor). Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apoc ..read more

#41: Thank you to everyone that sent in questions for our Q&A! We currently don't have a hard start date for season 2 though Nella is planning a limited Zombie Movie Night series for the interim.  Stay tuned as we prepare for the Atomic Age! Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio ..read more

#39: We're still in 1936 but we've moved out to the Scottish Highlands and taken up cave-living in the face of war! If you liked THE HATCHET or other wilderness survival books as a kid, you're probably going to like this one. This book could have been insufferable with moralizing, but MacPherson weaves a deceptively simple narrative that got under our ribs. We just wish he had ended it 2 chapters earlier... Remember kids, the real Apocalypse is when you walk away from society.  Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on ..read more

#38: The year is 1936 and we're back to our beloved Czech author Karel Capek. This is a much grimmer end of the world when compared to his 1922 novel THE ABSOLUTE AT LARGE. While both novels address the danger of voracious human consumption, this one digs much deeper into the horrors of colonialism, and the exploitation of "the Other". There are no good guys here, but there are no mustache twirling villains either, and Capek gets to the heart of so many of the current dangers that threaten humanity.   Although, who was Bondy in real life and what axe did Capek have to grind with him??? &n ..read more

#37: The year is a little of '34, a little of '35, and who gave T.H. White the right to delight us so much?! We 100% were not expecting all these hunting puns, but we are here for it. Come for Mr. Marx's sporting tour (who is a POC and NOT a villain, actually), stay for a very British farce of a Decameron.  Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio ..read more

#36: We're back in 1934 with THE STRANGE INVADERS by Alun Llewellyn! If you can here on the promise of dinosaurs, I regret to inform you, so did we. New t-shirt idea: I survived the Apocalypse and all I got was this lousy herd of big man-eating lizards. Come for Alun's dislike of Stalin's communism, stay for the sexiest of lamps.  Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Cr ..read more

Raven went back in time to 1909 to read the novella THE MACHINE STOPS with friend of the Apoc-pod, writer and virologist John Skylar!  E. M. Forster was very queer (he wrote MAURICE, after all) and we suspect he had a looking glass into the future because he nailed Zoom Fatigue. Come for a society that has forgotten how to repair the Machine that does EVERYTHING for them, stay for trying to avert an apocalypse with a Strongly Worded Complaint. You can check out John Skylar's writing at Covid Transmissions. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of&nbs ..read more

The year is 1934 and James Leslie Mitchell co-wrote a book with his own pseudonym, which LBH feels like a very Scottish thing to do. Come for our bisexual, nudist female protagonist who is here to bash the Fash, stay for this one neat trick to help you fall asleep...with the small side effect that you end up in the F U T U R E! Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phr ..read more