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Announcement: Listener Trick-or-Treat

By boneandsickle | September 12, 2023

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A special short announcement regarding Trick-or-treat by mail option for listeners joining Patreon. Find out how you can receive a hand-packed candy bag from the home of Bone and Sickle Podcast. Each goody bag is guaranteed to include sinister extra as described in Halloween urban legends.

Visit: https://www.patreon.com/boneandsickle

Only while supplies last!

“Always Halloween” Remix

By boneandsickle | September 9, 2023

Here is an audio-video remix of the “Halloween Girl” video that’s gone viral over the last weeks and was mentioned in our last episode featuring listeners’ thoughts on when the Halloween season begins (mentioned by someone from the “it’s always Halloween” contingent.) From the Bone and Sickle YouTube channel.

Classic “Notburga” T Shirt now available

By boneandsickle | December 12, 2022

Just in time for your holiday shopping (and in celebration of our 100th episode) we’ve made the old St. Notburga shirt available in the US and overseas. Design is based on the relics of the Austrian saint Notburga known for a miracle involving a miraculously hovering sickle.

You can purchase the either of our two shirt designs on short sleeve or long sleeve T shirts and hoodies, as well as the Bone and Sickle mug from our Shopify store here.

Happy Halloween!

By boneandsickle | October 31, 2022

While pretty much any of the 65+ hours of Bone and Sickle programming could be appropriate for listening on this day, I thought I’d re-share past Halloween-specific episodes today should you’d like to stroll down Memory Lane.

2019 VINTAGE HALLOWEEN

2019 ALL OF THEM WITCHES

2020 SPOOK SHOWS

2021 HORROR HOSTS, PART ONE

2021 HORROR HOSTS, PART TWO

2022 WHO PUT THE HELL IN HELLOWEEN?

And the “cursed” show…

2020 HALLOWEEN BONUS EPISODE

Two other early October shows done with Halloween themes in mind are 2018’s THE DEAD SPEAK, part one of a look at Spiritualism, followed that month by SEANCES AND SCANDALS.

(The pumpkin header image, as you probably know, is from my book THIRTY-ONE ROTTEN PUMPKINS.)

Halloween Pumpkin Book for Sale

By boneandsickle | August 10, 2022

Al Ridenour, your host of Bone and Sickle, has created a countdown book for HALLOWEEN!

“THIRTY-ONE ROTTEN PUMPKINS”

THIRTY-ONE images of surreal and decaying pumpkins rendered in a painterly 17th-century style – one pumpkin for each night of October to guide your nightly meditations toward Halloween.

INFO/PURCHASE

Bone and Sickle 2022 Shirts, Merch Now Available

By boneandsickle | July 1, 2022

Now available for all fans of the show (or people who just like to wear skeleton shirts)!

Please visit our SHOPIFY STORE FOR PURCHASE.

We have T SHIRTS…

- - Men’s/Unisex
  - Women’s
  - Long Sleeve.

We have HOODIES.

ALL IN BLACK, BLACK, BLACK, BLACK ONLY. Printed with image on FRONT show name on BACK.

ALSO SHIPPED IN EUROPE FOR CHEAP (There’s a UK distributor)

Even a MUG.

Patreon Raffle: All The Haunts be Ours

By boneandsickle | March 30, 2022

We have a special offer running from now until April 30, a chance to win the 15-disc set, All The Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror. It’s a splendid collection released in conjunction with the Folk Horror documentary Woodland Dark and Days Bewitched, which is one of the included discs. Not only does it include over 31 hours of folk-horror films on BlueRay, but also 3 CDs including a reading of a classic Arthur Machen story and a 156-page book on the folk-horror genre.

BONE AND SICKLE PATREON LINK:

https://www.patreon.com/boneandsickle

ELGIBILITY:

The value of the collection is $279 and a randomly chosen subscriber at the $4 monthly level or above will be announced on May 1.

To enter, you must subscribe on the once-yearly plan, which actually saves 15% on what you would otherwise pay monthly.

You will be automatically entered upon signing up as stipulated.

FEATURE FILMS INCLUDED IN THIS SET:

WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED (192 mins/1.85:1/English 2.0/CC)
EYES OF FIRE (86 mins/1.85:1/English 1.0/CC)
LEPTIRICA (65 mins/1.33:1/Serbian 1.0/English Subtitles)
WITCHHAMMER (107 mins/2.35:1/Czech 1.0/English Subtitles)
VIY (76 mins/1.33:1/Russian 1.0/English 1.0/English Subtitles)
LAKE OF THE DEAD (77 mins/2.40:1/Norwegian 1.0/English Subtitles)
TILBURY (57 mins/1.33:1/Icelandic 1.0/English Subtitles)
THE DREAMING (90 mins/1.85:1/English 1.0/CC)
KADAICHA (88 mins/1.33:1/English 1.0/CC)
CELIA (103 mins/1.85:1/ English 1.0/CC)
ALISON’S BIRTHDAY (99 mins/1.85:1/ English 1.0/CC)
WILCZYCA (103 mins/1.33:1/Polish 1.0/English Subtitles)
LOKIS: A MANUSCRIPT OF PROFESSOR WITTEMBACH (100 mins/1.66:1/Polish 1.0/English Subtitles)
CLEARCUT (98 mins/2.35:1/English 5.1/English 2.0/CC)
IL DEMONIO (100 mins/1.85:1/Italian 1.0/English Subtitles)
DARK WATERS (89 mins/1.85:1/Italian 2.0/English Subtitles)
A FIELD IN ENGLAND (90 mins/2.35:1/English 5.1/English 2.0/CC)
ANCHORESS (108 mins/1.66:1/English 1.0/CC)
PENDA’S FEN (90 mins/1.33:1/English 1.0/CC)
ROBIN REDBREAST (76 mins/1.33:1/English 1.0/CC)

Seasonal Listening

By boneandsickle | December 4, 2020

For new Patrons who may not have heard these or for those of you who just want some seasonal listening to revisit, check out the shows below. (And another episode with a Christmas season tie-in is coming this weekend along with another ghost story episode later in December.)

Marvelous and Rare

By boneandsickle | September 15, 2020

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We’re doing something different this time out.

Bone and Sickle is taking off the rest of September to allow time for Mr. Ridenour’s research and Mrs. Karswell apiary maintenance.

To fill the gap, we’re offering listeners a sample of the short bonus episodes all our $4-and-up Patreon subscribers hear every month.

We hope you enjoy this substitution, and if you do, might even consider joining us on Patreon to hear more of the same.

We’ll be back in October with a regular episode following upon on our “Gallows Lore” show, as well as a special Halloween offering. Till then…

Four Minutes of Two Years of Bone and Sickle

By boneandsickle | June 4, 2020

We’ve created a new video intro to the show, a smattering of excerpts from the first two years of Bone and Sickle podcast accompanied by custom visuals. Enjoy (and share if you can).