literature Archives - Bone and Sickle

The White, Old Maid: a Story for Halloween

October 31, 2026 boneandsickle EPISODE, ghost stories, ghosts, gothic literature, Halloween, literature, mystery, New England, storytelling

Curl up by a glowing Jack-o-Lantern and enjoy Mrs. Karswell’s reading of another eerie tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Originally titled[…]

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Trolls in Medieval Literature

April 27, 2026 boneandsickle ballads, EPISODE, folk tales, folklore, Germanic, Iceland, legends, literature, medieval, Middle Ages, monsters, Norse, Norse religion, Norway, saints, storytelling, troll-cats, trolls, witchcraft, witches

Trolls, as presented in medieval literature, are vastly different from the creatures we encountered in our last episode’s collection of[…]

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Horror, Fact, Fiction, and a Revelation

November 22, 2025 boneandsickle Bone and Sickle, EPISODE, Frankenstein, gothic literature, horror movies, Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, media, modern folklore, pop culture, science fiction, storytelling, urban legends

This is a special short episode looking at fictional evidence used to bolster horror narratives in literature, film, and broadcast[…]

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