Apocalist Book Club

May 19 2023 53 ep. 65 mins 864

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Welcome to the Apocalist Book Club! Your hosts Nella and Raven are reading all apocalyptic fiction in chronological order. Join the club--you have time now. Updated every 3rd Wednesday of the month.

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Apocalist Book Club Teaser: THE TERROR

May 19 2023 53 mins

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. Bu

Apocalist Book Club Movie Night: Zombie Triple Feature Picture Show (Part 3)

Aug 24 2022 93 mins

If you got up to use the restroom, don't worry you didn't miss anything! Nella continues her Zombie Triple Feature Picture Show with Danielle Ngo and Joy Seldin from the podcast Binge O'Clock! We unpack DAY OF THE DEAD, then touched on RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, the schlocky other "sequel" to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD that stole DAY's thunder. Rude. And that wraps up our Zombie Mov

Apocalist Book Club Movie Night: Zombie Triple Feature Picture Show (Part 2)

Jul 20 2022 54 mins

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 entran

Apocalist Book Club Movie Night: Zombie Triple Feature Picture Show (Part 1)

Jun 20 2022 75 mins

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,

Apocalist Book Club Ep. 41: Apocalist Book Club Q&A!

Jun 15 2022 55 mins

#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

Apocalist Book Club Ep. 40: The Black Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum

Feb 23 2022 54 mins

#40: The year is...well it's a little timey wimey, but we're calling it 1939. Tom Conner was just a normal dude who was sent to the electric chair for murder...and wakes up to find himself in the FUTURE! In a world ruled by Immortals, Tom truly is the 2nd love interest of a YA dystopian novel heroine, he just doesn't know it yet. I straight up lose it over slide rulers in this one.

Apocalist Book Club Ep. 39: Wild Harbour by Ian MacPherson

Jan 19 2022 52 mins

#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 ende

Apocalist Book Club Ep. 38: The War with the Newts by Karel Capek

Dec 22 2021 74 mins

#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

Apocalist Book Club Ep. 37: Earth Stopped/Gone to Ground by T.H. White

Nov 24 2021 94 mins

#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

Apocalist Book Club Ep. 36: The Strange Invaders by Alun Lywellyn

Oct 20 2021 61 mins

#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