Dec 25, 2023
Enjoy this special treat: "Christmas Day" by Julia Ann Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan, read by the incomparable Eric Leslie. Happy holidays!
Dec 11, 2023
An instructive little tale where Victorian scholars look back at five centuries of arms and armor and just start making stuff up, because they're just ever-so-clever.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/armor-class-4/
Key sources for this episode include Charles Henry Ashdown's "Armour & Weapons in the Middle Ages";...
Nov 20, 2023
Countess Dorothy di Frasso was the most famous hostess in the world, who threw parties for kings and queens, dukes and barons; actors, athletes and aviators; Nazis, Fasists, and mobsters. This is the story of her amazing life.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-realest-housewife-of-beverly-hills/
Key sources for...
Oct 30, 2023
Listen up, fruitcake... or, rather, listen up -- fruitcake! This week #7 (Dorothy White) drops by to tell you everything you never wanted to know about Christmas's most maligned tradition.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/fruitcake-subculture-conspiracy-revisited/
The only key source for this episode is #7's own...
Oct 9, 2023
For seven years he lived in hell, tormented nightly by a demon cat and the grim spectre of death. Finally, an angel told him what he had to do to end it all: kill the Witch of Ringtown Valley.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/seven-years-in-hell/
Key sources for this episode include Arthur Lewis's Hex and contemporary...