Monster House Presents

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A giant hairy creature, part ape, part mad.

In Larkness, a 24-mile-long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster.

It's a creature known as the science show about monsters.

I'm Blake Smith.

And I'm Karen Stolzner.

Hey there, Monster Talkers.

Today we're going to be chatting with Peter Bebergall,

whose work in monsters, culture, religion, and magic has a ton of overlap with our own interests here on this show.

We snagged him because of a recent talk he gave on Jewish mysticism and the occult.

But as you'll hear in our interview, he's also working on a new book project that's also going to be right up our alley.

In fact, he's giving a talk on April 14th for the last Tuesday Society, which sounds like it's on the same sort of topic,

and I'll put a link to that in the show notes. But if you love Monsters, Peter's work is going

to be right up your alley. This app is a little bit over stuff, so let's just bite right into it.

Monster Talk. Tonight we welcome back Peter Bebergall, an author whose books you really should check out if you

enjoy this show because a lot of his content overlaps and we've had on peter before to discuss

the occult in rock and roll as well as technology's role in probing the supernatural and those were

referenced in his book season of the the Witch and Strange Frequency.

But many of you would also appreciate the work he did pulling together the many core texts

that influenced Gary Gygax's Dungeons and Dragons in a volume that's called Appendix Inn.

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