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Uncanny Canon

Monk Mangham Parker 3 Episodes Aug 6, 2026

Uncanny Canon is a podcast that explores the strange and uncanny in fiction, history, myth and poetry. Each episode examines weird stories, folklore and literary oddities that blur the line between the familiar and the supernatural. Host Monk Mangham Parker guides listeners through strange corners of culture and imagination.

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Episode 03: Apocalyptic Landscapes of J. G. Ballard (Part Two) Aug 6, 2026 3989 This week we’ll see yet another man dragged backward through time, just like those in the Drowned & Crystal Worlds, into a violent subtropical dream, into landscapes so baroque and savage as to defy belief. The man this time, though, is Ballard himself, and the world is our own. The real world of his un-imagined past, transformed by war, is every bit as outlandish, every bit as science-fiction

Episode 02: Apocalyptic Landscapes of J. G. Ballard (Part One) Aug 6, 2026 3933 Once there was a bright, adventurous young English boy who lived in an exotic, garish land with his wealthy, inattentive parents. Though he saw marvels & terrors through the windows of his father’s sleek black car, he lived an ordered & untroubled life. Then one day war came to Shanghai, and he was taken abruptly from the world of the familiar and dropped into a dark mirror realm of strang

Episode 01: On "House Taken Over" by Julio Cortázar Aug 5, 2026 4529 “House Taken Over” is the bare skeleton of a haunted house story, every scrap of irrelevant detail flensed away. Like Ballard’s “Garden of Time” it’s a tale of class struggle & the terrifying rise of the proletariat as seen by the comfortable rich. Like Camus’s “La Peste”, it’s a fable about the insidious approach of fascism and the plight of millions of war refugees. But most of all it’s comp

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