Art of Darkness
Hosted by very online writers Kevin Kautzman and Abbie Lucas (and host emeritus Brad Kelly), Art of Darkness is a podcast about the dark side of (dead) artists, creatives, intellectuals and the people who made history and continue to move culture. AoD features well-researched Core Episodes, Dark Room discussions with guests, plus bonus After Dark, Book Club, Post-Mortem, and Watch Party episodes for our beloved Patreon and Substack subscribers. Find us at artofdarkpod.com.
The Dark Room: Pamela Colman Smith Redux with Elizabeth Foley O’Connor
The Dark Room: “What We Got Wrong” 2021 Recap with Michael Bakkensen
Walt Disney’s City of Fantasy with Blauer Geist
Covering the Waterfront with Tennessee Williams
The Multitudinous Seas of Virginia Woolf
Marlon Brando and the Investigators
Junior Kimbrough, Lolly Pop and the Hill Country Blues
A Very Special Season V Preview
Hitchcock: Blonde on Blonde
The Dark Room: Andrew Wittstadt Talks John Berryman
The Dark Room: Brian Patrick Eha Storms Castle Kafka
The Dark Room: Sarah Kane with Adam Lehrer
Ursula K. Le Guin: True Journey Is Return
Fela Kuti: Fearless
David Bowie: Infinitely Symbolic
The Dark Room: Craving Sarah Kane w/ Mari Sitner
The Dark Room: Marquis de Sade & the Shadow of Enlightenment w/ James Martell
Cormac McCarthy: Rumors & Ghosts
The Dark Room: David Leo Rice Talks Mishima & Tarkovsky
The Dark Room: Jody J Sperling Talks DFW
The Dark Room: Kubrick w/ JF Martel
Edward de Vere: The Man from Oxford (Shakespeare Part II)
William Shakespeare: Rogues, Vagabonds & Sturdy Beggars (Shakespeare Part I)
The Dark Room: Pulp Tales with Dexter De La Paz
Sylvia Plath at the Edge
The Dark Room: Matthew Pegas Talks David Foster Wallace
The Dark Room: Aaron Burch on Denis Johnson’s “Largesse”
The Dark Room: Bernard T. Joy Talks Southern Lit
F. Scott Fitzgerald Part II: As Great as It Gets
[PREVIEW] Marquis de Sade’s Libertine Derangement
The Dark Room: Stephanie Lahey on the Many Manuscripts of Dante
Reissue: Fitzgerald Part I & Winter Dreams Live in St. Paul, Minnesota
The Dark Room: Kate Hext – Wilde in the Dream Factory
Flannery O’Connor: The Chickens and the Bees
The Dark Room: Anthony Metivier and the Zen of Bill Hicks
The Dark Room: Poe w/ Forest of Symbols
Robert E. Howard Crushes His Enemies
The Dark Room: Scott Laudati Talks Castañeda
John Lennon: Genius of the Lower Crust
The Dark Room: Adam Lehrer Talks Mary Shelley
William S. Burroughs’ Knockout Drops
The Dark Room: Seth Augenstein Talks Mishima
The Dark Room: Glen Rockney Talks Poe
Hermann Hesse: An Egg Without a Shell
Nina Simone Saves Our Lives
The Dark Room: Matt Pegas Talks Crowley
Mary Shelley’s Monsters
The Dark Room: Jason Gallagher Talks John Milton
[PREVIEW] Denis Johnson’s War
James Hampton’s Throne
Edgar Allan Poe’s Wayward Demons
Samuel Beckett Goes On
The Dark Room: Hemingway w/ Dylan O’Sullivan
Yukio Mishima’s Reaction
The Dark Room: Emily’s Eyes w/ Godward
The Dark Room: At the Mountains of Madness w/ Matthew Kelly
Dante Alighieri’s Stars
Carlos Castañeda’s Path of the Heart
The Dark Room: Bolaño & Borges w/ Dustin Cole
The Dark Room: Johnny Cash w/ J.L. Mackey
John Milton: Party of the Devil
Viva la Frida Kahlo
The Dark Room: Bukowski’s List w/ Isaac Simpson
The Dark Room: Blood Meridian w/ Aaron Gwyn
The Dark Room: Disney & Lovecraft w/ Laird Barron & Ben Thomas
The Dark Room: Garden of Podcast Delights w/ MJ Dorian
Emily Dickinson’s Immolation in White
Charles Bukowski’s Big Low Life w/ Jason Gallagher
The Dark Room: David Leo Rice Talks Faulkner & Lovecraft
The Dark Room: Ewan Morrison Talks Tarkovsky
Art of Darkness Live: Fitzgerald Part I & Winter Dreams in St. Paul, Minnesota
The Dark Room: Lomez Talks Philip K. Dick and Noir
Andrei Tarkovsky & the Sons of Poets
Leni Riefenstahl Dances the Apocalypse
The Dark Room: Adam Lehrer Talks David Foster Wallace
The Dark Room: Astral Talks David Foster Wallace
The Dark Room: Scott Laudati at the Hotel Chelsea
The Dark Room: Seth Michael May Talks Marilyn Monroe
Borges & the Labyrinth of Mirrors w/ Aldous Asterion
Marilyn Monroe’s Dark Star
The Dark Room: Owen Briggs Reads Disney’s Chart
David Foster Wallace Plays the Whole Court
The Dark Room: Tess Lewis & Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Jünger
Ernest Hemingway: Out Too Far w/ Aaron Gwyn
The Dark Room: Burroughs Beyond the Word w/ Matt Pegas
Maya Deren’s Anagram of Ideas
The Dark Room: Kafka’s Diaries w/ Ross Benjamin
Victor Gruen’s Unexpected Effect
The Dark Room: Artaud’s Radiating Images w/ Monte D. Monteleagre
Joseph Conrad’s Unsound Methods
The Dark Room: Remembering Gurdjieff w/ Sam Buntz
The Dark Room: Season II Recap
The Dark Room: Eyes Wide Shut Watch Party w/ Dexter De La Paz
Gilda Radner’s Hanky Panky Life w/ Chelsey Smith
The Dark Room: TO HAVE DONE WITH THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD by Antonin Artaud adapted by Bad Mouth Theatre Company
The Dark Room: Leary & Ram Dass w/ Kellen Kautzman
The Dark Room: Shining Mr. Kubrick w/ Michael Nathanson
Norm MacDonald’s Long Shot w/ Blake Hammond
Emil Cioran’s Short History of Decay w/ Caleb Caudell
Timothy Leary & the Big Game
The Dark Room: The Big Lebowski Watch Party w/ Peachy Keenan
The Dark Room: Tommy P. Cowan Talks William S. Burroughs
The Dark Room: Godward Talks Philip K. Dick
Anaïs Nin’s Erotic Trapeze w/ Gio Pennacchietti
Aleister Crowley & the Sewer of Creation w/ Stephanie Lahey
The Dark Room: Weird Studies’ Phil Ford Talks MF DOOM
John Kennedy Toole’s Edgelord Confederacy w/ Dan Baltic
The Dark Room: Adam Drissi Talks McKenna
Francis Bacon and the Gilded Gutter w/ Jacob Everett
Terence McKenna’s Heroic Dose w/ Pineal Colada
The Dark Room: Bernard T. Joy Talks Faulkner
Ernst Jünger’s Stereoscopic Vision
The Dark Room: Ben Thomas Talks Frank Herbert & Dune
The Dark Room: The Evil Thespians Talk Artaud
The Dark Room: Rap Game Edward Bernays Talks PKD (Philip K. Dick)
Philip K. Dick’s Black Iron Prison w/ Aldous Asterion
Artaud’s Body Without Organs w/ Adam Lehrer
The Dark Room: Jaws Watch Party with Jacob Everett
The Dark Room: Godward Talks Kafka
Hieronymus Bosch’s Hell Panel
The Dark Room: Astral Bolaño
The Dark Room: Gurdjieff w/ James Ellis
Robert Aickman Against the Machine
The Dark Room: 2001 Watch Party with Dexter De La Paz
The Dark Room: Gerald DeCock’s Hardhat Rate at the Chelsea Hotel
The Dark Room: Svich on Kane
Roberto Bolaño Leaves Before Midnight
John Berryman’s Traveling Life w/ Jason Gallagher
The Dark Room: Anna Kavan and the End of the West with John Arterbury
Night of the Eighteen Drinks at Hotel Chelsea w/ Michael Bakkensen
The Dark Room: A Man in a Hurry, Faulkner with Carl Rollyson
H. P. Lovecraft: Architect of the Weird w/ Ben Thomas
The Dark Room: Year Zero Recap
The Dark Room: ReJoyce with Aldous Asterion & Aaron Gwyn
MF DOOM: Sound Archaeology
The Dark Room: Franz Kafka with Heghoulian
The Dark Room: Flatline Construct – Burroughs & Kavan w/ Adam Lehrer
The Broken Tiles of Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz
The Harmonic Convergence of Bill Hicks
The Underbred James Joyce
Frank Herbert and the White Witch of Dune
Art of Darkness Trailer
Stanley Kubrick’s Lidlocks
Johnny Cash in the Sunken Lands
Faulkner’s Suicide Honeymoon with Aaron Gwyn
Zora Neale Hurston: the Collector
Oscar Wilde: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
The Dark Room: Wilde Times with Michael Bakkensen
The Unspeakable Sarah Kane
Gurdjieff, the Enneagram and American Canaries
Rod Serling’s Spunk
Franz Kafka Goes to Hot Topic
Pamela Colman Smith’s Eyes Within
Anna Kavan and Her Bazooka
