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Hosted by skincare enthusiast James Welsh and professional makeup artist Robert Welsh, The Double Cleanse is your weekly window into everything beauty. James and Robert cover everything from dealing with pimples to how to perfect your makeup and the realities of social media influencing.

Join Karl & Oliver for a lo-fi, fortnightly conversation about a chosen pair of movies. Sometimes informative. Mostly not. Largely improvised. Extensively unedited. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the last volume of this series, Captain Ned Hampton and his faithful friend Jacob travel to America to the gold fields of California in search of the mysterious Dorothy's Double. - Summary by Grace Silvey

This novel by G.A Henty, the second in a trilogy, continues the mystery of impersonation and stolen jewellery involving Dorothy Hawtrey. She must navigate the effects of this accusation as it relates to her reputation, her relationships, and the possibility of facing trial. The setting is Victorian England but extends to Europe and North America as her friends and allies help her uncover the truth about the impostor. (Summary by Belinda McReynolds)

This is the story of a mild-mannered civil servant, Mr. Golyadkin, who begins to see his "doppelganger" appearing in his life (at work, in society, etc). This "double" has all the qualities that the protagonist lacks. His "double" bullies and persecutes him, slowly taking his place in the world. As the story progresses what could have been a true "double" is revealed to the reader as being Mr. Golyadkin's own mind splitting from reality. It is a haunting and tragic tale. (Summary by Greg Giordano)

Trouble comes to the Hawtrey home when mysterious letters and incidents threaten the innocence of Dorothy Hawtrey. Captain Hampton, on old family friend home on leave from India, works with detectives to solve the mystery of Dorothy’s double. - Summary by Grace Silvey

Meet Richard Staines, a bright graduate from Cambridge, who trades his academic honors for a badge at Scotland Yard. Fast forward ten years, and he's a seasoned Detective Inspector, ready to tackle the toughest cases. But when a murder from his past resurfaces, everything changes. A mysterious thumbprint and a doppelgänger throw Staines into a whirlwind of twists and turns. Can he crack the case before it’s too late? This classic detective fiction by Edgar Wallace pulls you into a suspenseful world of crime and intrigue. Known for his prolific writing, Wallace crafts a story filled with ...

We enter the dank corridors of gibbering horrors with this pair of depraved dwellings being investigated by Henry Kuttner's occultist creation Michael Leigh! In The Salem Horror, we bear witness to a ghastly witch curse born of the dread Cthulhu mythos that refuses to stay dead, and in The Black Kiss, where Kuttner was ably assisted by noted horror author Robert Bloch of Psycho fame, we are held in sway of a demented sea goddess whose cold, lifeless lips beckon us into the depths of the abyss forever! - Summary by Ben Tucker

In this classic novella, the life of a drab office clerk named Golyadkin begins to be haunted by his "doppelgänger," a man identical to him possessing all the charm and charisma Golyadkin lacks. This double shows up over and over again, succeeding in the things Golyadkin has failed to do throughout his life. As this double infiltrates himself more and more into Golyadkin's life, the reader is left wondering who he is and what his purposes might be. - Summary by Magda Wilde

Follow the thrilling journey of Dick Staines, who rises from humble beginnings to become a distinguished Detective Inspector at Scotland Yard. Armed with his honours science degree from the University of Cambridge and a fierce determination, Staines soon finds himself entangled in a chilling murder mystery that dredges up ghosts from his past. A doppelgänger, a puzzling thumbprint, and a murder - can Staines unravel this twisted knot? Dive into this gripping novel from the golden age of detective fiction, penned by the prolific Edgar Wallace, the mastermind behind over 170 novels including...

Before Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard created Kull the Conqueror, revealed later by Howard to be an ancestor of Conan. Kull, like Conan is a vicious and bloodthirsty barbarian but in some ways is a more contemplative and thoughtful character. In these, the first two Kull stories Howard published, we find Kull dealing with a conspiracy to murder him by a race of shapeshifting lizard people in "The Shadow Kingdom" and we see Kull contemplating his place in the world and even his own reality as he becomes ensnared in the wicked plot of a magician in "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thume". Relish in ...

Join Karl & Oliver for a lo-fi, fortnightly conversation about a chosen pair of movies. Sometimes informative. Sometimes not.

Step back into the savage world of Robert E. Howards Kull the Conqueror, a precursor to Conan the Barbarian and his ancestral counterpart. Kull is not just a fierce and bloodthirsty warrior; he‚s also a deeply introspective character who grapples with his own existence. In this thrilling double feature, explore the first two stories ever published about Kull. In The Shadow Kingdom, he faces a deadly conspiracy orchestrated by a race of shape-shifting lizard people. Then, in The Mirrors of Tuzun Thume, Kull wrestles with his own reality as he becomes ensnared in a devious magicians plot. ...

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Make It Double is your weekly recap show hosted by twin sisters (Isabelle & Marybelle)! Every week they break down their favourite millennial comfort shows! Join them as they walk down cozy memory lane!

A podcast in which a cinephile and a genre fan try to broaden each other's cinematic horizons, one film at a time.

A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west.At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin. Since this occurs when Holmes happens to be visiting, he brings his skills to bear upon the case and arrives at logically worked conclusions that are proved to be abysmally wrong by an amateur detective with an extremely keen sense of smell, which he employs in solving the case. This could be seen as yet another piece where ...

Two friends, David and Dawan, argue about films, shows, games, and whatever else they’re obsessed with that week.

Gather 'round for a pair of West Indies folk horror stories ripped from the pages of Weird Tales Magazine brought to you by master of the weird Henry S. Whitehead! - Summary by Ben Tucker

In this thrilling and horrific installment of the Weird Tales Double Feature, we have the final two novelettes published within the Cthulhu mythos by H. P. Lovecraft during his lifetime (he would die a scant two months after the publication of The Thing on the Door-Step). Weird Tales on The Haunter in the Dark: "A powerful story about an old church in Providence, Rhode Island, that was shunned and feared by all who knew it." Weird Tales on The Thing on the Door-Step: "A powerful tale by one of the supreme masters of weird fiction—a tale in which the horror creeps and grows, to spring at last...