Episode 33: Darkness by Lord Byron

The Oddcast: Tales of the Occult, Weird, and Arcane by Jon Fredette

Nov 1, 202000:06:26Arts

Written in July of 1816 and inspired by "The Year Without Summer", the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies the previous year, in which enough sulphur was cast into the atmosphere to change...

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