John Crowley’s Little, Big is, at once, a family saga, a fairy tale, an occult thriller, an idyll, a dystopia, as well as a meditation on myth and history, the real and the fantasy, memory and imagination. Little, Big is also a book that JF and Phil have been planning to discuss for as long as Weird Studies has existed. In this episode, they are joined by writer and scholar Erik Davis to explore the enduring charms and mysteries of one of the greatest—and most underrated—American novels of the late twentieth century.

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REFERENCES

John Crowley, Little, Big

Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Eric Davis, interview with Neil Gaiman and Rachel Pollack

David Lynch (dir.), Lost Highway

America, “The Last Unicorn”

John Cooper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

J. R. R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings

Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality

Lord Dunsany, Irish novelist

Special Guest: Erik Davis.

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