Oct 24, 202654 minS2
In 1971, Richard Matheson decided to one-up Shirley Jackson's Hill House with a much, much nastier haunted house tale. And despite appearing at the heart of the 60s-70s occult revival, Matheson's Hell House is rarely...
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The Lost Valley
Hosted by Cian · society · EN-IE
About this Podcast:
The Lost Valley is an Irish podcast about ‘Lost Worlds’ in Life and Literature. Join me here at the Explorer’s Club for a drink and some tall tales about hidden prehistoric valleys, lost underground civilisations, smokey Edwardian seances, haunted house stakeouts. We love cryptozoology, weird science, and old adventure novels.Look – it’s a pterodactyl!
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What is The Lost Valley about?
The Lost Valley is an Irish podcast about ‘Lost Worlds’ in Life and Literature. Join me here at the Explorer’s Club for a drink and some tall tales about hidden prehistoric valleys, lost underground civilisations, smokey Edwardian seances, haunted house stakeouts. We love cryptozoology, weird science, and old adventure novels. Look, it’s a pterodactyl!
Who hosts The Lost Valley?
The Lost Valley is hosted by Cian. The show has published 18 episodes to date.
What has The Lost Valley covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Halloween Special: Hell House by Richard Matheson (1971)" (24 October 2026, 54 minutes), "The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea: Dennis Wheatley's 'They Found Atlantis' (1936)" (12 October 2026, 79 minutes), and "Atlantis Shrugged: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Maracot Deep' (1929)" (25 September 2026, 68 minutes).
How often does The Lost Valley publish?
The Lost Valley publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 60 minutes across 18 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The Lost Valley?
Booking probability for The Lost Valley is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Lost Valley requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Lost Valley's contact route on record: public web form.
About the host
Cian hosts The Lost Valley, a society podcast with 18 episodes published.
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Oct 12, 20261h 19mS2It's two-thirds pulp gangsterism and one-third utopian Lost Race shenanigans when the Dutchess Camilla and her cadre of 1930s socialite hangers-on are thrust to the bottom of the Atlantic in a bathysphere by the...
Sep 25, 20261h 8mS2If you prefer your lost race Atlantis yarn with a side order of Theosophy, and a dollop of 1920s street-talking Yanks, you've come to the right place as we down the submersible to check out Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's last...
Sep 12, 202639 minS2During a particularly busy time in the Tiny Assistant's internship, Cian digs out an old episode from the vaults to fill the silence. Revisit the first iteration of the Lost Valley, and check out the 1950s lost world...
Aug 30, 20261h 49mS2Join an Explorers' Club expedition into the murky depths of the lost world that is turn-of-the-century London, as we finally begin tackling the greatest of all lost worlds, and the trope namer itself! With asides into...
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Aug 13, 202633 minS2Join our host, once again on the track of unknown animals ... Taking a break from the search for mystery big cats, Cian stops to read newspapers reports from 1911 featuring a possible 'neodinosaur' sighting from South...
Aug 2, 20261h 31mS2Along with Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and The Lost World, King Solomon's Mines is another 'line in the sand' watershed moment for lost race fiction. Often credited with reinventing the adventure fiction genre...
Episode #11
Ripping Yarns: Annual for Boys 1936
Jul 10, 202645 minS1A chance car boot sale find prompts an unexpected episode! You ineffable cad - it's the Annual for Boys, 1936! Join daring young British chums as they venture into the Congo to find an Ancient Egyptian lost city, foil...
Jul 3, 20261h 15mS1Better pack your elephant gun for this one. NOTE: the guest appliance on Pirates Don't Eat The Tourists mentioned probably won't be out when you hear this. But it will be before too long ... I didn't intend to get into...
Episode #8
Stop Eating My Sesame Cake: Congo (1995)
May 2, 202651 minS1<p>Described recently by one of its stars as 'one of the great bad movies of our time,' the widely-panned 1995 cinema outing for Michael Crichton's Congo is given a hearing at the Explorer's Club. A somewhat out-of-time...
Apr 24, 20261h 42mS1<p>Michael Crichton takes an unlikely band of explorers into central Africa to recreate the classic 'lost city' narrative, almost one hundred years after H. Rider Haggard invented this literary form. But is Crichton too...
Apr 2, 202644 minS1<p>With the Bigfoot world consumed by debate over a documentary supposedly proving the Patterson-Gimlin film to be a hoax, we at the Explorer's Club retire to a gentler place: a look back at one of my favourite Bigfoot...
Mar 25, 20261h 34mS1<p>In this episode, we cover several of H.G. Wells' stories which contain mysterious animals, or other links to the world of cryptozoology. </p><p>These stories include underwater civilisations of fish-people, murderous...
Mar 8, 202627 minS1<p>Dennis Wheatley is better known for his occult novels. But he wrote several 'lost race' novels as well. 'The Man Who Missed The War' from 1946 is by far the daftest of them all, though of course it has that Wheatley...
Feb 27, 202659 minS1<p>'There are jungles of the upper air, and there are worse things than tigers which inhabit them ...'</p><p><br></p><p>Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a few stories, other than The Lost World , which might be considered...
Feb 19, 202641 minS1<p>The lost 'Spider-Pit Sequence' from the original 1933 King Kong has long been the subject of much lore and myth-making. Was it truly a scene so disturbing it had to be cut? Were audiences terrified by the sight of...
Feb 17, 202616 minS1<p>For your first trip to the Explorer's Club, crack open a copy of James Hilton's 1933 classic 'Lost Horizon.' Journey to Shangri-La, where sensitive types from many countries wait out the turbulent 1930s, recovering...
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