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Podcast: Richard Syrett's Strange Planet
Episode: 1273 INFECTUS: The 5,000-Year Virus of Evil
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EP. #1273 INFECTUS: The 5,000-Year Virus of Evil
Evil isn’t a monster—it’s a virus. In Infectus: Bedtime Stories of Horror, Todd C. Elliott traces one demonic contagion from the first sitar on the Ganges to Beatlemania’s scream. Thirteen linked tales reveal how humanity’s greatest inventions—music, empire, religion, pop culture—mutated the infection, not destroyed it. From colonial vampires to undead children, the parasite wears civilization’s face. On Strange Planet, Elliott...