In this episode we interview with Derrick and Brian Belanger, publishers of Belanger Books, one of the world’s most prominent Sherlock Holmes publishers. Founded in 2015, they have an ever-expanding library of anthologies and novels. Derrick and Brian discuss their publishing house and areas of interest, as well as how Lizzie Borden fits into the Sherlock Holmes world.

In this episode we once again interview with Dennis Binette, co-author of many books published by the Fall River Historical Society, including The Knowlton Papers, Women at Work, the Fall River Discourses series, The Knowlton-Pearson Correspondence, The Jennings Journals, and Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A Borden and Her Fall River.

Dennis discusses the stories of the people who helped make Parallel Lives the classic history of Lizzie Borden’s world. These anecdotes are priceless stories told by one of the preeminent authorities on the case and now the life of Lizzie Borden.

In today’s episode we explore where the archive and the imagination meet—sometimes in productive dialogue, sometimes in open confrontation. This is a place where documents matter, facts matter, but so does the question of what history feels like once it has passed through the human mind.

Our guest is Ric Rebelo, author and filmmaker, whose recent work spans an intense, prolific engagement with horror—particularly short fiction—alongside the release of three new books centered on one of the most relentlessly interpreted figures in American history: Lizzie Borden.