Forgotten Fiction

BrownTown Productions

Forgotten Fiction is a show about books, films, TV and other cultural artifacts that have gone overlooked or underrated. Hosted by Paris Brown and Tommy Brown (some relation) each episode digs up pieces of media that have been lost to time and makes the case for why they matter. From obscure horror paperbacks to childhood classics to the lesser known films of directors you already love, if it's been forgotten, we're remembering it. New episodes every Tuesday. Send your forgotten fiction to ForgottenFictionPod@gmail.com

Episodes

  1. 5D AGO

    Ep. 7 - Mimic & Mapping the Interior

    Paris brings the movie that almost ended Guillermo del Toro's career. Mimic. 1997. Bugs genetically engineered to save New York City evolve to mimic humans. A great concept challenged by the Weinsteins. Bob Weinstein barged onto the set. The film flopped. But the new Director's Cut is worth streaming. Then Tommy brings the book Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones. A 12 year old named Junior sees a figure in his trailer one night in full fancy dancer regalia. His father never danced. That was his dream that didn't happen. Deciding this thing is his Father, back to protect him, is where the horror starts. A Bram Stoker Award winning novella most people skipped on their way to The Only Good Indians. Don't overlook it.

    46 min

  2. MAY 12

    Ep. 6 - Eerie, Indiana & Nightmare Seasons

    Paris brings a show NBC didn't know what to do with. Eerie, Indiana aired in 1991, ran 19 episodes, and disappeared. A 13 year old moves from New Jersey to the strangest town in America and spends one season investigating it with his only normal friend. It's YA Twin Peaks shot on film. The episode about a humanoid ATM named Mr. Wilson giving a kid free money hits differently in the age of AI. Then Tommy brings a book with Stephen King's name on the cover, but King didn't write it. Charles L. Grant did. The man who invented quiet horror, won two Nebula Awards, three World Fantasy Awards, and the title of World Horror Convention Grandmaster wrote the same book as Stephen King in the same year. Four novellas. Four seasons. 1982. They went head to head at the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.

    46 min

  3. MAY 5

    Ep. 5 - Riverbend & The Phantom Tollbooth

    Paris brings a 1989 film that almost nobody has seen and yet somehow Tommy has. Riverbend follows a Black Vietnam veteran and his men who hide out in a Georgia town being terrorized by a racist sheriff and decide to fight back. Shot in Texas, buried on VHS, and rescued from obscurity by a filmmaker who put it on YouTube. It is Red Dawn meets The Color Purple run through an 80s action filter and it is a wild ride. Then Tommy concludes his series on books Ella really dug. The Phantom Tollbooth. A father daughter road trip. A surprise audiobook. A kid who was already in chapter two and did not want him to turn it off. Narrated by Rainn Wilson. Written by Norton Juster who violated his Ford Foundation grant by doing so. Publishers said the wordplay was too much for kids. They were wrong.

    41 min

  4. APR 28

    Ep. 4 - The Dark Half & The Cricket in Times Square

    Paris brings Tommy a Stephen King adaptation some constant readers haven't even seen, The Dark Half, directed by George A. Romero in 1993. Two horror legends. One forgotten film. Then Tommy brings a book his daughter Ella called one of her favorites she's ever read... after it sat on her shelf for over a year. George Selden's Cricket in Times Square belongs in the same conversation as Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little. Most people have forgotten it exists. And almost nobody knows about the six sequels.

    41 min

  5. APR 28

    Ep. 3 - Murder Party

    Before Blue Ruin. Before Green Room. Before anyone knew who Jeremy Saulnier was, he made a micro-budget horror comedy in Brooklyn with his friends about a lonely meter maid who finds a Halloween party invitation on the sidewalk and really should have stayed home.

    26 min

  6. APR 28

    Ep.2 - Are You Afraid of the Dark & The Vampyre

    The show that kept a generation of kids up at night sits next to the 1819 novella that invented the modern vampire. Tommy makes the case for John Polidori, Lord Byron's personal physician, who wrote the first aristocratic vampire story at the most famous literary gathering in history. These remembrances will have everyone saying, "I'm Cold."

    36 min

  7. APR 28

    Ep.1 - Tales From The Crypt & Beavis and Butthead

    Paris and Tommy kick off Forgotten Fiction the way they do everything... by ignoring the plan. What was supposed to be a simple introduction turns into a deep dive on Tim Curry playing in a forgotten Tales from the Crypt episode, and Tommy's rabbit hole into why you can't actually stream a complete season of Beavis and Butt-Head anywhere. Rights issues, physical media, and the specific kind of nostalgia that hits when you realize the thing you remember most clearly has been quietly erased. Welcome to Forgotten Fiction.

    24 min
  • 7 Episodes

5
out of 5
14 Ratings

About

Forgotten Fiction is a show about books, films, TV and other cultural artifacts that have gone overlooked or underrated. Hosted by Paris Brown and Tommy Brown (some relation) each episode digs up pieces of media that have been lost to time and makes the case for why they matter. From obscure horror paperbacks to childhood classics to the lesser known films of directors you already love, if it's been forgotten, we're remembering it. New episodes every Tuesday. Send your forgotten fiction to ForgottenFictionPod@gmail.com

Information

  • Creator
    BrownTown Productions
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © BrownTown Productions
  • Show Website
    Forgotten Fiction

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