About

About the Show

The purpose of Shadowdance is to explore, reveal, and interpret hidden world of fringe culture and alternative spirituality through interviews, music, art, and discussion.

About the Hosts

Michelle Belanger is an occult author, energy worker, and psychic vampire. A magna cum laude graduate of Cleveland’s John Carroll University, she is author of The Psychic Vampire Codex (Weiser 2004), Sacred Hunger (Dark Moon 2005), The Enchanted Wood with artist Kim Traub (Shadowfox, 1996), These Haunted Dreams (Dark Moon 2006), and the forth-coming The Psychic Energy Book (Weiser 2007). A recognized expert on the vampire subculture, Michelle has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including WE, the History Channel, XYTV, and A&E. From 1991 thru 1996, she was the editor of the acclaimed dark literary magazine, Shadowdance and this has served as the >inspiration for the current podcast of the same name. In her varied career, she has choreographed Gothic fashion shows, modeled, run live action role playing events, performed with both URN and Nox Arcana, and worked nights at a haunted hotel.

Chris Miller has been a lot of things: son, brother, husband, father, magician, medievalist and co-founder of the Dagorhir Kingdom of Avalon, author, reporter, a major Doctor Who fan, former Science Fiction editor for Bookstacks Unlimited (the first bookstore on the web, doing trade on TELNET in 1991), co-author of Diomin, coffee shop manager, and now a founder and Lead Developer of Podiobooks.com. Since 1994, he has designed and/or developed all manner of applications, from E-commerce web storefronts to enterprise-wide billing and invoicing systems. He has been a student of magick, religion, and the occult since 1986. Somehow, he’s lived to tell about it.