Hans Christian Andersen’s The Traveling Companion is one of his strangest early fairy tales (if you can even call it that): a road trip, a horror story, and a Sunday-school parable packed into one, we break down its bizarre mash-up of goblins, puppets, riddles, and skeleton gardens, and debate whether Andersen was telling a Christian allegory, a comedy, or just having fun throwing every motif at the wall. We had so much fun in this episode so we hope you enjoy! Audio/music credits: "Ashton Manor" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/