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⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The second half of our conversation with Jason Pargin, author of "There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs", the latest installment in his New York Times-bestselling sci-fi horror "John Dies at the End" series. Follow Jason Pargin on social media ⁠here⁠ Pre-order your copy of ⁠"There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs" Get your Cryptid Pin-Up Calendar from the ladies at What About Weird and help support the Repro Defense Fund here For full shownotes, head to ⁠⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Author Jason Pargin joins us to talk about "There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs", the latest installment in his New York Times-bestselling sci-fi horror "John Dies at the End" series. What was planned as a 30-45 minute conversation turned into a 2 hour opus full of so much good stuff, like what it's like to be an author in 2026, direct-to-video movies, and more, we had to split it into two parts! Part two of our conversation with Jason will be out Thursday! Get your Cryptid Pin-Up Calendar from the ladies at What About Weird and help support the Repro Defense Fund ⁠here⁠ Follow Jason Pargin on social media here Pre-order your copy of "There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs" For full shownotes, head to ⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Jason Pargin joins us to talk about "There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs", the latest installment in his New York Times-bestselling sci-fi horror "John Dies at the End" series. What was planned as a 30-45 minute conversation turned into a 2 hour opus full of so much good stuff, like what it's like to be an author in 2026, direct-to-video movies, and more, we had to split it into two parts!

The second half of our conversation with Jason Pargin, author of "There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs", the latest installment in his New York Times-bestselling sci-fi horror "John Dies at the End" series.

⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ A Florida journalist dreams of tomorrow's fire. A poltergeist ties a Montreal family - and their clothes - into knots. The sad story of Elsie Hulk (no relation to the Incredible one). A child's premonition of disaster. All this, plus strange rains, a Chicago man who claims he can bribe God and the power of Lady Zeus, because this is Ghost Story Guys, after all. For full shownotes, head to ⁠⁠⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ How much frog is too much? What's your favorite concept of a potato chip? How good is the South Korean action horror flick "Colony"? All those questions and more are answered when Bren & Paul talk spooky Our musical guests on this episode are Curse Words with their latest single, "Crime of the Sentry", from the upcoming album, "Hyperdrive Overkill" Full shownotes @ GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ On our 250th story show, we dive into two of our favorite spooky topics - mimics and doppelgangers! Also this week: Paul is now raving in the daytime, Bren has his third-least embarrassing barroom singalong, and someone sent in an apport story which defies all conventional logic. Links Brett Manning's Store [Etsy]"Wyrd TV", by Diane A Rogers [Bloomsbury] For full shownotes, head to ⁠⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ Haunted roads in Scotland, reflections on our episode with Tim Renner, Paul survives another birthday and Bren survives Zack Snyder fans at the premiere of "The Last Photograph" - that's right, it's a mailbag episode! Our musical guest on this episode is Ruby Tingle, with her latest single, "Eating Out of My Hand" from the upcoming EP "Wildings", available October 9th. For full shownotes, head to ⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ This week we're joined by podcaster and author Timothy Renner, host of "Strange Familiars" to read stories from his latest book, "The Keystone Hagstone: Faeries and Other Mysterious Entities of Pennsylvania"! We cover a TON of ground, from haunting inside and out, to green bigfoot, to dreams, salvia experimentation, and so much more Get autographed copies of "The Keystone Hagstone" from Tim's Etsy store, Lost Grave Standard copies are available from Amazon Check out the Strange Familiars website for all things related to the podcast For full shownotes, head to ⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Friend of the show and Canadian extreme horror maestro Steve Stred returns! We talk about "Kaiju Killers, Part 1 & 2" the recently released sequels to his hit novel, "Mastodon", as well as his upcoming instalment in Mark Tullius' adult Choose Your Own Adventure-style series, "Try Not to Die: On Werewolf Island" Get your copy of "Try Not to Die on Werewolf Island": https://mybook.to/onwerewolfisland Check out the "Mastodon" series: https://mybook.to/mastodonseries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ A poltergeist in Oakland? A housekeeper for a ghost? Even a Christmas curse? This week, the pages of Fate Magazine offer up some truly bizarre tales of the paranormal as well as a deeply strange - and still unsolved - case of the twins who, it seems, willed themselves to death. For full shownotes, head to ⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topics covered on this bonus episode: Miami Vice then & now Paul's Animal Facts (tm) The many varieties of herbal refreshment Going deaf at the movies

⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠! Brennan talks about taking the Ghosts of the Don Valley haunted walk, which was plenty creepy but has nothing on a listener who writes in to tell us about a groping ghost at Waverly Hills. We also have a sweet story of someone's grandfather coming to say goodbye, a series of suggestions for more whacked-out animal movies (MDMAlien, anyone?), the Smiley Face Killer, and whole bunch more! Our musical guests on this episode are Moonraker with their latest single, "Umbrage", off their upcoming album, "Me and the Bells", coming this fall via Punkerton Records Full shownotes @ GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ Haunted airports, train stations, and moorland are just a few of the locations where, according to legendary paranormal researcher Peter Underwood, ghosts are said to walk. We share not only those stories but also newspaper accounts of giant beasts, a quarry that shouldn't exist, and a Cornish folk song that's... well, it's real gross Links: "Try Not to Die on Werewolf Island" giveaway For full shownotes, head to GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠ Yet another shark movie has hit the tower...I mean scene! We also uncover listener emails about prophetic dreams of death, photos coming to life, and learn that Paul's Greek pronunciation was, shall we say, a little off. Or maybe it wasn't, we're not sure...Our musical guest on this episode is the legendary Vampire Step-Dad with his latest single, "Late at Night" For full shownotes, head to GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices