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Things are about to get moody and bloody as Ryan and horror author E.M. Roy chat all things related to 1976's Carrie, and 2000's Ginger Snaps! Grab that scrunchie and pull up those low-rise jeans as we explore the "hell is a Teenage Girl" trope in horror films new and old. Also, Ryan interviews E.M. Roy about their recent scary and reality-bending book, Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies.   Synopsis: Leo Bates knows what’s behind every corner in her hometown of Eston, Maine, where she’s lived her whole life. Some bad memories and grief for her late parents, sure, but nothing dangerous... All of that changes when her girlfriend Tate goes missing, and the lead detective on the case blames Leo for the disappearance. Haunted by self-doubt, Leo can only watch as the town she thought she knew deteriorates around her. She is forced to confront the painful truth about her parents, this town, and her relationship if she is to survive the following onslaught of conspiracies, cryptic monstrosities, and whatever is hiding in the woods where Tate was last seen.   CLICK IF YOU DARE: Craving a woodsy horror treat? Snag your copy of E.M. Roy's Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies from Ghoulish Books! OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo design Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix Ryan's killer riffs!

Instead of ending 2023 on a very special holiday episode, we're throwing listeners a curve ball this season & diving DEEP into body horror. Joined by Shirley Jackson Award-winning author R.A. Busby, this month Cass & Ryan chat about 1981's Scanners and 2016's The Autopsy of Jane Doe.    Once we return from our ... well, holiday hijinks, you can expect even more horror chats, games, & surprises coming to you in 2024. Take care of you & yours gals, ghouls, & badass they's of the world.    CLICK IF YOU DARE: André Øvredal's interview at Den of Geek and Dread Central Craving more body horror? Read Busby's latest book, Corporate Body, published by Cemetary Gates Media.   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo design Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix Ryan's killer riffs! Jane for enduring everything & more Head explosions! That fly's commitment to staying in character Olwen Kelly! Give her everything!

As the weather turns brisk & the night brings darkness sooner to our doorsteps, we're delving into what lurks in the best of Scottish Horror. Joined by the Ghoulfriends Podcast's Lindsay & horror researcher Lucy, Cass & Ryan chat about 2014's White Settlers & 1973's The Wicker Man.   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo design Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix

Hello gals, ghouls, & badass they's of the world. Tune in this time to catch me & my lovely co-host Ryan C. Bradley's very creepy Halloween special! This season, we're mixing things up a bit & playing a game called Killer Riffs!? After, we'll also have a live commentary watch of Trick R' Treat for ya'll to kick back & watch with us & make our Sammy-boy proud. Happy Halloween!   Don't forget: candy is for everyone, our faces are costumes enough, & there's no better time to jump-scare your friends & blame it on us. Now, let's play...   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo design Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix Sam! Don't forget to light a pumpkin for him!

To kick off the Halloween season, we're bringing you a lovely (& spooky) chat we had with director, writer, podcaster, producer, & Dread Central's Editor-in-Chief Mary Beth McAndrews on the powers of found footage horror. We cover the OG 1999's The Blair Witch Project & 2022's gore-filled entry into the shaky subgenre, The Outwaters. CLICK IF YOU DARE: Edgar Allan Poe's "gotcha" fiction that people thought was real at the time of publication: "The Balloon Hoax" Interview with Joshua Leonard on the 1999 film's casting & production process  "Blair Witch and the Rise of Viral Movie Marketing," an essay by Ryan Lambie Mary Beth's review of The Outwaters at Dread Central   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo design Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix Rei Hance! Mary Brown's quest to find a woman-horse-monster-friend to brush her mane forever Wormholes... may they never find us!

This time, Ryan puts Cass in the interviewee spot -- digging into their upcoming horror novella debut, The Caretaker. Please be gentle with this one as it contains lots of thoughts about the horrors of grief. Synopsis: Cara, an overworked ICU nurse, could think of one million other things to do than sort through her dead mother's house. Still, she's here -- cleaning a home she thought she abandoned long ago. Of course, it doesn't take Cara long before she stumbles upon her mother's buried secrets and becomes curiously stuck with a haunted hospice bed. Roping in her ride-or-die cousin Dylan and witchy ex-girlfriend Beth into the proceedings, Cara unwittingly drags her beloveds into a gauntlet of horrors.   Snag your copy here from Hear Us Scream Press!   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for their logo design Cano Jaguar for their creepy intro. mix My dad

We open up the Horror Hangover vault to unleash a delightful chat we had with The Horror Hour's Yutaka! about brutal vampires in horror.   CLICK IF YOU DARE: A fantastic video essay on Nosferatu by Vintage Soup Image of Drakula - cinema's first (debated) Dracula! What's a monumental horror image?   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo design Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix Long, gnarly fingernails ftw!

Join us, dear listener, as our co-host Ryan C. Bradley interviews Ashley Deng about her upcoming novella from Tenebrous Press, DEHISCENT!   Synopsis: As the world's climate swings rapidly between oppressively hot and freezing cold, the remnants of civilization huddle in small communities to scrape together what they can to survive. All except the Zhu family. Yi has lived in her ancestral house her entire life, sheltered and safe from the scarcity that plagues her community. Her family enjoys a secret life of running water, electricity, and an abundance of food. But as Yi seeks a way to share their fortune, she learns the terrible secret of the Zhu house. DEHISCENT is an Eco-Horror tale of a future that has practically arrived, and the humanity that lurks in the most inhuman of places.   Snag your copy here!   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for their logo design Cano Jaguar for their creepy intro. mix Medical anatomy illustrations for creeping us out... in the best of ways!

Danger Slater joins us this month on the pod to discuss his latest book -- House of Rot -- coming out from Tenebrous Press on June 14!   Synopsis: The pink mold growing on the walls isn’t the worst thing about Elenya and Myles’ brand-new fixer-upper. There are also the inexplicable footsteps in the night; the sealed-over windows and doors; the neighbor that hears their screams but can’t be bothered to help. Soon, there’s no leaving at all. No hope of cleaning. And that encroaching mold? It’s practically become a second skin. Welcome to the House of Rot. You’re never getting out.   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo design Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix Spores!

In celebration of Michelle Garza Cervera's debut feature film, Huesera: The Bone Woman, hitting Shudder on May 12, we're reviewing it with our special guest Miguel Myers from My Horror Confessional. Also, thank you to the women who anonymously lent their voices to this episode to express their feelings about being pregnant, having a birthing body, and the frustrations they have with motherhood.   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo design Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix Gay aunties with micheladas  Moshing while pregnant

This month we chat with horror journalist, critic, author, & lovely human all around -- Richard Newby! -- to discuss disfigured killers in horror. We dive into 1960's Eyes Without a Face & Noroi: The Curse & how utterly weird face transplants are!   CLICK IF YOU DARE: The Cripped-Up Horror of Halloween Movies by Brianna Schunk The Psychology of Scary Faces by Stuart Vyse Noroi: Realistic J-Horror | Video Essay by Accented Cinema Face Transplants: An International History by Fay Bound Alberti & Victoria Hoyle Check out Richard Newby's book, We Make Monsters Here!   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo design Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix Sack masks rule!

This month we rewind our clocks back to 2022 when we chatted with Miguel Myers of My Horror Confessional podcast fame about nunsploitation films! We focus on the 1977's Alucarda & 2021's Benedetta & why the genre is hella radical! Sometimes! As a warning, we do discuss trauma associated with the Catholic Church, anti-queer & trans protestors, sexual assault, & rape. Please skip ahead to another one of our chats if these are triggering topics for you.   CLICK IF YOU DARE: Grindhouse Database directory of all nunsploitation films BFI's best of bad habit films Candice Drouet's killer video essay on Benedetta Exorcism & Sexuality: The "Thick Description" of an 18th-century Transylvanian Catholic Priest's Transgression essay by Daniel Barth   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo design Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix Alucarda's impeccable stare Sister Act I & Sister Act II