We're talking terror in the airwaves. Jocelyn is back on the pod to talk about radio horror this week. What is your favorite radio horror story?

Movies:

• Pontypool
• Lords of Salem
• Vast of Night
• The Fog
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
• Play Misty For Me
• Joyride
• Southbound

Books:

• Rules of the Road by CB Jones
• Kill Radio by Lauren Bolger
• A Lonely Broadcast: Book One by Kel Byron
• Ghost Radio by Leopoldo Gout
• Christine by Stephen King
• The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson
• Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs
• Desert Radio by Pamela M. Durgin

Chilling Obsession:

Hellebore magazine

The Drama (2026)

Final Girl Song: Come to Daddy by Aphex Twin

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Summer isn't over yet, so I was joined by Brandon Baker (@baker_reads) to talk about aquatic horror! We're talking about what could be lurking in the water, and how sometimes that's none of our business.

Movies Mentioned:

• Lake Placid
• Deep Blue Sea
• 47 Meters Down
• 47 Meters Down Uncaged
• Sea Fever
• Underwater
• Jaws
• The Lighthouse
• Pirhana
• Frankenfish
• Sharknado
• Ghost Ship
• Sphere
• The Creature From the Black Lagoon

Books Mentioned:

• Reliquary by Hannah Whitten
• Invasive Species by Ellery Adams
• Dark Water: Stories by Koji Suzuki (translated by Glynne Walley)
• The Deep by Nick Cutter
• Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
• The Low, Low Whistle by Laurel Hightower
• From Below by Darcy Coates
• Chlorine by Jade Song
• Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
• The Devil and the Deep edited by Ellen Datlow

Chilling Obsession:

• Junk bugs
• S(p)lasher Flicks by Cullen Wade

Final Girl Song:

Posing for Cars by Japanese Breakfast

We are so back! It's Fear Street Friday and as summer is winding down what a perfect time to get away from Shadyside and spend some time in a beach town with some camp friends. What could possibly go wrong? Bookseller extraordinaire Marguerite and I break down this ridiculously unhinged entry.

Warning - not in this clip, but this book does include a pretty gnarly animal death

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I was joined by Bram-Stoker Award winning author and returning guest, Clay McLeod Chapman to talk about his latest novel Devil Inside and Horrormance.

• Lisa Frankenstein
• Warm Bodies
• The Mummy
• Heart Eyes
• Bones and All
• Your Monster
• Obsession
• Possession (1981)

• Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman
• Jenny Will Eat You Now by Gillian Daniels
• Spread Me by Sarah Gailley
• A Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson
• Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
• Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
• Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta
• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
• Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wisell
• Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper
• Headlights by CJ Leede
• Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies by Emma Cole

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Final Girl Song: You Should Not Be Doing That by Amyl and the Sniffers

Chilling Obsession:

Have we always been the caretakers? I am joined by reviewer George Dunn (@georgesreads) to talk about horror stories that are centered around the giving or receiving care either professionally or for a loved one.

Movies:

• Relic
• The Taking of Deborah Logan
• Insidious
• The Perfection
• The Haunting
• Would You Rather?
• Saint Maud
• The Skeleton Key
• I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
• Misery

Books:

• A Veritable Household Pet by Viggy Parr Hampton
• The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
• Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine
• The Vessel by Adam Nevill
• The Only One Left by Riley Sager
• Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum
• The Shining by Stephen King
• Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy
• Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon
• We Spread by Iain Reid

Chilling Obsession: The Ervil LaBaron Cult

Final Girl Playlist:

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CJ Leede is in the house and we are solving crimes! Not really, but we are talking about her latest novel Headlights and blend of horror and crime, weird (and romantic!) sex scenes, the importance of pop culture in stories, the romance of Americana, her upcoming work and more! We also talk about books that balance the tightrope of crime and horror, some with possibly vampires and some with definitely vampires

Movies/Shows Mentioned:

• True Detective (Season 1)
• Seven
• Hannibal
• Longlegs
• Red Dragon
• Zodiac

Books Mentioned:

• Headlights by CJ Leede
• The Gathering by CJ Tudor
• The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
• All These Bodies by Kendare Blank
• The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
• Hydra (Six Stories #2) by Matt Weselowski
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• Mothersucker by Kim Boyhun (translated by Archana Madhavan)
• The Outsider by Stephen King
• All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby
• Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad #4) by Tana French

Chilling Obsessions: Hacks and Wuthering Heights

Final Girl Song: Wolf Like Me

I basically forced Anna from Anna Rose Reads to watch Mad Men, so we decided to record an episode to get all of our thoughts out and decide what books to recommend for each character.

Books Mentioned:

• Gerald's Game by Stephen King
• Small Town Horror with Ronald Malfi
• The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
• Trad Wife by Saratoga Schafer
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson
• Duma Key by Stephen King
• The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
• All's Well by Mona Awad
• Greedy by Callie Kazumi
• The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls by Angela Sylvaine
• The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own by Gwendolyn Kiste
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Misery by Stephen King
• Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley

Chilling Obsessions:

Something Very Bad is Going to Happen (Netflix)

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