This month, join Katy and Erika as they delve into The Descent. They dive deep into unreality, literary foils, and whether or not women like beer.

This month, Katy and Erika discuss John Carpenter's cult classic The Thing. They dive deep into Cold War paranoia, the evolution of story, and what happens when you bring too much Jock Energy to a survival scenario.

• “What ‘The Thing’ Loses By Adding Women,” Noah Berlatsky: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/10/what-the-thing-loses-by-adding-women/246648/
• “Fecund Horror,” Noah Berlatsky: https://gayutopia.blogspot.com/2007/12/noah-berlatsky-fecund-horror_12.html
• “After 35 Years 'The Thing' Is Still Our Most Suffocating Horror Film,” Patrick Marlborough: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gypzvb/after-35-years-the-thing-is-still-our-most-suffocating-horror-film
• “Horrality—The Textuality of the Contemporary Horror Film,” Phillip Brophy: https://web.archive.org/web/20180910033121/http://www.philipbrophy.com/projects/rstff/Horrality_C.html
• “Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ and You,” Matthew Pridham: https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/underneath-the-skin-john-carpenters-the-thing-and-you/

It's a real St. Patty's Day miracle: Katy and Erika are discussing Irish folk-horror the Hallow. They dive deep into Irish identity, why the dog dies, and how to spot a changeling baby using this one weird trick.

• The Brehon Academy: https://brehonacademy.org/
• "Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts," D. L. Ashliman: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html