It’s October which means it’s time for our Halloween episode! We talk about our favourite spooooooky movies, books, comics, video games, and more! Plus: Early Canadian history!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Books (& relevant links)

• Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix
• • The Little People (Nazi Leprechauns)
  • Armageddon Film FAQ by Dale Sherman; which was mentioned way back in Episode #11 on Religion (fiction), of all things
• Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
• The Girl Under the Bed by Dave Chua and Xiao Yan
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito
• Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu by Junji Ito
• Urban/Paranormal Fantasy for non-spooky Halloween reading:
• • Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
  • Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews
  • The Mediator series by Meg Cabot
  • The Voodoo Killings by  Kristi Charish
  • Women of the Otherworld series by Kelly Armstrong
  • Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton
• Stephen King and horror, maybe-horror, and not-at-all-horror books:
• • The Stand
  • On Writing: A Memoir of Craft
  • Desperation
  • Under the Dome
  • Gunslinger (Dark Tower Series)
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• Stephen King’s progeny, Joe Hill, writes great horror books too:
• • The Fireman
  • Heart-Shaped Box
  • NOS4R2
  • Locke and Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
• Wytches, Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder and Jock
• The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag
• Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman
• • Art by Camille Chew (and more witches)
  • How To Make Calling Yourself a Witch Your Whole Personality
• The scare your child(hood self) silly section:
• • Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell
  • The Little Giant Book of “True” Ghost Stories: 84 Scary Tales by Arthur Myers, John Macklin, Margaret Rau, and Jim Sharpe
  • The Ghost Wore Gray by Bruce Coville
  • Other ghost books from Anna’s childhood include Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn, Ghost Cadet by Elaine Marie Alphin, and A Ghost in the Window by Betty Ren Wright (and a lot of other books by Betty Ren Wright)
  • Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
  • Fear Street by R. L. Stine
  • Christopher Pike
• Haunting at Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• The House on the Borderland by Richard Corben, Simon Revelstroke, and William Hope Hodgson
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• • Comic version adapted/art by P. Craig Russell
  • Unheimlich and the uncanny
• ZombieWorld: Champion Of The Worms by Mike Mignola and Pat McEown
• • Tintin
  • Yves Chaland
  • Ligne Claire
• Liō by Mark Tatulli
• • Slug Theater
  • Salt girl
• Kitaro and the Great Tanuki War by Shigeru Mizuki
• • Mokumokuren

Movies

• It Follows (no clowns)
• It (clowns)
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
• Evil Dead
• • Evil Dead the Musical
• Ginger Snaps
• Ginger Snaps Back
• The Lure (“evil mermaids that run a nightclub, and also vampires are involved”)
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Coraline (the movie)

Video Games

• Dead Space
• Gone Home
• PT
• Silent Hill
• Anatomy
• Matthew managed to combine two different streaming shows
• • Let’s Nope (horror games, sometimes terrible)
  • Watch+Play (many genres including horror, always terrible)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Halloween tombstones made by friend of the podcast Colleen Frakes
• The Wikipedia page for Jack-o’-lanterns includes photos of some made from turnips
• Upper Canada and Lower Canada
• • Upper Canada Village
• Photo from the cocktail party in an abandoned hospital Matthew mentioned
• Selkie
• Jump scare

Questions

• Is it worse to see horrible images or have to picture them in your mind?
• Do you read things for Halloween?

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 17th, when we’ll talk about Non-Fiction Travel.

Then come back on Tuesday, November 7th, when we’ll be discussing recent books we’ve read!