Study 163 - The Beautiful Stranger
When a woman's husband is replaced by an exact replica, she doesn't really mind -- it's The Beautiful Stranger, another masterpiece from Shirley Jackson's collection Dark Tales.
Special thanks to reader Rachel Lackey of Rachel Watches Star Trek!
Next up: Shirley Jackson's Home as well as Extra Credit on witchcraft!
Feedback 046 - The Scholarly Conversation
We're discussing your thoughts on Necroscope, Elvis impersonators, electric vampires and more. Tune in!
Next up: The Beautiful Stranger and Home by Shirley Jackson + Extra Credit!
Study 162 - All She Said Was Yes
We're kicking off a month of Shirley Jackson stories with All She Said Was Yes, a suburban take on the Cassandra complex from her collection Dark Tales. Boats, bad neighbors and psychics - IT'S AMAZING!
Special thanks to our reader Heather Klinke!
Next up: The Beautiful Stranger and Home
Extra Credit 045 - Vampire Roundup
Bleh bleh HA! We're rounding up some vampire media for discussion, including:
The Strain (TV)
What We Do in the Shadows (movie)
Van Helsing (TV)
Classic Cast: The Shunned House
We're looking back at one of the first vampires we encountered on the show with H.P. Lovecraft's The Shunned House!
Here's a link to the original episode from 4/1/2010!
Special thanks to reader Michael Holmes.
Coming up: extra credit vampire round-up! YEEE HAW!
Study 161 - Necroscope - Part 3
It's the thrilling climax! The dead rise! A big vampire sits up! Join us as we plant a stake in Brian Lumley's Necroscope!
Thanks again to our reader: Erik Peabody of Viking Guitar Productions!
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Next up: All She Said Was Yes by Shirley Jackson
Study 160 - Necroscope - Part 2
The plot thickens and so does the gore in the middle of Brian Lumley's Necroscope! Join us as we examine this crazy novel's vampiric depths!
Thanks again to our reader: Erik Peabody of Viking Guitar Productions!
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Next up: THE THRILLING CONCLUSION!
Feedback 045 - Spiders Domesticate Frogs
We're discussing your comments on Feline February, from the profound to the preposterous!
Study 159 - Necroscope - Part 1
Vampires, espionage, weird sex and math! Join us as we dig into Brian Lumley's Necroscope, a novel about a man who can speak to the dead.
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Special thanks to our reader: Erik Peabody of Viking Guitar Productions!
Next up: Feedback and MORE NECROSCOPING!
Extra Credit 044 - NightMan: Manimal
Manimal teams up with NightMan to fight Jack the Ripper in his last television appearance! IT IS PURE JOY!
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Study 158 - The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael
A ghost cat haunts the English countryside in this sanity-blasting yarn by Agatha Christie -- The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael!
Special thanks to our reader, Paul Maclean! Check out Poirot: Greatest Detective and The Attic (available where ye git yer pawdcasts...)
Get into Reading the Meow!
Want more Agatha? Check out our episodes on The Call of Wings and The Hound of Death!
Next up: MANIMAL, then Necroscope. What more could want?!
Study 157 - Nine Lives
Identity, connection, and clone sex collide in Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction masterpiece Nine Lives!
Special thanks to our reader: Maeve Sawyer!
Next up: The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael by Agatha Christie and an extra credit episode years in the making -- NightMan: Manimal!
Feedback 044 - Barbie and Hot Frankenstein
We're examining your comments on January's sci-fi shows!
And if you need a revisit, here's our coverage on Wuthering Heights.
Study 156 - Delcardes' Cat
King Kull converses with a cat, licks lake monsters and gets smack-talked by Thulsa Doom in Robert E. Howard's Delcardes' Cat!
Special thanks to our reader, Travis Bedard!
Here's a blog post with a list of edits and pages from comic adaptations by spraguedecampfan!
Want more Kull? Check out our episode on The Shadow Kingdom!
Check out a real ventriloquist: Nina Conti!
Next up: Nine Lives by Ursula K. Le Guin
Classic Cast: The Monster Maker
We're closing the month with another Bradbury: The Monster Maker
Here's a link to the original episode from 07/08/2021!
Special thanks to our reader and STILL MOST FAMOUS Miss Trans New England, Lorelai Erisis!
Extra Credit 043 - Interstellar
We're time-traveling back to 2014 to have a look at Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, then discussing it... in the PRESENT! WHOA!
Study 155 - The Men Who Murdered Mohammed
Travel along as we clock a new take on time travel with Alfred Bester's The Men Who Murdered Mohammed!
Special thanks to our reader, Casem AbuLughod!
Have a relisten to Fondly Fahrenheit - IF YOU DARE!
Study 154 - Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon
An AI-obsessed ruler invents adversaries in order to feel powerful, wreaking havoc on his planet. Join us as we discuss this prescient sci-fi fairy tale from 1977 by Polish author Stanislaw Lem: Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon.
Special thanks to reader George Woodruff! Grab A Chronicle of Horrors now to read his work and support Scares That Care! Or do one better and attend AuthorCon!
Here are The Scariest Cases of AI Rebellion, presented by The Paint Explainer.
Feedback 043 - Let's All Fly the F Away
Gather 'round as we read listener comments on fairy tales and more!
Here is the poo-tee-weet bird call of the Northern Bobwhite.
And here is a list of movies in which the protagonists just fly the f#*k away at the end.
Study 153 - There Will Come Soft Rains
We're starting sci-fi month with a smart-home story set in 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury!
Special thanks to our AMAZING reader Andrew Leman! DON'T DELAY -- grab the new HPLHS production of The Blood-Red Sphinx or be forever doomed!
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