Graveyard Coffee Talk Pod

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they chat with debut horror author Jenny Kiefer. Jenny's novel THIS WRETCHED VALLEY was published earlier this month and can be found anywhere books are sold. Come hear more about Jenny's work, the spookiest things she's found in the woods (it's not what you think!), and what she's got lined up next!Note: the editor (Corinne) is sorry for the audio - this was recorded live in a local brew pubFor show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne in a surprisingly laughter-filled episode about death! Amanda looks at a more historical view of how death has been discussed in the United States, which Corinne goes on a broader folkloric tour of superstitions from Europe and China.CW: Covid-19 discussions, infant mortalityFor show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne in a special recording of a live show performed at the Louisville Free Public Library! In a nod to their hometown and their favorite library, Amanda shares scary stories from Louisville. Corinne ventures to Louisville's sister cities to unearth some creepy stories of her own. Includes a brief Q&A at the end of the episode!For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they chat about traveling the paths of the dead alongside psychopomps. Amanda digs into Santa Muerte, who guides people along all sorts of difficult journeys. Corinne gets to talk about her two favorite things: Animals with jobs and blasphemy (of a mild sort).For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they chat with debut Romantasy author EA Fortneaux! Learn how Fortneaux's background in history and archaeology helped her build a rich fantasy world replete with folklore and magic. Once you're done listening, pre-order FOLLOWING THE SNOW by clicking the link: https://shorturl.at/bpBQ1For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Quick correction: Corinne inadvertently mixed up Heather Dale and Alexander James Adams. Both singers perform folk and/or filk and were active in the 90s and 00s and released music under the first name “Heather”. We regret the error! “The Maiden and the Selkie” was performed by Heather Dale, not Alexander James Adams.Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they take it easy this episode and talk about folklore in pop culture again! This time, Amanda examines the folkloric elements of one of her favorite ballets. Corinne talks ad nauseum about selkies, surprising no one.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they talk metal - the material, not the musical genre. Amanda tells us all about a mystery from the Ozarks, and Corinne takes a meandering path that ends in the Bronze Age.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they continue their conversation about the fae. This time it's all about the things the fair folk get blamed for. Amanda introduced us to a fae creature who came to Detroit by way of France, while Corinne a) probably invites a whole host of troubles on herself and b) somehow finds a way to bring linguistics into this.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they start talking about the fair folk, the kindly ones, the good folk - that's right, they're talking about fairies today! Amanda explores the connections between Scots-Irish and Cherokee fairy lore, while Corinne attempts to get scientific about types of fairies.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they interview author Zach Rosenberg ahead of the release of his novella Hungers as Old As This Land. They discuss his experience publishing the novella, his wide range of influences, and a lot of Jewish and Western Horror. Take notes, because Zach introduces us to a ton of writers, filmmakers, and more! You can also preorder the novella online now!For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they trickster archetypes. Amanda skirts the line of blasphemy and gets biblical. Corinne unearths some core childhood memories of popular African and West Indian folklore.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they about food! Specifically, they talk about food in folklore and folk culture. Amanda speaks eloquently about the humble green bean casserole, as well as some spirited spirits. Corinne goes down a tumblr fueled rabbit hole and talks about bread.cw: discussions of alcoholFor show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they talk tree-lore. Amanda brings some grade-school nostalgia while talking about an American folk-hero. Corinne finally learns why the fae in urban fantasy swear by rowan and thorn. Both of them go on some weird research tangents.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they try something a little different. In this episode they go back to older episodes to explore how those topics are represented in pop culture. Amanda explores werewolves in literature (and introduces us to the term eco-gothic, which is a style Corinne desperately wants), and Corinne looks at various yokai in both Japanese and Western media.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they interview author and editor Chelsea Pumpkins about upcoming horror anthology Ahh That's What I Call Horror. Enjoy a lot of 90s nostalgia, an extra heaping of silliness, and learn why editing is sometimes like herding cats! They also talk a little about how witch tropes shifted in the 90s, and the influences of the Disney renaissance.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they settle in to tell Christmas ghost stories and discuss a little of the history behind this spooky tradition. Laugh as you realize that Corinne both suggested this topic and then immediately regretted it! There's also a first-ever corrections section, to explain what we got wrong last episode.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Episode 29 of Graveyard Coffee Talk is live on Apple, Spotify, Google, and Stitcher. Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they dig into the concept of Fakelore! Amanda finds American examples containing a lot of capitalism and cultural appropriations (seriously guys, support your local unions and stop appropriating Native culture!), while Corinne digs into the academic side of Fakelore (as a note: She 100% misunderstood an article she read, Hans Moser was writing in the 1960s, not the 1930s as stated in this episode). From there, things get a little unhinged as we discuss the intersection of fakelore, folklore, and online storytelling.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they interview indie horror author Laurel Hightower in a episode that was recorded at an in-person event at Butcher Cabin Books! Together they discuss Mothman, driving through the Appalachian Mountains, sleep paralysis and more. Laurel essentially gives this podcast its thesis statement while talking about the importance of horror, and also lists authors you don't want to be sleeping on if you're exploring the genre.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they talk about the challenges they had researching Old Wives' Tales! After a discussion of what old wives' tales are and how they may have come about, Amanda shares a few tales that are common in Appalachia. Corinne talks European superstitions and how the traditions of old wives' tales have affected classic literature. Then stay a bit longer for a quick retrospective on the last year and a bit of Graveyard Coffee Talk!For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they continue swapping urban legends! Amanda explores the role that creepy pastas fulfill in contemporary urban legends and attempts to actually not traumatize Corinne for once. Corinne chases down a story she was told by one of the show's twitter followers and then cries over a recently developed urban legend from Ukraine.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they embrace spooky season and swap urban legends! Amanda reminds Corinne of a story they both grew up with before sharing a story based in their hometown. Corinne absolutely scares herself silly exploring urban legends that are popular in J-horror.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they continue last episode's discussion, broadening to therianthropes in general! Amanda draws connections between tricksters, jesters, and drugs that neither host had ever considered. Corinne examines one facet of were-hyenas before being utterly enthralled by the idea of otherkin as contemporary therianthropy.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they kick off season 2 with a discussion of Werewolves! Amanda invokes a Cajun classic with the Loup Garou (also known as a Rou Garou), as well as detours into stories from other regions colonized by France. Corinne digs into some Celtic folklore and fakelore before briefly examining lycanthropy's role in psychiatry.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne for the season finale! Amanda gets ENTIRELY too creepy with a cryptid local to our hometown, while Corinne heads to Bavaria to explore the link between a certain cryptid and the development of the HPV vaccine. From there, enjoy a discussion on some of the more unfortunate implications of cryptozoology in general.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they finish exploring animals in myths and folklore! They're closing this mini-series off with coyotes and jackals. Amanda gives an overview of how coyotes transformed from mentor figures to reviled tricksters in American folklore. Corinne heads to Ancient Egypt to discuss the (probably) jackal-headed god Anubis, and makes a startling connection to a story she read about for episode 2.For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they continue exploring animals in myths and folklore! This is part 2 of a series on cats- which are coincidentally Amanda and Corinne's favorite animals. Amanda gets weird and wonderful with the story of the wampus cat, before explaining a bit about the concept of phantom cats. Corinne digs into the role of jaguars in Mesoamerican folklore and culture. Come for the discussion of how colonialism has messed with scholarship, stay for information on a delightful instrument!CW: discussions of ableism For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they continue exploring animals in myths and folklore! This starts a two part series on cats- which are coincidentally Amanda and Corinne's favorite animals. Amanda delights Corinne with the story of the cactus cat of the American Southwest before horrifying her with the realities of what a Witch's Bone is made from. Corinne explores stories of cats in Japan ranging from the whimsical to the downright malevolent.CW: animal crueltyFor show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they continue exploring animals in myths and folklore! This time corvids have entered the queue! Amanda grosses Corinne out with a story about magpies and buffalo, and also reminds us about the need to respect closed cultural practices. Corinne jumps between cultures, has big emotions about the role of folklore, and reads some poetry. Like one does.For show notes and more, visit www.graveyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they start a new series of episodes- animals in myths and folklore! They're kicking off with everyone's favorite urban wildlife trickster- the fox. Amanda stays surprisingly wholesome with a First Nations creation myth. Corinne is the creepy one for once, and discusses the Korean gumiho, among other variants. For show notes and more, visit www.graveyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they discuss witches who've influenced contemporary horror and other literature. Amanda terrifies Corinne with the tale of the Bell Witch from the early 19th century. Come for creatures in the corn, stay for potential arsenic poisoning. Corinne explores witchy figures from classical and medieval storytelling. Come for the Greek mythology, stay for the rant she has about French Arthurian legends.For show notes and more, visit www.graveyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they discuss people who've been accused of witchcraft through the ages. Amanda highlights some of the accused individuals in the American Colonies in the 17th century, and somehow avoids the temptation to skip straight to Salem. Corinne does a broad overview of the historical context of the early modern European witch hunts before highlighting a few accused individuals up through more contemporary times.For show notes and more, visit www.graveyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they discuss cursed locations in nature. Amanda discovers a particularly creepy spot in Old Louisville and gleefully tells Corinne about this hometown legend. Corinne learns about the existence of an extremely cursed rock in Japan, and a possibly even more cursed river in India.For episode notes and more, visit graveyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they discuss chilling winter tales. Amanda starts out relatively wholesomely, and then dedicates herself to giving Corinne nightmares. Corinne shares her hatred of the cold alongside stories of wintery female figures of folklore from Japan and RussiaFor episode notes and more, visit www.graveyardcoffeetalkpod.comSweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they discuss one of Corinne's favorite folklore topics: Selkies! Amanda shares about the role seals play in the mythology of indigenous groups in the Arctic, as well as three variants of stories about the goddess Sedna, all with a common theme. Corinne gives a broad overview of Selkie stories from Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, and Norway, as well as dives into some possible origins for the myths. TW: mild warnings for discussion of dismemberment.For episode notes and more, visit www.graveyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Settle in with your favorite hot beverage while Amanda and Corinne dive into lunar mythology. Amanda shares one of her favorite stories about Lone Bird, a figure in Mi'kmaq folklore. Corinne reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what "Lunar New Year" actually means, before exploring parallel myths from India and Mexico, as well as the story of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e.For show notes and more, visit www.graveyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab a cup of your favorite hot beverage and settle in as Amanda and Corinne discuss the occult practices that become popular during times of war. Amanda describes the strange chain of events that links the American Civil War to both Vampirism and cremation, which Corinne believes would make for a fantastic CW drama. Corinne investigates the weird world of spiritual countermeasures the UK undertook during the second World War, and desperately hopes that the stories she read are true. mild TW for mentions of child death, general discussions of warfare and traumaFor transcripts, show notes, and more, visit us at gravyeardcoffeetalkpod.com

In this episode, Amanda digs into modern iterations of the Satanic Panic in the US, including QAnon and other conspiracies. Corinne dives into a harrowing case from Brazil and a case from New Zealand that is still having legal repercussions today. Listener discretion is advised; trigger warnings for child sexual abuse, sexual assault, child murder, and genital mutilation.For show notes, transcripts and more, visit graveyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Amanda and Corinne chat about how Christmas traditions have developed over the years. Amanda is enthusiastic about food traditions in the US, while Corinne learns more than she bargained for after she started researching "hooded animal" traditions in the UK. Pour a hot beverage and join us for an extremely chill episode!For episode notes, transcripts, and more visit www.graveyardcoffeetalkpod.com

In this week's episode, Amanda explores Native American mermaid myths, as well as explains about the "mud mermaids" of the Ohio River. Corinne talks about Chinese and Japanese variants on mermaid tales, and goes on a tangent about free-diving.For episode notes, transcripts, and more visit www.graveyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Amanda gives an overview of the McMartin Preschool case, as well as cases involving two cult-like groups of Kentucky teens. Corinne attempts to lighten the mood with a 17th century slander case from the UK. TW: sexual abuse, physical abuse, child death, gun violence, psychological groomingFor episode notes, transcripts, and more visit www.graveyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Listen in as Amanda delights us with tales of a New Orleans Vampire with a long history, as well as the first vampire investigators in the US and comparisons between the Carpathian Mountains and the Appalachians. Corinne explains what she learned about the Adze of Ghana and Togo, and the Jiangshi in China, before going off on a wild tangent about the Highgate Vampire.CW: blood, descriptions of diseaseFor episode notes, transcripts, and more, visit graveyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Amanda takes a deep dive into the uniquely American history of ouija boards, while Corinne scares herself with creepy games from Japan and Mexico.For show notes and more, visit graveyardcoffeetalkpod.comTW: discussions of demonic possession and child murder

In this week's episode, Amanda and Corinne discuss graveyard hauntings in Kentucky, France, and Iraq.For show notes and more, visit graveyardcoffeetalkpod.comTW: Buried alive, child death, possession

In this episode Amanda takes us on a phantom-filled journey across the United States while Corinne pulls at your heartstrings with tales from Korea, India and Japan.For show notes and more, visit graveyardcoffeetalkpod.comTW: domestic violence, natural disasters

In this episode Amanda and Corinne take you across the southwestern United States and Central America as they discuss the legend of the wailing woman, La Llorona.For show notes and more, visit graveyardcoffeetalk.comTW: child death, postpartum depression, religious abuse, rape