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Andy and Alyssa return to the world of Give Yourself Goosebumps with #12: Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum. As they explore this presumably Massachusetts-based attraction, they encounter history, horrors, Easter eggs, and puzzling workplaces.Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps HorrorLand #5: Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz, which achieves the distinction of being the worst book they've read for the podcast (so far). Along the way, they discuss questionable fashion choices, Ice Capades, unhinged male villains, veggie burgers and nachos, bizarre catchphrases, the blending of the main story with the HorrorLand plot, the Gingerbread Man, imaginary family members and missing children, disturbingly elaborate revenge plots, and R.L. Stine's death rolodex. Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps HorrorLand #4: The Scream of the Haunted Mask. As they reacquaint themselves with Carly Beth Caldwell, they discuss  trauma, bad friends, lopsided grins, scary horse things, ghost animals, obscure historical attractions, and the mysterious shopkeeper's motives.Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

In this bonus episode, Andy and Alyssa revisit their old game, RLS vs LMN -- with a twist. This time, Andy must guess whether a plot summary was written by R.L. Stine, the Lifetime Movie Network, or Chat GPT. Play along and let us know how you did!Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps HorrorLand #3: Monster Blood for Breakfast! Along the way, they discuss  cool kids, science versus sci-fi, food issues, confusing size logistics, wild science fair projects, steroids, and the horrors of the Internet.Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps HorrorLand #2: Creep from the Deep. As they reacquaint themselves with Billy and Sheena Deep, they discuss submersibles, pirates, the undead, folktales, body and face horror, bad childcare, and more. Spoiler alert:not a single frickin' mermaid to be found! Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

Andy and Alyssa are back! They kick off the new season with Goosebumps HorrorLand #1: Revenge of the Living Dummy. Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

At long last, Andy and Alyssa wrap up Series 2000 with the final installment: Ghost in the Mirror. Along the way, they discuss  interior design hot takes, monster twists, friendship reversals, scary furniture, splatterpunk, and more. Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

This month, Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #24: Earth Geeks Must Go! As they discuss the penultimate book in Series 2000, they consider aliens, bugs, animal intelligence, bad assignments, baffling world building, body horror, and more. Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

In their first episode of 2023, Andy and Alyssa discuss Goosebumps Series 2000 #23, Slappy's Nightmare. Along the way they discuss curses, stand-up horror, the nature of good deeds, doubles, multiple POVs, and a twist on the usual Slappy narrative. Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Winter is upon us, so let's revisit some seasonal horror! Andy and Alyssa take a detour into the Fear Street series with Ski Weekend (1991). They discuss a notable lack of skiing, gender troubles, balaclavas, elaborate schemes, terrible driving, Tom Bombadil, ravines, unclear warnings, Vertigo (1958), bullet eating, lodge horror, snowed-in horror, Slasher: Guilty Party (Season 2, 2016), The Hateful Eight (2015), The Lodge (2019), imposter horror, Edgar Allan Poe, Estranged (2015), Piglet, hospitality horror, The Odyssey, The Tempest, patsies, H.P. Lovecraft's "The Picture in the House" (1920), rural horror, medical forensics, the Candy Man Killer (Dean Corll), and men with notable hair.  Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

In honor of the new Netflix series, we're re-releasing our episode about Christopher Pike's The Midnight Club.In this episode,  Andy and Alyssa venture into their first non-Stine book: Christopher "Kevin" Pike's The Midnight Club (1994). They discuss conversation ventures into chain letters, Starvation Heights, Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 1353), deals with the devil, Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology (1915), messages from beyond the grave, alternative medicine, mall bookstores, Buddhism,, Stephen King's Carrie (1974), orientalism, 90s AIDS narratives, memento mori, Six Feet Under (2001-05), 1,001 Nights, Bedazzled (1967, 2000), Beatrice Sparks's Go Ask Alice (1971), Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho (1991), Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums (1958), Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911), the X-Files episode "All Things" (2000), racial cross-dressing fantasies, sick lit, John Green's The Fault in Our Stars (2012), Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005), Goethe's Faust (1790), supernatural love stories, Cat People (1942, 1982), The Mummy (1932, 1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), Candyman (1992), William Peter Blatt's The Exorcist (1971), Personal Shopper (2016), Gabrielle Moss's Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of 80s and 90s Teen Fiction (2018), Poland, and Ladybug House hospice for children and young adults. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com   Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

This week, Andy and Alyssa discuss Goosebumps Series 2000 #22: Full Moon Fever. Along they way, they talk  monster prejudice, Halloween rampaging, aphorisms, Deliverance, Dr. Satan, frickin' mermaids, scary old men, The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, sideshows, The Phantom of the Opera, lunacy and moon pseudoscience, family dinner and messed up hungers, imaginary friends, caged animals, curses, tainted candy, Tom Petty, and ethically-sourced curses. Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

 Andy and Alyssa talk with Alan Doucette, prop master for every episode of the Goosebumps TV series! As Alan takes them behind the Goosescenes, they discuss Adam West and other childhood heroes, the multitasking life of a prop masters, starting fires, angering snakes, tarantula fangs, how to get orange pumpkins in winter, Animorphs, Witchblade, Canadian film and television, and the importance of secure working conditions for making art. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com 

On this Guestpunk episode, Andy and Alyssa talk with Alex of the Gattsy on Goosebumps podcast  about the TV adaptation of Calling all Creeps. The message is media rare. You can find Gattsy on Goosebumps on any podcast platform, and you can follow Gattsy on Goosebumps at @goosebumps.podcast on Instagram and follow Alex on Twitter and Instagram at @latterature_ .  

At long last, Andy and Alyssa return to Goosebumps Series 2000 with #21: The Haunted Car. Along the way, they discuss  Home Improvement, cars, Jocelyn from Bob's Burgers, The Virgin Suicides, ghost missions, dangerous dads, The Conjuring, Dr. Death, faking expertise, Catch Me If You Can, evil sexy cars, Stephen King's Christine (of course), Titane, mystery girls, Zoje Stage's Wonderland, declaring oneself evil, Edgar Allan Poe, Hellraiser, complicating evil vs complicating villains, trapped kids, Marianne, The Ring, secret twins, The Prestige, homelessness, Candyman, The Vagrant, C.H.U.D., divine election vs. open world games, fetishes, and how cars relate to gender. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com   

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Give Yourself Goosebumps #8: The Curse of the Creeping Coffins. Along the way, they discuss art and science; Liz & Dick; desecrated graves; tile puzzles; seraphim; Elvira; Last Night in Soho; co-op living; real estate schemes; transing characters; the yellow pages; humane ghost trapping; The Most Dangerous Game; settler colonialism (again); visual aids; word games; Princess Di; Heaven's Gate; Roland Barthes; “The Puffy Shirt” episode of Seinfeld; Pet Sematary; El Orfanato/The Orphanage; Thirteen Ghosts; & serial killers' trophies. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  

This week, Andy and Alyssa get NSFW with arguably the best Give Yourself Goosebumps they've read to date, GYG #7: Under the Magician's Spell. Along the way, they discuss nonbinary representation; your local tv listings; Joan Crawford; fog machines; the Necronomicon; the crucifixion; a fanart request; fireballing; dolly jelly; regular tools; The Wizard of Oz; the FIsher-Price Deluxe Kick n' Play piano gym. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com 

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Give Yourself Goosebumps #6: Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter. Along the way, they discuss Ritter sport; childcare costs; Staying Out of the Basement; undercompensated academic labor; counting by fives; Persephone; Peppermint Patty; broken windows theory; George Washington and George Washington Carver; Officer Jenny; bovine growth hormones; Go Ask Alice; Jefferson Airplane; the circus; cotton candy; Midvale School for the Gifted; and Monster Blood 3.s. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com 

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Give Yourself Goosebumps #5: Night in Werewolf Woods. Along the way, they discuss their new relationship to the closet; 30 years of Goosebumps (shorturl.at/HIQ34); wolf dance parties; nerds; Robert “That F*ckin Guy” Frost; Shark Week; pewter figures; triskaidekaphobia; Warhammer; The Boy 2; howling; trailblazing; guano; psychedelic horror; and gendering characters. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com 

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #20: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. Along the way, they discuss anagrams; Arkham Horror; goths; Gertrude Stein;  RPGs; Mazes and Monsters; Stranger Things; Through the Looking Glass; chess piece gender; Choose or Die; Stay Alive; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; The Sand Kings; destroyed towns; The Avengers; If On A Winter's Night A Traveler; I, the Divine; starting over; withholding authors; 1,001 Nights; Romeo and Juliet; getting lost in a good book; Sophie's World; Space Jam; deadly vegetation; The Thing from Another World; Attack of the Triffids; and Jekel theory.  // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com 

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #19: Return to Ghost Camp. Along the way, they discuss gayness; the Snatch…er; viral encephalitis; muscles; Mark McGwire; Gertrude Stein; bee-fueled ghosts; Kitty Genovese; Camp Crystal Lake; West Milford, NJ; deranged set pieces; summer camp taxation codes; the Rapture; scary foxes; “The Gingerbread Man”; ghost camper math; swapped identities; It Takes Two; 13 Tzameti; untrustworthy women; Genesis; psychosexual thrillers; Body of Evidence; Body Heat; sacrifices; John Lyly's Gallathea; Willow; Jennifer's Body as folk horror; infestation horror; Pushing Daisies; HP Lovecraft's “The Rats in the Walls”; crossing rivers; dead faces in the water; the J.R.R. Tolkien poem “Mewlips”; hallucinations v. ghosts; bees; ghost camper math; and 1974.  // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com 

Andy and Alyssa continue their discussion of Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps (Special Edition #3) with "For the Birds," "Aliens in the Garden," and "The Thumbprint of Doom." Along the way, they discuss The Staircase; taxidermy; topiary; The Shining; Alice in Wonderland; Edward Scissorhands; speculative hedge maze history; creepy hotels; The Witches; Puppet Master; unasked-for help; Phantom of the Opera; Misery; One Hour Photo; trapped souls; The Little Mermaid; Dante's Inferno; Twilight Zone rip-offs; boomerang bullies; playing with human lives; Planet of the Apes; Battlestar Galactica; “The Invaders”; tv adaptations of short stories; Richard Matheson; The Twilight Man graphic novel; Horton Hears a Who; benevolent and malevolent overlords; The Lion King; colonial propaganda; girl crushes; superstitions; horoscopes; budding cult leaders; heists and counterschemes; Fingersmith; Saw; Hellraiser; OCD; Maria Bamford; As Good As It Gets; Fun Home; Elektra; R.L. Stine's Superstitious; Haxan; curses; Princess Mononoke; bird theory; and the carnival circuit in the Gooseverse..  // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com 

Andy and Alyssa continue their discussion of Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps (Special Edition #3) with "I'm Telling," "The Haunted House Game," "Change for the Strange," and "The Perfect School." Along the way, they discuss  art contests, King Midas, turning to stone, Patrick Skene Catling's The Chocolate Touch, gargoyles (the creatures, the TV series, and the made-for-TV movie), Ghostbusters, the locus terribilis,  games that play you, hellscapes, repetition compulsion, Shutter Island, not knowing you're dead, The Sixth Sense, Jumanji (1995), games as metaphors for trauma, ending at the beginning, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, Southbound,  diverging adolescent interests, the Rainforest Cafe, doping, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki's This One Summer, lesbians and small businesses, "The White Gown" from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, cursed fashions, Animorphs, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Angela Carter's The Tiger's Bride, safe stories, ominous retail experiences, Lord Dunsany's "The Bureau d'Echange de Maux," Harlan Ellison's "Shoppe Keeper," William F. Wu's "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium,"  rigid parents, Cold Spring Harbor, The Stepford Wives, 28 Days Later, Karl Capek's R.U.R., Millennium, reform school, Louis Sachar's Holes, Karen Joy Fowler's "The Pelican Bar," Brian Evenson's "A Report," and the panopticon.  // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com 

In the first of this three-part series covering Special Edition #3 - Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Andy and Alyssa read "The Chalk Closet" "Home Sweet Home," and "Don't Wake Mummy" Along the way, they discuss 17th-century recycling;  Natalie Sideserf; Dante's Inferno; time loops; Triangle; too-strict teachers; Roald Dahl; The Third Wave; The Next Karate Kid; disappearances; And Then There Were None; insufficient square footage; the Ed Gein of frogs; mommy issues; spider women; Coraline; Arachne; Curse of the Black Widow; disproportionate punishment; Scrooged; Kafka;Toy Story; McCarthyism; Deadly Garage Sale; small-town museums and weird personal collections; Bluebeard; “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”; Frankenstein; backfiring pranks; The Lodge; The Collector; No Child Left Behind; and mumia. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #18: Horrors of the Black Ring. Along they way, they discuss HR Giger's jewelry box; slow deaths; sociopathic joiners; Barbie rating scales; A Dangerous Son; unrequited love; Angel; Maria Bafmord; Shrill; corruption; possession; ruining school events; Never Been Kissed; Grease; Daria; cursed rings; passing on a curse; The Ring; Breaking Bad; Monkeybone; Problematic Teachers; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Hangsaman; Confessions; Matilda; Loving Annabelle; transitional objects; scary children; The Bad Seed; the tv show “The Baby”; The Outsider; symbolically significant art objects; Aleister Crowley; Horrors of the Black Museum; & the carnivalesque.. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #17: The Werewolf in the Living Room. Along they way, they discuss Fritz Haarmann; shark tooth necklaces; Mario jokes; werewolf teeth; bifurcated story form; The Bailey School Kids; human trafficking; merchandizing; raisin squares; Teddy Roosevelt; Sylvia Likens; the layered look; following someone who doesn't know what they're doing; Moby Dick; The Glass Castle; erratic parents; Russian Doll; Home Improvement; The Host; Squid Game; Homer Simpson; The People Under the Stairs; imprisonment horror; The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl in the Box; being repulsed by your own hunger; Raw; Uzumaki; dangerous woods; Antichrist; the difference between good movies and movies you like; the Pied Piper of Hamlin; bad sheriffs; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; the sheriff of Nottingham; Desperation; amulets; Pirates of the Caribbean; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; kidnapping; Mommy is a Murderer; Gold Fame Citrus; Big Daddy; Tucker and Dale v. Evil; Leviathan; Teen Wolf; The Lost World; surprise second monsters; Lake Placid; Scream; & eastern Europe in the Gooseverse. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #16: The Mummy Walks. Along they way, they discuss some first-rate #FoodWatch; hijacking; the basis of national economies; Jeep safety; snake wranglers; Shirley Jackson's “Paranoia”; the Black Mirror episode “White Bear”; Old Enough; Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; The Da Vinci Code; secret royalty; The Princess Diaries; middle eastern political conflict; Jesus Christ Superstar; upsetting Easter egg hunts; Left Behind; double-crossing dames; Get Out; 1984; James Bond; The Killers; Bound; Game of Thrones; the Necronomicon; Walter Benjamin; the repatriation of human remains; King Hezekiah; the oldest mummies; and yellow sapphires.=. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #15: Scream School. Along they way, they discuss new heights of GooseDaddy issues; circling around good storylines without entering them; Doug Jones; postmodern ennui; L.A. novels; Don DeLillo; Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence; awkward snakes; the new VW Bug; British colonial uniforms; #MeToo; Carly Beth's mom; Silver City, NV; the Donner party; the Chicago Bears; non sequiturs; Back to the Future III; Jason X; bad dads; The Stepfather; Frankenstein; Why Are Dads?; father-son team-ups; Frailty; Leatherface; the horrors of repression; cursed films; the X-Files episode, “Hollywood, A.D.”; Dead Set; The Phantom of the Opera; filming on location; Grave Encounters; Sinister; The Bunker Game; father-son rivalries; Jungle to Jungle; Man of the House; Getting Even with Dad; Hamlet; the word “agon”; revenge; The Craft; Oldboy; Vanished; manipulation; The Addams Family; The Best Friend; Hook; dynasties; Oedipus Rex; Saw; The Godfather; patriarchal torch-passing; the Gooseverse horror industry; Peeping Tom; psychological horror; ghost towns; ghouls; Poe's journalism; & the second Red Scare. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa return to the Fear Street series with R.L. Stine's controversial tome The Best Friend (1997). Along the way, they discuss My Cousin Rachel; man hands; Brian de Palma; memory lapses; mirroring; gendered exercise; Love is Blind; Guns n' Roses; hysteria; queer villains; Single White Female; Nella Larsen's Passing; All About Eve; hair twins; Basic Instinct; Dead Ringer; the penultimate season of The L Word; Mulholland Drive; Gothika; Dollhouse; figures from your sordid past; The Gift; bullies; Teju Cole's Open City; Street Fighter; The Yellow Wallpaper; Baby Teeth; Rosemary's Baby; The Stepford Wives; non-naturalistic dialogue; being hung up on your ex; My Best Friend's Wedding; Scott Pilgrim; Forgetting Sarah Marshall; parental disapproval; Romeo and Juliet; Pet Sematary; Twilight; Gilmore Girls; protagonists with two less hot friends; Nancy Drew; unclear motives; Leatherface; Ils; House of 1000 Corpses; nominal destiny; and Christmas stories. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #14: Jekyll and Heidi. Along they way, they discuss grief; Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast; billboards in Vermont; 411; class tensions; fiction v. nonfiction; Gothic tropes; ski sweaters; the  Foundation; Heidi; exposition; IT: Chapter 2; Spiral; Shamela; orphans sent to live with mysterious relatives; A Series of Unfortunate Events; The Secret Garden; New England Horror; Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Hangsaman; Wolf; Bless the Child; The Spiral Staircase; “The Whisperer in Darkness”; torch-bearing mobs; Frankenstein; queer coding; Phantom of the Opera; Fritz Lang's M; deviancy narratives and marginalization; Vermont's history of sheep farming and industrial decline; unresolved endings; Halloween; No Country for Old Men; Certain Dark Things; Cube; mad scientist labs; Plague Dogs; The Island of Dr. Moreau; Herbert West: Reanimator; “Cool Air”; The House; going back for something; The Amityville Horror; The Matrix; cursed family members; Pet Sematary; The X-Files episode “The Post-Modern Prometheus”; Firestarter; disability; Of Mice and Men; the Gooseverse timeline; North American v. European werewolves; scientific research funding; and the year 1999. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #13: Return to HorrorLand. Along they way, they discuss Tom  ; meta horror; Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit; mini Super 8 cameras; Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education/La mala educación; computerized puppets, or robots; complex machines; avant-garde signage; sadism; Prometheus; Videodrome; COPS; the monorail; sports; commercialization; The Blair Witch Project 2; Scream 2; Wes Craven's New Nightmare; Human Centipede 2; paranormal investigators in love; Mulder and Scully; Ed and Lorraine Warren; Ghost Hunters; One Step Beyond; Sightings; Linda Moulton Howe; Ghost Adventures; dental horror; The Dentist; Little Shop of Horrors; Would You Rather; A Cure for Wellness; bird horror; The Omen 2; “When California Went to War over Eggs” by Jessica Gingrich for Smithsonian Magazine; Behind the Bastards; becoming animal food; Clash of the Titans; Austin Powers; extreme haunts; The Houses October Built; Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked this Way Comes; Michael Fedo's “The Carnival”; Return to Oz; The Lost World; obscure Hanna-Barbera cartoons; satyrs; & the nature of hell. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #12: Brain Juice. Along the way, they discuss alien orthography; New Jersey's South Mountain Reservation; theatricality; the smart kid bullies of New Jersey; Surgeon Simulator; cow tools; exposing the ignorance of the faculty; norming and intelligence; Shel Silverstein; hiding your drug use; A Body to Die For: The Aaron Henry Story; Terry Bisson's “They're Made Out of Meat”; “Citizen Kang” from Treehouse of Horror VII; The Twilight Zone's “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” and “To Serve Man”; Herodotus; shifting POVs; Pulp Fiction; Casino; Rashomon; The Handmaiden; Flowers for Algernon; Lawnmower Man; Nebuchadnezzar; Gifted; Atlas Shrugged; “My Fair Gretchen” from Recess; (power) hungry aliens; War of the Worlds; Little Shop of Horrors; Flash Gordon; Fantastic Planet; Octavia Butler's Bloodchild; lying to pump someone up; The Matrix; IT: Ch. 2; Election; the old drink switcharoo; The Princess Bride; supplements; & scary smarts. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #11: Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls. Along the way, they discuss Pickle Rick; personal essays; literal field trips; metamorphosis; the danse macabre;  Torrey Peters's Detransition, Baby; gravestone curses; Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl; the Manson family; coded trans stories; gender euphoria; dangerous pranks; Prom Night 2: Hello Mary Lou; Ron Oliver; The Burning; body hopping; “The Who of You” from Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone; Mexican Gothic; Being John Malkovich; Hereditary; Possessor; All of Me; pyro children; Not Our Son; Point of Origin; Insta Psycho; killer partners; Natural Born Killers; Bonnie and Clyde; In Cold Blood; Roma; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; John Dryden's Annus Mirabilis; “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn”; ax murders; The Shining; American Psycho; Misery; Clive Barker's “Dread”; Gimli from The Lord of the Rings; the haunting past; The Amityville Horror; Nightmare on Elm Street; ghosts v. ghouls; dance; Martha Graham (not Marcia Clark); the MacDonald triad; Melanie Klein; capital punishment; and The Great Elm. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

In this episode, Andy and Alyssa finish their discussion of Special Edition #2 - More Tales to Give You Goosebumps with stories 8-10: “Shell Shocker,” “Poison Ivy,” and “The Spirit of the Harvest Moon.” Along the way, they discuss science fair strategies; the Australian trumpet; yonic imagery; Michigan J. Frog; Wonderfalls; piles of bones; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; Graveyard Shift; “Ali Baba Bunny”; Jennifer's Body; catfishing; Hard Candy; Tall Hot Blonde; the etymology of Wilbur; preps; AXE body spray; Little Shop of Horrors; Little Joe; Doctor Horror's House of Terrors; Magritte; the evolution of plant horror; Atoms for Peace; Signs; Pretty in Pink; DDT; The Simpsons episode “Bart the Mother”; “There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly”; suspicious golden retrievers; body-jumping; Peter Straub's Ghost Story; John Donne's Metempsychosis; the Wendigo; Thomas Pynchon's “Mortality and Mercy in Vienna”; I Heard the Owl Call My Name; Me Tie Dough-ty Walker; cold weather horror; the Yuki-onna; Kwaidan; “The Blizzard” from Kurosawa's Dreams; hospitality; Stingy Jack; the Flying Dutchman; Tom o' Bedlam; Deep Trouble connections; summer horror; & R.L. Stine's Tara problem. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

On this minisode, Andy reads from Give Yourself Goosebumps #4: The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek, while Alyssa chooses her own adventure. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa continue their discussion of More Tales to Give You Goosebumps - Special Edition #2. They read "You Gotta Believe Me!," "Suckers!," "Dr. Horror's House of Video," and "The Cat's Tale." Along the way, they discuss the Emperor of San Francisco, the dangers of television, Rent-A-Pal, cornfields, The Twilight Zone's "It's a Good Life," The Strange News Out of Hartfordshire, idle hands, crafting for survival, 10 Cloverfield Lane, summer people vs. townies, Shirley Jackson's "The Summer People" (and Kelly Link's story of the same name), creepy things on beaches, "Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched," M.R. James's "Oh Whistle, And I'll Come to You, My Lad," unexpected treasure, Citizen Kane, candy-craving creatures, and "Sweet Tooth" from Tales of Halloween, indoor children, suspicious doctorates, snuff films, The Blair Witch Project, sinister art, Stephen Graham Jones's "Night of the Mannequins," horrifying horror artists, Shadow of the Vampire, liking horror too much, things you can't get rid of, Kealan Patrick Burke's Sour Candy, parenting horror, Eraserhead, Sylvia and Aurelia Plath, moving away from the big city, cats who suffocate, The Uncanny, and myths about black cats. Alyssa has a brain fart and Andy takes a victory lap. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

In the first of this three-part series covering Special Edition #2 - More Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Andy and Alyssa read "The Werewolf's First Night" "P.S., Don't Write Back," and "Something Fishy." Along the way, they discuss marshmallows on hamburgers; Rocky Horror Picture Show; The Matrix: Resurrections; Through the Looking Glass; secretive parents; The Wasp Factory; nonsensical endings; becoming animal; “The Guests” from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark; The Lake House; Kate and Leopold; “Feasibility Study” from The Outer Limits; My Cousin Rachel; family abandonment; A.I.; divorce plots; personality traits; psychedelic horror; The Prisoner; Pink Floyd's The Wall; goldfish horror; Shibuya Goldfish; The Sword in the Stone; the Twilight Zone episode “Midnight Sun”; Hell; extreme environments; Oedipus Rex; universal theories of werewolves; mischief elves; July 1964; and betta fish. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa play a game of LMN vs. RLS: Alyssa reads a plot description, and Andy has to guess whether it's from the Lifetime Movie Network or R.L. Stine. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #10: Headless Halloween. Along the way, they discuss going headless; sadism; My Cousin Vinny; Dr. Bunsen Honeydew; low-budget raves; anagrams; A Clockwork Orange; audience complicity; Job's suffering; Hostel; the Saw franchise; sinister parties; Eyes Wide Shut; le Théâtre des Vampires; Blade; falling to a rocky death; Trick ‘r Treat; “57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides,” by Sam J. Miller; sentient houses; The Amityville Horror; The Shining; not knowing you're dead; The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons; “The Shunned House” by H.P. Lovecraft; atonement horror; A Christmas Carol; Slasher; the Dante's Inferno video game; “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O'Connor; It's a Wonderful Life; Happy Death Day; The Lovely Bones; The Headless Horseman; Tales from the Crypt; Beetlejuice; Goodnight, Mommy; Jacob's Ladder; The Sixth Sense; interdimensional travel; Dear Millie; Spirited Away; Halloween Town from Nightmare Before Christmas; amoral endings; Burn After Reading; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; The Devil's Advocate; child death in the Gooseverse; and undead houses. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #9: Are You Terrified Yet? Along the way, they discuss Battleship Potemkin, the meaning of bravery, crushing, strange bets, Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority, changing schools, There's Something Inside Your House, runaway babies, The Witches, Louise Erdrich's "I'm a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy," being caught up in someone else's bet, the Rocky movies,The Phantom Menace, faking scares, Extremity, the big giant head, Imposter Syndrome, Galaxy Quest, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Ken Liu's "The Litigation Master and the Monkey King," heroism, maintaining your reputation on the middle school junk heap, the relationship between reality TV and torture porn, "The Girl Who Stood on a Grave," Truth or Dare, funeral home horror, Six Feet Under, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, the importance of communication, Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace," haunted masks, the significance of B-movies, meet cutes, genre, and Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #8: Fright Camp. They discuss The Art of Goosebumps; cinema verité; McKamey Manor; sailing sunfish; meeting your maker; Basic Instinct; Marianne; The Amber Spyglass; unethical artists; In the Earth; The Haunting of Hill House; Scream 3; sadism; Funny Games; Haunt; real-life horror; Peeping Tom; No Escape; “The Hauntening”; A Serbian Film; candid cameras; The Jinx; imprisonment horror; V for Vendetta; Das Experiment; Shawshank Redemption; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Bedlam asylum; The Duchess of Malfi; The Changeling; The Honest Whore, Part 1; surveillance horror; Vacancy; Caché; The Poughkeepsie Tapes; shoe loss; Big Fish; The Wizard of Oz; the interconnections of the Gooseverse cinema and summer camps scenes; when horror becomes comedy; Willy's Wonderland; & the ultimate hollowness at the core of what we love. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

On this minisode, we read Goosepunk messages and discuss R.L. Stine's take on classical literature and what we love about Melbourne. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #7: Revenge R Us. They discuss abusive relationships, #JusticeForTara, frosted tips, classism and xenophobia, Karens, store-bought cake, small businesses, whether birds can have twins, hair horror, The Way Down, Dragula Season 4, xenophobia, Drag Me to Hell, The X-Files, urbanoia, sibling abuse, We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Addams Family, revenge reversals, Happy Death Day, Oldboy, incompetent coworkers, Nine to Five, Work in Progress, Awkward Black Girl, small business horror, Open 24 Hours, The Convenience Store, familiars, confusion over who's in control, Macbeth, The Witch of Edmonton, crows, paying the price for not paying, Frozen, Jurassic Park, The Box, wishes gone wrong, The Advent Calendar, magic users, industrial disasters, more Jeffers connections, the continuing adventures of Sarabeth, the role of marketing in stories, and Etsy. And remember, Goosepunks -- birds: they're closer than you think. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #6: I Am Your Evil Twin. They discuss Mortonville, PA; donut hacks; infernal architecture; mack trucks; screensavers;  THE FUTURE OF CLONING; The Full Monty; old college roommates; experimental prose; Hugo Simpson; The Parent Trap; It Takes Two; Luke and Leia; Blood Rage; Dead Ringer and Dead Ringers; Eve 6; The Boys from Brazil; The Sixth Day; Primer; Us; Moon; Multiplicity; usurpation; Bee Gary; The Hand that Rocks the Cradle; Face/Off; being wrongfully accused; Cam; Basic Instinct; The Thing; Doppelganger; The Net; being set up; Double Jeopardy; Mother; medical horror; The Human Centipede; Eyes Without a Face; The Skin I Live In; The Dentist; Dr. Giggles; Stalked by my Doctor; The Pop-Up Book of Phobias; hazing; Pledge; Raw; Sisters of Death; The Initiation; The Initiation of Sarah; family secrets; Stoker; the New Yorker article “How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer”; Evan Seymour Ross; Gooseverse flirting; South America; incest; Dolly the sheep; the podcast Bad Batch; Handel's Messiah; & the Twilight Zone movie. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa conclude their three-part series on Tales to Give You Goosebumps #1 with a discussion of "Click," "Broken Dolls," and "A Vampire in the Neighborhood." In their discussion of "Click," they talk about laser discs, capitalist boredom, ironic wish fulfillment, time-controlling devices, the "Time Out" episode of Creepshow, Charmed, the "A Kind of Stopwatch" and "Time Enough at Last" episodes of The Twilight Zone, Troll 2, limbo, "Black Mirror, White Christmas," warping the fabric of reality, Timecrimes, alternate endings to The Butterfly Effect, magic/evil technology, and Countdown. In "Broken Dolls," they discuss fashion sense, craft fairs, Curse of Chucky, carnies, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, being transformed into a doll, Coraline, Child's Play, healing a sick family member, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, AI, The Dark Tower, the fear of child trafficking, the Pied Piper, changeling stories, the Satanic Panic, milk carton kids, The Deep End of the Ocean, I Know My First Name is Steven, sinister artisanal goods, Annabelle: Creation, and Goop. And with "A Vampire in the Neighborhood," they discuss the first person plural, butter burgers, vampire packs, Carmilla, stalkers, The Strangers, monster protagonists, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, bullies, The Hole, Dead Girl, strange new kids at school, shunning outsiders, Let the Right One In, frame tales, folk horror, emancipated children, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

On this minisode, Alyssa reads from Give Yourself Goosebumps #3: Trapped in Bat Wing Hall, while Andy chooses their own adventure. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa continue their three-part series covering Tales to Give You Goosebumps #1, covering "Strangers in the Woods," "Good Friends," "How I Got My Bat," and "Mr. Bear." In their discussion of "Strangers in the Woods," they talk about peanut butter fudgies; why directors wear baseball caps; Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog; erratic caregivers; The Lodge; The Visit; the woods; Dante's Inferno; Twin Peaks; swamp gas; Scream 3; Peeping Tom; tentacles; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; well-meaning monsters; Monsters, Inc.; & Where the Wild Things Are. With "Good Friends," they discuss oak trees; Axel Foley; escapist delusions; Pan's Labyrinth; imaginary friends; Z; Donnie Darko; lonely boys; Murder by Numbers; age-inappropriate behavior; Logan; Marrowbone; Big; & Girl, Interrupted. With "How I Got My Bat," they talk about power hitters; stolen futures; Chekov's gun; seeking male approval; House of Wax; The Lion, The Witch, & the Wardrobe; the Creepshow short “Skeletons in the Closet”; the “Black Museum” episode of Black Mirror; Orpheus; bad bargains; Bedazzled; Needful Things; “too good to be true” scenarios; Little Shop of Horrors; sports horror; Battlefield Baseball; The Catcher; Clive Barker's “Hell's Event”; Ahockalypse; Dying to be a Cheerleader & other Lifetime cheerleader thrillers. And in "Mr. Teddy," they talk collectors; porcelain eggs; possessive possessions; Child's Play; Dolls; the “Living Doll” episode of The Twilight Zone; Demonic Toys; Toys of Terror; Funzo; Toy Story; property damage horror; & Poltergeist. They wrap up with a conversation about media conspiracies; Gooseverse technologies; codependency; & hallucinogens. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

In the first of this three-part series covering Tales to Give You Goosebumps #1, Andy and Alyssa read "The House of No Return," "Teacher's Pet," and "Strained Peas." In their discussion of "The House of No Return," they talk about the first person plural, Jeffrey Eugenides's "The Virgin Suicides" (1993), Edwin Arlington Robinson's "The House on the Hill" (1869), the pathetic fallacy, Halloween costume choices, Shirley Jackson and small town horror, Freddy Krueger, wiliness, Hocus Pocus (1993), fairy tales, tradesies, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, things ostensibly for your own good, the Saw and Purge franchises, Alice Miller's "For Your Own Good" (1980), old possessive ghosts, the "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" episode of The X-Files (1998), La Llorona, trauma bonding and cults, spend-the-night dares, The House on Haunted Hill (1959 and 1999), Cassandra Khaw's "Nothing But Blackened Teeth" (2021), Stephen King's 1408 (story 1999, film 2007), Nash and Zullo's "Totally Haunted Kids" (1994), and H.G. Wells's "The Red Room" (1894). With "Teacher's Pet," they discuss dumb gender lessons, rhinestones, snake education vs Andy's education, fears about eco-terrorism, the "Darkness Falls" and "Die Hand die verletzt" episodes of The X-Files (1994 and 95), Lawrence Pazder and Michelle Smith's "Michelle Remembers" (1980), animal liberation gone wrong, 28 Days Later (2002), 12 Monkeys (1995), Dracula's Renfield, The Omen (1976), ssssssssnakessssssss, Anaconda (1997) and other snake movies, snake people, Medusa, seitan, research and me-search, the "Shy Girl" episode of Masters of Horror (2006), The Fly (1986), Swamp Thing (1982), unresolved endings, Black Christmas (1974), The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), Oculus (2013), and why R.L. Stine likes to leave us with a final scare. And in "Strained Peas," they talk about Dr. Destro, conflating morals and feelings, racial coding, scary babies, We Need to Talk About Kevin (novel 2003, film 2011), The Exorcist (novel 1971, film 1973), Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), The Brood (1979), Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" (1985), The Baby (1973), being replaced by a new child, Addams Family Values (1993), The Good Son (1993), The Orphan (2009), sibling rivalry, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Dead Ringers (1988), Psycho Yoga Instructor (2020), stalkers in your home, The Grudge (2004), secret baby switches, The Changeling (1980), and Big Business (1988). They wrap up talking about short story collections, Edenic parables, and the diamondback rattler. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa play a classic field trip bus ride game, with a Goosebumps twist. Andy learns that they completely missed the point of this particular activity as a kid. Alyssa wants to get ripped for Vanessa. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com 

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #5: Invasion of the Body Squeezers, Part 2. They discuss exoskeletons; screen doors; AIDS panic; pillow fights; the LAPD; communal swimsuits; locker rooms; Elder Things; mind-body dualism; foreign invasion; Train to Busan (2016); aliens with attachment issues; The Puppet Masters (1994); xenomorphs; alien communication; Contact; Ted Chiang's “Story of Your Life” (1998); Stansław Lem's His Master's Voice (1968); being an informant; The Informer (2019); The Lives of Others (2006); mastermind fake-outs; Being John Malkovich (1999); Tommyknockers (1987); The Faculty (1998); Slither (2006); stranger danger; M; The Strange Ones (1950s); Get Street Smart: A Kid's Guide to Strange Dangers (1995); Doctor Sleep (2013); primal scenes; The Children's Hour (1961); Bob Balaban; Parents (1989); Society (1989); fetishes; conformity horror; Louis Althusser's “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (1970); Pleasantville (1998); The Stepford Wives (1972); The Lonely Crowd (1950); Cindy Hendershot's I Was a Cold War Monster: Horror Films, Eroticism, and the Cold War Imagination (2001); Robocop (1987); The Amazing Colossal Man (1957); Kindergarten Cop (1990); the official Goosepunk holiday greeting; STI metaphors; It Follows (2014); Contracted (2013); fatal flaws; A New Hope (1977); Game of Thrones (2011-19); human suits; Silence of the Lambs (1991); The Thing (1982); The Witches (1990); The Terminator (1984); alien species taxonomies and reproduction methods; and Italo Calvino. . // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com