Scream Service

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They're quuueeeeeer. Hey y'all, happy late Pride! We are here with Eric, a camp connoisseur, to discuss the relationship between camp, queerness, and horror. We also delve into queer representation in horror history. Yes, it's a long one, but class is in session and we're here to teach! Join us as we discuss the royalty of John Waters, the controversy of Sleepaway Camp, the hunkiness of Brad Majors in fishnets, the baby gayness of Eleanor Vance, and everything in between! 

It's book club time! Join the Scream Service gang as we talk about the epic, 1900's revenge tale Gilded Needles by Beetlejuice's Michael McDowell. We cast our dream movie of this film, talk about dirty New York, and pray for lesbians. Enjoy!

Wow, we are sorry for the hiatus. But thanks to Sound Guy Pete, we're back in business baby! And what a better time to rededicate yourself to Scream Service than our Cults Episode release?! Featuring one of our fav ghoul friends, Lucia, we delve deep and baby, I mean deep, into the world of cults. Forewarning, I'm the asshole atheist your youth group warns you about, so it gets dicey boys! Listen to the end of the episode for a word from our sponsor AND your own cult favorites submitted by listeners and lurkers just like you!

In this episode, we cover THE fiction book about anthropomorphic witch hats: Maynard's House by Herman Raucher. Join us as we cover this vintage slow burn that covers everything from haunted trees to inappropriate relationships with high school students. 

Join us and special guest, Jessica Sanchez from Skewed Press as we discuss all things amateur cinematography. Visualize this episode in the most cozy, grainy, night-lit atmosphere and reminiscence with us when good horror was cheap. 

Podcasts, unite! Join us with our special guests, Colin and Shane from the Hamilton Horror Podcast as we discuss six horror shorts that made us cringe, jump, and say, "da fuq?" We discuss the small but scary stories of The Curve, The Hug, Lights Out, Mama, Hidden Mother and What Happened to Crow 64?

Join our book club as we discuss Ania Ahlborn's Brother, a treasure trove of filth and feelings. Listen to our discussion about all that can go wrong in backwoods Appalachia and how The Cure fits in with a Texas Chainsaw Massacre -kind of family dynamic. Trigger warning: this episode contains discussions about incest, sexual assault, necrophilia, and more. It also contains the backdoor pilot to Nick and Shane's Joe Dirt podcast.

Wow, someone convinced Jenna Junior to watch anime and she surprisingly enjoyed it! That someone is our guest, Livia, who gives us an exhilarating, in-depth analysis of 1997's animated psycho-thriller Perfect Blue. Join us as we talk homicidal pizza men, creepy parking garages, and the twisty complications that come with the price of identity and fame.

We continue with our series of reading shitty horror paperbacks and the novelization of Poltergeist II fits in perfectly. Join Jenna and Johnny Junior as they talk about fridge poetry spirituality, Insane Butt Syndrome, demon tequila worms, and a saga featuring E. Buzz and Air Bud.

Join us as we discuss the popular short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties. We cover childhood urban legends, Girl Scout camp trauma, the mundane plot lines of Law and Order: SVU and write a poem together based on Machado's work. Special thanks to guests Nick and Shane for coming to a queer, feminist horror book club meeting and knocking it out of the park.

In this episode, we are joined by our friend Nick, a real life park ranger. We discuss creatures that have a bad reputation like spiders and snakes, the possibility of an Oklahoma Bigfoot, local lake monsters, and urban legends rooted in Oklahoma's rough past.

As we end the year from Hell, it's time to reflect on what gave us actually enjoyable scares this year. Join us as we go over the best movies, books, and podcasts Jenna Junior discovered in all that damn free time she had. Thank you to our listeners for making this fiendish year a lot more fun than it should've been!

In the spirit of television show holiday specials, Scream Service has brought together a cast of creepy characters to spend your holiday with. Join us as we get a visit from a traveler, a killer, and an iconic holiday figure, all discussing the holiday's best (and worst) horror films such as Silent Night, Deadly Night, Black Christmas (2019), Better Watch Out, Krampus, Black Christmas (1974), Rare Exports, and Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas. We hope your holiday is full of merry and fright and we wish you a very scary Christmas!

In our book category for listener picks, Nick and I go over his choice/my least favorite book of the year, 14 by Peter Clines. Join us as I hurt Nick's feelings by doubting his taste as well as discuss the misguided hot take of "never showing the monster" and how Stephen King is probably just salty about The Shining.

Grab a cup of cocoa and join our bookclub discussion of Paul Tremblay's hit novel Head Full of Ghosts! Also included in this episode is a hidden drinking game every time a dog barks, so maybe spike that cocoa...

Yoinks! We got ourselves a mystery! This winter, we're investigating the bizarre death of a group of Russian hikers. Is it a bear? Is it a killer? Is it a UFO? We have no idea, but we sure had fun talking about it. Thank you to our listener Sara for this Russian puzzle as curious as Rasputin himself.

For our second listener's pick, we go goth. Join us as we discuss Universal's Dracula's Daughter with Hayden and Mark. It's got everything you want in a vampire flick: dangerous aeronautics, emo butlers, and lesbians! We also briefly go over Kier-La Janisse's book, House of Psychotic Women which references this film.

For the start of our listener picks month, we decided to take a very seasonal suggestion and watch 2008's schlocky holiday slasher, Thankskilling. Spoiler alert: we fucking hated it. Listen to Jenna Junior progressively get angrier watching a racist turkey cause havoc to potential Trump supporters in this quick little episode of rage. Sorry to listener James who suggested it: we still like you! Just not this movie.

Happy Halloween, boils and ghouls and nonbinscaries! Not only is today the most magical day of the year, but it's also our anniversary! Instead of you buying us diamonds, we thought we'd gift you with a gem of an episode. Gather round the campfire with a pumpkin beer, an apple cider, a vial of blood, and listen to former guests come on and share their scares. We love you all and are so honored to have you as our listeners! May your night be scary, your year be merry, and your werewolves be extra hairy.

Join us as we drink brandy and gather round the fire to discuss Jenna Junior's favorite book: The Haunting of Hill House. What starts out as an in-depth analysis among literature lovers devolves into madness where Guy Fieri works in a haunted mansion. This episode of Scream Service is not sane, and whatever is in the podcast walks alone...

Weeee'reeee druuuuuunk. That's right, it's another drinking game episode. We consulted the spirits to give us alcoholic advice as we cover one of the most beloved and chaotic supernatural series: POLTERGEIST. Join Jenna Junior and the best butt owner alive, Johnny Junior, as we get increasingly inebriated talking about tequila worm monsters, mean ass aunts, the questionable choice of naming a character Tangina and MORE.

Join our monthly bookclub discuss all the mindfucks that are in I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid. We cover creepy paintings, excessive desserts, and how audiobooks sometimes make us want to shit our pants.

In this episode, we're talking to Lucia Peraza, Patreon designer and ghost experiencer. We talk about haunted thrift stores, where a vvitch would grow up, how Toy Story ruined everyone's life, and why the fuck is Raggedy Ann described so cruelly as "raggedy?"

The Autumn People (Jenna, Hayden and Mark) are back! This time they're tackling the most well known name in horror: Stephen King. Since his books could easily be used as doorjambs or weapons, we've stuck to three short stories: "Gray Matter," "The Jaunt," and "One for the Road." Join us as we daydream about being beer guzzling old men in Maine and discuss some of the most frightening works there is in short fiction.

Jenna has recruited leading Nic Cage expert Lacee to discuss the heavy metal acid trip film phenomena that is MANDY. Join us as we discuss a portal to hell that is never acknowledged, cult leaders that we relate to a little too much, chainsaws that seem to be saying something phallic, and how Nic Cage deserves his chance to be on Pirates of the Caribbean.

It's a book club, y'all! Jenna Junior is joined by a host of frightfully fun readers: Shane of Hamilton Horror Podcast, Karen of Joyland Books, and Alicia, our resident book club witch! We dive into one of the most unique and twisted haunted house novels, The House Next Door. Listen as we recount all of its horrifying wonders: spooky gay sex, a house that gaslights you, and a shitty Christmas party!

Our favorite butt in the universe is back and talking new releases! In this episode, Johnny and Jenna discuss the 2020 releases of The Relic, The Amulet and The Vast of Night. What do these movies all have in common? Well, Johnny picked them and they're new and that's about it! Join us as we talk about how to best handle the fact that old people are scary, how a butthole can have a baby, and how Johnny's been alive for over sixty years! With a guest appearance from Roger, the talking cat, and wine!

Join Jenna, Hayden, and Mark (who can't read) in this tribute to one of America's greatest storytellers on his sexy centennial birthday! Originally created for the possible future podcast, The Autumn People, we three readers go over three of Bradbury's most famous short stories: The Lake, The Veldt, and The Foghorn. We also talk about goddamn Greenland sharks again, wonder if the ghost of Jenna's dead dad is a cartoon chicken, and talk about lions who wanna play house with a coupla of creepy kids.

Join Jenna Junior and fellow horror enthusiast Cyterica as they discuss one of the last horror movies you could've seen in theaters in 2020! Be warned that if you have not yet seen the film Invisible Man, this episode contains spoilers aplenty! It also contains crying waiters, a shared family ghost story, a pet psychic, and the realization that we're now sensitive little babies!

Best friends Allie and Jenna Junior went on a detailed journey to cover America's Haunted House. Together, they read the original, marching-band infested hit novel The Amityville Horror. They also subjected themselves to watch its first film adaptation in all its fly-covered glory. Then, they finished their trilogy off with the documentary, if that word can be used to accurately describe such a bizarre cinematic experience, My Amityville Horror. There's demon pigs, haunted hot dogs, a vagina candle seance and more in our fifteenth episode and we hope that listening to it doesn't give you ghostly diarrhea. Note: We have an audio glitch in our end theme music. No clue what's happened in there, but the logical answer is probably ghosts.

It's summer camp time, and you know what that means: time to stand around the campfire and talk about some of the campiest vampire movies of all time. In this episode, we're joined by premium butt-owner, Johnny Gabriel, as we discuss deliciously fun and sometimes very outdated movies like Blacula, Once Bitten, Vampire's Kiss, My Best Friend's a Vampire, and The Hunger. Why is this episode so long? Consider it a gift. But also--this episode is a drinking game. Listen as your hosts progressively get tipsier with every blood-colored shot, where topics like popcorn, toilet paper, and podcast theme songs get slightly out of hand! Post Show Note: I keep saying "Black Noire" instead of "Horror Noire," and that makes no sense because that just means "Black black." So please excuse my mistake! We do not encourage anyone to drink under the legal age!

This unlucky thirteenth episode is meant to be played with your crush at a sleepover, when a storm's brewing and you can't help but notice the weird house next door. Within these short haunted minutes lies a true and bizarre tale of hypnotism, occult rituals, and hypothesized lesbians. We also go over more details for our book club raffle to benefit G.L.I.T.S. and discuss how true crime fans should be supporting The Innocence Project. Stay safe, stay inside, stay vigilant, and stay creepy.

First and foremost, we want to let our listeners know that we support Black Lives Matter. Check out our Instagram page (screamservicepodcast) to see our working collection of black horror resources as well as to participate in our raffles that donate to multiple black-led causes. This episode features long time Internet friend and horror author, Hayden Gilbert, who also loves cryptids as much as Jenna. We talk about David Lynch, Jason Statham, Bigfoot being an alright guy, the Loch Ness Monster, giant sharks and what would've happened if Jenna went on a date with a friend of Sasquatch. We hope we made you laugh during this giant stressful-ass time in history.

Featuring special guests--book club champions Nick Bagley and Alicia Torres! (A special thank you to Nick who worked as our sound engineer partially for this episode). Join us as we discuss a woman who loves to poop in a big way, who is down for anything, and who reminds us a little bit of our secret selves. Content warning: this book we discuss has sexual assault and pedophilia, but we think this was handled tactfully or else we would never ever include such a book to our lists.

Some people get buried, some are cremated, and some become sideshow traveling mummies. Our first true crime episode covers a man whose notorious life was shadowed by his unbelievably true career after death. If you listen to the entire episode, you'll get to hear Jenna do an old-timey mobster voice as well as an old-timey outlaw voice, which really makes the episode. Enjoy and STAY HOME.

In this episode, we review the movies we watched during our first week of quarantine in attempt to not lose our minds. We cover everything from Monster Movies to the movies that make us feel like eating an entire bag of Totino's Pizza Rolls (not sponsored, but we're open for negotiation/selling our souls). Feel free to follow along and tell us your picks for the categories by messaging us at @screamservicepodcast on Instagram! Stay safe, stay inside, and stay spooky!

What better way to spend your time inside than listening to us discuss a historical fiction horror novel you may or may not have read? Guest Alicia Torres and I get a lot of facts wrong about the Dahmer party while also having a grand old time. If you are a member of our bookclub, your thoughts are on THIS episode! Wowee! Our next book club book is Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh with the deadline of April 25th! Check our instagram for more details! And STAY SAFE. STAY HOME. Now who wants to listen to us laugh about cannibalism?

This episode, we take a page from Grady Hendrix's Paperbacks from Hell and review a terrible but hilarious 80's paperback hidden to the mainstream horror world: Childmare. Do you hate kids? Do you love nipples? Do you like hard-ass Americans with blowtorches and aviator glasses? Then you may enjoy this mini-episode. As always, we are sending our listeners a lot of love and well wishes for this confusing time and we hope us discussing this ridiculous novel brings a little light to your lives. But not too much. We're spooky, after all.

Although recorded before the pandemic, this episode is a great one to listen to when you're staying home. In this episode, we cover horror reference materials that let you gain access to MORE horror to consume. This segment focuses on finding good resources to broaden your dark horizon in the books Monster, She Wrote and Paperbacks from Hell. As a special note to our listeners, we here at Scream Service understand we're in spooky times, and we hope that we are able to make your time a little less boring. Wash your hands and stay safe AND spooky!

Jenna and her best friend Allie share their mutual ghost experience they had when they were twelve years old. Beware: goosebumps and giggles are heavy in this episode.Jenna and her best friend Allie share their mutual ghost experience they had when they were twelve years old. Beware: goosebumps and giggles are heavy in this episode.

Sorry Spotify, we stole your idea of listing our favorites of the year. Also, sorry to you, the listener, because I jumped straight into this episode out of excitement. Also, sorry Mom, for saying the fuck word so often. This episode is listing the absolute best and bloodiest that we discovered in the haunting year of 2019.

Featuring music blogger and great kisser Johnny Gabriel, we delve into our local haunts and legends for your creeping pleasure.

Our debut episode is finally up and at 'em! Please excuse our technical difficulties. Just like Frankenstein's monster, we made something a little monstrous but with a lot of heart. Listen in this week for three quick movie reviews and an urban legend...Music by Henry K.R. Gray and artwork by "Viking Ashley" Smith. Thanks for tuning in!