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Sister scaredy cats Lindsay and Barbara read, recap, and review horror novels, covering everything from chilling classics to terrifying new releases.

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    • Oct 15, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 57m AVG DURATION
    • 120 EPISODES


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    His Grace the Duke

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2024 71:35


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    Beautiful Things

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2024 50:28


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    Midnight Pleasures with a Scoundrel

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2024 59:03


    Pucking Around

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 78:28


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    Devil & Desire

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 58:03


    In Bed with the Devil

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2024 60:49


    The Viscount and the Vixen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2024 57:12


    E104 ᐧ Jaws

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2024 63:13


    Earl Takes All

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 60:58


    Falling into Bed With a Duke

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2024 78:47


    Lord of Wicked Intentions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 78:52


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    E103 ᐧ Carrie

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 60:46


    She Tempts the Duke + Lord of Temptation

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 78:02


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    E102 ᐧ The Devil Takes You Home

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 57:27


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    E101 ᐧ Little Heaven

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2024 50:38


    100 Books Recap Extravaganza!

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2024 69:53


    Lindsay and Barbara reminisce about all 100 books they've read so far and decide on an official top 10: 1. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 2. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 3. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill 4. Sundial by Catriona Ward 5. Lone Women by Victor LaValle 6. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 7. The Troop by Nick Cutter 8. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty 9. Misery by Stephen King 10. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

    E100 ᐧ This Wretched Valley

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 63:22


    E99 ᐧ The Exorcist

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024 55:30


    READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara recap William Peter Blatty's iconic novel of a little girl and the priests who try to save her from a disturbing demonic possession. Featuring: Lindsay's new bamboo, why Mom never believed in Satanism, and the terrible experience of powerlessness in the face of a child's suffering.

    E98 ᐧ The Paleontologist

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024 78:34


    Lindsay and Barbara discuss Luke Dumas' museum-filled book about a nervous paleontologist and the ghost dinosaurs that haunt him. Featuring: The T-Rex that was at Lindsay's wedding, too much sister chitchat, how museums work, and the discovery of the bones of the ghost sister dinosaur!

    E97 ᐧ The House of Last Resort

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2024 53:17


    Lindsay and Barbara talk through Christopher Golden's mediocre tale of an American couple who accidentally buy an ultra-haunted, demonic home in Sicily. Featuring: Barbara's review of the TWA Hotel, why you should always tell your grandma what house you're buying, exorcism murder ghosts, and a demon-worshiping realtor. Also – what IS Gumby?

    E96 ᐧ Looking Glass Sound

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2024 59:01


    Lindsay and Barbara recap Catriona Ward's confusing tale of a trio of friends in a book in the book and one's a witch and one's the son of a serial killer. Featuring: Pterodactyl sex novels, bffs on the beach, convoluted storylines, and teenage girl magic.

    E95 ᐧ Mister Magic

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2024 63:44


    Lindsay and Barbara discuss Kiersten White's highly relatable and creepy tale of the adult survivors of a 90s children's TV show and the cult that created it all. Featuring: Lindsay's hangover, elementary school nostalgia, overcoming childhood trauma, and sacrificing yourself to be with your sister in a pocket universe. Love!

    E94 ᐧ The Night House

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2024 65:21


    Lindsay and Barbara talk through Jo Nesbo's trippy weird novel about a teenage bully and the surreal hijinks that ensue. Featuring: Lindsay's Cruise Talk™ and recap, watching your friend get sucked into a phone, books in books, electro shock, and sideways trauma healing.

    The Thursday Murder Club – ft our parents!

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2024 50:37


    While Lindsay is off cruising around the Caribbean, Barbara, Jan, and Bruce discuss Richard Osman's thoroughly excellent murder mystery about a quartet of septuagenarians. Featuring: Mom's boxed wine, the HOA President, Helen Mirren, and more.

    E93 ᐧ Midnight on Beacon Street

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2024 53:59


    Lindsay and Barbara recap Emily Ruth Verona's take on the ‘90s babysitter slasher. Featuring: Lindsay's first mammogram, what someone did on shrooms, mean teens, and a twist you'll never see coming.

    E92 ᐧ Home Before Dark

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2024 60:28


    Lindsay and Barbara talk through Riley Sager's haunted house novel of a traumatized interior designer returning to her haunted childhood home, Featuring: SO MUCH CHITCHAT, bad titles, hot Dane, and twisty turny twists,

    E91 ᐧ From Below

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2024 64:12


    Lindsay and Barbara discuss Darcy Coates' terrifying tale of scuba divers exploring a wrecked ghost ship filled with super haunted underwater zombies. Featuring: big deep watery hugs, trauma redemption, and the number one best reason to not retrieve your girlfriend's family's heirloom engagement ring.

    E90 ᐧ A Short Stay in Hell

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2024 56:26


    Lindsay and Barbara dig into Steven L. Peck's mind-melting tale of a Morman man in a library hell containing every book that could ever be written. Featuring: Sister tattoos, Zoroastrian traditions, and hell's greatest meat bone flutist – Lindsay.

    E89 ᐧ Movie: Midsommar

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2024 31:03


    Lindsay and Barbara talk through Ari Aster's flower-bedecked horror show about a group of young Americans visiting a Swedish cult for their murderous midsummer festival. Featuring: Pubic hair pie, dirty folk art, and watching your terrible boyfriend burn alive while sewn into a bear carcass. Like ya do.

    E88 ᐧ Natural Beauty

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2024 68:37


    Lindsay and Barbara discuss Ling Ling Huang's physical horror novel skewering the wellness and beauty industry. Featuring: Holiday updates, freaky beauty treatments, cannibalism, and Zoroastrian sky burials.

    E87 ᐧ I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2023 40:31


    Lindsay and Barbara talk through Iain Reid's surreal thriller about a girl meeting her boyfriend's parents at their creepy farmhouse. Featuring: Barbara's embarrassing tumble down the stairs, Lindsay's favorite Xmas movie, creepy confusion, and our proposed Captain Planet reboot starring Greta Thunberg, directed by Greta Gerwig.

    E86 ᐧ The Children of Red Peak

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2023 64:44


    Lindsay and Barbara talk about Craig DiLouie's wackadoo novel about the child survivors of a mysterious death cult as they grapple with their trauma 15 years later. Featuring: Self mutilation, emo music, recovered memories, and how Lindsay would be a great cult VP.

    E85 ᐧ You Should Have Left

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2023 36:34


    Lindsay and Barbara recap Daniel Kehlmann's novella about a struggling screenwriter driven mad by an isolated vacation house that's also a rift in the space-time continuum? Featuring: The world's worst blurb, calling my sister “middle aged,” Besties II, and using the word hypotenuse in everyday speech. 

    E84 ᐧ Contagion

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2023 55:24


    Lindsay and Barbara discuss Erin Bowman's scary-in-space novel about a crew attempting to escape an alien infection. Featuring: Dream interpretation, losing and finding Barbara's phone, scary space zombies, Dr. Lady, and transportation narcolepsy.

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    E83 ᐧ Slade House

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2023 48:41


    Lindsay and Barbara dig into David Mitchell's tale of a mysterious London house that only appears every nine years and the people who go missing there. Featuring: Red bland wine, physical therapy, soul-slurping siblings, lacunae, deadly hatpins, and more.

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    Court of Thorns and Roses

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2023 78:00


    NOT SCARY – Lindsay talks Barbara through the first of Sarah J. Maas' ultra-popular sexy fairy books. Featuring: Magic psychic fairy bonds, masque masks, will-they-won't-they, and more totally fun non-scary things.

    E82 ᐧ Bones and All

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2023 44:30


    Barbara tells Lindsay about Camille DeAngelis' cannibal-coming-of-age story. Featuring: The New York Marathon, delicious boys, surprise grandpas, and Timothée Chalamet.

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    E81 ᐧ The Fall of the House of Usher

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2023 31:23


    5Lindsay and Barbara recap Edgar Allen Poe's iconic short story about a dude visiting his depressed friend in a creepy mansion. Featuring: Non-scary book obsessions, the spirits of vegetable things, Notting Hill, and critical criticisms.

    E80 ᐧ The Auctioneer

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2023 62:09


    Lindsay first shares her hilariously harrowing experience with an intoxicated woman at the Denver Airport. Then the sisters discuss Joan Samson's chilling novel about a small New Hampshire town that gets taken over by a conman auctioneer. Featuring: New England antiques, the lure of land, child auctions, and Watching the New Baby.

    E79 ᐧ Delicate Condition

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2023 58:23


    Lindsay and Barbara talk through Danielle Valentine's meh novel about an anxious millennial who gets pregnant and miscarries (but doesn't?). Featuring: Spilled wine, telling-not-showing, and putting your soul into the body of your best friend's dead baby.

    E78 ᐧ The Lottery

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2023 33:01


    Lindsay and Barbara recap one of the greatest short stories ever written – Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. Featuring: Sound description of an accordion, sore losers, and human sacrifice.

    E77 ᐧ The Cipher

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2023 54:37


    Lindsay and Barbara talk about Kathe Koja's “punk existentialist horror novel” about a mysterious hole and the people obsessed with it. Featuring: Exploding mouse skulls, scary porn, art weirdo cult followers, goo cocoon, and an antidote to happiness.

    E76 ᐧ The Cabin

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2023 45:47


    Lindsay and Barbara discuss Matt Shaw's badly written but excellently recappable tale of a dad gone wild. Featuring: Twirly hands, Father Time, how Barbara would rewrite this book, and dogs that talk with buttons.

    E75 ᐧ The Hellbound Heart

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2023 60:15


    Lindsay and Barbara recap Clive Barker's iconic novella about a dissolute dude who tries to claw his way out of hell and the sister-in-law who helps him. Featuring: Super scary cenobites, a trip to the mall, sad-sack friends, and more.

    E74 ᐧ The Grownup

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2023 39:50


    Lindsay and Barbara talk about Gillian Flynn's twisted short story about a fake psychic pulled into a dangerous family haunting. Featuring: a chilly-holdie, hand jobs, creepy teens, and more.

    E73 ᐧ The Devil in Silver

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2023 72:35


    Lindsay and Barbara discuss Victor LaValle's discomfiting tale of a man wrongly held in a mental hospital terrorized by “the devil.” Featuring: Seahawks training camp, mental diagnoses, and all the pronunciations of the word “woman.”

    E72 ᐧ Monstrilio

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2023 45:30


    Lindsay and Barbara recap Gerardo Sámano Córdova's magical realist tale of grieving parents growing a new creature from a piece of their son's dead body. Featuring: Light cannibalism, fluid sexualities, barking dogs, and more.

    E71 ᐧ Night of the Mannequins

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2023 86:37


    Lindsay and Barbara are joined by infamous cousin-friends Matt & Tyler to dissect Stephen Graham Jones' genre-film-inspired novella. Featuring: Return to the creepy boathouse, decidedly non-magical mental illness, high school friend dynamics, and much much more!

    E70 ᐧ The Willows

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2023 33:57


    Lindsay and Barbara catch up after weeks and weeks of not recording and briefly recap Algernon Blackwood's iconic proto-Lovecraftian tale The Willows. Featuring: Diana Krall! Therapy! Indescribable cosmic creatures!

    E69 ᐧ Wylding Hall

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2023 57:58


    Lindsay and Barbara chat about Elizbeth Hand's acid-folk-fuelled oral history of a 70s band's pagan breakdown. Featuring: Wren witch faeries, grimoires, a neolithic mound shaped like half an egg, doggie-horsie-this-book, and our mother singing Arlo Guthrie.

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