Horror writer and host of Brooklyn's Word for Word Reel Talks film commentary series Scott Adlerberg joins us to discuss unexpected mystery twists. What makes a twist work? How do films balance this magical act without tipping their hand? Should we ever follow a spooky child in a raincoat? We answer these questions and more! We also discuss Scott's latest book, The Screaming Child, now available from Ghoulish Books. Order a copy now...if you dare!   Synopsis: Scott Adlerberg’s The Screaming Child is a mystery horror novel told by a grieving woman working on a book about an explorer who was murdered in a remote wilderness region, only to get caught up in a dangerous journey after hearing the distant screams from her own vanished child somewhere in the woods.   CLICK IF YOU DARE: An interview with Kiyoshi KurosawaMore of Scott's writing on crime! OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixRyan's killer riffs!

We're baaaaaack & kicking off March with a deep dive into urban legends in horror films -- What are they? Where do they come from? Do they help or hurt society ... or both?  To investigate this further, we push up our nerd glasses with the triple threat of Scarred for Life Podcast co-hosts Mary Beth McAndrews & Terry Mesnard plus horror writer & teacher (& amazing hubbie) Chris Poole to chat all things Candyman & the indie darling Butterfly Kisses.   CLICK IF YOU DARE: "They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror" by Steve Bogira (1987) at Chicago Reader"Candyman, the Scariest ‘Leave Them Damn White Girls Alone’ Movie Ever, Is 25 Years Old This Week" by Lawrence Ware at The Root"Candyman: Why This Racially Charged Horror Movie Is Scarier Than Ever" by Evan Narcisse"Candyman: How Bernard Rose and Clive Barker Created the Horror Classic" by Jack Beresford at Den of Geek"Cabrini-Green: A History of Broken Promises" by Alejandra Cancino, Better Government Association"I Could Move In There: When Jane Byrne Moved into Cabrini-Green" at WTTW"Erik Kristopher Myers: The Lost Interview" by Benjamin Radford at the Center for Inquiry OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixRyan's killer riffs!Nia DaCosta - give her all the work!Ruthie McCoy - rest in powerErik Kristopher Myers' Peeping Tom legacy

Things are about to get moody and bloody as Ryan and horror author E.M. Roy chat all things related to 1976's Carrie, and 2000's Ginger Snaps! Grab that scrunchie and pull up those low-rise jeans as we explore the "hell is a Teenage Girl" trope in horror films new and old. Also, Ryan interviews E.M. Roy about their recent scary and reality-bending book, Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies.   Synopsis: Leo Bates knows what’s behind every corner in her hometown of Eston, Maine, where she’s lived her whole life. Some bad memories and grief for her late parents, sure, but nothing dangerous... All of that changes when her girlfriend Tate goes missing, and the lead detective on the case blames Leo for the disappearance. Haunted by self-doubt, Leo can only watch as the town she thought she knew deteriorates around her. She is forced to confront the painful truth about her parents, this town, and her relationship if she is to survive the following onslaught of conspiracies, cryptic monstrosities, and whatever is hiding in the woods where Tate was last seen.   CLICK IF YOU DARE: Craving a woodsy horror treat? Snag your copy of E.M. Roy's Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies from Ghoulish Books! OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixRyan's killer riffs!

Instead of ending 2023 on a very special holiday episode, we're throwing listeners a curve ball this season & diving DEEP into body horror. Joined by Shirley Jackson Award-winning author R.A. Busby, this month Cass & Ryan chat about 1981's Scanners and 2016's The Autopsy of Jane Doe.    Once we return from our ... well, holiday hijinks, you can expect even more horror chats, games, & surprises coming to you in 2024. Take care of you & yours gals, ghouls, & badass they's of the world.    CLICK IF YOU DARE: André Øvredal's interview at Den of Geek and Dread CentralCraving more body horror? Read Busby's latest book, Corporate Body, published by Cemetary Gates Media.   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixRyan's killer riffs!Jane for enduring everything & moreHead explosions!That fly's commitment to staying in characterOlwen Kelly! Give her everything!

As the weather turns brisk & the night brings darkness sooner to our doorsteps, we're delving into what lurks in the best of Scottish Horror. Joined by the Ghoulfriends Podcast's Lindsay & horror researcher Lucy, Cass & Ryan chat about 2014's White Settlers & 1973's The Wicker Man.   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix

Hello gals, ghouls, & badass they's of the world. Tune in this time to catch me & my lovely co-host Ryan C. Bradley's very creepy Halloween special! This season, we're mixing things up a bit & playing a game called Killer Riffs!? After, we'll also have a live commentary watch of Trick R' Treat for ya'll to kick back & watch with us & make our Sammy-boy proud. Happy Halloween!   Don't forget: candy is for everyone, our faces are costumes enough, & there's no better time to jump-scare your friends & blame it on us. Now, let's play...   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixSam! Don't forget to light a pumpkin for him!

To kick off the Halloween season, we're bringing you a lovely (& spooky) chat we had with director, writer, podcaster, producer, & Dread Central's Editor-in-Chief Mary Beth McAndrews on the powers of found footage horror. We cover the OG 1999's The Blair Witch Project & 2022's gore-filled entry into the shaky subgenre, The Outwaters. CLICK IF YOU DARE: Edgar Allan Poe's "gotcha" fiction that people thought was real at the time of publication: "The Balloon Hoax"Interview with Joshua Leonard on the 1999 film's casting & production process "Blair Witch and the Rise of Viral Movie Marketing," an essay by Ryan LambieMary Beth's review of The Outwaters at Dread Central   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixRei Hance!Mary Brown's quest to find a woman-horse-monster-friend to brush her mane foreverWormholes... may they never find us!

This time, Ryan puts Cass in the interviewee spot -- digging into their upcoming horror novella debut, The Caretaker. Please be gentle with this one as it contains lots of thoughts about the horrors of grief. Synopsis: Cara, an overworked ICU nurse, could think of one million other things to do than sort through her dead mother's house. Still, she's here -- cleaning a home she thought she abandoned long ago. Of course, it doesn't take Cara long before she stumbles upon her mother's buried secrets and becomes curiously stuck with a haunted hospice bed. Roping in her ride-or-die cousin Dylan and witchy ex-girlfriend Beth into the proceedings, Cara unwittingly drags her beloveds into a gauntlet of horrors.   Snag your copy here from Hear Us Scream Press!   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for their logo designCano Jaguar for their creepy intro. mixMy dad

We open up the Horror Hangover vault to unleash a delightful chat we had with The Horror Hour's Yutaka! about brutal vampires in horror.   CLICK IF YOU DARE: A fantastic video essay on Nosferatu by Vintage SoupImage of Drakula - cinema's first (debated) Dracula!What's a monumental horror image?   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixLong, gnarly fingernails ftw!

Join us, dear listener, as our co-host Ryan C. Bradley interviews Ashley Deng about her upcoming novella from Tenebrous Press, DEHISCENT!   Synopsis: As the world's climate swings rapidly between oppressively hot and freezing cold, the remnants of civilization huddle in small communities to scrape together what they can to survive. All except the Zhu family. Yi has lived in her ancestral house her entire life, sheltered and safe from the scarcity that plagues her community. Her family enjoys a secret life of running water, electricity, and an abundance of food. But as Yi seeks a way to share their fortune, she learns the terrible secret of the Zhu house. DEHISCENT is an Eco-Horror tale of a future that has practically arrived, and the humanity that lurks in the most inhuman of places.   Snag your copy here!   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for their logo designCano Jaguar for their creepy intro. mixMedical anatomy illustrations for creeping us out... in the best of ways!

Danger Slater joins us this month on the pod to discuss his latest book -- House of Rot -- coming out from Tenebrous Press on June 14!   Synopsis: The pink mold growing on the walls isn’t the worst thing about Elenya and Myles’ brand-new fixer-upper. There are also the inexplicable footsteps in the night; the sealed-over windows and doors; the neighbor that hears their screams but can’t be bothered to help. Soon, there’s no leaving at all. No hope of cleaning. And that encroaching mold? It’s practically become a second skin. Welcome to the House of Rot. You’re never getting out.   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixSpores!

In celebration of Michelle Garza Cervera's debut feature film, Huesera: The Bone Woman, hitting Shudder on May 12, we're reviewing it with our special guest Miguel Myers from My Horror Confessional. Also, thank you to the women who anonymously lent their voices to this episode to express their feelings about being pregnant, having a birthing body, and the frustrations they have with motherhood.   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixGay aunties with micheladas Moshing while pregnant

This month we chat with horror journalist, critic, author, & lovely human all around -- Richard Newby! -- to discuss disfigured killers in horror. We dive into 1960's Eyes Without a Face & Noroi: The Curse & how utterly weird face transplants are!   CLICK IF YOU DARE: The Cripped-Up Horror of Halloween Movies by Brianna SchunkThe Psychology of Scary Faces by Stuart VyseNoroi: Realistic J-Horror | Video Essay by Accented CinemaFace Transplants: An International History by Fay Bound Alberti & Victoria HoyleCheck out Richard Newby's book, We Make Monsters Here!   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixSack masks rule!

This month we rewind our clocks back to 2022 when we chatted with Miguel Myers of My Horror Confessional podcast fame about nunsploitation films! We focus on the 1977's Alucarda & 2021's Benedetta & why the genre is hella radical! Sometimes! As a warning, we do discuss trauma associated with the Catholic Church, anti-queer & trans protestors, sexual assault, & rape. Please skip ahead to another one of our chats if these are triggering topics for you.   CLICK IF YOU DARE: Grindhouse Database directory of all nunsploitation filmsBFI's best of bad habit filmsCandice Drouet's killer video essay on BenedettaExorcism & Sexuality: The "Thick Description" of an 18th-century Transylvanian Catholic Priest's Transgression essay by Daniel Barth   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixAlucarda's impeccable stareSister Act I & Sister Act II

Gals, ghouls, & badass they's of the world, tune in this time to catch our three trivia teams: Ryan C. Bradley & Valerie Ettenhofer, Queer Quadrant, & Horror Hour compete for the FINAL GIRL/BOY/ZADDIE crown. We're joined by special guest, Michael Varrati, who ups our rematch ante with a RAPID HEARTS ROUND. Let's see who survives this time & really knows their queer rom-com trivia in honor of the happiest (but sometimes sweet) time of the year! Wanna play along? Check out the films to watch & rules below:   Rules Everyone starts off with a queerdo hangman that has a wig, 2 monster hands, 2 feet, 2 arms, 2 legs, & a head. For every wrong question, a body part gets slashed!Rapid Heart Round: When you hear the bell, this means double the trouble or double the reward. For every right answer, you gain back 2 body parts. But for every wrong answer, you lose 2 body parts. Are you game enough to try?   Films to watch: 1997's SparklerBoundThe HandmaidenFire IslandImagine Me & YouRopeSaving FaceEllie & Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt) Shiva BabyBut I'm a CheerleaderPortrait of a Lady on Fire Until next time...

We return to our mini-vampire arc to explore how vampire comedies work with special guest, author-podcaster-historian-internet voicey guy: Mac Boyle! We cover Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, all things Universal Horror, & the delightful joy of Netflix's Vampire vs. the Bronx!   CLICK IF YOU DARE: The Once And Future Orson Welles by Mac BoyleRyan's review of Vidar the Vampire at Wicked Horror"Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein: The Continuity Question" from Den of Geek's Jim Knipfel"BOO's On First: Abbott, Costello, And The Universal Monsters" from Fangoria's Diana Prince   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixJaden Michael to become Miles Morales!Bela Lugosi's Dracula

As a special treat to our listeners, join us around the cozy campfire as we interview Max Booth III & Lori Michelle about Ghoulish Book's Kickstarter for 2023's releases, their upcoming/geekiest wedding in history, why bathroom doors DO open outward, & more!    If you're looking for a good horror read, we have several delights to show you...   CLICK IF YOU DARE: Year of the Ghoul: 13 Terrifying Tomes From Ghoulish Books: Back Ghoulish Books' upcoming 13 horror titles, a new brick n' mortar bookstore, two issues of Ghoulish Tales, & more to come!   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixFrank, the best editorial intern

As a surprise horror holiday treat for our listeners, here's a bonus episode reviewing Travis Stevens' A Wounded Fawn & featuring an interview with writer-director-producer-sweetheart, Josh Ruben. Spoilers abound about midway through so be forewarned!    A Wounded Fawn is streaming now on Shudder.   CLICK IF YOU DARE: How Josh Ruben got involved w/ A Wounded FawnA Wounded Fawn's co-writer & director Travis Stevens, Josh Ruben, & Sarah Lind chat about the film's production process & more!   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixSurreal artists Lenora Carrington & Dorothea TanningLong live stylish end-credit scenes!

'Tis the season for us to get a lil' raunchy & spread some holiday horror cheer! This time, Cass & Ryan delve into an NSFW & bloopers-filled episode about the Black Christmas films w/ special guest Yutaka from the Horror Hour!   CLICK IF YOU DARE: Jason Blum's apology to women horror directorsScreenwriter April Wolfe's interview about 2019's Black ChristmasBlum's reaction to the negative response to 2019's Black Christmas -- in contrast to The Invisible Man   OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixHallmark Queen, Lacey ChabertLynne Griffin's breathworkWood chippers!

This week on the Horror Hangover Show, Cass & Ryan delve into the legacy of the Halloween franchise with our special guest -- writer, podcaster, & contributing editor to Fangoria -- Blayne Waterloo! Happy Halloween gals, ghouls, & badass they's of the world.    CLICK IF YOU DARE: Bob Clark's connection to John Carpenter & Debra Hill's Halloween.Nab a copy of 2021's fantastic Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror collection.The Gaylords of Darkness chat all things Halloween H20.    OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO: FeliceY for our logo designCano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mixLaurie Strode!LL Cool J's erotica