via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/By1Nz4nJ9MW/ Working on episode 51 (Suspiria and the mythos of the Three Mothers) while multitasking (I’m always multitasking) and listening to another podcast for my therapy homework: Believed, by NPR. Two of the most disparate topics, for certain, but my John Nash-y brain works like this, always has. I am working on myself […]
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Episode 29: Unpacking the Bunny
episode 27: Halloween Enormous Stories The Blair Witch series: The Blair Witch Project Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows Curse of the Blair Witch (mockumentary) Blair Witch (Blair Witch 3) Blair Witch books: The Blair Witch Project by D. A. Stern Blair Witch Project: Book of Shadows by D. A. Stern The Secret Confessions of […]
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Episode 27: Halloween Enormous Stories
Halloween, 2017 Contributing podcasts Creepy Fairy Tales for Unwanted Children Murder Road Trip Evil Podcast The Trail Went Cold Encrypted Podcast 36 Times Moms and Murder True Crime Island Cold Case Notes Bless This Mess Mad Scientist Podcast Minds of Madness Music used in episode Kevin McLeod Aesis Surrain Paolo Messere Kiddycar Share1TweetPinShareShare1 Shares
Episode 26: Pilgrim at Little Piney Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard: Kindle, Audible (narrated by Tavia Gilbert), paperback formats Some books entertain you, some books distract you, and some books, if you are very, very lucky and find them, captivate you, and take your breath away from the very first page. You recognize them–and it almost feels as if […]
Episode 25: True Poe
Works in this episode, in chronological order Berenice (1835) Politian (1836) William Wilson (1839) The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842) The Masque of the Red Death (1842) The Pit and the Pendulum (1842) The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) The Premature Burial (1844) The Oblong Box (1844) Some Words […]
Episode 24: The Bell Tale Heart
Ranker: 15 Bizarre Facts About the Tragic Life of Edgar Allan Poe the burial site of Edgar Allan Poe, 519 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Westminster Hall and Burying Ground E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore: Results of Tests on the Hair of Virginia and Edgar A. Poe: Arsenic, Lead, Mercury, Nickel, Uranium, […]
Episode 23: Look at This Tangle of Thorns
American Library Association > Frequently Challenged Books > Infographics and Statistics I was within and without simultaneously enchanted and repulsed by the inexhaustible variety of life. —The Great Gatsby Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whisky in the hands of another…There are just some […]
Episode 22: Black Bread, Water and Horses
LiveScience: The Mystery of Kasper Hauser mental_floss: The Mysterious Life and Death of Kasper Hauser feral children The British Psychological Society: Mirror writing ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: Mirror writing: neurological reflections on an unusual phenomenon by G. D. Schott Philip Henry, 4th Earl of Stanhope Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland, neé Stanhope Referenced and quoted Lost Prince: […]
Episode 21: Nine Days and Two Car Seats
Susan Smith, Union, South Carolina My sources for this episode Beyond All Reason: My Life with Susan Smith by David Smith Violence As Seen Through a Prism of Color by Letha A. See The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment and Other Macroaggressions by Kathryn Russell Further recommended reading Sins […]
Book Review: Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Profilic Serial Killer
This book is not for everyone. The authors are very honest about what Kermit Gosnell, and what Gosnell did went far beyond abortion. He murdered and decimated. If you are uncomfortable with Ed Gein’s story, do not read this book, for Gosnell was the same type of hoarder. This book was finely investigated, so I […]
Episode 19: The King’s Eclipse
The King’s Eclipse: two works originally intended to be one, Gerald’s Game and Dolores Claiborne A huge thank you to Bev Vincent, my King consultant for this episode. He is the authority on all things King, and I highly recommend every one of his books. Here’s his work on the King: The Stephen King […]
Episode 17: Wolves and Hoods
Stories read in this episode “Le Petit Chaperon Rouge” by Charles Perrault: The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault “Little Red-Cap” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (related to them by Jeannette and Marie Hassenpflug): The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm “The True History of Little Golden Hood” by M. Charles Marelles, collected in […]
Episode 16: I’ve Got Something in My Pocket
On my honor I will try to serve God and my country, to help people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout Law. I will do my best to be Honest and fair Friendly and helpful Considerate and caring Courageous and strong Responsible for what I say and do And to respect […]
Episode 15: Old School Brownies
The Scottish Brownie, from Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, by George Douglas, 1901: The Scottish Brownie formed a class of beings distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves. He was meagre, shaggy, and wild in his appearance. In the daytime he lurked in remote recesses of the old houses which he […]