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By Michael May
The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.
Darla supported the board game version of Masque of the Red Death (based on the Edgar Allan Poe story, illustrated by Gris Grimly, and published by IDW) on Kickstarter. So now she, Jessica, Michael, and special guest Chandra Reyer are playing it to determine who will be the most popular noble left in the castle after the blood-spattered specter comes to visit.
Darla, Jess, and Michael watched all the Halloween movies, including Season of the Witch, the Rob Zombie remakes, and this year's Halloween Kills. Big spoilers for everything, including Halloween Kills.
Darla, Jess, and Michael watched a bunch of werewolf movies and now they want to talk about which is better: Wolfen or The Howling? Who's irritated by An American Werewolf in London and who rejects The Company of Wolves? And what does puberty have to do with any of this?
Darla, Jess, and Michael have been fully vaccinated and reconvene at last to catch up on how they did during the pandemic and what horror movies, books, and shows they were into over the last year-and-a-half.
Would you like to play a game? Darla, Jessica, and Michael did and chose Fantasy Flight Games' Letters from Whitechapel. One player takes the role of Jack the Ripper as the other players' detectives attempt to catch him over a series of four nights.
We also talked about other horror-related and -adjacent things we've been watching and reading:
Harper's Island (2009 TV series)
A Christmas Carol (2019 TV mini-series)
Doctor Sleep (book and film)
Dracula (2020 TV mini-series)
Mindhunter (2017 TV series)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Marvel Comics Tomb of Dracula series
Sweetheart (2019)
Underwater (2020)
The Turning (2020)
And some things we've been looking forward to:
The Lodge (2019)
Run (2020)
The Invisible Man (2020)
The New Mutants (2020)
Happy Halloween! Which means of course that Darla, Jess, and Michael are talking about everyone's favorite spooky holiday. After a history lesson, we holler about why Halloween is important, childhood memories, how we celebrate today, and the best (and worst) candy to find in your plastic Jack O'Lantern bucket. We also talk about a Halloween field trip and a bunch of other spooky stuff including:
Flatliners (2017)
Hammer House of Horror TV series (1980)
Nomads (1986)
Dracul by Dacre Stoker and JD Barker
Disney Frankenstein, starring Donald Duckby Bruno Enna, Fabio Celoni, and Luca Merli
It Chapter Two (2019)
It (1990)
The Little Stranger (2018)
Halloween (2018)
The Dark (2018)
Darla, Jess, and Michael get Dracula-ed out discussing Bram Stoker's novel and the many movie, TV, comics, novel, and board game adaptations and spin offs that it's inspired.
Here's a list of things we talk about on the episode.
Darla, Jess, and Michael embrace the dark side of some of their favorite fairy tales: "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "The White Snake." And if you're not familiar with "The White Snake," don't worry. We'll read it to you!
Also up for discussion:
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Would You Rather (2012)
Jaws (1975)
Crawl (2019)
What the Folklore podcast
Mythos podcast
And things we're looking forward to:
It Chapter Two and Ready or Not
Darla's not feeling well, but there are donuts and there is coffee, so Jessica and Michael have an informal chat about... well, about a lot of stuff. They begin and end with Horror, but there are lots of other rooms to explore in this old, dark house and some of them are filled with Magnum PI and Star Trek.
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Darla, Jess, and Michael begin this episode in a haunted cemetery, an appropriate place to talk about one of our favorite writers, Edgar Allan Poe. After some talk about other horror we've been into the last month and a discussion of our own funerals, we dig specifically into "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Raven." With side-trips to other Poe stories as well as our favorite adaptations of his work.
Please Note: It was windy at the cemetery and the sound overwhelms the discussion a few times during that section of the episode. We cleaned it up as best we could, but if it's bothersome, you might want to skip ahead to about 20 minutes into the show. At that point we've moved inside and the audio is clear for the remainder of the episode.
The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.