This week Abby and Alan continue exploring the intersection of winter and horror, this time through the lens of of isolation. 

Sources: 

• A Medical News Today article by Danielle Dresdon: What to know about cabin fever.
• JAMA Network, scientific study by Eugene Ziskind, M.D. called Isolation Stress in Medical and Mental Illness
• PubMed study from 2021, Social Isolation and Psychosis: An Investigation of social interactions and paranoia in daily life 
• Study we found on PubMed from 2008: Psychological effects of polar expeditions
• And another study listed on PubMed The role of circadian phase in sleep and performance during Antarctic winter expeditions from 2022
• Slash Film article by Danielle Ryan: The Haunted History Behind The Shinings Stanley Hotel
• SyFy article by Josh Weiss: The Thing Oral History: Cast and Crew Reveal Secrets of John Carpenter's Sci-Fi Horror Masterpiece

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This week Abby and Alan continue our exploration of snow horror by talking through 5 real life snow tragedies. 

Sources

• A History.com article by Becky Little: The Dyatlov Pass Incident: Why the Hiker Deaths Remain a Mystery
• Museumhack.com article by Alex Johnson: The Real Story of The Donner Party
• History.com article 10 things you should know about the Donner party by Evan Andrews
• The True Story Behind Society of Snow, a Time article by Megan McCluskey. 
• Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974)
  Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes (2006)
• An A+Etv article by Adam Janos: What Happened to The Yuba County Five?
• An Oregon Encyclopedia article on Mount Hood 

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This week Abby and Alan present a non-exhaustive look at winter folklore and mythology from around the globe. From Scotland, Norway and Germany to Japan and Native American mythology. 

This kicks off a multi-part series exploring the intersection of winter and horror from several different categories. 

Sources

• Smithsonian Magazine Article by Dennis Zotigh: The Winter Solstice Begins a Season of Storytelling and Ceremony
• Mythopedia article by Gregory Wright on Cailleach
• Article by Elizabeth Fabowale from OldFolklore.com: The Blizzard Spirit of The Inuit

The Iroquois and The Legends of The First Snowfall, an article from Native American Mythology Worldwide. 

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This week we take a nostalgic walk down memory lane and piece together some of our past episodes on Christmas and holiday horror. We’ve covered so many different versions of holiday horror over the last few years, and we wanted to put together a mega-Christmas horror episode that highlights everything from the history of Yule and the pagan celebrations that pre-date Christmas, to the history of a Christmas Carol, one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, and different monsters from Christmas lore all over the world. 

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Abby sits down with our friend Kate Rotunda to talk about the intersection of feminism and horror. We start out by discussing Frankenhooker (1990) and go from there. 

CW: Discussion of violence against women and SA.

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Abby and Alan sit down to talk through the dark history of every day expressions and sayings. From mad hatter to taking it with a grain of salt, we get into all of it. 

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Abby and Alex pick up where they left off last week, and talk through The Wiz and Wicked, in all of it's forms. 

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Abby sits down with Alex to talk through all things Wizard of Oz. From L Frank Baum's books which date back to 1900, to the 1939 classic MGM film and so much more.

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This week Abby and Alan present four modern day horror stories, all in some ways inspired by or adjacent to the Friday the 13th film franchise. 

Belly Bees was written by Sam Logan and narrated by Kate Rotunda. Follow Sam at samloganwrites.com. 

No Signal was written by Warren Benedetto and narrated by Mike Macera. Follow Warren at https://warrenbenedetto.com. 

The Lake was written by Jay D. Falcetti and narrated by Sara Luke. Follow Jay at @jdfalcetti and Sara at @saraluke25 on Instagram. 

Aluminum Canoes was written by Zachary Taylor and narrated by Peter Papazoglou. 

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The saga concludes! Abby and Alan continue with their deep dive into the Friday the 13th horror franchise with the final four movies; Jason Goes to Hell, Jason X, Freddy vs Jason and the Friday the 13th reboot from 2009. 

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