Sisters Get Scared

Lindsay and Barbara wrap their brains around Stephen Graham Jones' homage to slasher films. Chainsaw follows the story of seventeen-year-old Jade and her wildly spooky hometown. Featuring: LOTS OF SLASHER TROPES, final girls, and a surprise chocolate course.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Simone St. James' satisfyingly twisty-turny novel of a motel night clerk who goes missing in 1982 and the niece who tries to piece it all together in 2017. Featuring: Boys with names! Vengeful ghosts! Women who are friends with other women! And an ending your mother would approve of.

Barbara tells Lindsay about the terrifying internet phenomenon of Slender Man, which inspired the 2014 attempted murder of a pre-teen gal by a couple of her pre-teen friends. Featuring: Lindsay's new puppy, a bad short story, the legend of Bloody Mary, and our new fave vocab word — Catoptromancy.

Lindsay and Barbara dig into Jay Anson's "true story" about a family's one-month residence in a spooooky haunted house and the priest who tried to help them. Featuring: The scent of human excrement, itchy hands, child abuse, and how the whole thing was made up.

Lindsay and Barbara turn off the lights to reminisce about Alvin Schwartz's masterpiece of folklore and childhood terror. Featuring: Toe-eaters, talking dogs, jump scares, and AAAAAaahhhhhhhh!!!

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Sarah Glenn Marsh's young adult ghost story about the world's worst summer internship. Featuring: A teen paranormal podcaster, girls kissing girls, secret ghost sisters, Venus Williams' havanese pup, and Lindsay's future haunted doll!

Lindsay and Barbara use bad British accents to discuss Erik Larsen's strangely soothing history-inspired horror. Featuring: Lindsay's very long work dream, early 1900s boners, telegraph machines, and interdimensional ghost beings.

Read this book! After 20 minutes of chitchat, Lindsay and Barbara talk about getting their MINDS BLOWN by Stanislaw Lem's 1961 sci-fi horror classic. Featuring: Lindsay recounting her 11-year-old's slumber party, why humans shouldn't go more than 5 feet below water, falling in love with your fake Solaris spouse, and more.

Compelling thriller or derivative dud? Lindsay and Barbara debate the merits of Riley Sager's Rear-Window-inspired confection of weirdness. Featuring: Bourbon binoculars, sexy skinny dipping, an unreliable narrator, and a WHAT THE WHAT twist that neither of us saw coming.

Read this book! Lindsay and Barbara detangle Joey Comeau's wackadoo twisty turny book about mothers and daughters and monsters and death. Featuring: killing a baby to feed to your monster-sister, foxy teachers, and the eternal question — what makes something funny?