Sisters Get Scared

Lindsay and Barbara are joined by infamous cousin-friends Matt & Tyler to dissect Stephen Graham Jones' genre-film-inspired novella. Featuring: Return to the creepy boathouse, decidedly non-magical mental illness, high school friend dynamics, and much much more!

Lindsay and Barbara catch up after weeks and weeks of not recording and briefly recap Algernon Blackwood's iconic proto-Lovecraftian tale The Willows. Featuring: Diana Krall! Therapy! Indescribable cosmic creatures!

Lindsay and Barbara chat about Elizbeth Hand's acid-folk-fuelled oral history of a 70s band's pagan breakdown. Featuring: Wren witch faeries, grimoires, a neolithic mound shaped like half an egg, doggie-horsie-this-book, and our mother singing Arlo Guthrie.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Ronald Malfi's super scary tale of a man searching for his lost brother in the dark and dangerous realm of monsters/serial-killers (aka Alaska). Featuring: Eyelash lift vs extensions, the difference between shrews and voles and mice, identical twin magic, scary animal head masks, and more.

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Guy Adams & AK Benedict's confusingly plotted multi-character Lovecraftian homage. Featuring: Mom's pickleball drama, Stanley Tucci, squid brothers, and a lot on top of a lot.

Lindsay and Barbara recap Laurel Hightower's almost-good novella about a mother who'll sacrifice anything to bring back her dead son. Featuring: A hot neighbor, baby sign language, and notes about how the book should have ended.

READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara dig into the terrifying depths of Stephen King's iconic novel about a romance author and his utterly unhinged number one fan. Featuring: Slug sister, amateur amputation, and a book in the book.

READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara recap Victor LaValle's scary awesome book about homesteading women in 1800s Montana. Featuring: Italian vacation travel plans, second-grade concerts, sisters-as-monsters, blood baths, and more!

Lindsay and Barbara chitchat for 17 minutes before digging into Trang Thanh Tran's novel about an anxious teen living with her dad for the summer in a super-haunted manor in Vietnam. Featuring: Our mother's awards sweep at the senior center art show, French-colonialism-as-cringey-hobby, zombie-ant fungus, and buying bras at Costco.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Edgar Allen Poe's iconic short story about a perfectly sane not at all wackadoo murderer. Featuring: Uncomfortable Poe facts, the taste of stone fruits, wild speculation, and how Lindsay's dog is "a whore for cheese."