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This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli close out their Reddit Paranormal series with one final story guaranteed to make you suspicious of every dark corner in your bedroom.

A woman wakes in her university dorm room to find a smooth, blue-glowing figure crouched silently in the corner. Strangely, the figure doesn’t feel threatening until it suddenly points across the room and vanishes the moment she looks away. Was it a dream, sleep paralysis, an alien encounter, or simply a giant supernatural baby sitting in time-out?

Naturally, the story sends Yajaira and Cheli spiraling into their own terrifying experiences with sleep paralysis, shadowy roommates, unexplained voices, and the dangers of recording during the devil’s hour. Between debating whether paranormal entities can be disciplined with a stern teacher voice and deciding they would rather start swinging than investigate, the hosts give their final spooky submission a well-deserved 10 out of 10.

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This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are sinking their teeth into Hungerstone by Kat Dunn which is a gothic sapphic vampire romance about a woman trapped in a miserable marriage who suddenly meets someone capable of awakening a very different kind of hunger.

Lady Lenore has spent ten years married to Henry, a wealthy husband who seems increasingly determined to make her life unbearable. But while traveling to their new home, Lenore comes across the mysterious and dangerously alluring Carmilla after a carriage accident, and from the moment Carmilla enters her life, things start getting weird, bloody, and very gay.

Will this sapphic tale of vampires, revenge, female liberation, and absolutely terrible husbands fix Yajaira and Cheli’s lives? Tune in to find out.

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This week on The Book Fix Podcast: Reddit Paranormal Edition, Yajaira and Cheli read a story that might make you think twice before answering anything that waves at you from a dark field.

When a teenage boy living on an isolated Iowa farm is mysteriously warned by his father not to go outside, he immediately realizes something is wrong. But later that night, he spots a strange, rust-colored figure standing beneath the orange glow of a distant floodlight, silently motioning for him to come closer. Ignoring his father’s warning, he follows it deep into the soybean field, where the rows seem to move around him, his surroundings begin to blur, and something appears determined to lure him toward a mysterious blood-red stone.

Was it an alien waiting to abduct him? A terrifying scarecrow-like creature? The spirit of his late mother or something even worse? Yajaira and Cheli debate every chilling possibility, question how his father knew the danger was coming, and decide whether they would ever follow a mysterious stranger into the darkness. Spoiler alert: absolutely not.

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On this week's episode of The Book Fix podcast, hosts Yajaira and Cheli are diving into The Church of the Mountain of Flesh by Kyle Wakefield, a bizarre and gruesome religious horror novel packed with body horror, angels, obsession, and one deeply tortured artist. The story follows Sole, a sculptor who makes a deal with God: resurrect a fallen church, and in return, Soul can finally have the body he’s always wanted. 

Will this grotesque tale of faith, flesh, art, identity, obsession, and some truly unholy decisions fix your life? Join the conversation and find out! 

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Yajaira and Cheli are continuing with a Reddit NoSleep for spooky season of The Book Fix! This time, they’re diving into the creepy story “My phone started notifying me about things that hadn’t happened yet,” where an ordinary phone begins delivering very unordinary notifications... revealing people’s secrets, predicting terrifying events, and eventually knowing way too much about its owner. What starts as unsettling quickly turns into full-on nightmare fuel when the notifications seem less interested in predicting the future and more interested in controlling it.

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This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are diving headfirst into medieval horror with Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman. Set during the Black Death, the story follows Thomas, a disgraced knight who reluctantly becomes the protector of Delphine, a young orphan who claims she can communicate with angels. Together, they set off across plague-ravaged France on a journey involving demonic forces, terrifying creatures, religious horror, and a possible war between Heaven and Hell. 

So, can a disgraced knight, an angel-talking orphan, demonic monsters, the Black Death, and one absolutely unhinged Pope fix Yajaira and Cheli’s lives? Or did this medieval horror journey send them straight into reading purgatory? Join the conversation and find out!

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Happy spooky season!! Or perhaps not-so-happy spooky season because this week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are diving into another disturbing story from Reddit’s NoSleep. This one is told from the perspective of a lonely child who befriends a tall, skeletal figure named Oliver near the river behind their home.

Oliver may be the child’s only companion, but his cold touch, cracking bones, unsettling gifts, and increasingly painful “games” suggest that he is anything but imaginary or at least friendly. 

Yajaira and Cheli attempt to unravel the story’s upsetting final twist, debate whether Oliver was a demon, an imaginary friend brought to life, or a grown man hiding in plain sight, and somehow take a detour into the deeply questionable imaginary-friend romance novel Yajaira read as a child. Was Oliver supernatural, or is the truth somehow even more horrifying? The theories are divided, the vibes are deeply uncomfortable, and the Spookometer may be sitting at zero, but the sadness and emotional damage are off the charts.

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This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are diving into The Mad Wife by Meagan Church which is a haunting historical story about motherhood, marriage, and what happens when a woman refuses to fit neatly into the role everyone has chosen for her.

Set in the 1950s, the story follows Lulu, a wife and mother surrounded by women who seem to have the whole “perfect housewife” thing figured out. Lulu, meanwhile, is struggling to keep up with the cooking, cleaning, motherhood, and constant expectation that she should be grateful and smiling through all of it. When she learns she’s pregnant again, those cracks only begin to deepen.

So, will this unsettling tale of the “perfect” housewife slowly coming undone fix Yajaira and Cheli’s lives, or send them spiraling right alongside Lulu? Join the conversation and find out! 

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This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are taking Reddit NoSleep outside and somehow the mosquitoes and surprise bugs are only the beginning of the nightmare.

The story follows a woman who has spent three exhausting years caring for her husband, Mark, after a devastating accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. But when his shattered phone mysteriously appears several feet away from his bed, she begins to suspect that something—or someone—is moving through their home. Mark’s terrified expressions, bloodied fingers, and strange attempts to communicate only deepen the mystery.

Yajaira and Cheli unpack the devastating twist, debate whether the wife understands what she is doing, question how Mark managed to get the hidden phone, and compare the story’s disturbing dynamic to real cases of medical abuse. While the story earns only a four on the spookometer, its sadness level is an undeniable ten out of ten.

Was this a horror story about a dangerous caregiver, or a tragic portrait of someone whose love and trauma became impossible to separate?

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This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are reviewing The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer, and suddenly, being unemployed doesn’t sound that bad.

Macy is desperate for work when she comes across an unusually well-paying caretaker job. The catch? When she arrives, she discovers there’s no elderly husband to care for at all. Instead, she’s being paid to stay alone in a remote house and follow a very specific set of bizarre rituals left behind by the woman’s late husband. Turn off the lights at the right time. Follow the instructions. Deal with the rabbits. And whatever happens, do not mess up because apparently these rituals might be the only thing standing between normal life and the end of the world.

So, would you take a suspiciously well-paying job in a creepy house if all you had to do was follow a few little rules? And more importantly… will this ritualistic, rule-based supernatural horror fix your life? Stay tuned to find out.

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