Hey class!  Welcome to our very first Horror Pod Class Extra Credit Episode, where we take the opportunity to interview professionals from the horror genre.  Today, we are talking with the incomparable editor Ellen Datlow.  Ellen has a brand new theme anthology out right now named The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea.  We talk with Ellen quite a bit about the new collection and you can also read our review over at Signal Horizon.

Class is back in session and today Tyler and Mike are discussing a very interesting movie just released on Netflix that you may have missed called Before I Wake.  We are doing a deep dive into exactly how dreams are used as a narrative device in the film and more generally how they are used in fiction.

Welcome back Class!  Join us as we welcome our special guest and colleague from Signal Horizon, Tracy!  Tracy is our resident TV expert and has been growing quite a following on social media with her in depth analysis of Channel Zero, the Magicians, the Alienist, and other pop culture gems.

Hey class! We have an awesome episode in store for you today where we talk all about Kevin Smith's horror comedy Red State.  Particularly, we want to know what it says about our political divides when it was created in 2011 and how those trends continued until today.  As always, we open with some brand new horror works that you should check out and where you can get some free horror from the web.  Stay tuned!

On this weeks Episode Tyler and Mike, both with experience teaching High School, discuss the outstanding zombie horror film The Girl With All the Gifts.  The essential question that we try to answer during this podcast is "What does The Girl With All the Gifts have to tell us about modern education?"  Its an interesting dive into a top rate zombie movie that will really make you think.

Live from Kirk Memorial studios this is the Horror PodClass, where two high school teachers talk about the horror genre.  In this episode we talk about some great horror fiction from around the web and then we do a deep dive into Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and what it can tell us about current media trends.

Class is back in session and in this episode of Horror Podclass we talk about the the low budget, but wonderfully executed, horror film "It Follows" and discuss the ways it uses disease imagery.  Here are some links to other interesting work that we discuss on this podcast.

Hey Class!  On this episode of Horror Podclass we talk about the fantastic Australian horror film, The Babadook and its exploration of the stages of grief.  Find out what makes the Babadook a great horror movie and what is has to say about our culture.

Hey Class!  On this episode of Horror Podclass we talk about the awesome oral history of the zombie apocalypse, World War Z by Max Brooks.  Find out what makes oral histories so captivating and why they are so important to our culture.

Hey Class!  On this episode of Horror Podclass we talk about the upcoming movie Annihilation and one of our favorite genres, The New Weird.  We discuss weird fiction, what it is, what it isn't, how it works, and where you can find more of it!