The Know Fear Cast

In our first episode on the occult, we discuss the Victorian Spiritualist movement that had mystics and psychics trying to contact the dead, though many of them turned out to be frauds and con artists.

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The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

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In this special episode, Mel and Lisa interview author and book critic Ruth Franklin to discuss her critically acclaimed book Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, which was a New York Times Notable Book and appears on "best of 2016" lists, from Time, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and The Boston Globe, to name a few.

Ruth Franklin is a book critic, who has contributed to The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Times Book Review, and The New York Review of Books. Along with Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, she is also the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction published by Oxford University Press in 2011.

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon. As a thank you, our donors get access to exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

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As a special Christmas gift, we're making this mini episode free to all our listeners. If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon. In this episode we talk about horror myths and figures associated with Christmas

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon. As a thank you, our donors get access to exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

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For our Christmas episode, we have a special guest co-host Sherry, who joins us to talk about Charles Dickens and the Christmas ghost story and Dickens' broader connections to the horror genre.

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon. As a thank you, our donors get access to exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

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We talk about modern day zombie stories such as 28 Days Later and The Walking Dead. We also discuss how zombie stories give us a safe way to explore fears about the apocalypse and the "zombie as comedy" trend.

If you want to read the article that we quoted from in the intro, it can be found here

Books and movies discussed in the show:

• The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman
• Fido
• World War Z by Max Brooks
• Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
• Shaun of the Dead
• 28 Days Later

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon. As a thank you, our donors get access to exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

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In our second episode on zombies, we talk about the influences on Night of the Living Dead and how it gave birth to the modern zombie film. We also discuss how zombies can represent fears of contagion and death as well as "internal" versus "external" horror.

For more info on Pittsburgh Zombies, check out these articles

http://popularpittsburgh.com/pittsburgh-zombies/ http://www.axs.com/horror-movies-that-were-filmed-in-or-around-pittsburgh-23886

The quote from Roger Ebert can be found here and his entire original reaction to Night of the Living Dead can is available here.

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon. As a thank you, our donors get access to exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

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For our first episode about zombies, we dig into their history by talking about their ties to Voodoo and the Caribbean.

Go Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis White Zombie I Walked with a Zombie The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon. As a thank you, our donors get access to exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

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Happy Halloween!

In a special bonus Halloween episode, we talk about our Halloween traditions and offer up a few recommendations of what we're reading and watching lately.

• Hocus Pocus
• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Dead/Alive
• October Country by Ray Bradbury
• Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
• My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
• The Mall by S.L. Grey

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon. As a thank you, our donors get access to exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

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In our final episode devoted to haunted houses, we talk about haunted houses that are portals and what those portals mean. We also discuss postmodern and "new build" haunted houses and how the horror genre has adapted to modern technology.

Books we mentioned in this episode:

• Locke and Key by Joe Hill
• The Shining Girls byLauren Beukes
• The Shunned House by H.P. Lovecraft
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• "Help me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead" by Carmen Maria Machado
• The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon. As a thank you, our donors get access to exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

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In our third episode about haunted houses, we talk about the Gothic influence from literature on our ideas of haunted houses, how haunted houses can be "keepers of the past," and social ghosting.

Books we talked about in this episode:

• Castle of Otronto by Horace Walpole
• Slade House by David Mitchell
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon. As a thank you, our donors get access to exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

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