The Know Fear Cast

In our latest series, we discuss dystopia fiction and what makes it qualify as horror.

We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is [email protected]. If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com. Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free and helps other listeners find us. Theme Music by Nicholas Gasparini. Mixed and edited by Matt.

We'll be taking this week off, so please enjoy this rerun episode of Hell House, LLC, originally released as part of our series on found footage.

We will be back in two weeks with a brand new episode.

For our next entry in "hotel horror," we discuss Simone St. James' novel The Sun Down Motel.

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In this special epsiode, we have a conversation with Cynthia Pelayo, author of the recently released novel Vanishing Daughters.

Cynthia Pelayo is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Forgotten Sisters, Children of Chicago, and The Shoemaker's Magician. In addition to writing genre-blending novels that incorporate fairy-tale, mystery, detective, crime, and horror elements, Pelayo has written numerous short stories, including the collection Lotería, and the poetry collection Crime Scene. The recipient of the 2021 International Latino Book Award, she holds a master of fine arts in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her family. For more information, visit www.cinapelayo.com.

Vanishing Daughters is a breathtaking novel of psychological suspense about a haunted woman who is stalked by a serial killer and confronts the horrors of fairy tales and the nightmares of real life . It started the night journalist Briar Thorne's mother died in their rambling old mansion on Chicago's South Side. The nightmares of a woman in white pleading to come home, music switched on in locked rooms, and the panicked fear of being swallowed by the dark . . . Bri has almost convinced herself that these stirrings of dread are simply manifestations of grief and not the beyond-world of ghostly impossibilities her mother believed in. And more tangible terrors still lurk outside the decaying Victorian greystone. A serial killer has claimed the lives of fifty-one women in the Chicago area. When Bri starts researching the murders, she meets a stranger who tells her there's more to her sleepless nights than bad dreams—they hold the key to putting ghosts to rest and stopping a killer. But the killer has caught on and is closing in, and if Bri doesn't answer the call of the dead soon, she'll be walking among them.

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For the next episode in our series on "hotel horror," we look at Ti West's 2011 film The Innkeepers.

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Mel and Lisa discuss the mother of all hotel horror stories: Alfred Hitchock's Psycho.

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We begin a new series on the horror of hotels and motels by discussing the history of these types of stories and what makes them so scary.

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In this episode, Mel and Lisa discuss the original 1922 version of Nosferatu as well as the 1979 Werner Herzog remake.

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As we take a short hiatus for the holidays, please enjoy our season 5 episode in which we watched Gremlins

We are taking a short hiatus for the holidays. Please enjoy this Christmas-y episode from Season 3 in which Mel and Lisa talk about several stories told around Christmas-time: "The Ash Tree" and "Lost Hearts" by M.R. James and "A Strange Christmas Game" by Charlotte Riddell.