Are you familiar with DSM-5? It's the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Eric was fortunate to participate in a panel with moderator Terri Harden, a licensed trauma therapist to discuss how the DSM-5 models apply to horror movies! FASCINATING! We have an audio interview with Terri here, as well as a Video of the Panel that we did with Jungian Scholar and horror trivia host Willy Greer. I hope you find this informative and entertaining!

Time to read some books, watch some films and play some games with The Scariest Things in Spooky Time Episode 17!

Your hosts are putting on their sunscreen and stepping outside for episode 167- Daytime Horror!

The 8th Annual Portland Horror Film Festival is back in action, live at the Hollywood Theater in Portland Oregon OR... streaming live at your home! This years offerings conjure up one word: GONZO.

Come see Barabara Crampton and Jeffrey Combs reuinite for the wild Onyx The Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls. The much praised Black Mold will be the Opening Night feature, and there will be a total of 9 features and 60 Horror Shorts... at a festival noted for giving you the best horror shorts on the festival circuit. See you there!

The Scariest Things Podcast had the honor of sitting down with one of the most inventive voices in horror today, Bomani J. Story, to talk about his new film the Angry Black Girl and Her Monster. The film had its premiere at SXSW and the Scariest Things Podcast was there to take it all in!

A Film Festival meets Slumber Party meets Glamping. That's the Cabin in the Woods Film Festival, a brand new experience being brought to you from horror Author Crystal Connor. Join the Scariest Things, and all of Crystal's special guests for a one-of-a-kind experience, made special for horror fans. Come join us!

It's Spooky Time 15! Time for a mayoral election for Tropetown, where all your scary movie themes get discussed.

Also:

- Liz goes scratch off ticket crazy for Glenn Danzig's new film.

- Mike does a mid-year report on his looking foward-to movies (it's not pretty)

- Eric talks about his experiences at Crypticon in Seattle.

For a powerful examination of the other side of exorcisms, check out Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism coming out on May 30 on TUBI! You can get a primer for the film with The Scariest Things Interview with the Director and Cast of the film. Listen in, and go get to the TUBI!

Your hosts are diving into the depths of the streaming horror to find you the weirdest, watchable horror on TUBI. Tune into podcast episode 166: TUBI...or not TUBI!

Summer is nearly here, and it is now time to reflect back at how the horror genre has done so far, and look forward to some wonderfully stoopid action like the Meg2! Plus Liz is on the Fantasia Press Pool and Robert found some Lovecraft short stories for those of you literate enough to digest the prose.