There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast

In which Carla explores Duckie or Blane--then v. now, and the effect "John Hughes movies" had on her as a GenXer (and is Pretty in Pink fairly called a "John Hughes movie"? And is 54 too old to watch "80's teen movies"? And how many things "in quotations" are too many things?)

Sources:

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation by Susannah Gora: Bookshop.org and libro.fm audio

my referenced review for the documentary BRATS (2024)
available on Disney and Hulu
Brat: An '80's Story by Andrew McCarthy: Bookshop.org and libro.fm audio

The rest of the many books referenced will be listed on the website, theremightbecupcakes.com.

Pretty in Pink: Letterboxd, Rotten Tomatoes

Theme song and stinger: "She Comes Through the Fog" by Haunted Me, used with permission.

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Contact:
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In which Carla celebrates the season by once again celebrating a Victorian horror author, as the Victorians would wish us to do in this season of darkness and cheer.

Sources and References:
Books by Charlotte Riddell available from Project Gutenberg
Books by Mrs. J. H. Riddell available from archive.org

Theme song and stinger: “She Comes Through the Fog” by Haunted Me, used with permission.

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In which Carla reenters the…why is it a house of leaves?

Sources and references: The House of Leaves universe:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves
Poe’s album “Haunted”: Apple, Spotify

Starling House, Alix E. Harrow https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781250799067 House of Windows by John Langan and Adam Levill https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781682308110 The Silent Land by Graham Joyce https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780307739827 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780316769488 

Theme song and stinger: “She Comes Through the Fog” by Haunted Me, used with permission.

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In which Carla shares her nonfiction five star reads of the past year, and celebrates Banned Books Week.

bannedbooksweek.org

Theme song and stinger: “She Comes Through the Fog” by Haunted Me, used with permission.

How to Support Cupcakes:

Subscribe to ad-free episodes and the newsletter at theremightbecupcakes.com (hosted by ghost.io). 

Buy used books from the podcast's bookstore at Pango Books.

Shop at Bookshop for physical books and ebooks, also supporting Judy Blume’s Books & Books,

Shop at libro.fm for audiobooks, also supporting Judy Blume’s Books & Books, 

and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes.

And help support the podcast's Little Free Library! Info at theremightbecupcakes.com/starting-a-little-free-library

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In which Carla shares her five star reads of the past year, and talks about where she's been.


Theme song and stinger: “She Comes Through the Fog” by Haunted Me, used with permission. 


How to Support Cupcakes: 
Subscribe to ad-free episodes and the newsletter at theremightbecupcakes.com (hosted by ghost.io), 
Buy used books from the podcast's bookstore at Pango Books.
Shop at Bookshop for physical books and ebooks, also supporting Judy Blume’s Books & Books,
Shop at libro.fm for audiobooks, also supporting Judy Blume’s Books & Books, 
and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes.

And help support the podcast's Little Free Library! Info at theremightbecupcakes.com/starting-a-little-free-library
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In which Carla shares one of Poe's more controversial and violent stories with you.

Sources:
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Tales - Berenice
Berenice – The Poe Museum
Berenice (short story) - Wikipedia
Southern Literary Messenger - Wikipedia
A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe, edited by J. Gerald Kennedy

Theme song and stinger: “She Comes Through the Fog” by Haunted Me, used with permission.  
  
How to Support Cupcakes:  
Subscribe to ad-free episodes and the newsletter at theremightbecupcakes.com (hosted by ghost.io),  
Shop at Bookshop for physical books and ebooks, also supporting Judy Blume’s Books & Books,
Shop at libro.fm for audiobooks, also supporting Judy Blume’s Books & Books,
and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes.

And help support the podcast's Little Free Library! Info at https://www.theremightbecupcakes.com/starting-a-little-free-library/

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In which Carla and her co-author and friend Robert Ford have fun and find cupcakes. Hope you do as well.
Video version to follow shortly. Uninterrupted by ads on all feeds.

List of Bob's works
robertfordauthor.com: Instagram, Bluesky
Rattlesnake Kisses (Knucklebucket) by Bob Ford and John Boden
Cattywampus (Knucklebucket) by Bob Ford and John Boden
Wounds to Wishes: Tales of Mystery and Melancholy by Bob Ford, John Boden, and Chad Lutzke

the beginning of Ruth Chew's series: The Wednesday Witch
the beginning of John Bellairs' Lewis Barnavelt series: The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Prisoners of Cell Block H theme song thanks to archive.org
Tales From the Dark Side opening credits

Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission.

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Subscribe to ad-free episodes and the newsletter at theremightbecupcakes.com (hosted by ghost.io),
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To listen to my short story "Holly Jolly Christmas" that introduced Bob and I, go to episode 75, "Holly Jolly Horror".

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In which Carla reenters the…why is it a house of leaves?

Preorder Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski: https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781524747718

Sources and references:

The House of Leaves universe:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves
Poe’s album “Haunted”: Apple, Spotify

The Little Blue Kite by Mark Z. Danielewski https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781524747695
The Collected Poetry of W. B. Yeats https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780684807317

Atlanta Blood House:
https://www.ranker.com/list/bleeding-house-georgia/jodi-smith
https://www.trulyadventure.us/blood-house https://talkmurder.com/atlanta-blood-house/

Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission.

How to Support Cupcakes:
Subscribe to ad-free episodes and the newsletter at theremightbecupcakes.com (hosted by ghost.io),
Shop at Bookshop for physical books and ebooks, also supporting Judy Blume’s Books & Books, https://bookshop.org/shop/theremightbecupcakes
Shop at libro.fm for audiobooks, also supporting Judy Blume’s Books & Books, 
and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes.

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In which Carla goes deeper into the Five and a Half Hallway and The Three Attic Whalestoe Letters of the House of Leaves novel (fourth and fifth episodes in the series). Remember, Mother loves you.

The House of Leaves universe:

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 

The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves 

Poe’s album “Haunted”: Apple, Spotify

Demented domiciles: the term I coined for houses in literature and movies for houses that are just Not Right. My favorite is Anne Rivers Siddons’ The House Next Door.

Referenced and Recommended:
Elizabeth: A Novel of the Unnatural by Jessica Hamilton
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
Philip Larkin, The Complete Poems
Pisces: https://thoughtcatalog.com/january-nelson/2021/05/pisces-woman/
The Seafarer: https://oldenglishpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/the-seafarer/
The Battle of Maldon: https://oldenglishpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/battle-of-maldon/
Homer’s Odyssey
Aeschylus's Oresteia
Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Journey to the Center of the Earth by H. G. Wells, narrated by Tim Curry
The Deep House
The Descent and The Descent 2
The Blair Witch Project

Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission.



How to Support Cupcakes:

Subscribe to ad-free episodes and the newsletter at theremightbecupcakes.com (hosted by ghost.io),

Shop at Bookshop for physical books and ebooks, supporting Judy Blume’s Books & Books
Shop at libro.fm for audiobooks, also supporting Judy Blume’s Books & Books, 


and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes.



Where to Find Cupcakes:

Reddit: r/theremightbecupcakes
Bluesky: 
theremightbecupcakes.com
The Story Graph
Contact: [email protected]
 

Complete list of ways to listen to the podcast on the sidebar at http://theremightbecupcakes.com

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In which Carla continues to explore the Navidson Record of House of Leaves, so that we may go deeper. Further down and further in. This is the third glow stick we have popped; we have two more, and much more darkness.

The House of Leaves universe:

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves
• Poe’s album “Haunted”: Apple, Spotify, Amazon

The Cipher by Kathe Koja 
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Illustrated Edition 
Slade House by David Mitchell 
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 
Alice Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons 
Locke and Key vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill 
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House Audible, narrated by Bernadette Dunne 
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Audible, narrated by Bernadette Dunne 

Referenced works, sources, and recommended reading:
Dante’s Inferno
Rainer Maria Rilke
Virgil’s The Aeneid
M. C. Escher
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling 
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger 
The Never-Ending Story by Michael Ende
Hermes
Orpheus
How to Support Cupcakes:
Subscribe to ad-free episodes and the newsletter at theremightbecupcakes.com (hosted by ghost.io),
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Where to Find Cupcakes:
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theremightbecupcakes r/theremightbecupcakes
Bluesky: theremightbecupcakes.comThe Story Graph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/theremightbecupcakes
Contact: [email protected]
 
Complete list of ways to listen to the podcast on the sidebar at http://theremightbecupcakes.com

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast--4761852/support.