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Oooooof, it's been a hot minute. Between walking pneumonia, slight psychosis, and grappling with the world being on fire we are finally BACK to wrap up the illustrious Gertie Stein. This episode gets REAL with moral conflict and is too OH-SO-RELATABLE to the inner turmoil we are ...  Show more

Okay, okay, okay... you just knew we couldn't attack the task of talking about someone so ICONIC without spreading it out... so welcome two part 2 OF 3, POSSIBLY 4 OR 5 OR 6 AS MANY AS IT TAKES of Gertrude Stein... because when you're dealing with someone who was at the epicenter ...  Show more

Revisiting last's year's spooky... It's time for the infernal goddesses of the dead... Chthonic Cuties... the realm of the Underworld itself, and how the real people of ancient Greece worshipped and interacted with that realm while they're still in the land of the living... Find ...  Show more

Small Frights: Terror in the Music Room On this episode, a Lantern calls in to tell us about a disturbing tradition his music teacher embraced every Halloween. We also take a call filled with trick-or-treat memories and read a ghost story from the UK! Mentioned in the episode:Jea ...  Show more

Imagine Jaws without the sneaking tuba. Or Psycho without the shrieking violins. Music can help a horror film strike fear in the heart of theatergoers. And you can trace some of these musical scare tactics back to the era of SILENT films — when organists made up film scores on ...

You know the legend he created.  Tonight, our reading will tell you just how eerily all of the spooky pieces of Bram Stoker’s life fell precisely into place so that he could give the world--DRACULA!  Stoker had the right illness, the right grim mother, friends, books, and even th ...  Show more