We discuss our favorite / best books we’ve read halfway through the year (2025) and what we’re looking forward to reading. Your hosts are Steph Kingston (@StephOKingston), Christina Ladd (@christinaladd), and Joshua MacDougall (@FourofFiveWits). You can find us all on Bluesky. Our art is by Mangoyu Art (@MangoyuArt), and our music is by Bad Sparrow …
We love to see a good old fashioned space spook-em-up. It’s the foundation of many, many franchises across all types of media, and Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes draws from these predecessors while still managing to tread new ground in a skin-crawlingly fun way. As Geekly Inc.’s resident mystery lover (really I just love to …
It’s Halloween so here’s a spoOoOoOky bookling: Red River Seven by AJ Ryan! This tense horror thriller is a fantastic quick and creepy read. Check out the episode for more discussion (remember there will be spoilers!) Your hosts are Josh MacDougall (FourofFiveWits), Christina Ladd (christinaladd), and Steph Kingston (StephOKingston) and you can find us all …
Get your beverage of choice ready because we finally manifested our own drinking game into existence. We welcome the fantastic Ursula Vernon AKA T. Kingfisher onto the show to discuss caterpillar inflaters, ghost kangaroos, and A House With Good Bones. You can find Ursula on Twitter @ursulav where you can find Josh MacDougall (@FourofFiveWits), Christina …
We are joined by guest Henry (www.patreon.com/whimsysthrone) to discuss T Kingfisher’s new horror novel: A House With Good Bones. Your hosts are Josh MacDougall (@FourofFiveWits), Christina Ladd (@OLaddieGirl), and Steph Kingston (@StephOKingston). Our art is by Chango Chamango (@ChangoChamango) and our music is by Bad Sparrow (@BadSparrowMusic). You can find us on Twitter and Instagram …
New Years Even of 2016, New York City, Times Square… sure it sounds great on paper, but not when a maniac shows up and starts slashing people up! Four years and many murders later, two NYPD officers heading up the Maniac Taskforce are on the case. Faced with budget cuts, the mayor’s obsession with his …
Sarah Gailey’s upcoming book Just Like Home hits a perfect sweet spot between true crime vibes and creeping gothic horror. Normally I try to read about one book to review a month; this book I finished in a week. It was so compelling I read the entire first half in one day. In Just Like …
Good horror is scary, but great horror is tender. It does not always speak at a scream, but tells you, very softly but very firmly, what is about to happen. It does not gloat, but likewise does not flinch. It is—inevitable. I wish that all novellas were as inevitable as Helpmeet, the exquisite new offering …
It’s spooky season! Time to curl up with a cozy blanket, something warm to drink, and a good book. This October has an embarrassment of riches as far as horror goes, and we have recommendations for whatever poison you’d like to pick. Gothic, slasher, futuristic, slow dread…the list does go on, so take a look …
“So Shanna got a new job at the movie theater, we thought we’d play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead, and I’m really starting to feel kind of guilty about it all.” As first lines go, Stephen Graham Jones’s opener for Night of the Mannequins is pretty close to …