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Sisters Get Scared

Sisters

Two scardey-cat sisters read and recap horror novels.

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01:00:48

E27 ᐧ Burnt Offerings

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2022/08/16

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Robert Marasco’s classic haunted house novel Burnt Offerings, about a family renting a FANCY home on the north fork of Long Island for the summer — and the TERROR that ensues. Featuring: All cleaning, no fun. Creepy photographs. And whether it’s ok to sacrifice your family’s lives for a mansion.

58:33

E26 ᐧ The Grip of It

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2022/08/09

Lindsay and Barbara get highfalutin with Jac Jemc’s “literary” (aka confusing? but cool?) haunted house novel. Featuring: Secret caves, hidden compartments, a creepy neighbor, and a married couple with the world’s worst communication skills.

47:31

E25 ᐧ Sharp Objects

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2022/08/02

Lindsay and Barbara dig into Gillian Flynn’s surprisingly-not-that-scary tale of murdered children, twisted sisters, and one hella f*cked up mom. Featuring: Lindsay’s Alaskan cruise adventure, missing teeth, and “Sisters Get Bored.”

01:27:30

E24 ᐧ Heart-Shaped Box

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2022/07/19

READ THIS BOOK FIRST! Lindsay and Barbara discuss Joe Hill’s totally awesome tale about an aging rocker who buys a haunted suit off the internet and gets waaaaay more than he bargained for. Featuring: The magical power of dogs, scary ghost hypnosis radio, and a most excellent redemption arc.

54:26

E23 ᐧ Salem’s Lot – Ft. Our Dad!

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2022/07/12

Lindsay, Barbara, and Dad Bruce talk about Stephen King’s terrifying vampire tome Salem’s Lot – the scariest book that Bruce has ever read! Also discussed: Information overload, taking a historical perspective, and the shocking reason why British pilots in WWI weren’t given parachutes.

41:55

E22 ᐧ Nana

Sisters Get Scared ·

2022/07/06

Lindsay and Barbara discuss the senior-satanism novella Nana by Mark Towse. Featuring: Lindsay’s weekend plans, sexually inappropriate elders, and the world’s worst talent show.

50:17

E21 ᐧ The Cockroach King

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2022/06/29

Lindsay and Barbara mostly chitchat before digging into Andrew Cull’s roach-infested novella The Cockroach King. Featuring: Improbable moments from the new Top Gun movie, bad neighbors, and whether animal control should be expected to handle a human-sized cockroach monster.

01:06:37

E20 ᐧ A Good Marriage

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2022/06/21

Lindsay and Barbara celebrate their respective wedding anniversaries by discussing Stephen King's spine-chilling thriller about a wife who discovers that her husband of 27 years is a brutally sadistic serial killer. Featuring: Wedding-veil-as-symbolic-hymen, wheat pennies, witness protection names, and more.

44:33

E19 ᐧ Price Guide to the Occult

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2022/06/14

Lindsay and Barbara debate whether Leslye Walton’s decidedly-not-at-all-scary YA novel was any good. Featuring: Quirky character names, a teenage love triangle, magic, and more.

57:38

E18 ᐧ The Dead House

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2022/06/07

HILARIOUS. Lindsay and Barbara laugh their way through Billy O'Callaghan’s haunting Irish ghost story about a woman who fixes up her dream cottage only to get possessed by a neo-pagan potato famine murderer. Featuring: Home renovation! Artists! DIY ouija (WHO KNEW IT WAS PRONOUNCED WEE-GEE!?)! And the unspeakable horror of moldy potatoes.

57:09

E17 ᐧ Let the Right One In

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2022/05/31

Lindsay and Barbara talk through John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Swedish vampire tale. This page-turner tackles everything from pre-teen bullying to alcoholism, immolation, face-melted-by-acid, self-harm, and pedophilia. But it’s also kind of sweet?

53:47

E16 ᐧ The Other

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2022/05/24

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Thomas Tryon’s terrifyingly bonkers tale of teen twins — one evil and the other… vaguely psychic? — and their oh-so-very-in-denial family. Featuring: Russian grandmother magic. Identical twin switcheroos. And a TRULY SHOCKING answer to “Where’s the baby!?”

01:11:16

E15 ᐧ The Shining Girls

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2022/05/17

READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara discuss Lauren Beukes’ mind-bending 2013 novel The Shining Girls. Featuring: A time-traveling serial killer! Really cool female characters! And a kickass heroine.

39:53

E14 ᐧ Special: Meet our Mom!

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2022/05/10

Lindsay and Barbara’s biggest fan joins them for a very special Mother’s Day episode. Meet Jan, host of the GranJan Reads podcast, as her daughters mercilessly razz her and ask hard-hitting questions like: Who’s your favorite? Are we psychic? and What’s the scariest thing that’s ever happened to you?

01:02:32

E13 ᐧ Dracula

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2022/05/03

Think you know Bram Stoker’s Dracula? Fine! You do! But have you heard of a harborgast? Listen along as Lindsay and Barbara debate the merits of this overly long and brain-type-obsessed tome, from its depictions of Victorian sexuality to the canonical vampire rulebook… and maybe a newly coined word or two along the way.

01:27:41

E12 ᐧ Hell House

Sisters Get Scared ·

2022/04/26

Who’s the most scared sister? Hear Lindsay and Barbara get FREAKED THE HECK OUT by Richard Matheson’s super-duper-scary haunted house novel featuring: psychic mediums, lesbians, ecoplasm, electro-magnetism, and more.

42:03

E11 ᐧ Wait Till Helen Comes

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2022/04/20

Lindsay and Barbara chat about Mary Downing Hahn’s 1986 baby novel for babies — aka a book for young folk that Barbara didn’t find remotely scary but Lindsay managed to emotionally connect with. Including: Cool artist parents! Ghost friends! Child arsonists! Sisters!

01:15:50

E10 ᐧ Psycho

Sisters Get Scared ·

2022/04/11

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Robert Bloch’s iconic 1959 novel, the best way to steal $400k, the human-feet-in-shoes mystery of the Salish Sea, multiple personality disorder, and more.

01:34:05

E9 ᐧ The Only Good Indians

Sisters Get Scared ·

2022/04/05

READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara talk through Stephen Graham-Jones’ mind-expanding novel The Only Good Indians. In this book, four friends are hunted by a vengeful elk spirit. And it’s BONKERS — think Hamlet meets Kill Bill meets I Know What You Did Last Summer.

56:20

E8 ᐧ Son of Rosemary

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2022/03/29

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Ira Levin’s lame and confusing sequel, Son of Rosemary. Featuring: Gratuitous incest vibes! Unexplained anagrams! Demonic marijuana! Genocide! Missing: Any kind of emotional connection or payoff.

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