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Sisters Get Scared

Sisters

Two scardey-cat sisters read and recap horror novels.

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36:34

E85 ᐧ You Should Have Left

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/12/05

Lindsay and Barbara recap Daniel Kehlmann’s novella about a struggling screenwriter driven mad by an isolated vacation house that’s also a rift in the space-time continuum? Featuring: The world’s worst blurb, calling my sister “middle aged,” Besties II, and using the word hypotenuse in everyday speech.

55:24

E84 ᐧ Contagion

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/11/28

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Erin Bowman’s scary-in-space novel about a crew attempting to escape an alien infection. Featuring: Dream interpretation, losing and finding Barbara’s phone, scary space zombies, Dr. Lady, and transportation narcolepsy.

48:41

E83 ᐧ Slade House

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/11/21

Lindsay and Barbara dig into David Mitchell’s tale of a mysterious London house that only appears every nine years and the people who go missing there. Featuring: Red bland wine, physical therapy, soul-slurping siblings, lacunae, deadly hatpins, and more.

01:18:00

Court of Thorns and Roses

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/11/15

NOT SCARY – Lindsay talks Barbara through the first of Sarah J. Maas’ ultra-popular sexy fairy books. Featuring: Magic psychic fairy bonds, masque masks, will-they-won’t-they, and more totally fun non-scary things.

44:30

E82 ᐧ Bones and All

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/11/07

Barbara tells Lindsay about Camille DeAngelis’ cannibal-coming-of-age story. Featuring: The New York Marathon, delicious boys, surprise grandpas, and Timothée Chalamet.

31:23

E81 ᐧ The Fall of the House of Usher

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/10/31

5Lindsay and Barbara recap Edgar Allen Poe’s iconic short story about a dude visiting his depressed friend in a creepy mansion. Featuring: Non-scary book obsessions, the spirits of vegetable things, Notting Hill, and critical criticisms.

01:02:09

E80 ᐧ The Auctioneer

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2023/10/24

Lindsay first shares her hilariously harrowing experience with an intoxicated woman at the Denver Airport. Then the sisters discuss Joan Samson’s chilling novel about a small New Hampshire town that gets taken over by a conman auctioneer. Featuring: New England antiques, the lure of land, child auctions, and Watching the New Baby.

58:23

E79 ᐧ Delicate Condition

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/10/17

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Danielle Valentine’s meh novel about an anxious millennial who gets pregnant and miscarries (but doesn’t?). Featuring: Spilled wine, telling-not-showing, and putting your soul into the body of your best friend’s dead baby.

33:01

E78 ᐧ The Lottery

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/10/10

Lindsay and Barbara recap one of the greatest short stories ever written – Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery. Featuring: Sound description of an accordion, sore losers, and human sacrifice.

54:37

E77 ᐧ The Cipher

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/10/03

Lindsay and Barbara talk about Kathe Koja’s “punk existentialist horror novel” about a mysterious hole and the people obsessed with it. Featuring: Exploding mouse skulls, scary porn, art weirdo cult followers, goo cocoon, and an antidote to happiness.

45:47

E76 ᐧ The Cabin

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/09/26

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Matt Shaw’s badly written but excellently recappable tale of a dad gone wild. Featuring: Twirly hands, Father Time, how Barbara would rewrite this book, and dogs that talk with buttons.

01:00:15

E75 ᐧ The Hellbound Heart

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/09/05

Lindsay and Barbara recap Clive Barker’s iconic novella about a dissolute dude who tries to claw his way out of hell and the sister-in-law who helps him. Featuring: Super scary cenobites, a trip to the mall, sad-sack friends, and more.

39:50

E74 ᐧ The Grownup

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/08/29

Lindsay and Barbara talk about Gillian Flynn’s twisted short story about a fake psychic pulled into a dangerous family haunting. Featuring: a chilly-holdie, hand jobs, creepy teens, and more.

01:12:35

E73 ᐧ The Devil in Silver

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/08/22

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Victor LaValle’s discomfiting tale of a man wrongly held in a mental hospital terrorized by “the devil.” Featuring: Seahawks training camp, mental diagnoses, and all the pronunciations of the word “woman.”

45:30

E72 ᐧ Monstrilio

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/08/15

Lindsay and Barbara recap Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s magical realist tale of grieving parents growing a new creature from a piece of their son’s dead body. Featuring: Light cannibalism, fluid sexualities, barking dogs, and more.

01:26:37

E71 ᐧ Night of the Mannequins

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/08/08

Lindsay and Barbara are joined by infamous cousin-friends Matt & Tyler to dissect Stephen Graham Jones’ genre-film-inspired novella. Featuring: Return to the creepy boathouse, decidedly non-magical mental illness, high school friend dynamics, and much much more!

33:57

E70 ᐧ The Willows

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/08/02

Lindsay and Barbara catch up after weeks and weeks of not recording and briefly recap Algernon Blackwood’s iconic proto-Lovecraftian tale The Willows. Featuring: Diana Krall! Therapy! Indescribable cosmic creatures!

57:58

E69 ᐧ Wylding Hall

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/07/04

Lindsay and Barbara chat about Elizbeth Hand’s acid-folk-fuelled oral history of a 70s band’s pagan breakdown. Featuring: Wren witch faeries, grimoires, a neolithic mound shaped like half an egg, doggie-horsie-this-book, and our mother singing Arlo Guthrie.

01:05:06

E68 ᐧ Bone White

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/06/27

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Ronald Malfi’s super scary tale of a man searching for his lost brother in the dark and dangerous realm of monsters/serial-killers (aka Alaska). Featuring: Eyelash lift vs extensions, the difference between shrews and voles and mice, identical twin magic, scary animal head masks, and more.

42:23

E67 ᐧ Arkham County

Sisters Get Scared ·

2023/06/20

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Guy Adams & AK Benedict’s confusingly plotted multi-character Lovecraftian homage. Featuring: Mom’s pickleball drama, Stanley Tucci, squid brothers, and a lot on top of a lot.

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