This very fun and special episode features our favorite guest, Jamieson Ridenhour, creator of the podcast Palimpsest, as we analyze Sheridan Le Fanu's masterpiece of vampirism.Jamieson Ridenhourhttps://www.jamiesonridenhourwriter.com/Carmilla (1871-72)J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edited by Jamieson Ridenhour (2009)Available at: https://www.valancourtbooks.com/carmilla-1871-72.htmlCarmillaJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu (author), Carmen Maria Machado (editor)Annotated edition (2020)https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Carmilla-by-Joseph-Sheridan-Le-Fanu-author-Carmen-Maria-Machado-editor/9781941360385Re: Dracula (Audio Drama)https://redracula.live/#carmillaThe Phantom World by Augustin Calmet (1850)https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29412/29412-h/29412-h.htmVampires, Burial, and Death by Paul Barber (1988)https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300164817/vampires-burial-and-death/White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (2009)https://lighthousebookshop.com/book/9780330458153Hungerstone by Kat Dunn (2025)Highgate Wood (Teaser)https://open.spotify.com/episode/6N8v9WBfFDZLrNa3MhYjzCViola’s Room (Immersive Experience)https://www.punchdrunk.com/work/violas-room/
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Coming Up Next Tuesday: Chocolate, Coffee, Bites and Blood
A horrifyingly hungry taste of next week's episode!
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Bloody Desperate Housewives: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
What would you do if you were a bored Southern housewife in a book club that focused on true crime, horror and murder, in addition to drinking wine and eating lots of snacks? What would you do if your boring doctor husband and bratty, dysfunctional kids befriended the strange new guy who moved in just next door? What would you do if the strange new guy started showing up at your house around dinnertime and was always invited in for fried chicken, roast potatoes, chocolate cake and ice cream? What if his strange behavior around young women, and toward you, made you suddenly suspect he was a vampire? What if you tried to tell your family and book club friends about his bloodthirsty proclivities and were reviled and called a liar? You'd be pretty pissed off and would want to stop cooking things like cheese straws, frozen salads, casseroles and Swedish meatballs, and would probably want to find a way to slay this bloodsucking bastard, right? We're discussing these tastily terrifying questions and analyzing the connection between food and horror in Grady Hendrix's 2020 darkly humorous novel The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, so please join us!
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Coming Up Next Tuesday: Book Clubs, Bored Housewives, and Bone-Chilling Bloodsuckers
A tastily terrifying tidbit of next week's episode!
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The Family That Bloodsucks Together: The Radleys
What would you do if you were an angst-ridden teenager with a secret crush on the new boy in the neighborhood and a taste for fish and chips? What would you do if your vomiting vegan sister was chased through the woods, nearly attacked then turned around and killed her would-be assaulter by sinking her teeth into him? What would you do if your seemingly normal mother, who loved to bake bread, make cakes, and cook blood sausages and pancakes for breakfast, and your seemingly normal father who loved cocktails and the taste of his own blood, told you one day that you were vampires? What would you do if your super cool uncle showed up one day to help hide the murder of the attacker kid, demonstrated his love for chocolate chip cookies and mesmerism, and showed you the fun aspects of drinking blood? We'll be discussing these scarily scrumptious issues and analyzing the connection between food and horror in the 2024 film The Radleys, so please join us.
A podcast that analyzes the horror genre - films and literature - through the use and symbolism of food. Join hosts Vanessa and Allie as they discuss the things that turn our stomachs in disgust, cause our stomachs to growl with hunger, and make our stomachs tighten in terror.
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