Books in the Freezer - A Horror Fiction Podcast

Have we always been the caretakers? I am joined by reviewer George Dunn (@georgesreads) to talk about horror stories that are centered around the giving or receiving care either professionally or for a loved one. 

Movies: 

Relic

The Taking of Deborah Logan

Insidious 

The Perfection

The Haunting

Would You Rather?

Saint Maud

The Skeleton Key

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

Misery

Books: 

A Veritable Household Pet by Viggy Parr Hampton

The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer

Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine

The Vessel by Adam Nevill

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum

The Shining by Stephen King

Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

We Spread by Iain Reid

Chilling Obsession: The Ervil LaBaron Cult

Final Girl Playlist: 

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Books Mentioned: 

Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle

The Red Sacrament by Sara Hinkley

The Sea Hides Its Dead by Megan Bontrager

Scary Movie Night by Miranda Smith

Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die by Mallory Arnold

The Flayed Man by Chloe Lautner

Meat Bees by Dane Erbach

The Quiet Resurrection of Sister Evelida Livingston by Nick Wallin

Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman

Stay Buried by Jennifer McMahon

Reliquary by Hannah Whitten

The Calamities by Chuck Wendig

The House That Eats the Dead by Max Doty

The Minimalist by Kailee Pedersen

These Walls Remember by Del Sandeen

Lights! Camera! Frendo! by Adam Cesare 

The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims

Blacktail by Scott Hawkins

Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison

Pictures of You by Josh Malerman

This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper

Mazywood by Tananarive Due

Worry Box by Christopher Panatier

Trad Wife by Sarah Langan

Nightjars by Michael Wehunt

The Ship of Death by Kyle Winkler

The House Built on Alligator Bones by Sophia Honeycutt

It Looks Like You in the Dark by Mathilda Zeller

Quaint Folk by Bitter Carella

Bruja's Nest by Brenda LaTorre

What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlotte-Bonne

Amityville Awakens by Robert Ottone

This B Just Won't Die by Tanya Pell

Solace House by William MacLean

Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones

What A Nightmare by Rebekah Faubion

Public Access Afterworld by Jane Schoenbrun

There Used to Be People Here by Kennedy Cole

CJ Leede is in the house and we are solving crimes! Not really, but we are talking about her latest novel Headlights and blend of horror and crime, weird (and romantic!) sex scenes, the importance of pop culture in stories, the romance of Americana, her upcoming work and more! We also talk about books that balance the tightrope of crime and horror, some with possibly vampires and some with definitely vampires

Movies/Shows Mentioned: 

True Detective (Season 1)

Seven

Hannibal

Longlegs

Red Dragon

Zodiac

Books Mentioned: 

Headlights by CJ Leede

The Gathering by CJ Tudor

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

All These Bodies by Kendare Blank

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

Hydra (Six Stories #2) by Matt Weselowski

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Mothersucker by Kim Boyhun (translated by Archana Madhavan)

The Outsider by Stephen King

All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby

Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad #4) by Tana French

Chilling Obsessions: Hacks and Wuthering Heights

Final Girl Song: Wolf Like Me

I basically forced Anna from Anna Rose Reads to watch Mad Men, so we decided to record an episode to get all of our thoughts out and decide what books to recommend for each character. 


Books Mentioned: 

Gerald's Game by Stephen King

Small Town Horror with Ronald Malfi

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Trad Wife by Saratoga Schafer

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson

Duma Key by Stephen King

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

All's Well by Mona Awad

Greedy by Callie Kazumi

The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls by Angela Sylvaine

The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own by Gwendolyn Kiste

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Misery by Stephen King

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley

Chilling Obsessions: 

Something Very Bad is Going to Happen (Netflix)

Challengers

Final Girl Playlist

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I bid you welcome, listener

Anette is on the podcast today to discuss books that were inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula

Movies/Shows: 

Renfield

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Dracula 20000

Dracula Untold

Nosferatu

Penny Dreadful

Books: 

A Route of Ice and Salt by Jose Luis Zarate

Lucy Undying by Kiersten White

Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste

"Abraham's Boys" by Joe Hill

"The 8 People Who Murdered Me" by Gwendolyn Kiste

Brenda and Effie Mysteries

The Fox & the Devil

Chilling Obsession - Eye of the Devil Movie

Final Girl Song - Which Witch by Florence and the Machine

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