Episodes

Time to hear from our listeners! Caroline and Carly read comments sent in by listeners of Season 1 of our Book Club on Haunted House books.Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts about the books we’ve read. We’re stil...

Carly and Caroline wrap their heads around this book that pushes the boundaries of novel-writing and allows for many different interpretations. They describe the creative and disorienting formatting around two very different ...

This episode is about our short story choice for the season, "The Yellow Wallpaper". Caroline and Carly ask if a house can be haunted if it’s haunted for only one person. They discuss the horror of knowing that something is w...

Caroline and Carly are talking about cosmic horror featuring an army of strange creatures from another dimension, space and time traveling. We talk about grief and its relation to the passage of time. We ask whether the Reclu...

Our first Indy book is The House on Abigail Lane by Kealan Patrick Burke, and Caroline says it reminds her of the collaborative horror she has read online. We talk about the haunted house as a vehicle for imagination and a re...

This week, Carly and Caroline talk about Stephen King’s masterpiece, The Shining , and the horror of limited choices. We talk about our different reactions to the book as teenagers and then as adults, whether or not Jack has ...

Caroline and Carly discuss class and how women have had their social status dependent on the children they cared for. They explore whether the governess narrator hallucinated the ghosts or if the house was really haunted. Let...

Our second episode is about The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Caroline and Carly talk about the author’s skill at revealing things unsaid, the corrosive effects of loneliness, found family, awkward introvert mome...

In this first book discussion, Caroline and Carly talk about 99 Fear Street: The First Horror by R.L. Stine, a classic haunted house story. It’s a short book chock full of disgusting, shocking and bloody phenomena tormenting ...

Announcing a new podcast about reading and discussing books in depth! Hosts Carly and Caroline read several books with a similar theme, begin their discussions with an opening questions, and consider listener feedback. The f...