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Ep 269 - A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle Nov 06, 2017

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Travel through time and space with us to the planet Camazotz and beyond! Learn about love, dictatorships, and cosmic Christian centaurs with us and Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.

Other topics include meeting your husband on Broadway, Grand Moff IT, and the worst government job ever: Tesseract Tester.

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Ep 268 - Ghost Stories and Urban Legends #2 (Bonus Episode) Nov 03, 2017

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Trick or Treat! We tricked you - it's a treat! Here's an all-new batch of spooky stories and educational hauntings.

The podcast is coming from inside the house! We have camping trip guidelines, the Highgate Chicken Ghost, Harry and the Woman in the Toilet, and tales about Haunted Ohio and Robert Johnson.

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Ep 267 - Interview With The Vampire, by Anne Rice Oct 30, 2017

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This week's penultimate Spooktober entry is Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire, a first-person vampire story that has spawned nearly two dozen sequels, spin-offs, and connected stories. The actual interview gimmick doesn't add much, but that doesn't mean the book doesn't have interesting things to say about the nature of morality and immortality.

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Ep 266 - Bag of Bones, by Stephen King Oct 23, 2017

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This week, Natasha of the Unspoiled Book Club podcast joins us to hash out Stephen King’s Bag of Bones, a book about being a middlebrow fiction writer, small towns, and ghosts. So, you know, most Stephen King novels.

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Ep 265 - House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski Oct 16, 2017

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Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves is out to get you. It is an antagonistic book that's larger on the inside than it appears on the outside. It's also a book about a book about a film about a house that may or may not be a portal to a hellish labyrinth. Confused yet? Join the club.

Join us for a discussion of metatexts, evil Zillow listings, and FOOTNOTES OH GOD THE FOOTNOTES.

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Ep 264 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe Oct 09, 2017

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This week we take a double-dip into Edgar Allan Poe's spooky catalogue—Craig reads about the Murders in the Rue Morgue, and Andrew sips from the Cask of Amontillado. Both are sort of spooky in their way, but they're also deeply strange horror stories that raise questions like "what animal would be the most likely to kill you" and "what would someone have to do to you for you to wall them up in a cellar."

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Ep 263 - Overdue Q&A #2 (Bonus Episode) Oct 06, 2017

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This episode we dive back into the mailbag! We didn't read a book but we did read a bunch of great questions from you about how we make the show, how we program it, and what we eat while we're reading.

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Ep 262 - 99 Fear Street (The First Horror), by R.L. Stine Oct 02, 2017

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Are you ready to get SPOOKY??? It's the first week of our 2017 Spooktober spectacular, and we're here to talk about R.L. Stine's teen horror series 99 Fear Street. This entry, The First Horror, is the story of Cally and her family, who move into the most clearly haunted house that you could ever imagine. Needless to say...things go poorly for the Frasiers.

Additional talking points include haunted TV shows, economic mobility, and phantasmagorical realtors.

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Ep 261 - Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding Sep 25, 2017

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Books read 1, alcohol units 4 (bad), chuckles 179 (excellent).

This week we tackle Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary, a book that's carried a long way by its narrator's voice; we also talk about Livejournals we may or may not have had, feminism, neuroses, and how we know basically nothing about dating in the modern era.

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Ep 260 - The Traitor, by Michael Cisco Sep 18, 2017

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How Weird do you like your fiction? Do you dig bogeymen who eat ghosts? Narrators who repeat themselves all the time? How about soul-crushing nihilism that implicates the reader in the demise of civilization? Well then Michael Cisco's The Traitor might be the book for you!

Other discussion topics include new iPhones, Magic Eye books, and the Thong Song.

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