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Episode 85: Girl Meets House

Be The Serpent

English - May 05, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 97 ratings
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On today's episode, we're getting unseasonably spooky as we talk about Gothic novels! The tentpoles for this episode are Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the film Crimson Peak, and the Untamed fanfic Imago by astrophyllite.


 


What We’re Into Lately


Word of Honor


The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta


Die, Volume 1 by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans


Dread Nation by Justina Ireland


Don’t Look Back series by acuteneurosis


ShuoshuoChinese


Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management by Alexander Elder


Untamed fanfic, as always


 


Other Stuff We Mentioned


The Wicked + the Divine by Kieron Gillen


Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen


American Psycho


Tim Burton’s Alice movies


Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë


The Untamed


Under The Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng


A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin


A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske


Bluebeard folktale


Beauty and the Beast folktale


East of Sun and West of the Moon folktale


Eros and Psyche folktale


The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter


Jane Eyre miniseries (with Ruth Wilson)


Restraint and Revelation: or, The Necromancer of Yiling’ (Erotic Gothic Novelist!Lan Wangji)


Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen


Northanger Abbey TV movie


The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett


Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones


Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones


House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones


Be the Serpent Episode 36: There's No Place Like Home


Addams Family Values


 


For Next Time


Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots


 


Content Warnings


Violence, gore, and incest in all three tentpoles and the episode discussion.


 


Transcription


The transcript for this episode is available here. Thank you to our beloved team of scribes for their hard work!