Still Scared: Talking Children's Horror
59 episodes - English - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsA podcast in which one film lecturer and one scaredy-cat discuss creepy, spooky and disturbing children's books, films and tv.
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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
March 31, 2024 18:11 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBHail, O eaters of Toadstools! Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are back with returning guest and standing-stone correspondent Ali to talk about Alan Garner's debut novel from 1960, the Weirdstone of Brisingamen. This episode may venture further into fantasy than usual, but there's still plenty of horror to get your teeth into, with swarms of svarts, skin mittens, and of course, caves. Plus, Ren feels so guilty about their lacklustre watching of Casper that their notes for this episode include a...
Casper (1995)
December 11, 2023 14:48 - 47 minutes - 38.2 MBHappy festives, spooky kids! Ren's brain is fully on holiday already for this episode about the 1995 mixed live-action and CGI film Casper, directed by Brad Silberling, and perhaps more pertinently, set decorated by Rosemary Brandenburg. In this not particularly thorough episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray discuss the mochi-like texture of Casper, the career trajectory of Eric Idle, and of course, the fish bannister. And as a bonus, Adam gets a computer to sing a song about textures. ...
The Haunted Mansion(s)
October 31, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBHello and happy halloween spooky kids! For this sixth anniversarry (!) episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are joined by special guest Ailish Brassil to talk about three different filmic adaptations of Disney's Haunted Mansion ride. Excpect the classic elements of comedy tombstones, extending corridors and sinister butlers - as well as the screaming goats, ghost winks and arachnaphobia unique to each adaptation. It's chaotic! But that's haunted mansions for you. Content note: Brief re...
Angela and Diabola
October 09, 2023 14:59 - 52 minutes - 42.6 MBIn this episode Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray go back to Ren's childhood to talk about a dark comedy: Angela and Diabola by Lynne Reid Banks. A different twist on the Omen trope, this book gives the evil child a twin of corresponding pure goodness, and a couple of long-suffering parents who do their best for their increasingly supernatural offspring. Indulge in the allure of evil with us, spooky kids, but please don't lock any small children in cages. A transcript of this episode is availa...
Frozen Charlotte
August 30, 2023 13:24 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBDon't go chipping any dolls out of the plaster in your cellar, creepy kids, or open any ouija board apps! And definitely don't go and hunt your woebegotten cousin's ghost on a rainy Scottish island! It's not worth it! In this episode Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray discuss the 2015 Young Adult novel Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell, a grisly book about creepy dolls and the people they torment. Digressions include ghost hunting, bat detecting and late-era Simpsons. Content note: This book contai...
The Scarecrows
August 07, 2023 12:58 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBEnter into the turnip-filled darkness this episode, as Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray discuss Robert Westall's Carnegie medal winning 1981 novel, The Scarecrows. Or, more accurately: The Very Angry Young Man and The Scarecrows That Represented His Anger. It's chewy, it's problematic, it's really frickin' weird and the scarecrows don't turn up until the end - have a listen and see what we made of it! Content notes: interpersonal violence, unhappy family dynamics, rage. Transcipt and showno...
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar & Sundry Others
June 29, 2023 22:12 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBBuzz buzz, creepy kids, today Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are tackling a stack of short stories by Roald Dahl, focussing on his collection The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar And Six More. In this episode they discuss the horror of boarding schools, make predictions about which stories Wes Anderson is likely to adapt, and Ren becomes overwhelmed with mirth at Joyce Carol Oates' tweets about skeletons. Transcript (and Ren's Texture of the Week that they forgot to say in the episode) is at ...
The Hole (2009)
May 24, 2023 17:26 - 1 hour - 55 MBHello creepy kids! Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are back again to discuss the Joe Dante film The Hole (2009), not to be confused with The Hole (2001), which makes much less use of its titular hole. In this lemon-and-ginger tea powered episode, your cohosts discuss skewed suburban aesthetics, creepy theme parks and scrunkly jester voices, and as a special treat go on an extended digression about Las Vegas rock band, The Killers. Content for this episode, the latter half of the film deals w...
Revenge of the Toffee Monster & Killer Mushrooms Ate My Gran
April 18, 2023 10:20 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBIn this warty-textured episode, Adam and Ren are joined by returning guest Willow to talk about two books by Susan Gates: Revenge of the Toffee Monster and to a slightly lesser extent, Killer Mushrooms Ate My Gran. In this wide-ranging episode, this gang of 90s kids chat about the Millennium Dome, cordyceps and the origins of toffee, and are joined by an extra special coconut-headed guest for Texture of the Week. The transcript of this episode is available here: https://stillscared.podige...
Wendell & Wild
February 12, 2023 15:42 - 59 minutes - 47.9 MBHappy new year, spooky kids, and welcome to our episode on Wendell & Wild (2022), in which Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray gawp at beautiful stop-motion and wrangle unruly plot into submission. Featuring textural interruptions, a squirm of worms and the ultimate MacGuffin, this episode is one for the goths and the freaks and the sincere appreciators of viruoso animation. The transcript is available here: https://stillscared.podigee.io/51-wendellandwild
Moondial (Book)
December 29, 2022 17:50 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBWelcome back, spooky kids! In this end-of-the-year episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are talking about a suitably wintery ghost story - Moondial by Helen Cresswell. Impressionistic, atmospheric and philosophical, Moondial is a book rich in language and ideas, and in this episode your co-hosts have a tussle with conceptions of time and ghosthood, as well as sharing a rare unanimous Texture of the Week. The transcript is available here: https://stillscared.podigee.io/50-moondial-book
Children's Horror Games
October 14, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBIn this episode, Still Scared finally venture into the genre of video games! In this round-up episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray chat about children's horror in games over the last thirty years, contemplate the inherent eerieness of early 3D, and do a quick deep-dive into Psy High, a supernatural mystery text game from 2014. A transcript of the episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/49-horror-games
Creeped Out Season Two
September 06, 2022 17:54 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBIn this episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray finally dive in to Creeped Out season two, from back in 2019. Exploring this collection of curious tales, they detour into creepypastas and garmonbozia, and discuss the importance of checking the reviews to see if an app will steal your face. As full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/48-creepedout-seasontwo
Grinny and Monster Maker
July 14, 2022 17:56 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBIn this episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray talk about two books by English writer Nicholas Fisk - Grinny from 1974 and Monster Maker from 1979. In this episode, your brave and bionic co-hosts chat about slurks and ultragorgons, wimshursts machines and UFOs and ask the question: what kind of English family have their own swimming pool??
Nightbooks
June 08, 2022 14:54 - 47 minutes - 39 MBIn today's episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are reconnecting with the modern era of children's horror, to discuss Netflix's 2021 film Nightbooks, which they think is alright! Ren and Adam chat intergenerational horror, squeecore and gunge, and of course, reveal their favourite textures from the film in the Texture of the Week segment.
Watership Down
March 29, 2022 20:23 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBIn this episode, Still Scared tackle one of the heavy-hitters of children's horror: Watership Down! Ren and Adam are very excited to be joined by Catherine Lester, an academic who has published a book on children's horror films and is editing a forthcoming collection on Watership Down, and is consequently way over-qualified for the podcast! Together they talk about defining children's hororr as a genre, Watership Down's place in animation history and of course, take a break to discuss some te...
Wilder Girls
February 07, 2022 13:05 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBIn this episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray welcome in a new year of children's horror with Wilder Girls, a Young Adult novel by Rory Power, from 2019 (but not before going on a diversion about forgotten children's TV oddity Whizziwig). Topics include The Blob, Playstation 2-era Japanese survival horror games and body horror, and Ren experiences a monent of visceral terror at the idea of attending a boarding school. Content note: -Extract with grisly body horror. - Covid chat.
Burton's Hansel and Gretel & Selick's Slow Bob In The Lower Dimensions
December 31, 2021 13:00 - 53 minutes - 43.2 MBIn this casual, end of the year episode your co-hosts Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray chat about two short films from early in the careers of Tim Burton and Henry Selick, respectively Hansel and Gretel from 1983, and Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions from 1991. Topics include the candy equivalent of offal, curious oranges, and cookie-cutter shuriken, and your co-hosts once again apolgoise for their incredibly erratic recording schedule but thank you all for listening anyway!
The Drifting Classroom
September 20, 2021 15:40 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBGet settled in, spooky kids, because we're going on a trek across the desert wasteland into the wild and winding world of Kazu Umezu's epic manga The Drifting Classroom (and the even stranger associated film!). In this sprawling episode Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray discuss everything from climate doom to mother issues, with enough body horror, crab-aliens and random senseless death to fill your horror boots. Plus a cameo from 'Chicken George'. This episode contains spoiler for The Drifti...
The Tulip Touch and The Devil Walks
July 15, 2021 14:35 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBTread carefully, spooky kids, because today Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are discussing one of the most memorably disturbing books of their childhoods' - The Tulip Touch, by Anne Fine, and finding out that as adults... well, it's even darker. We talk about the trend in the '90s for gritty realism in children's books, ambiguous childhood games and prison abolition (yep), and end the episode with some slightly less intense discussion of Anne Fine's later gothic horror children's novel, The De...
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer and The Monster Garden
May 20, 2021 16:10 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBGather up your tendrils, creepy creatures, and join Adam Whybray and Ren Wednesday in the desaturated '80s for some low-key but charming horror from prolific British author Vivien Alcock. This week we meet spirits, scientists and low-down male chauvinist pigs, and digress about whether you can accuratly identify ghosts with cats. A full transcript is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/40-vivien-alcock
Out of Salem
March 24, 2021 17:20 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBIn this episode, your millennial hosts Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray chat about a recent book, Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve (although it's still set in the 90s so don't worry). We discuss queer representation, body horror and imaginary zines, and one of us comes out as a zombie?? Content notes for this episode are family death, bullying, homophobia and bigotry and police violence. You can find the full transcript at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/39-outofsalem
Eerie Indiana
October 31, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBHappy Halloween, spooky kids, and happy three years podcast anniversary to Still Scared! In this episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray grab their oversized props and delve into the fishbowl lensed world of early 90s TV series Eerie Indiana. We chat ever-fresh tupperware, fourth-wall breaking and just how dang adorable Simon is, and of course add some more textures to our podcast vault. Thank you so much to everyone who's listened to the podcast over the last three years, we're still havin...
Monster House
June 29, 2020 12:38 - 53 minutes - 43.2 MBRen Wednesday and Adam Whybray are back to discuss the 2006 animated film Monster House and be floored by the progression of time. Talking about a film that has been described as 'Shirely Jackson for kids', your co-hosts discuss concrete entombed skeletons, smelly carpet tongues and digress more times than you can shake a rotten floorboard at. Content note: Some discussion of police violence and racism in the context of recent events and the portrayal of police in this film. If you prefer...
The Demon Headmaster 2019
April 20, 2020 18:53 - 57 minutes - 46.6 MBThis time Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are safely ensconced in their respective houses to chat about the 2019 reboot (or possibly sequel?) of The Demon Headmaster. In full-spoiler detail for the 10 episode season we talk resistance and hypnotism, and hypothesise the existence of a super-being who creates Demon Headmasters. And as always, texture fans will be glad to catch the latest instalment of our Texture of the Week feature, this time featuring sparkly holograms. Content notes: Me...
The Watcher in the Woods
February 25, 2020 12:48 - 47 minutes - 38.4 MBWell, it's no Return to Oz, but 1980's The Watcher in the Woods is an interesting if flawed curio from Disney's dark-fantasy live-action back-catalogue that hosts Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are keen to dip their fingers into in this episode. Featuring a brooding Bette Davis, a dog called Nerak and the spectral dancing of ominous mist, this episode leans intensely into your ear and asks: 'are you sensitive? do you sense things?'. A full transcript is available at: https://stillscared.p...
The Final Reckoning Part 2 (Deptford Mice Book Three)
January 07, 2020 14:34 - 1 hour - 63 MBBlood and thunder! It's a showdown for the ages. Join Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray and Ava Foxfort as they discuss the final part of The Final Reckoning, the last book in the Deptford Mice series by Robin Jarvis. Your hardy crew discuss ice textures, brutal character deaths and mouse-based metal concept albums, as they dive into the icy waters of this most epic of endings. Content note for gory and disturbing descriptions in this episode, and some British politics chat, both of which some ...
The Final Reckoning, Part 1 (Deptford Mice Book Three)
October 10, 2019 13:39 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBHang onto your mouse-knees, spooky kids! In this episode Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray and Ava Foxfort discuss the first part of The Final Reckoning, the last book in Robin Jarvis's sublimely horrifying Deptford Mice series. Your co-hosts talk star-milking, blood-frenzies and of course, textures, as they travel with mice into the dangerous sewers below London, and with the bats to the rooftops above. Speed to the green, because you're not going to want to miss this! A full transcript of th...
The Crystal Prison (Deptford Mice Book Two)
August 09, 2019 13:25 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBMouselets and Corn Dolllies! Join Adam Whybray, Ren Wednesday and Ava Foxfort as they discuss Robin Jarvis's The Crystal Prison from 1989, the second in his Deptford Mice series. Featuring Green Mouse fundamentalists, gods of the fields and Starwife the astrology squirrel, The Crystal Prison takes our characters on a peril-drenched trip to the countryside where there's a new threat around every corn stalk. Shout 'Fenny' if it gets too much, but even that might not save you. A full trans...
The Dark Portal (Deptford Mice Book One)
June 14, 2019 18:02 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBPut on your welly boots, spooky kids and join Adam Whybray, Ren Wednesday and returning guest Ava Foxfort as they go beyond the Grill into the murky sewers of Robin Jarvis's novel The Dark Portal from 1989. Featuring jerk-ass bats, dad mice and notable hazards of the murdering profession, fans of rodent ultra-violence and Lovecraftian deities will find plenty to gnaw their teeth into in this episode. A full transcript of this episode is available in the show notes at: https://stillscared....
Mini Episode: Picture Books
May 13, 2019 21:49 - 30 minutes - 24.5 MBJoin us this time for a mini-episode, as Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray gleefully chomp on a monstrous spread of picture books from Maurice Sendak, David McKee, Beatrix Potter and Neil Gaiman. Featuring undulating midnight oceans, trembling patchwork elephants and the existential crisis of a monster who finds himself treated as a boy, it's a zippy tour around the creepiest picture books of our childhoods. A full transcript of the episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/31-...
Room 13 & Nightmare Stairs
April 18, 2019 15:39 - 55 minutes - 45 MBOnce again, spooky kids, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are here to take you into the world of children's horror literature with Room 13 from 1989 and Nightmare Stairs from 1997, both by Robert Swindells. This time, Ren and Adam are at the seaside, enjoying the fresh air, the pier treats, and the sound of the Dracula in the next room gnawing on his latest victim. Join us for stakes, sleepwalking, stairs and a special guest interview with a fictional teenager. A full transcript is availabl...
Something Wicked This Way Comes
March 12, 2019 21:43 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBWhat's that haunted tune whistling through the calliope? Find out with Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray as they take a tour of Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Circus and explore the whirlingly evocative, if admittedly morally confusing world of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. We talk Dust Witches, balloon funerals and masculinity, in a rollickingly ghoulish episode filled with plenty of children's horror to get your panic-coloured teeth into. A full transcript of this episode ...
The Garden of Darkness
February 11, 2019 15:44 - 51 minutes - 41.8 MBIn this episode Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray talk about the post-apocalyptic Young Adult novel The Garden of Darkness by Gillian Murray Kendall from 2014. We discuss what makes a horror, look at the early modern influences on the book, and despair of our own chances in a post-apocalyptic setting. Plus we discover the natural source of morale.* Content notes, there are a few: Discussion of an adult character preying on children, including in a sexually-loaded way, discussion of eugenics ...
Children of the Stones
January 15, 2019 13:02 - 1 hour - 72.2 MBHappy day, spooky kids! In this episode Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray and returning guest Ali Kay delve into the brain-washing, time-looping world of the 1977 BBC TV series Children of the Stones. Join us for Morris dancing, Solar Serpents and educational asides into the history of surgery, as we try to untangle the plot of this creepy and atmospheric seventies classic. A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/26-childrenofthestones
The Box of Delights
December 28, 2018 23:03 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBWhat's up, spooky kids? Join Still Scared for their Christmas-or-thereabouts episode about the 1984 TV series, The Box of Delights. This time, Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray and special guest Willow discuss whimsical kidnapping, dolphin chariots and 1930s slang, and Willow really gets some #teachervibes going. All this and more from a podcast that can proudly say that it's not in the pocket of Big Posset. A full transcript of the episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/25-bo...
The Dark Crystal
December 05, 2018 18:29 - 40 minutes - 32.3 MBIn their most squamous, writhing, goopy and tendril-filled episode yet, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray explore the vibrant landscape of 1982's dark fantasy puppet film, The Dark Crystal. Join us for this wallow in a many-textured world, featuring a special guest appearance from Adam's unattached false front tooth. A full transcript of this episode is available in the show notes, here: https://stillscared.podigee.io/24-dark-crystal
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
November 15, 2018 00:12 - 52 minutes - 42 MBThis episode we invite you to join Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray and a cast of geese, scamps and orphans in the Dickensian horror-romp that is The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken. Featuring shipwreck, secret passageways and a villainous governess, this book delivers the thrills and chills, and a plethora of Textures of the Week. Content note: description of a child's death by drowning. A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/23-wolves
Malevolents & Anniversary Catch-up
October 31, 2018 18:00 - 48 minutes - 38.7 MBIn this episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray celebrate one year of Still Scared with a ghost story graphic novella, Malevolents: Click Click, by Thom Burgess and Joe Becci. We huddle in front of our campfire to discuss mental illness in horror, ghosts in our hometowns, and take a look back on what we've learned about children's horror over the year of our podcast. A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/22-malevolents
Thornhill
October 12, 2018 18:14 - 44 minutes - 35.6 MBIn this episode, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray alliterate themselves into a particularly gothic gloomy ghost story, 2017's Thornhill by Pam Smy. We discuss fibrous drawings, ambivalent endings and the powerlessness of childhood, as we talk about this uniquely told modern horror. This episode also features a particularly crunchy and unanimous Texture of the Week that all you creepy puppet fans won't want to miss! A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.pod...
The Witches
September 29, 2018 14:34 - 1 hour - 48.4 MBIn this episode, Adam Whybray, Ren Wednesday and returning guest Alex Ava discuss 'one of the cursed books of childhood', Roald Dahl's The Witches. Together they discuss monstrous femininity, death positivity and the horror of the English seaside hotel, and Alex mounts a passionate defence of being turned into a mouse. A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/20-witches
The Pogles
August 29, 2018 14:59 - 44 minutes - 35.8 MBGet yourself a flask of bilberry wine, and join Ren and Adam as they talk about the 1965 stop-motion animation series The Pogles, by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. In this episode we reminisce about what Postgate and Firmin's work has meant to us, chat about folk horror, and do more voices than might be strictly necessary. Cosy horror has never been more charming. A full transcript of this episode is available in the show notes at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/19-pogles
Round The Twist
July 24, 2018 15:58 - 55 minutes - 44.4 MBStrange things happen when you're going round the twist, and this week Ren and Adam re-discover this childhood favourite and it's particular brand of gross-out horror. We talk shaggy-dog stories and pushing the boundaries of children's horror, and decide that it's probably for the best not to dress up in those dead clown's clothes that wash ashore in an old trunk. Content note: Scatological humour, pregnancy storyline. A full transcript of this episode is in the shownotes at: https://st...
The Water-Babies
July 02, 2018 16:02 - 54 minutes - 43.6 MBIn this episode, your hosts Adam Whybray and Ren Wednesday go way back to 1863 for their discussion of the bizarre and 'nearly unreadable' Victorian morality tale The Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley. Join us for an underwater spectacular of whimsy, heavy-handed moralising and offhand bigotry, that'll have you saying: 'I'm glad I didn't have to read this book!' A full transcript of this episode is available at: http://stillscared.podigee.io/17-waterbabies Content note for discussion of a...
The Crysalids
June 10, 2018 16:57 - 45 minutes - 36.5 MBIn this week's podcast, your hosts Ren and Adam discuss the 1955 novel The Crysalids by John Wyndham in an unusually disciplined 45 minute episode! This episode we chat about the implications of a telepathic society, enjoy descriptions of mutant flora, and congratulate Wyndham on his refreshing lack of misogyny, as well as try a little bit of telepathy of our own. A loving hand-crafted transcript of this episode is available at: http://stillscared.podigee.io/16-crysalids Content note for...
Over the Garden Wall
May 26, 2018 20:25 - 59 minutes - 47.9 MBTrees made of people, skeletons dressed in pumpkins, and a paddle steamer of holidaying frogs distraught at not getting to hear a bassoon - it can only be Over the Garden Wall! Join Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray and special guest Alex Ava as they journey into The Unknown and discuss the charming, bizarre, and assuredly disturbing things they discover there. A full transcript of this episode is available at: http://stillscared.podigee.io/15-over-the-garden-wall
Mercedes Ice and Kasper in the Glitter
May 09, 2018 12:00 - 58 minutes - 47 MBCity kids, moonlight dudes and pearly queens, welcome to Philip Ridley week on Still Scared! In this episode Ren and Adam discuss the urban fairy tales Mercedes Ice and Kasper in the Glitter and chat about imperfect parents, gender performativity and whether marmalade would taste good on banoffee pie. Join us in the curious worlds that Ridley offers to get lost in. A transcript of this episode is available at: http://stillscared.podigee.io/14-mercedeskasper
Creeped Out
April 25, 2018 19:05 - 58 minutes - 47.2 MBWhat's up, fellow kids? Ren and Adam put on their backwards baseball caps, throw a skateboard over their shoulders, and show up to talk about the 2017 CBBC children's horror anthology series Creeped Out! We talk spooks both high and low-tech, from Machiavellian puppets, to possessive AIs, body-swapping parasites to plants allergic to heavy metal, and are reminded of the the horrors of being a teenager. Content note for discussion of emotionally abusive relationships in the context of the e...
Paperhouse and Marianne Dreams
April 10, 2018 20:03 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBRen, Adam and special guest Ali Kay delve into Catherine Storr's 1958 novel Marianne Dreams, and the 1990 film based upon it, Paperhouse. We go full children's horror this week, as we encounter a not-father brandishing a hammer, a pencil that makes your drawings come to life, and a sinister company of cyclopian standing stones. The popular 'Texture of the Week' feature also returns, with some memorably unpalatable ice-cream. Heads up for discussion of the father as a threatening and pot...
Witch Week
March 20, 2018 21:48 - 59 minutes - 48.2 MBThis episode your co-hosts go back to one of Ren's childhood favourites, Witch Week by Dianna Wynne Jones. Adam and Ren discuss ad-lib approaches to magic, the horror of not being able to escape your classmates and exactly how difficult it would actually be to ride a broomstick, as they talk about this decidedly chilly and unsettling boarding school story. Heads up for discussion of bullying and an extract from the book in which a character deliberately burns themselves. A full transcri...