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Our First Fears26 - Return to Oz with Mar Romasco-MooreIn Episode 26, author Mar Romasco-Moore talks about their love for the cult classic Disney film, Return to Oz and how it influenced their latest young adult novel, Deadstream. This is one of our favorite films EVER, and if you haven’t seen it, you absolutely must. It’s got Dorothy Gale escaping a psychiatric hospital, a talking chicken side-kick, the Emerald City in ruins, a headless princess with nefarious intentions, and a king made of stone who REALLY loves Dorothy’s infamous ruby slippers. We explore the whys and hows of the making of this film and the repercussions of its...2025-04-1655 minOur First Fears25 - Nuclear Nightmares with Grady HendrixBestselling author, Grady Hendrix, joins Our First Fears for Episode 25 to talk about growing up as a cold-war kid, terrorized by constant reports in the 1980s of threats of a nuclear strike. He found strange solace in certain books and movies at that time, specifically Warday, The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun, Special Bulletin, and Threads. We chat about these titles and others, along with the primal places in pop-culture from where these stories may have burst, as well as how young people process The News, which, more and more, feels like its own horror subgenre. 2025-04-011h 14Our First Fears24 - The Conjuring's Ed & Lorraine Warren with Lorien LawrenceEpisode 24 of Our First Fears has creepy middle-grade author, Lorien Lawrence chatting with Dan about Ed and Lorraine Warren, the real life “ghost hunters” who were played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in James Wan’s 2013 film THE CONJURING and its many sequels and offshoots. Lorien’s childhood experiences growing up near the Warrens’ infamous Connecticut home has inspired her own work about a ghost-hunting family, and the stories she shares about living in their shared hometown provide insight into a possible darkness hiding underneath the wholesome image that the Warrens built up for themselves in the media over the c...2025-03-181h 16Our First FearsBonus - A Tale to Keep You Up at Night, "Imogen's Skeleton"In this bonus episode, your host, Dan Poblocki, reads another creepy story, this time from his recent novel MORE Tales to Keep You Up at Night, and talks again about the story’s origins. “Imogen’s Skeleton,” is about a shy girl named Imogen who realizes that she may have a few things in common with the model anatomy skeleton that hangs at the back of her middle school classroom. But when she pushes back at the bullies in her life, and in her own home, both Imogen and the classroom skeleton go through some changes . . . together. Read with permissi...2025-03-0927 minOur First Fears23 - Urban Legends with Jeramey KraatzIn Episode 23, author Jeramey Kraatz joins Our First Fears to chat about urban legends. If you’re intrigued by tales of killers lurking at lover’s lanes, weirdos hiding under beds who like licking your hand in the middle of the night, creepy calls that come from inside the house, as well as creepypastas and terrifying memes, this episode is sure to send the right kind of shivers up your spine. Jeramey Kraatz is the author of The Cloak Society, Space Runners, and the new graphic novel I Witnessed: The Lizzie Borden Story. He also writes English dub s...2025-02-2754 minOur First FearsBonus - A Tale to Keep You Up at Night, "The Psychopath's Tarot"In this bonus episode, Dan reads a chilling and chilly story from his novel Tales to Keep You Up at Night, and talks a bit about the story's origins. “The Psychopath’s Tarot,” is about a trio of teenage friends who trek to a wintery cabin in the middle of nowhere for a weekend of fun and relaxation. But when one of them discovers a strange deck of cards that appears to foretell a frightening fate for the friends, the idea of fun and relaxation soon evaporates like the steam over their quickly cooling mugs of hot chocolate. Dan P...2025-02-2024 minOur First Fears22 - Disney's Haunted Mansion with Sam RebeleinEpisode 22 of Our First Fears brings you author Sam Rebelein, whose fear of Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride runs through his veins, deeper than he even knows. We talk about the creepiness of the Hudson Valley in New York State, where we both live, and how our hometowns have influenced both of us, as well as the Disney artists who went looking for haunted places and found them among the architecture and ruins along the Hudson River.Sam Rebelein is the author of the novel Edenville, as well as the new story collection, The Poorly Made and Oth...2025-02-131h 05Our First Fears21 - Stephen King's THE RAFT with Adrianna CuevasIn Episode 21, celebrated author, Adrianna Cuevas, joins Our First Fears to chat about “The Raft” segment from the 1987 anthology film, Creepshow 2. If you’re intrigued by body horror, questions of morality in scary stories, the science of decomposition, and badly behaved teenage boys getting what they deserve, this one is for YOU.Adrianna Cuevas is the author the middle-grade novels, The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez (an ALA Pura Belpre Honor title), The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto (which won the Edgar Award), The No-Brainer’s Guide to Decomposition (currently long-listed for the Bram...2025-01-3154 minOur First Fears20 - Friday the 13th with Clay McLeod ChapmanEpisode 20 of Our First Fears brings to you horror-author and all-around super-star, Clay McLeod Chapman, as we chat about how he discovered Jason Vorhees as a kid. YES, we’re finally tackling the 1980 slasher classic, Friday the 13th! Together, Clay and I wonder if Camp Crystal Lake is a kind of metaphor for America. I get to posit my theory that there are TWO killers in the film, while Clay shoots that idea right back down . . . LOL. We also talk about Clay’s freaky-as-hell new novel, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, as well a...2024-12-311h 02Our First Fears19 - Aliens with Eliot SchreferEpisode 19 – Author Eliot Schrefer joins us to talk about James Cameron’s 1986 action/ horror classic, Aliens, which is the sequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien from 1979. We get into themes of motherhood, survival, isolation, and kick-ass female action heroes, as well as how, as kids, we reacted to the grotesque images of body horror on screen, and then, how we asked questions about what, and who, is a monster. Eliot is a two time finalist for the National Book Award for his great ape quartet, as well as an ALA Printz honor recipient for Queer Ducks (And Other A...2024-10-161h 12
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Title: It Watches in the Dark
Author: Jeff Strand
Narrator: Ashley Bryce
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:15:47
Language: English
Release date: 04-02-24
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller
Summary:
'She glanced over her shoulder. Had the scarecrow moved? It stood there, smile stitched on its face, but now it felt like a smirk.'
Prepare to be scared silly in this creepy middle-grade novel! Twins seek medical help in a remote village after their father is in a canoeing accident . . . only to discover the scarecrow that stands watch...2024-04-024h 15Our First Fears18 - Fangoria Magazine with Daniel KrausOn episode 18 of Our First Fears, NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, Daniel Kraus joins me in a conversation about Fangoria Magazine – the tentpole horror movie publication that debuted in the late 1970s and quickly became a shocking staple on magazine stands and in bookshops due to the gory horror makeup effects and grody titles displayed on its covers.Daniel Kraus is the co-creator of The Shape of Water with Guillermo Del Toro, the co-author of The Living Dead with George A. Romero, and the author of the Bram Stoker Award winner They Stole Our Hearts, pa...2023-11-221h 03Our First Fears17 - The Terminator with Neil McRobertOn episode 17, WE ARE BACK . . . this time, chatting with writer and horror podcast-rock-star, Neil McRobert about a movie that made him cry when he was just a wee lad - James Cameron’s 1984 science-fiction classic, The Terminator. Our conversation runs from ideas of cyborg body horror, to the trope of the unkillable thing that chases you, relentlessly. We poke around in notions of how time-travel stories work (or don't), fiction writers as prophets, and the existential terror I feel when I think too hard about the philosophy behind simulation theory. But we have fun too! I promise!2023-11-151h 11
La Titanesque Emission#23 L’autodéfense féministe - mars 2022Interview de M.Blézat, journaliste autrice du livre-enquête « Pour l’autodéfense féministe » – Avec Mélanie, formatrice en autodéfense féministe, nos chroniqueuses Anna Bisio, Lucie Gil et Oksann – La chronique livre jeunesse d’Oksann : Shadow house de Dan Poblocki– La sélection de livres féministes du Mars des femmes et de Titanes en partenariat avec les librairies La Licorne et Notre Temps de Valence
Musique:Fuck You de Lily AllenLa grenade de Clara Luciani
Ouvrages cités:Jujitsuffragettes de Clément Xavier (BD)Se défendre de Elsa Dorlin (Essai)Il est où le patron? des Paysannes en...2023-11-121h 00Our First Fears16 - Caribbean Folk Tales with Tracey BaptisteOn episode 16 of Our First Fears, NY Times bestseller, Tracey Baptiste reveals the map of her childhood village where her friends and family banded together to protect themselves from jumbies, the creepy creatures that haunt the Caribbean nation, Trinidad and Tobago, in the dark of night. We discuss the secret things that hide inside the stories we write, how tales of monsters help keep people in line and also reveal our biases, and how we writers’ trickster-like powers allow us to dare audiences to fill-in blanks and answer their own questions. Tracey’s work encompasses many n...2023-11-081h 04Our First Fears15 - Halloween III: Season of the Witch with Sara FarizanOn today’s episode, author Sara Farizan chats with me about the 1982 cult film Halloween III: Season of the Witch. We also tie the film’s themes pretty tightly to her recent YA horror novel, Dead Flip, which is set in the late 80s and early 90s and revolves around a possibly haunted pinball machine. We get into the pop-culture of cursed objects and cursed capitalism, how nostalgia can be used for both good and evil, why certain story-tellers of the past might have gotten burned out, and finally, how we, as working writers, try to stop...2023-10-311h 09Our First Fears14 - Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre with Derrick ChowOn episode 14 of Our First Fears, author and illustrator, Derrick Chow joins me in appreciation of the genius and creativity of beloved actress Shelley Duvall’s possibly-accidentally-terrifying television show from the 1980s, Faerie Tale Theatre. Together, we explore the connection between slasher-film final girls and faerie tale heroines, what makes a great faerie tale villain, and whether or not these old stories might have been a prototype for modern psychological analysis and therapy.Derrick’s debut middle-grade novel, Ravenous Things, is a twisted modern retelling of the Pied Piper legend and poem, set in the underground of Toro...2023-10-251h 09Our First Fears13 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('78) with Russell GinnsWe’ve reached lucky episode 13 of Our First Fears, and today, I get to talk with author Russell Ginns, or R. U. Ginns, about the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Together, we dig into how artists use elements of unease to create a sense of paranoia for their audiences. We talk zombies versus pod-people, cults of the 1970s, how much we love actress Veronica Cartwright, and finally, we discuss what many consider to be one of the most chilling endings of any horror film EVER and how it earns that distinction. R. U. Ginns’s lates...2023-10-181h 06