URBAN LEGENDS
The kids' book series Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was based largely on urban legends, and when I read them for the first time I realized that I had heard them before, but as something true that ...
3 Maj 20211h
Rewind: The Momo Suicide Challenge
In preparation for our season finale next week on Urban Legends, we wanted to replay our deep dive into the 2018 viral internet urban legend about "Momo", a creepy humanoid figure with giant eyes, an ...
26 Apr 202114min
HORROR MOVIES (part two)
The genres of modern scary movies known as slashers, meta-horror, torture porn, and social thrillers, each tell us about the anxieties of the generation in which they came to exist. Like part one, thi...
19 Apr 202157min
Rewind: Monsters
We need a little extra time for Horror Movies II, so here is a re-release of a very related and very important episode. Monsters come from the darkness, from the depth of lakes and swamps, from the sh...
12 Apr 202135min
On Haunted Houses with Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of three books, the award-winning Her Body and Other Parties, a collection of vibrantly haunting short stories, In the Dream House, a bestselling memoir and examinat...
5 Apr 202155min
HORROR MOVIES (part one)
Horror movies, consistently written-off by critics, exist unbound from mainstream respectability and because of this, they can often tell us the brutal truth. For this two-part series, we will be inve...
29 Mars 202152min
Unmasking Matilda with Mara Wilson
Mara Wilson is a writer, actor, and the former star of the 1996 classic movie Matilda as well as the author of the memoir 'Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame'. In this episod...
15 Mars 202145min
INFLUENCERS
The new American archetype known as the “Influencer” has existed in various forms long before the advent of social media, and long before Kendall Jenner and the offensive brand activism of a now infam...
8 Mars 202154min
