🚨 New podcast episode of Two Books, One Cup 🚨 This week: Dungeons & Dragons EP 4 Jujutsu is an actual thing you can use in D&D to win Listen on Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Or Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0wL68pw...

🚨 New podcast episode of Two Books, One Cup 🚨 This week: Dungeons & Dragons EP 3 Glen FINALLY gets to show the gang his Orson Welles knowledge Listen on Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Or Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0wL68pw...

podcast.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/796577/episo... It's BHBS on Words About Books and we kick it off not with a bang but with a whimper as we read the very over-written Jeff the Killer Reboot Sequel #JeffTheKiller #creepypasta #podcast

Oh it's October you say? The perfect time to spotlight Canadian horror books? 🩸📚

🚨 New podcast episode 🚨 ‘Ringstones’ by Sarban Ch: 12 & Part 2 I finally figured out a way to sing Pearl Jam for you in my show. Listen anywhere: nuzzlehouse.com Your bedtime story read aloud for grown ups.

Are K-Pop Demon Hunters and Frozen the same movie? We'll crunch the numbers and get back to you.

After two and a half years, we finally have part 2 of our songs-as-English-lit-poems episode! Thank you so much @jedwardcooper.bsky.social for the request, made long, long ago before we had a deadline to check off our to-do list 💙📚 open.spotify.com/episode/6YG2...

podcast.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/796577/episo... A lot of people like Sanderson. A lot of people hate Sanderson. I want hating us to be the common ground those people find. #sanderlanche

I've been spending a lot of time with @nuzzlehouse.bsky.social. Join us as we try to figure out our audio settings while saving the world! open.spotify.com/episode/2w5v...

We're talking about Ogden Nash! Here's what happens: Wordplay! I annoy Amy with bad French We have a new way to frame all discourse, basically 💙📚 open.spotify.com/episode/2nn2...

Whoa it's a two episode weekend from Chantelle! Bring it ON

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Nate is still talking about Mass Effect, and I think this is going to be a while... podcast.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/796577/episo... #podcast #podsky #masseffect #books?

🚨 New podcast episode of Two Books, One Cup 🚨 A debate show where we pick any two random things to win the coveted cup This week: Corporate Psychopaths vs. Dungeons and Dragons Listen on Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Or Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0wL68pw...

I went to Nat's books and found one of this series from my childhood. Is it as good as I remember? A little... A little... NAT'S UPTOWN BOOKS - Minneapolis MN - Hours, Directions, Reviews - Loc8NearMe www.loc8nearme.com/minnesota/mi...

Just because you wrote an even more gross version of 'Flowers in the Attic' (Pin)doesn't mean you can't write something that gets turned into a movie starring Burt Reynolds Playmates book by Andrew Neiderman www.thriftbooks.com/w/playmates_...

"Darkborn: to stop it is to believe in it. To believe in it is to sacrifice yourself to it." I'm sure the book ends by learning the secret that 'if you just ignore it, it will go away.' Darkborn book by Rick Hautala www.thriftbooks.com/w/darkborn_m...

Ruth has some things to unpack: "They look so peaceful and enticing, but just like a woman, they hide and deceive..." "..their beauty is evil, their fragrance is death, and what lies beneath them is too horrible to see! " Wild Violets book by Ruth Baker Field www.thriftbooks.com/w/wild-viole...

"I want a little boy being carried by a bird on the cover." "Your book is about Satan. That has nothing to do with Satan." "Just for that, I'm changing the name to something that sounds like a war movie." "Ok STOP! Fine." Half Moon Down book by Stephen Gresham www.thriftbooks.com/w/half-moon-...

"The Mormo, legendary swamp-dwelling creatures who thirst for human blood, emerge from the foul swamps and prey on the townspeople of Aimsley, Louisiana" Boom. Simple. There's your book. Blood Hunter book by Sidney Williams www.thriftbooks.com/w/blood-hunt...

I'm kinda sold when the description uses words like "warm womb, fetid, moist, crawling, creeping, slithering" and "gorge to satiation". The Nest book by Gregory A. Douglas (Paperbacks from Hell series) www.valancourtbooks.com/the-nest-198...

Nate didn't like Man in the High Castle. Ben was never particularly interested in it, either. This is somehow one of our most controversial episodes of all time, I guess. podcast.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/796577/episo... #booksky #podsky

The comments on good reads do a better job explaining this book than the description does. And most are pretty hilarious: www.goodreads.com/book/show/94... Play Time book by J.M. Morgan www.thriftbooks.com/w/play-time_...

"I've written a book about a creepy librarian." "Not creepy enough. Go back and rewrite it, but this time make it about creepy dolls." The Dollkeeper book by Jack Scaparro www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-dollke...

"Look, no one is buying this haunted-house-evil-doll book. It's been done already." "What if we replaced the girls head on the cover with... a hologram skull?" "Holograms are SO hot right now!" "Holograms are REAL hot right now." Night Stone book by Rick Hautala www.thriftbooks.com/w/night-ston...

'Flowers in the Attic' opened up a pretty crappy flood-gate for other creeps to publish their 'ideas' in the 80s. Though, the cleaning-obsessed-mom angle is something new for that genre. Pin book by Andrew Neiderman www.thriftbooks.com/w/pin_andrew...

You may think The Eye in the Door is a book about war, surveillance, identity, and accountability, but you know what eyes do? They wink 😉 And you know what doors do? They BANG. Yeah, people bang a lot in this book. 💙📚 open.spotify.com/episode/0dSJ...

I love that the book description is just a single, perfectly encapsulating moment that sums up what to expect when you read it. Scorpion book by Michael R. Linaker www.thriftbooks.com/w/scorpion_m...

I'm not touching this book unless 'Clown in a Cornfield' movie is everything I expect it to be. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives book by Adam Cesare www.thriftbooks.com/w/clown-in-a...

The plot of the story essentially being: "You're already tormented by horrific visions- it probably wouldn't be a big deal for you to do that some more for us, right?" Midnight Boy book by Stephen Gresham www.thriftbooks.com/w/midnight-b...

The cover of this book is insane compared to the 'evil-doctor-experiments-on-teens' plot. Perfect Little Angels book by Andrew Neiderman www.thriftbooks.com/w/perfect-li...

I imagine the publisher for Kensington Pub Corp got an earful from his boss when 'Childs Play 2' came out- with Chucky looking exactly like the cover art that the goddamn author demanded they design that way. Dollies book by Pat Graversen www.thriftbooks.com/w/dollies_pa...

I wonder if Dr. Donald Cline read this book and got some big ideas: (He looks like a reader) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_... Fertility Rights book by Fay N. Zachary www.thriftbooks.com/w/fertility-...

The bear has nothing to do with the story, but the artist really wanted to capitalize on that Teddy Ruxpin / Garbage Pail Kids vibe that was going on at the time. Sweet Dreams (Devil) www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

This is the 6th book in an actual series: "When the bloodthirsty crabs are stricken with a devastating cancer, a psychopathic human attempts to aid them, a plan that requires a human sacrifice" Crabs: The Human Sacrifice book by Guy N. Smith www.thriftbooks.com/w/crabs-the-...

The amount of pressure you'd have to exert on the neck of a stuffed animal to make the stuffing come out the bottom is impressive. I'll bet this little imp is going to be a handful. Imp book by Andrew Neiderman www.thriftbooks.com/w/imp_andrew...

Every time poor Patricia wrote a book, her publisher's art director would say, "I dunno, slap a medical skeleton holding a kid or something." THE CHILDREN'S WARD book by Patricia Wallace www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-childr... TWICE BLESSED book by Patricia Wallace www.thriftbooks.com/w/twice-bles...

🚨 New podcast episode of Two Books, One Cup 🚨 A debate show where we pick any two random things to win the coveted cup This week: Squonk Vs. Citizen Kane Gertie hates Orson Welles Listen on Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Or Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0wL68pw...

While most horror authors were desperate to compete against Stephen King with whatever terrifying book cover they could think of, 'Dew Claws' decided to take another approach: A cool skeleton that you could hang with. Dew Claws book by Stephen Gresham www.thriftbooks.com/w/dew-claws_...

As horror writers desperately competed with Stephen King in the '80s, they learned that you need to write for the horrors of a niche audience. Stephen Gresham nailed it: The secret dangers of the magician's line of work Abracadabra book by Stephen Gresham www.thriftbooks.com/w/abracadabr...

Finally, a horror book that really touches on something I can identify with The Taint book by Patricia Wallace www.thriftbooks.com/w/taint_patr...

Maybe 'The Shadow Man' wouldn't keep coming over if you didn't make your house out of bones. The Shadow Man www.goodreads.com/book/show/26...

"There's just a girl with a lollypop- how's anyone supposed to know its scary?" "The story's vague. Look, I added a skeleton hand." "It needs something else." "Hold on, I just got an idea" << draws a skull face with sharpie >> Sleep Tight book by Matthew Costello www.thriftbooks.com/w/sleep-tigh...

I guess this book was praised when it came out, even by Stephen King, then completely forgotten. I HAVE to find out if it's good. Luckily old '70s paperbacks are cheap. They've reissued it since, but I want that old cover. The Auctioneer book by Joan Samson www.thriftbooks.com/w/auctioneer...

"We've sold books about babies before, what makes him evil?" "He's filled with something really scary: Spiderwebs." "That's stupid, no one is going to read that." "What if... He's filled with blood?" Bloodchild book by Andrew Neiderman www.thriftbooks.com/w/bloodchild...

Valancourt Books has a series called 'Paperbacks from Hell' where they re-issue the kind of horror your mom probably bought at the grocery store. Stephen King's competition back then were REALLY fighting to get noticed. Let's Go Play at the Adams' www.valancourtbooks.com/letsgoplay.h...

I heard a commercial for this book from an old radio show (Radio Mystery Theater). Apparently its riding on the 1970s Catastrophe theme but with a twist: Its at an amusement park. Amusement Park book by Robert Stuart Nathan www.thriftbooks.com/w/amusement-...

If there were an award for 'eerie-but-not-in-the-way-they-intended-it-to-be', this would probably win. Pranks book by Dennis J. Higman www.thriftbooks.com/w/pranks_den...

Alright FINE. I bought a damn splatter western book. I guess this is the summer of cowboy horror for ol' Glen. The Magpie Coffin bookshop.org/p/books/the-...