We’re joined by Christina Ward of Feral House publishing to talk about the intersection of food, culture, belief, control, and the weird as she tells us about two of her recent projects:American Advertising Cookbooks and Holy Food.
FLASHBACK to December 2013:A FAMILIAR VOICE returns to MonsterTalk as Dr. Karen Stollznow joins us to discuss her (then new) book, God Bless America. Items of InterestHaunting America on Amazon More information on the case of Anneliese Michel Wade Davis’s book on Haitian zombies — The Serpent and the Rainbow More reading on the Satanic Panic — In Pursuit of Satan: The Police and the […]
We’re joined by Matt Baxter to discuss what we thought was a horror film but turned out to be something quite different. Warning: This film and episode deal with suicide, murder, abortion, politics, religion, and pretty much most of the hot potato topics we generally try to eschew. Hopefully we do a decent job of discussing it. Nefarious (streaming) – […]
A look at the “incorruptible” corpses of Catholic saints and a discussion of how they got this way – with Elizabeth Harper. Wilhelmina Lancaster (new incorrupt corpse) Joyce Caroll Cruz book on incorruptible saints (affiliate link) The Mummy Congress by Heather Pringle (affiliate link) Essay mentioned The Violent Madonnasby Elizabeth Harper The Order of the Good Death
Matt Baxter joins Blake & Karen to discuss the case of the allegedly “demon haunted” house of Gary, Indiana. There will be a companion video to this focusing on Zak Bagans’ film of the same location in the very near future. You can see a lot of the characters in this story in this Inside Edition clip. Joe Nickell’s investigation into […]
UFOs don’t seem to be real – yet they’re observed and experienced and have become integrated into cultures around the world. Author David Halperin’s book Intimate Alien gives a deep and thoughtful survey of this weird topic and integrates it with biographical elements to tell a story of meaning and mystery. Links for further reading: David’s website: http://www.davidhalperin.net/ David’s Book […]
Karen and Blake discuss the new film We Believe in Dinosaurs with filmmaker Clayton Brown (who co-directed with Monica Long Ross) and paleontologist Dan Phelps.
Check out our Audible deal, where you can select Peter Laws’ book The Frighteners or any of the amazing titles from the Audible collection. What is it like to be an ordained minister who loves the macabre? And is there a value to the morbid, horrific and dark milieu beyond the financial? What if it turned out that horror can […]