Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Nightmare Fuel Podcast--Episode Sixteen--Urban Legends


Good evening!

Johnny Zombie is back after a month-long hiatus. Well rested, and back on the job, he presents to you these tantilizing tales of terror!

In this episode we examine urban legends. Two famous examples, The Sitter, and The Hook, are discussed and analyzed. I also recount a personal experience that is connected with a more recent urban legend, Something Icky This Way Comes!

This episode goes out to Justine, of Justine's Halloween. It was inspired by her enthusiastic response to the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark episode. Thanks, Justine! You can read her deliciously morbid thoughts here: Justine's Halloween (updated all year round)

And be sure to check out my comedy blog, "Too Soon, Too Bad," at: http://too-soon-too-bad.blogspot.com/

As always, you can listen to the gory goodness here. Or, you can download from archive.org

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Video of the Week

From the Discovery Channel's Website: THE HOOK! (While I don't agree with everything he says, it still pretty damn good.)

Music of the Week
Title: Panic at Camp Crystal
Artist: Ghetto Lee Lewis
From OC Remix.org
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NEXT EPISODE: Cthulhu Mass! (The Nightmare Fuel Holiday Special)


Friday, October 14, 2011

Nightmare Fuel Podcast: Episode Twelve--Alvin Schwartz SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK TRILOGY


Good evening...

Tonight, I offer you a trilogy of tantilizing tales to tease, taunt, titilate, and terrorize!

And I put guest host The Crypt Keeper back in his tomb for another night.

Tonight, I offer to you an analysis of three classic tales from Alvin Schwartz trilogy of young adult horror anthologies. The Scary Stories trilogy was a highly popular, and controversial, compendium of folklore retold by author Alvin Schwartz. The books were a staple of my adolescence.They introduced me to horror as a literary genre, as opposed to just a filmic one. For that, I am eternally grateful.

I share with you three stories from Alvin Schwartz seminal work.

1. The Girl Who Stood on a Grave
2. The Bus Stop
3. The Appointment

Consider this a primer on folklore, both new and old. While a good bit of Schwartz work deals with urban legends, that great genre of folklore will get its own episode soon.

As always, you can listen to the folkloric goodness here. Or, download from Archive.org

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Email for this podcast: nightmarefuelpodcast@gmail.com

Remember to vote in the Halloween Reading Poll!
Only five days left!

The choices are...

1. The Hound--H.P. Lovecraft
2. My Own True Ghost Story--Rudyard Kipling
3. Lot 249--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Dracula's Guest--Bram Stoker

Videos of the Week

Count Creepy and Friends Playset (one of many horror toys I enjoyed as a kid)

Mad Scientist Monster Lab! (One of the grossest toys I ever owned)

NEXT TIME: The Dark Side of English Lit.

Till Next Time...Try to Get Some Beauty Rest...
Stephen Gammell's fantastic grotesquery