Podcasts for Spooky Season
It's that time of year again! The leaves are turning, the pumpkins are ripening, and with the increasing chill in the air comes a craving for chills of a different kind. If you're looking for some great audio horror this season, here are some podcasts you might enjoy. Check them out on your favorite podcast app!
(Please feel free to add your favorites in the notes!)
Fictional Frights
Chilling Tales For Dark Nights
Knifepoint Horror
Pseudopod
Scary Stories Told In The Dark
The No-Sleep Podcast
Real Life Is Terrifying
And That's Why We Drink
Be. Scared
Disturbed
Morbid
Scared To Death
Tales From The Break Room
History & Folklore
A Scary State
Freaky Folklore
Frightful
Lore
One Strange Thing
Southern Gothic
The Cryptid Keeper (back catalog)
Horror Movies
Alone In The Dark
Copulators Die First (back catalog)
Queerdo Babes Trom The Horror Pod-O-Rama
Ruined!
Classic Horror Tales
Horror Hill
Readings by The H.P Lovecraft Literary Podcast
The HorrorBabble Podcast
You can also visit Librivox for free public domain audiobooks, including MANY collections of classic scary stories, including a fantastic rendition of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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I'm going to find it highly insulting that in most (if not all) Watership Down adaptations they leave out the rabbit folklore part so much. They always adapt one or two stories and the others never appear or are told in a super abbreviated almost lost form.
I don't know about you, but I think that was one of the things that got me hooked on WD the most when I first read it. To me it was so amazing and clever the idea of creating an animal version of our myths based on their perception of the world, it was like a way to get me into a more into a mindset so different from my own.
Not only that, they detract from THEIR IMPORTANCE. The stories are meant to function as a "middle ground" a moment of relaxation and fun where the angst of the moment is set aside, not only for the author but for the rabbits themselves, as a connection. But beyond being a simple relaxation, the stories HAVE A WEIGHT on our characters. The story of El-ahrairah's blessing and the story of the black rabbit gave our protagonists the strength and will to go on and be like El-ahrairah, the story of the lettuce reminded us of the importance of cunning and trickery as part of the rabbit's life, the story of the trial gave weight to the role of Kehaar and the mouse, the story of Rowsby Woof gave Fiver the vision of the dog, even the half-told story of the fox in the water was important to make the female rabbits feel good during the siege of Efrafa.
Seriously, one of the things I loved most about WD was that whole role of culture and myth (something I personally have always been fascinated by) seen even in non-human animals. It's so sad how little weight people give them, they really deserve to someday be represented in all their glory.
In the movie we only had the animation of the prologue (simply beautiful that yes, of my favorite animated sequences of all) and a half-worked idea of the King's Lettuce ("cut the tone" my eggs, Rosen).
The '99 series was the only one that more or less gave them more weight even adding one or two new ones. It's appreciated, but I still felt them very empty and the black rabbit one was never realized (despite there being plans for a chapter dedicated to that, heck).
Of course the miniseries doesn't differ that much from the movie, just the prologue part. But at least it was kind of nice to have at least parts of other stories told occasionally (I would have loved to hear that version of the black rabbit story in full).
(I would even go so far as to say that other WD inspired xf stories have failed to reach this "height" either. Either because those stories are always left very briefly aside or the story is so fanciful that they just don't matter/impact in the same way).
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AY YO, WHERE MY HORROR HOMIES AT?
WHERE MY HOMIES AT WHO FW THE FUCKED UP SHIT AND NOT THAT TAME STUFF?
WHERE MY EXTREME HORROR AND SPLATTERPUNK HOMIES AT?
IM DESPERATE FOR MORE HARDCORE HORROR MUTUALS
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SUMMARY: In 1968, the night of Halloween brings mayhem in a small town when a group of friends discovers a notebook written by a mysterious girl that foretells terrifying events.
mod L: *holding flashlight under face* what if . . . the scariest story of all . . . was the election of Richard Nixon and the subsequent escalation of the Vietnam War?
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something very fascinating about horror movies having a concept I find viscerally terrifying and could easily be the scariest thing in the world to me, but in execution just. does not remotely scare me like the idea in isolation does
on a related note I watched all the Final Destination movies recently
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