Story Guts

The Forest: Missing the Forest for the Death Metaphors

Little Red Riding Hood, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Secret History (spoilers), The Raven Cycle (spoilers), Into the Wild, The Giving Tree, Harry Potter (spoilers)

Scary Story Focus: It Follows and Get Out

Scream, The Ring, Tale of Two Sisters, Winter's Bone, It Follows, The Others, Shutter, The Langoliers, Get Out, Citizen

Witches: Hocus, Pocus, and Crocus

Discworld, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Hocus Pocus, Charmed, Little Witch Academia, The Worst Witch, The VVitch, Howl's Moving Castle, Into the Woods, Oedipus, Game of Thrones.

Dead Girl Stories: We Found Her On The Beach

Twin Peaks (spoilers), Twin Peaks: The Return (spoilers), Pretty Little Liars (spoilers), The Killing, True Detective, Serial, Silent Hill (spoilers), Deadly Premonition, Making of a Murder, The Red Parts, Channel Zero (spoilers), Veronica Mars, Riverdale.

Content Warnings: murder, incest, sexual assault, it's kind of a heavy one.

Cops : Down With Coppers, Up With Bronzers

Brooklyn Nine-Nine, New Girl, video games, vigilante superheroes, Luke Cage, 21 Jump Street, Hot Fuzz, Harry Potter, Zootopia, Elementary.

Content Warnings: mentions of sexual assault, discussion of police brutality.

Werewolves : Metaphorical Wolf By Day, Literal Wolf By Night

Harry Potter, Discworld, Blood and Chocolate, Twilight, Wolf Children (spoilers), Hemlock Grove, Gestella, Game of Thrones.

Content Warnings: Mentions of CSA, discussions of homophobia & transphobia.

Recap : Soft Health Cannibalism

Peter Thiel’s blood harvest, Hemlock Grove, Penny Dreadful, Gone Home, The Yellow Wallpaper, Huge Genius Giant Dick, The Exorcist, The Omen, Twin Peaks statue censorship, Beloved, Carrie Fisher’s memoirs.

Content warnings: Cannibalism talk, discussion of slavery and child death.

(Note: The doctor Molly meant to reference was Silas Weir Mitchell, not Silas Warner.)

Vampires : Vlad's Gonna Get It From You

Bunnicula, Carpe Jugulum, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, Blindsight, The Rhesus Chart, It Sucks, A Discovery of Witches, True Blood, Vampire Diaries, What We Do In The Shadows, True Blood (again), Twilight (again), A Discovery of Witches (again), Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, Buffy, we really do go on.

Content Warnings: Mention of suicide.

Haunted Houses : Do Not Rent From Shirley Jackson

The Ring, Shutter, Pulse, Haunting of Hill House, Anatomy (video game), Toy Story, House of Leaves, Babadook (spoilers), Tale of Two Sisters (spoilers), Crimson Peak, The Others.

Content Warnings: Sexual assault mentions, suicide mention.

Intro: Fond Greeting and Fair Regards

Alice and Molly introduce themselves and what they're all about. Mentioned in passing: Borne, The Stone Sky, Rose Buddies (now known as Wonderful!), A Discovery of Witches, Black Sails, is bubble tea soda.