Books in the Freezer - A Horror Fiction Podcast

Summer isn't over yet, so I was joined by Brandon Baker (@baker_reads) to talk about aquatic horror! We're talking about what could be lurking in the water, and how sometimes that's none of our business. 

Movies Mentioned: 

Lake Placid

Deep Blue Sea

47 Meters Down

47 Meters Down Uncaged

Sea Fever

Underwater

Jaws

The Lighthouse

Pirhana

Frankenfish

Sharknado

Ghost Ship

Sphere

The Creature From the Black Lagoon

Books Mentioned: 

Reliquary by Hannah Whitten

Invasive Species by Ellery Adams

Dark Water: Stories by Koji Suzuki (translated by Glynne Walley)

The Deep by Nick Cutter

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

The Low, Low Whistle by Laurel Hightower

From Below by Darcy Coates

Chlorine by Jade Song

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

The Devil and the Deep edited by Ellen Datlow

Chilling Obsession: 

Junk bugs

S(p)lasher Flicks by Cullen Wade

Final Girl Song: 

Posing for Cars by Japanese Breakfast

We are so back! It's Fear Street Friday and as summer is winding down what a perfect time to get away from Shadyside and spend some time in a beach town with some camp friends. What could possibly go wrong? Bookseller extraordinaire Marguerite and I break down this ridiculously unhinged entry. 

Warning - not in this clip, but this book does include a pretty gnarly animal death

 

Full episode available at Patreon

I was joined by Bram-Stoker Award winning author and returning guest, Clay McLeod Chapman to talk about his latest novel Devil Inside and Horrormance. 

Movies Mentioned: 

Lisa Frankenstein

Warm Bodies

The Mummy

Heart Eyes

Bones and All

Your Monster

Obsession

Possession (1981)

Books Mentioned: 

Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman

Jenny Will Eat You Now by Gillian Daniels

Spread Me by Sarah Gailley

A Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson

Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas

Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wisell

Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper

Headlights by CJ Leede

Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies by Emma Cole

Join our Patreon Community

Final Girl Song: You Should Not Be Doing That by Amyl and the Sniffers

Chilling Obsession:

Have we always been the caretakers? I am joined by reviewer George Dunn (@georgesreads) to talk about horror stories that are centered around the giving or receiving care either professionally or for a loved one. 

Movies: 

Relic

The Taking of Deborah Logan

Insidious 

The Perfection

The Haunting

Would You Rather?

Saint Maud

The Skeleton Key

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

Misery

Books: 

A Veritable Household Pet by Viggy Parr Hampton

The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer

Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine

The Vessel by Adam Nevill

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum

The Shining by Stephen King

Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

We Spread by Iain Reid

Chilling Obsession: The Ervil LaBaron Cult

Final Girl Playlist: 

Join our Patreon Community!

The 2026 Books in the Freezer Reading Challenge

Get your tickets for Rachel Harrison's Kiss Slay Replay event at BottleRocket courtesy of White Whale Books (9/10)

Patreon fun 

Books Mentioned: 

Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle

The Red Sacrament by Sara Hinkley

The Sea Hides Its Dead by Megan Bontrager

Scary Movie Night by Miranda Smith

Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die by Mallory Arnold

The Flayed Man by Chloe Lautner

Meat Bees by Dane Erbach

The Quiet Resurrection of Sister Evelida Livingston by Nick Wallin

Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman

Stay Buried by Jennifer McMahon

Reliquary by Hannah Whitten

The Calamities by Chuck Wendig

The House That Eats the Dead by Max Doty

The Minimalist by Kailee Pedersen

These Walls Remember by Del Sandeen

Lights! Camera! Frendo! by Adam Cesare 

The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims

Blacktail by Scott Hawkins

Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison

Pictures of You by Josh Malerman

This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper

Mazywood by Tananarive Due

Worry Box by Christopher Panatier

Trad Wife by Sarah Langan

Nightjars by Michael Wehunt

The Ship of Death by Kyle Winkler

The House Built on Alligator Bones by Sophia Honeycutt

It Looks Like You in the Dark by Mathilda Zeller

Quaint Folk by Bitter Carella

Bruja's Nest by Brenda LaTorre

What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlotte-Bonne

Amityville Awakens by Robert Ottone

This B Just Won't Die by Tanya Pell

Solace House by William MacLean

Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones

What A Nightmare by Rebekah Faubion

Public Access Afterworld by Jane Schoenbrun

There Used to Be People Here by Kennedy Cole