The Monster She Wrote Podcast

Mar 04 2025 100 ep. 50 mins 90
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Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson, authors of MONSTER, SHE WROTE (Quirk Books), discuss women in the horror genre.

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So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison

Mar 04 2025 58 mins  
In So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison, Sloane Parker HATES birthday celebrations, but her husband and best friend Naomi conspire to give Sloane a weekend away at a posh lakeside cottage. The girls’ weekend away takes a dark and bloody turn, however, after a wild night out with some mysterious strangers. Recommended in this episode: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas and A Perilou

Linghun by Ai Jiang

Feb 18 2025 58 mins  
Linghun by Ai Jiang is set in the mysterious HOME, a suburb of Toronto, where the residents live among the ghosts. Winqi, a high school senior, must navigate her new town, where grief cuts everyone off from the rest of the world. Recommended in this episode: “The Center for Immortality Research” in Your Utopia by Bora Chung) and Mike Chen’s Here and Now and Then NEWS: We hav

You'll Like My Mother (film adaptation)

Feb 04 2025 61 mins  
Last episode, we read the Gothic horror You’ll Like My Mother by Naomi A. Hintze, which was recently re-released with Valancourt Books. In it, a pregnant widow named Francesca is trapped in her mother-in-law’s home and must escape. This episode, we are discussing The 1972 film adaptation of You’ll Like My Mother, starring Patty Duke. Recommended in this episode: Barstow by D

You'll Like My Mother by Naomi A. Hintze

Jan 21 2025 58 mins  
Pregnant Francesca finds herself a widow at a young age after her husband is sent to Vietnam. Without support from her family, she embarks on a cross-country journey to her late husband’s family home in Ohio. While she’s never met her mother-in-law, she hopes that she will be welcomed in. His childhood home, though, is nothing like she was told it was–and her new mother-in-la

MSW Classic: The Woman in Black

Jan 07 2025 76 mins  
Mel and Lisa are busy gearing up for a new season in this new year! In the meantime, enjoy this classic episode of the podcast, perfect for the Gothic feeling that is January. UP NEXT: Season 6 kicks off with Naomi A. Hintze's You'll Like my Mother.

MSW Classic: Adaptation

Dec 24 2024 59 mins  
Enjoy this classic podcast episode and have a happy and safe holiday season! NEWS: We have a Bookshop.org shop now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out small businesses. More info about the Canadian museum exhibit here: https://www.orillia.ca/en/visiting/exhibits.aspx?_mid_=28224 (Opening October 5 until December 20, 2024 - Temporary Exhibit) UP NEXT: The hol

MSW Classic: Helen Oyeyemi's Gingerbread

Dec 10 2024 54 mins  
Enjoy this classic podcast episode and have a happy and safe holiday season! NEWS: We have a Bookshop.org shop now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out small businesses. More info about the Canadian museum exhibit here: https://www.orillia.ca/en/visiting/exhibits.aspx?_mid_=28224 (Opening October 5 until December 20, 2024 - Temporary Exhibit) UP NEXT: The hol

Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley

Nov 26 2024 42 mins  
In Jenny Kiefer’s This Wretched Valley, there is a bad place just off a highway in a secluded forest in Kentucky. When a small group made up of geology grad students and rock climbers set up camp there to document a previously unknown rock wall, they find more than they bargained for. The place is old. And it isn’t always what it seems. Recommended in this episode: Grady Hen

Interview with Jenny Kiefer

Nov 12 2024 31 mins  
Jenny Kiefer is a debut author, avid rock climber, and Kentucky resident. She also owns and manages Butcher Cabin Books, a horror bookstore in Louisville, KY, with her mother. Her background is in copywriting and journalism, and she is the recipient of the Miracle Monocle Editor’s Award for Emerging Writers and four Society of Professional Journalism Awards. She was a 2021 Pitch

Halloween Special: Agatha All Along

Oct 29 2024 44 mins  
For Toil and Trouble, our book, we did a deep dive into research of the witch. And since the witch is a mainstay of this time of year, we thought it would be fun to do a little bit of a different episode today. We watched the first two episodes of Disney Plus’s Agatha All Along. NEWS: We have a Bookshop.org shop now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out sm