Teen Creeps

This week on the podcast Kelly and Katai read THE STEPFORD WIVES by Ira Levin, the story of what are you a slug living under a rock, how do you not already know the plot of this book? They get mad as hell and talk sexism, evil imagineers, and more! Support BROTHER MANOR, Kelly's gothic romance miniseries, on Kickstarter! INFO AND DONATE! SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON for ad free and video eps, bonus eps, &...

This week on the podcast Kelly and Katai read FEAR STREET: INTO THE DARK by R.L. Stine, the story of a blind girl who is awesome, but has unfortunately attracted a set of insane twin brothers. They talk good disability representation, Ed's many faults, Brad's also glaring faults, using your twin to sleep with Keanu Reeves' stunt double from Constantine, and more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATRE...

This week Kelly and Katai read A SORCERESS COMES TO CALL by T. Kingfisher, the story of an evil narcissist mom out to marry rich. They talk family surprises, who can pull off both loser and plastic, Falada's betrayal, the Penelope Green problem, and more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com...

PATREON OUTSIDE GENRE DROP! Kelly and Katai talk Álvaro Enrigue's YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES, a surprisingly funny historical fiction about the meeting between Cortéz and Moctezuma! Huge thanks to listener Hannah for the book suggestion! Stinky priests, running away from your european friends, and tripping on cacti! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes...

This week Kelly and Katai read EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE by Ernest Cunningham, er, we mean Benjamin Stevenson. They talk hyper self-aware narrative, poor poor Lucy, using every detail, loving everything, did we mention poor poor Lucy, and more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon...

This week Kelly and Katai read HAUNTED by Judith St. George, the story of a boy who has to rid a compound of nazi ghosts in the most boring way possible. They talk wills! How not to do nazi ghosts! And more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://disc...

This week Kelly and Katai read THE BOATMAN’S DAUGHTER by Andy Davidson, the touching story of a hot, hot woman and the adopted fish brother she does a terrible job protecting. They talk being unmoored in space and time, being here there and everywhere, the book’s fatal flaw, and more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episodes, merch, and...

This week Kelly and Katai read THE RAIN GHOST by Garry Kilworth, the story of a boy who finds a dagger and uses his D&D skills to help a water ghost. They talk a quirky story, a likable protagonist, a surprisingly good emotional throughline, and conning the BBC. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www....

This week Kelly and Katai read FEAR STREET: THE CONFESSION by R.L. Stine, the story of a group of friends who are forced to enter a murder pact, kind of. They talk a probable ghostwriter, nearly nonexistent protagonist, unfunny friends, lying cliffhangers, blades blades blades, and having an unhinged response to finding out your friend murdered your other friend. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATRE...

This week Kelly and Katai read CHRISTINA’S GHOST by Betty Ren Wright, the story of a girl trying to free a little ghost boy. Just kidding, it’s about a girl forced to be emotionally responsible for her grumpy uncle. They talk stamps! Bad adult behavior! Ghost rules that don’t make sense! And more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episode...

This week Kelly and Katai read WHAT HAPPENED TO LANI GARVER by Carol Plum-Ucci, the story of a girl in cancer remission othering her non-binary coded friend to angelhood. They talk having the best of intentions while still failing to fully empathize, what Carol gets right, being annoyed by Claire, being unable to save everyone, the evil genius of Macy, and more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREO...

This week Kelly and Katai read DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS by Mary Downing Hahn, the story of a weird little girl haunting a family to get them to bury her weird little bones. They talk Ali being a saint, everyone sucking but especially Dulcie, the Dad and Dulcie for sure boning, the sadness of weird girls, the difference between kind and nice, the importance of kids not making bad caregiver behav...

This week Kelly and Katai conclude Dueling Fairy Tales January with the Sleeping Beauty adaptation THORNHEDGE by T. Kingfisher. They talk loving the characters, loving the lore, loving the prose, the beauty of a small scale adaptation, bitchy fae, find themselves a Goodreads nemesis, and go off on food delivery apps. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our epi...

This week Kelly and Katai continue Dueling Fairy Tales January with the Sleeping Beauty adaptation SPINDLE'S END by Robin McKinley. They talk loving characters, loving the world, being unmoored in physical space, too many animals, a sapphic kiss, and more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.co...

It’s week two of Dueling Fairy Tales January! This week Kelly and Katai read the Beauty and the Beast adaptation BRIONY AND ROSES by T. Kingfisher and um… well… look, maybe it was all the fire in Los Angeles this week, but they did not enjoy it. To donate to Los Angeles fire relief and recovery efforts, visit the following or find your own preferred org: Wildfire Recovery Fund - California Communi...

It's week one of Dueling Fairy Tales January! First up are *both* of Robin McKinley's Beauty and the Beast adaptations, BEAUTY and ROSE DAUGHTER. They talk lush prose, so many roses, sensual salve application, wind servants, reading vs gardening, wanting to move to Longchance, and more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episodes, merch, a...

Happy New Year! (Meh.) This week Kelly and Katai read PAPERQUAKE by Kathryn Reiss, the story of a maligned triplet who saves the Golden Gate Bridge via papers from the past. They talk cool themes, iffy execution, annoying kids, main character syndrome from a main character, and more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episodes, merch, and...

This week Kelly and Katai read TWILIGHT #20: FAMILY CRYPT by Joseph Trainor, the story of a girl whose witch ancestor possesses her via horse and kills people. They talk the empathy being backwards, Ethan Allen being the true villain, convenient plot turns, and go deep on tulpas. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episodes, merch, and more...

This week Kelly and Katai read DARK FORCES #7: UNNATURAL TALENT by Les Logan, the story of a shy boy who makes a deal with the devil to make his basketball dad proud. They talk deals with the devil going right, iffy date rape messaging, being on the Lakers with our dads, stopping 9/11, and more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episodes,...

This week Kelly and Katai read WITCH'S FIRE by Beverly Butler, the story of a girl with a fucking terrible dad and oh yeah also a witch is there. They talk this absolutely awful fucking dad, poor Kirsty, poor Pam, poor Mrs. Vohl, good disability representation, Candy Land, and again this worthless fucking father. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episode...

This week Kelly and Katai talk FEAR STREET #40: NIGHT GAMES by R.L. Stine, the story of a boy who goads his friends into playing nighttime pranks on people as part of a revenge plan. They talk night games definitely being a normal thing we all get, 3rd person limited, how long it takes to strangle someone, being afraid of holiday decorations, sexy corpse boys, and Kelly goes on a Dragon Age: The V...

This week Kelly and Katai read THE BODY OF CHRISTOPHER CREED by Carol Plum-Ucci, the story of a boy whose life changes after the class weirdo goes missing. They talk teen empathy, blamming oneself, theatre kids using trauma in warm up circles, betting on the wrong royal, the struggle of boundaries, and more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bo...

This week Kelly and Katai read GHOSTS BENEATH OUR FEET by Betty Ren Wright, the story of a girl and her stepbrother needing a house to collapse into an old mine just to get their grief-stricken mom to wake the fuck up. They talk old covers, kids leaning to empathize, wanting more ghost, being mad at the mom, and spend like 20 minutes trying to remember which cozy mystery had Dr. #MeToo DDS. SUBSCR...

This week Kelly and Katai read INTO THE LAND OF THE UNICORNS by Bruce Coville, the story of a girl who must balance generational trauma with loving unicorns. They talk doing Chosen One without doing Chosen One, accessible fantasy, unicorns being cool, the unending pain of parental rejection, and more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus epi...

This week Kelly and Katai read THE CHEERLEADERS by John Hall, the story of a girl whose former best friend cheats death so she can kill a bunch of bitchy girls who, oh yeah, also happen to be cheerleaders. They talk hating Holly, glimmers of a better book, rooting for the love interest for once, what we're watching, and the triumphant return of escape rooms! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to...