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On this minisode, Alyssa reads from Give Yourself Goosebumps #1: Escape from the Carnival of Horrors, while Andy chooses their own adventure. Also, some corrections to this week's episode and posts! // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.c...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #37: "The Headless Ghost." Turns out, a lot of people die in Goosebumps. They discuss Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, 90s haircuts and makeup, dolphin body types, heffalumps and woozles, dumbwaiter and widows' walks, the Vietnamese legend of the Waiting Statue, Anne Rivers Siddons's The House Next Door, the podcast In Another R...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #36: The Haunted Mask II. They discuss confusing punishments, Carly Beth's character arc, the Georgetown Hoyas (and other sports mysteries), Patrick Bateman, black and white cookies, phone creeps, oatmeal, symbols of love, Ezekiel, inexplicable endings, After Hours (1985), fear of ageing, Relic (2020), Still Alice (2014), disability, childcare horror, Zoje Stag...

On this bonus episode, Andy and Alyssa talk with author A.E. Osworth about the TV adaptation of The Ghost Next Door. They discuss representations of the Internet in 90s media, copaganda, white girlhood, remarkable fashions, ableism, activities for single parents, the importance of taking media seriously, childhood fears vs the fears of queer adulthood, basic haunting, being made invisible, plot ho...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #35: A Shocker on Shock Street. Along the way, they talk movie tie-ins on CD-ROM; horror franchises; robot ethics; Universal Studios; Peeping Tom (1960) and meta horror; Dante's Inferno; the Toadinator; bat appreciation; praying mantis spit; zombies; Westworld (2016 - present); Haley Joel Osment; the Twilight Zone episode "A World of Difference"; Fear...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #34: Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes. They discuss garden envy, Pink Flamingos (1972), pesticide hallucinogens, Maniac (1980, remake 2012), European imports, garden show rules, Tina Belcher and Jimmy Pesto, consumer economies, Justine by the Marquis de Sade (1791), Serial Mom (1994), suburban horror, "Sticks" by George Saunders, awkward euphemisms, Dolls (1987)...

This week, #SportsWatch goes live as Andy and Alyssa discuss Goosebumps #33: The Horror at Camp Jellyjam! They explore the religious leanings of southern Idaho; the geothermal rumblings of Yellowstone National Park; the California Raisins; fracking; Super Meat Boy; more monarch butterflies; instrumentalizing your leisure time; Gattaca (1997); cults and fascism; Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922); the...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa read a letter from an awesome Goosepunk, and also more Amazon reviews. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #32: The Barking Ghost. They discuss snow domes, (Stephen) King Country, Charles "The Hammer" Martel, literal red socks, Faneuil Hall, what liver tastes like, incorporeal sandwiches, sunken places and red rooms, the disturbing diet of chipmunks, Les Diaboliques (1955), occult detective fiction, The Hound of the Baskervilles, doing puzzles for reasons, trap...

Andy and Alyssa take a detour into the Fear Street series with Ski Weekend (1991). They discuss a notable lack of skiing, gender troubles, balaclavas, elaborate schemes, terrible driving, Tom Bombadil, ravines, unclear warnings, Vertigo (1958), bullet eating, lodge horror, snowed-in horror, Slasher: Guilty Party (Season 2, 2016), The Hateful Eight (2015), The Lodge (2019), imposter horror, Edgar A...

On this bonus episode, Andy and Alyssa talk with Senior Science Advisor to the podcast, Sam Levinson, about science in the Gooseverse. Sam explains what science is, the everyday horrors of science, sexy wrenches, false advertising, hedging language, which Goosebumps characters are good scientists, micing, Roy Guillory's Farmhand (2018-present), theories of plant-human hybrids, and real-life m...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #31: Night of the Living Dummy II. They talk family annihilators, old sandwiches, pop art, the hazards of having wall-to-wall carpeting when your kid is an artist, toddler birthday parties, family share night, "Maggie's Farm" (1965), the party house, the Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kid, the Child's Play franchise (1988-present), madness in horror, Mr...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #30: It Came from Beneath the Sink! They discuss Sappho, yonic imagery and period metaphors, sponges (of course), water parks and log flumes, library visits in horror, Gremlins (1984), the ticking clock trope, Leprechaun (1993), mortgages for children, predictions for the future of dystopic capitalism, repression, Stephen King's IT (1986) and Pet Sematary (1983...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa talk discuss being famous in Norway, Gøøsebumps, bird theory, transportation in many lands, and the Gold Rush. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #29: Monster Blood III (monstah blood, see?). They discuss  the parks of Atlanta, GA; Converse hi-tops; monarch butterfly migration patterns; the Great Walkman to Discman Changeover; Jonathan Lipnicki; Dunkaroos and Soylent; the hazards of being a boy in the Gooseverse; R.L. Stine's sandwich habit; prasinophobia; when the bullied becomes the bully; undercompens...

Andy and Alyssa discuss Goosebumps #28: The Cuckoo Clock of Doom. They talk messed up family dynamics, antiques, sibling rivalry versus abuse, art and lies, 90s dieting, nonlinear storytelling, crepe paper, NXIVM, childhood fears, legal dramas, time travel, The Butterfly Effect (2004), adolescent horror, Revolutionary Road (novel 1961, film 2008), babyhood as body horror, captivity horror, The Bab...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa read Goosepunks' theories about art in the Gooseverse, bathtub worms, illustrator Zina Saunders, cliffhanger endings vs fakeouts, creative uses of monster blood, artistic influences on Why I Am Afraid of Bees. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Instag...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #27: A Night in Terror Tower. They discuss potato history, Los Cronocrímines (Time Crimes, 2007), medieval laundry baskets, Medieval Times, The Terminator (1984), Morgan Le Fay, the Princes in the Tower, sovereignty and the complicity of the masses, calculating the earth's rotation and orbit into your time travel equations, Stanley Kubrick's infamous bear,...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #26: My Hairiest Adventure. Along the way, they discuss dogs, suggestive metaphors, terrible science, Carmen Sandiego, drug narratives, perfectionism and embarrassment, the horrors of puberty, upsetting diets, paranoia, The Stepford Wives (1972 novel/1975 film), Never Let Me Go (2005 novel/2010 film), medical experimentation, Three Identical Strangers (2018), The Im...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa chat with Zack Sokol (@SUDA41) of Middle Fantasy about the time he met R.L. Stine at Comic-Con, The Cuckoo Clock of Doom, and what Goosebumps means to him. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme mu...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #25: Attack of the Mutant. They discuss the roads of Columbus, Ohio; Michael Chabon's The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; outdated print technology; Stranger than Fiction (2006); Random Acts of Violence (2019); technicolor grain silos; taking the bus; not doing your homework; Frosted Flakes and Pop Tarts; orthodontics; same-face syndrome; Pi (1998); shag carpe...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #24: Phantom of the Auditorium. As they discuss the many possible phantoms of this book, they also talk about scrunchies, queer characters, All About Eve (1950), obsessive rivals, Waiting for Guffman (1996), Guys and Dolls (1950), trapdoors and special effects, cursed plays, excellent 90s outfits, the Bechdel test, affordable housing, lost child stories, The Orphana...

On this bonus episode, Andy and Alyssa talk with writer JI Daniels (@narrativelies) about the TV adaptation of Stay Out of the Basement. They talk about terrible food choices, the Elektra complex, how to delete an answering message, the careers of Goosebumps stars, flashy vests, and mad science. You can find JI Daniels's books, "Mount Fugue" and "If You Can," on Amazon. //...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #23: Return of the Mummy. They talk about sequel revelations, ethics in archaeology, denim on denim, sexy evil women, Jurassic Park, pre-Code comics, adventure stories, Thank You for Smoking, untrustworthy family members, Run, cycles of life and death, publish-or-perish models of science, The Parent Trap, nuclear family anxieties, afterlife in the Gooseverse, and so...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #22: Ghost Beach. They discuss Puritans, the best #FoodWatch to date, plants, The X-Files, Yankee Candles, mad humanists and addled Lovecraftian scholars, vengeful ghosts, The Grudge, Gravestone Girls (@gravestonegirls), The VVitch (2015), landscape horror, H.P. Lovecraft's "The Terrible Old Man" (1921), Daphne DuMaurier's "My Cousin Rachel&...