Sisters Are Reading

Maybe skip this one? Lindsay and Barbara talk through Sara Gran's maybe-missable, maybe-fine novel about demonic possession, Adam's other other wife (no, not Lillith), and ineffectual anti-demon shampoo.

READ THIS BOOK! Lindsay and Barbara dig into Grady Hendrix's latest tale about two siblings dealing with the death of their parents and the terrifying haunted puppet they left behind. Featuring: Getting stabbed in the eye with a sewing needle, radical puppet theaters, stuffed animal trauma, and countless other delights.

Lindsay and Barbara first discuss the PG-13 film phenomenon M3GAN before diving into Ania Ahlborn's ultra-depressing and scary novel about a family of Appalachian serial killers. Featuring: Movie-talking, rabbit murder, cannibalism, and other heinous acts.

READ THIS BOOK! Lindsay and Barbara discuss Catriona Ward's fantastically bananas scary sister pseudo-sci-fi ghost novel. Featuring: A ghost dumpster puppy, secret apple bite language, unethical genetic experimentation, and despising your sociopath husband who's also your sister's ex-lover?

READ THIS BOOK! Lindsay and Barbara talk through Isabel Cañas' brilliant tale about a haunted house, a priest-witch,  and forbidden love in the months after the Mexican War of Independence. Featuring: A pineapple cocktail, getting straight As in band, a secret sister, a psychopath ghost wife, and a really good ending.

Lindsay and Barbara watch the iconic 1980 film that launched a thousand sequels. Featuring: Calendar facts! Surprise Kevin Bacon, baby-bellbottoms, terrible instant coffee, and lots of us screaming.

FINISH READING THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara recap the second half of Joe Hill's awesomely horrific holiday-themed banger. Featuring: Delicious coconut drinks, the fall of Bing, return of the feral psychopath vampire children, attack bats, and how much we freaking love this book.

READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara dig into Joe Hill's epic tale of a Christmas-obsessed magical killer and the girl who can take him out. Featuring: Lindsay's head injury, cool bikes, creepy vampire children, and predictions for the second half of the book.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Stephen King's excellent 1977 story about an arguing couple who stumble upon a creepy f*cking corn town run by fundamentalist Christian/pagan children. Featuring: Crucified baby corn, super-dick-move-key-steeling, and confusing this story with Village of the Damned.

Lindsay and Barbara dig into Cassandra Khaw's novella about five friends navigating a haunted Japanese mansion. Featuring: 20+ minutes of chit chat on vasectomies and nerf-gun-kid-drama, getting left at the altar and then buried alive, pulling out your own tooth, and accidentally disemboweling your friend.

Lindsay and Barbara gush about their love of Stephen King's superlative novel about addiction, psychic powers, and that one ultra-super-duper-haunted hotel. Featuring: Great characters, croque-talk, and the mind-bending revelation of who "Tony" really is.

Lindsay and Barbara wrap their brains around Stephen Graham Jones' homage to slasher films. Chainsaw follows the story of seventeen-year-old Jade and her wildly spooky hometown. Featuring: LOTS OF SLASHER TROPES, final girls, and a surprise chocolate course.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Simone St. James' satisfyingly twisty-turny novel of a motel night clerk who goes missing in 1982 and the niece who tries to piece it all together in 2017. Featuring: Boys with names! Vengeful ghosts! Women who are friends with other women! And an ending your mother would approve of.

Barbara tells Lindsay about the terrifying internet phenomenon of Slender Man, which inspired the 2014 attempted murder of a pre-teen gal by a couple of her pre-teen friends. Featuring: Lindsay's new puppy, a bad short story, the legend of Bloody Mary, and our new fave vocab word — Catoptromancy .

Lindsay and Barbara dig into Jay Anson's "true story" about a family's one-month residence in a spooooky haunted house and the priest who tried to help them. Featuring: The scent of human excrement, itchy hands, child abuse, and how the whole thing was made up.

Lindsay and Barbara turn off the lights to reminisce about Alvin Schwartz's masterpiece of folklore and childhood terror. Featuring: Toe-eaters, talking dogs, jump scares, and AAAAAaahhhhhhhh!!!

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Sarah Glenn Marsh's young adult ghost story about the world's worst summer internship. Featuring: A teen paranormal podcaster, girls kissing girls, s ecret ghost sisters, Venus Williams' havanese pup, and Lindsay's future haunted doll!

Lindsay and Barbara use bad British accents to discuss Erik Larsen's strangely soothing history-inspired horror. Featuring: Lindsay's very long work dream, early 1900s boners, telegraph machines, and interdimensional ghost beings.

Read this book! After 20 minutes of chitchat, Lindsay and Barbara talk about getting their MINDS BLOWN by Stanislaw Lem's 1961 sci-fi horror classic. Featuring: Lindsay recounting her 11-year-old's slumber party, why humans shouldn't go more than 5 feet below water, falling in love with your fake Solaris spouse, and more.

Compelling thriller or derivative dud? Lindsay and Barbara debate the merits of Riley Sager's Rear-Window-inspired confection of weirdness. Featuring: Bourbon binoculars, sexy skinny dipping, an unreliable narrator, and a WHAT THE WHAT twist that neither of us saw coming.

Read this book! Lindsay and Barbara detangle Joey Comeau's wackadoo twisty turny book about mothers and daughters and monsters and death. Featuring: killing a baby to feed to your monster-sister, foxy teachers, and the eternal question — what makes something funny?

PROBABLY DON'T READ THIS. Warning: Discussion of torture and rape. Lindsay and Barbara discuss Jack Ketchum's extremely graphic and bone-chilling tale of children savagely hurting another child — BASED ON A TRUE STORY. Don't read this book if you're at all emotionally impacted by kids getting hurt. Featuring: Barbara's panic attack, alcoholic seltzers, Nine and Dine, and the bystander effect.

Lindsay and Barbara try to untangle the mind-bending plot twists and magical mechanics of Stephen Graham Jones' latest tale. Featuring: Cultural insensitivity, killer kids, multi-dimensional characters, and bonkers other-worldly body horror.

Lindsay and Barbara unpack the terrifying premise of Oyinkan Braithwaite's 2018 novel. Featuring: Why you should eat out for every meal, how not to break up with someone (ie murder), and whether or not we'd turn each other in for killing our respective boyfriends.

Lindsay and Barbara mostly chitchat, but also discuss Dennis Webster's ghost-hunting book Haunted Adirondacks . Featuring: LARPing, a ghost with no distinguishing features, the eerie state flag of the state of Louisiana, and Barbara's invitation to get haunted.