Sisters Are Reading

DON'T READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara are joined by cousin friends Matt and Tyler IN THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS to get critical of Patrick Reuman's The Adirondack Witch . Featuring: A Double Durden, screaming marten, naked lady vodka, and an offer to edit Patrick Reuman's next tome.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Robert Marasco's classic haunted house novel Burnt Offerings , about a family renting a FANCY home on the north fork of Long Island for the summer — and the TERROR that ensues. Featuring: All cleaning, no fun. Creepy photographs. And whether it's ok to sacrifice your family's lives for a mansion.

Lindsay and Barbara get highfalutin with Jac Jemc's "literary" (aka confusing? but cool?) haunted house novel. Featuring: Secret caves, hidden compartments, a creepy neighbor, and a married couple with the world's worst communication skills.

Lindsay and Barbara dig into Gillian Flynn's surprisingly-not-that-scary tale of murdered children, twisted sisters, and one hella f*cked up mom. Featuring: Lindsay's Alaskan cruise adventure, missing teeth, and "Sisters Get Bored."

READ THIS BOOK FIRST! Lindsay and Barbara discuss Joe Hill's totally awesome tale about an aging rocker who buys a haunted suit off the internet and gets waaaaay more than he bargained for. Featuring: The magical power of dogs, scary ghost hypnosis radio, and a most excellent redemption arc.

Lindsay, Barbara, and Dad Bruce talk about Stephen King's terrifying vampire tome Salem's Lot – the scariest book that Bruce has ever read! Also discussed: Information overload, taking a historical perspective, and the shocking reason why British pilots in WWI weren't given parachutes.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss the senior-satanism novella Nana by Mark Towse. Featuring: Lindsay's weekend plans, sexually inappropriate elders, and the world's worst talent show.

Lindsay and Barbara mostly chitchat before digging into Andrew Cull's roach-infested novella The Cockroach King . Featuring: Improbable moments from the new Top Gun movie, bad neighbors, and whether animal control should be expected to handle a human-sized cockroach monster.

Lindsay and Barbara celebrate their respective wedding anniversaries by discussing Stephen King's spine-chilling thriller about a wife who discovers that her husband of 27 years is a brutally sadistic serial killer. Featuring: Wedding-veil-as-symbolic-hymen, wheat pennies, witness protection names, and more.

Lindsay and Barbara debate whether Leslye Walton's decidedly-not-at-all-scary YA novel was any good. Featuring: Quirky character names, a teenage love triangle, magic, and more.

HILARIOUS. Lindsay and Barbara laugh their way through Billy O'Callaghan's haunting Irish ghost story about a woman who fixes up her dream cottage only to get possessed by a neo-pagan potato famine murderer. Featuring: Home renovation! Artists! DIY ouija (WHO KNEW IT WAS PRONOUNCED WEE-GEE!?)! And the unspeakable horror of moldy potatoes.

Lindsay and Barbara talk through John Ajvide Lindqvist's Swedish vampire tale. This page-turner tackles everything from pre-teen bullying to alcoholism, immolation, face-melted-by-acid, self-harm, and pedophilia. But it's also kind of sweet?

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Thomas Tryon's terrifyingly bonkers tale of teen twins — one evil and the other… vaguely psychic? — and their oh-so-very-in-denial family. Featuring: Russian grandmother magic. Identical twin switcheroos. And a TRULY SHOCKING answer to "Where's the baby!?"

READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara discuss Lauren Beukes' mind-bending 2013 novel The Shining Girls . Featuring: A time-traveling serial killer! Really cool female characters! And a kickass heroine.

Lindsay and Barbara's biggest fan joins them for a very special Mother's Day episode. Meet Jan, host of the GranJan Reads podcast, as her daughters mercilessly razz her and ask hard-hitting questions like: Who's your favorite? Are we psychic? and What's the scariest thing that's ever happened to you?

Think you know Bram Stoker's Dracula ? Fine! You do! But have you heard of a harborgast ? Listen along as Lindsay and Barbara debate the merits of this overly long and brain-type-obsessed tome, from its depictions of Victorian sexuality to the canonical vampire rulebook… and maybe a newly coined word or two along the way.

Who's the most scared sister? Hear Lindsay and Barbara get FREAKED THE HECK OUT by Richard Matheson's super-duper-scary haunted house novel featuring: psychic mediums, lesbians, ecoplasm, electro-magnetism, and more.

Lindsay and Barbara chat about Mary Downing Hahn's 1986 baby novel for babies — aka a book for young folk that Barbara didn't find remotely scary but Lindsay managed to emotionally connect with. Including: Cool artist parents! Ghost friends! Child arsonists! Sisters!

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Robert Bloch's iconic 1959 novel, the best way to steal $400k, the human-feet-in-shoes mystery of the Salish Sea, multiple personality disorder, and more.

READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara talk through Stephen Graham-Jones' mind-expanding novel The Only Good Indians . In this book, four friends are hunted by a vengeful elk spirit. And it's BONKERS — think Hamlet meets Kill Bill meets I Know What You Did Last Summer .

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Ira Levin's lame and confusing sequel, Son of Rosemary . Featuring: Gratuitous incest vibes! Unexplained anagrams! Demonic marijuana! Genocide! Missing: Any kind of emotional connection or payoff.

READ THIS BOOK. Heads up: More talk about rape in this episode – but not as heavy? Hear Lindsay and Barbara rave about Grady Hendrix's demonic 1980s confection My Best Friend's Exorcism . From roller rink parties to permed hair, Christian weightlifters to magical coke cans, this book is righteous.

Warning: Discussion of suicide and rape. Lindsay and Barbara dig into the darkness and surprising comedy of Ira Levin's 1967 classic Rosemary's Baby . Hail Satan! Hail Rosemary!

Warning: This episode is a bummer.  Lindsay and Barbara talk about Paul Tremblay's disturbing novel A Head Full of Ghosts – as well as the anxieties and personal traumas evoked by the book's portrayal of schizophrenia.

Lindsay and Barbara dig into Thomas Harris' 1988 classic The Silence of the Lambs – grappling with the book's transphobia, recalling oodles of unnecessary details ( what was with that origami chicken?) , and confusing Ed Norton with Michael Keaton.