STORIES TELLING STORIES

STS PRESENTS: LOCKED IN A VACANCY: a new miniseries that examines stories of isolation and solitude through discussion and staged reading. In Episode 1 we examine Edgar Allan Poe's penultimate work "The Cask of Amontillado" STS producer Eric R Hill sits down with friend and guest reader Rickshaw Tom for a wine-fueled discussion about Poe's best works, the current covid-19 / corona virus...

“You think I give a shit what these kids think about me?” There’s nothing to do when you’re locked in a vacancy, so sayeth John Bender, played harshly and artfully by the indelible Judd Nelson. The Breakfast Club is a legendary piece of 80’s cinema, sandwiched between Sixteen Candles and Weird Science, and serves as the crown jewel of the Brat Pack collection. Disagree? B.O.O...H.O.O… John Hughes...

“Itchy tasty” Gaming in the late 90’s was turned on its head when RESIDENT EVIL was released on the original playstation. While zombie games weren’t unheard of, the “survival horror” genre was still relatively unexplored territory. But visionary director Shinji Mikami put the gaming world on notice as he brilliantly weaved puzzles, silence, fixed angles, limited save states, and crap 32-bit graphi...

Stories Telling LOVE Stories is a special Holiday Production of Stories Telling Stories, produced in association with Seeing ReDD productions and STS-Media Group. Be sure to LIKE us on Facebook and give us a follow on Instagram at STORIESTELLINGSTORIES. There’s also a Patreon page where you can show your support for the show and have a say in future episodes! That’s it for now! I’ll see you all ne...

“It’s a coffee table book…” Welcome back to STORIES TELLING STORIES! It is now SEASON 3 and we’re coming hot off the tails of our most successful month and successful year to date! For some reason beyond my understanding, our Season 1 holiday episode A PETER GRIFFIN CHRISTMAS absolutely exploded this year, garnering hundreds of listens a day and helping bring our yearly count to almost 20,000 for...

AN STS CHRISTMAS THE BOOK OF ARNOLD Based on The Book of Mormon By Trey Parker & Matt Stone --- But it’s actually the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy --- with Book, Music, and Lyrics by Eric R. Hill

“You see things And you understand… you’re a wallflower.” We’ve all been there… high school… day 1… the challenge to fit in, to make friends, the struggle to find ourselves in the manic energy of a new building, surrounded by a sea of foreign faces. It’s all too familiar and all too real, a time in our life most of us would rather forget. But most of us don’t have the cloud of childhood trauma han...

“You know what FORD stands for, don’t you? It means… Fix It Again, Tony, heh heh…” What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Texas? BBQ? Chili? The Kennedy Assassination? Oswald and the Grassy Knoll? Or is it Propane and Propane Accessories? In the sleepy town of Arlen there exists a man. He’s the man for this point in time. A man of dignity. A man of respect. A man of… oh wait…...

When things go bump in the night… when statues and paintings have wandering eyes… when our sanity drops to dangerously low levels, how can we know what’s real, and what isn’t really happening? Set the clock to 3:33 and enter the secret room… sit down at the ancient desk and peer inside the tightly-bound pages as we examine one of the strongest women in video game terror, Alexandra Roivas, in part...

Today on STORIES TELLING STORIES we serve up some liver, alongside some fava beans and a nice chianti as we take a bite out of Hannibal Lecter’s “Quid Pro Quo” to Detective Clarice Starling in “SILENCE OF THE LAMBS”... Part 3 of our 4-Part October Spook-Tacular, where we examine a collection of strong female characters from across horror and fear in pop culture. "He’s a monster… a pure psycho...

Today on STORIES TELLING STORIES we peel back the binding and breath in the intoxicating must of a vintage hard cover as we examine the story within the story in Stephen King’s MISERY… MISERY’S RETURN, in Part 2 of our 4-Part October Spook-Tacular, where we examine a collection of strong female characters from across horror and fear in pop culture. "I’m your number one fan!” I have a bit of a...

STANLEY: The lake! You’re supposed to die IN...THE...LAKE! The leaves are changing… the days are getting colder and the nights are getting longer… autumn is in the air. It’s October, and Halloween is just around the corner; a time for sweet treats, tricks and treats, and scary stories to keep you up at night… Here at STS, we’re no strangers to the power of a good scary story, so we’re setting up a...

In this episode of STORIES TELLING STORIES, we look back on what we’ve accomplished so far with 1 and a half seasons of this wild, wacky, inflatable, arm-flailing, Danny DeVito Throw Momma From The Train Inspired pop culture podcast... We examine the delays that have plagued season 2… and, most importantly, the desire to break out of the self-imposed mold into which this show was born in this STAT...

EPISODE STS-206: Wish it, Want it, Do it! Written by Eric R. Hill So today on STORIES TELLING STORIES, we peel back the fur, crack back the cranium and question curiously how this cunning canine became a cult classic of cartoon, uh… crap... I was on such an alliterative run there… Anyway, This is Brian Griffin’s best-selling self-help novel WISH IT, WANT IT, DO IT!... written and read by Eric R. H...

We said we'd never forget... but I think most of us have forgotten that promise...

Pop Culture is dead. Long Live ASMR. DJ BLAND

Today on STORIES TELLING STORIES, we go behind the cape and crack the knowledge protected by the master of the mystic arts… This is… The Book of Cagliostro, from Doctor Strange. “This is time… endless, looped time!” Created by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee, DOCTOR STRANGE made his first appearance in the July 1963 issue of STRANGE TALES (#110 if you’re counting). Doctor Strange serves as the Sorcerer S...

With nearly three decades of laughs under their belts, THE SIMPSONS has been responsible for countless iconic moments, characters, and untold stories. A popular favorite, and series stalwart from the very beginning, C. MONTGOMERY BURNS has run the gamut from cartoonish billionaire, to washed-up can collector, to lazy army private, and nearly everything in-between that a rich man can stuff himself...

In the SEASON 2 PREMIERE of STORIES TELLING STORIES, we take a look at another story gleaned from the driving inspiration behind this podcast, with “Murder at my Friend Harry’s” from the seminal 80’s dark comedy THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN… “...even though he was mortally wounded...” As discussed in the very first episode of STORIES TELLING STORIES, TMFTT was the directorial debut of one Danny DeVi...

“I brought these gifts for you, they’re up in my bum...” Seth MacFarlane is no stranger to mashing up musical numbers and farce. In Season 4, Episode 12 of Family Guy, “The Perfect Castaway,” we’re treated to a cutaway featuring Peter Griffin’s christmas album, presented in the style of those god-awful TIME LIFE music collection infomercials, which for the uninitiated are little more than glorifie...

“Good, Anakin, good… now kill him!” Growing up, the prequel trilogy was “my” Star Wars. Being born in ‘84 I was too young to experience the original trilogy during their theatrical release, aside from the New Hope special edition, but was primed for the prequels, and unprepared for the backlash they would unleash. Perhaps I’m kinder to the maligned episodes 1-3 because I grew up with them; stoking...

“I am a GOLDEN GOD!!!” It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, brainchild of Rob McElhenney, follows the shenanigans and adventures of the employees of Paddy’s Pub, a perpetually-failing irish pub in Philadelphia, and the colorful cast of characters that somehow find themselves crossing paths. Dennis and Dee Reynolds are sociopathic siblings, their father is Frank Reynolds, a slovenly and boorish man p...

“Oh and dude, “chinaman” is not the preferred nomenclature, asian-american please.” A cult-classic, preserved forever in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being considered culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, The Big Lebowski initially disappointed at the Box Office and received mediocre reviews from critics at the time of release. Arguably the gem in the...

“I'm feeling a little anxious if you know what I mean. It's been about six hundred years after all...” A 90-minute drive south from Milthouse Studio sits the majestic and picturesque town of East Corinth, Vermont where, in 1987, Tim Burton brought the fantastic tale of Beetlejuice, the Deetz, and the Maitlands to life. After Burton found success with the 1985 classic “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure,” he...

“The First Rule of PROJECT MAYHEM is you do not ask questions!!!” THE FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB IS… YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB. The work of Chuck Palahniuk has inspired me as a writer for the better part of the 21st Century, but my torrid love affair with the modern master of cultural apathy began in the late 90’s when David Fincher’s explosive rendition of FIGHT CLUB took our pre-911 sensibi...