Super Chillers

Roses are red, Violets are blue. It's about dang time for Super Chillers Season 2! Join Katie and Jeffrey for belated blathering about FEAR STREET: BROKEN HEARTS by R. L. Stine as @superchillers enters its second season. Pack your coolers for Hot Dog Summer, student bodies! E-mail us your questions, comments, or games at superchillerspod@gmail.com  Follow Super Chillers on Instagram @super_chiller...

New year, new mayhem! Katie & Jeffrey gaze into their crystal ball for January's episode on NIGHTMARE HALL: THE WISH (1993) by Diane Hoh, a missive from the cosmos suffused with Vinnie's pizza, football padding, belt-sagging crash diets, and debilitating cases of marshmallow knees. Heed the mystical musings of The Wizard-- head to your favorite podcast platform and listen to @super_chillers! E-mai...

Jingle bells / Dead teens smell / Meat lock the stink away! Up on the housetop, the @super_chillers send you a season's greetings down the chimney in advance of your upcoming holiday commute. For December's episode, Katie and Jeffrey ho-ho-ho about Jo Gibson's SLAY BELLS (1994), a stocking stuffed full of faux animatronic Santas, horse sweat, mayo dip, and Granny's $2 pies. Is it naughty, nice, or...

As predictable as death, taxes, and limp little pieces of spaghetti, the @super_chillers are back for November's episode! Join Katie and Jeffrey for discussion of Richie Tankersley Cusick's HELP WANTED (1993), a novel of creepy smiles, seductive walks, fuzzy library slippers, and the great Hercules Diffenbach Swanson. If this podcast feels a little cold to you, well, that's simply nature's way of...

Is that a pimple on your chin or a blotch of certain death?? For the super-spooky month of October, Katie and Jeffrey join the Clue Crew by reading THE NANCY DREW FILES 41: SOMETHING TO HIDE (1989) by Carolyn Keene! Alongside gaining radiant, glowing skin, the @super_chillers also learn important life lessons like "maybe don't mix arsenic into your soda," "all it takes to fix a computer is a hamme...

High school debate team rivals murdering each other indiscriminately? ✅ Shockingly gory violence for a 90s teen thriller? ✅ Medium speed snowmobile chases across a frozen lake? ✅ A gratuitous scene depicting a carful of teens driving all the way to another town to attend a Humphrey Bogart film festival? ✅ It must be September’s book, RESOLVED: YOU’RE DEAD (1990), from the Horror High series by...

Pour yourself a tall stein of raspberry lemonade and lay out a soggy beach towel with the @super_chillers by the cartoon waves under a pea-green summer sky: August's book, PARTY SUMMER (1991), the inaugural Fear Street Super Chiller, is a howling, slurping, ponytail-pulling, downright protoplasmic way to close out the sizzling season. We promise you'll be licking suntan lotion and chanting "PARTY...

Slather on your avocado and mayonnaise beauty glop, close your eyes, and take a meditative trip to Sweet Valley for July's @super_chillers episode on MURDER IN PARADISE (1995) by Francine Pascal! At Paradise Spa, you'll find unlimited salad and gazpacho, hunky troubled runaways, a matronly Cali Cryptkeeper, up to one corpse in the sauna, and absolutely no ice cream. You don't need to dial up INFOM...

Noseride yonder wave into a frog splash and flush out your ear holes, Student Bodies-- it's a new @super_chillers episode for June! Katie and Jeffrey brave the waters and watermelons of THE SURFER (1995) by Linda Cargill. Along the way, they learn to appreciate the soulful eyes and cloven feet of pig dads, the eternal mystery of Bunsen burners, and the utility of breadcrumb pockets. This episode's...

What's that very strong, important funniness hanging in the air? Now then! It's the @super_chillers of course, who have returned just in the nick of time to breathe in your face and put you under their wicked spell. For May, Katie and Jeffrey read Imogen Howe's FATAL ATTRACTION (1982), from the Twilight series. No, not our friend Stephenie's Twilight, the other one! The one Where Darkness Begins a...

Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street-- listen to this month's highly intriguing @super_chillers instead! Katie and Jeffrey toss aside the Spring issue of Sassy Magazine to devour unlucky number thirteen in R. L. Stine's Fear Street series, THE SECRET BEDROOM (1991). In this super-chilling tale, buckets of blood pour down from our ceiling, a khaki raincoat does the M3gan danc...

Vroom vroom! Who is that interesting, unusual, and distinctively helmeted terror plowing their hog through crowds of co-eds? Why, it's THE BIKER (1995) by Diane Hoh, the 24th entry in Scholastic's Nightmare Hall series. February finds the @super_chillers battling bookstore shampoo inflation, Diary of Revenge mixtapes, and the ancient secrets of whirlpool healing. Katie and Jeffrey also maybe start...

Avast! Hoist the mainsail! A whistle wind is darn tootin', and the @super_chillers aim to get swallowed by the surf. For January, Katie and Jeffrey stumble through the eerie fog and bump their noggins against DEVIL WIND (1983) by Laurie Bridges and Paul Alexander, an entry in the Dark Forces series of Christian-themed YA horror novels. Follow your hosts and a pair of wholesome, milk-fed teens as t...

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the Margo is SO MUCH MORE FRIGHTFUL. It's New Year's Eve, and what better way to celebrate than by being gutted by your leather-jacketed Evil Twins? The @super_chillers are prancing through the east coast snow all the way back to Sweet Valley, CA, for your dump-of-the-month: Francine Pascal's RETURN OF THE EVIL TWIN (1995), the follow-up super-shocker to l...

Better late than nevampire! The @super_chillers return for November's episode-- in the first week of December! We once again get dumped by our moms in the steamy gothic underworld of Richie Tankersley Cusick with VAMPIRE (1991), a neckbiter novel in which little blood is spilt and zero is slurped. But what it does offer us is a belfry-full of gorgeous uncles, sentient fingers, suave swooping, flow...

Just in time for your Halloween cocktail party, it's episode 13 of @super_chillers ! Gather round the cauldron, kiddies, and hear the tale of a teen witch who will turn your kneecaps into burger meat with her shotgun and send you to hell to report back on the weather. Confused? Us too. We chat WITCH (1990) by Christopher Pike, a novel about how you should sacrifice your life to save your horniest...

Spin that rotary dial to 976-THRL, you yellow-gutted teen fiends! It's episode 12 of @super_chillers, and you're invited to dial in to the second-best and most affordable teen talk party line in town! Only 50 cents for the first minute and then 25 cents for the sixty three minutes that follow! With their oily voices, Katie and Jeffrey gab on about PARTY LINE (1989) by A. Bates to the point of driv...

Thrills, chills, and all the hot dogs you can stomach! Slip on your dull blue muumuu, shimmy on down the boardwalk, and prepare to take a fateful ride on The Devil's Elbow roller coaster with the @super_chillers ! For August's episode, we read FUNHOUSE (1990) by Diane Hoh, a book full of elegant neon jumpsuits, baby-buying boardwalk moguls, ex-sisters, shredded tire jumpscares, and at least two pr...

Grab your Mickey Mouse blanket and some sh-booming rap tunes, ya goners, and then shuffle on down to the beach! What's that winking at you in the distance? Is it...? Could it be...? It is! It's that foggy, time-warpin' BEACH HOUSE (1992) by R. L. Stine, a novel in which ol' R(aspberry) L(emonade) depantses us while bragging about how he totally knows who Vanilla Ice is. We've got sharks, friendshi...

a://LOG IN... AND NEVER LOG OUT AGAIN! The Super Chillers are back to provide you some extra RAM for the month of June. We .exe STALKER (1998), the fifth entry in Jordan Cray's DANGER.COM series of near-millennium technological terror tales, joined by our AIM buddy, Erica (@finalvalleygirl)! Over our 90 minutes of screen time, we take a trip to the computer store to check out the latest CD-ROMs, d...

Pucker up, student bodies! Super Chillers has returned for our first of two episodes in June, and this time we're whispering in your ear the three deadly words every Bay Area dentist hopes his darling angel never hears: GIMME A KISS. The GOAT Christopher Pike's 1988 novel of that name is our subject, and it’s a terminal smooch you’ll NEVER forget. Rest assured, while composing our meticulously hor...

Hut hut-- boo! Apply some raccoon eye, tuck your neck into your jersey, and spectrally float on down to the twenty yard line, fellow jocks: this month we read Barbara Steiner's THE PHANTOM (1993), a book full of football field smooshings, lentil soup birthday dinners, beach boogie exorcisms, and poisoned needles in the shoulder pads. After these next 76 minutes with the Super Chillers, you WILL be...

Turn down the dial on your Lion Jovi cassette and clutch your Bart Simpson telephone to your ear in horror, ya slug-eating puds: it's Super Chillers coming in hot through the speaker with our chat about THE ADMIRER (1994) by Debra Franklin. In this month's episode, you'll learn about how to style a boxy sweater vest around your sinewy frame, how to stew in your own rancid juices, how to finesse th...

Grab your planchette and come bask in the buttery moonlight with Super Chillers as we conjure up Joan Lowery Nixon's Edgar Award-Winning THE SEANCE (1980). It's a tale of East Texan teen intrigue, stuffed full of gaunt wet blankets, candle-tipping, dead cats cemented into the walls, hex spells, gun-toting church ladies, basting spoon-related head trauma, and rattlesnakes lurking in the corpse-lade...

Bloody New Year, Daddy-Os. Super Chillers returns in 2022 to knock your lights out by reading Nicholas Pine's LIGHTS OUT (1993), the inaugural entry in the TERROR ACADEMY series. This one is full of squishings, crunchings, sizzlings, and outdated 1950s teen lingo. As we suffer sitting through prank-filled graduation ceremonies and the crowning of Miss Cream Cheese 1993, we ask: Who are The Potato...