Frankenstein Among the Dead Scares Us!

How cool are these cards Theatrefolk sent me to advertise my first published play, Frankenstein Among the Dead?  (Click on the title to buy a copy of your very own!)  And click here to listen to the episode where Katya and I dissect all that is Frankenstein-y!

Night of Dark Shadows: Katya and Laramie Are Famous!

Well, kinda.

Danny Horn over at Dark Shadows Every Day featured clips from our Night of Dark Shadows episode --- head over here and check it out!

John List Scares Us!

Tonight's episode, featuring family annihilator John List, was also the last we recorded before Katya left Missoula to pursue her PhD.  But fear not, apricot:  we recorded another episode last night, and you'll be privy to it soon!

Your fearless hosts; note Katya in her fuchsia peignoir!  

Ryan and I are so obsessed with Race Chaser podcast that we mention it in our next episode as well!

If you're looking to pick up a copy of the book we gifted Katya with for her going away present,
Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai look no further than your friendly neighborhood This Place Scares Us blog.

Katya challenged me to name my favorite episode, and it has to be Episode 5, Cycle of the Werewolf!

The first appearance of Catwoman ... yes, Papa will spank.

Obviously it's super easy to leap around from roof top to roof top in a purple evening gown, green tablecloth, and high heels.

Catwoman's evolution.  I'm going to begin every conversation starting tomorrow with "Meow do you do?"

The new Catwoman costume, complete with breathing room for your arm pits.

Pu Pu!

Smoke over the city at The Keep, where we enjoyed Katya's farewell dinner.

We record on top of my Tales from the Crypt books.  And Katya's peignoir continues to be fabulous.

Ryan designed this creepy graphic of John List combined with a skull.  Very effective.

The Stepfather, complete, if you care to watch it.

Falling Down is the first thing I thought of when I saw John List's photo.

The List family.  Oh, Helen.  Oh, oh.

Lara Parker (refer to our episodes focusing on House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows), starring as Laura in The Glass Menagerie.

The List bust that finally caught the bastard.

John List Scares Us

Hello Dear Listeners,

 

Like all new relationships we are shamelessly celebrating an anniversary this episode.  This was our 1 year anniversary episode and is officially episode 25 of This Place Scares Us!  We love all our listeners and once life is a bit more settled for us we want to find something other than a sticker to give out to all of you!

 

Now, on to the episode!  We are discussing John List who was a horrible murderer.  The term family annihilator was developed to describe this monster and we really dive into why he was so vile.  There are so many layers to this story with the true events and the Gothic themes and overtones.  Plus this story hits close to home for Katya so buckle up and enjoy!  

 

Also in this episode Katya and Laramie deconstruct all of the outfits and shoes Catwoman was forced to wear.  Katya continues to discuss her feelings on Pandas (we love you Pu-Pu). Laramie writes an on the spot haiku and we give you all the chance to name yourselves!  Happy official begging of fall!

 

**Clinkies**

 

Katya and Laramie

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Recording Tonight!

We're back back back again!  And here's a little taste of what tonight's recording will bring ...

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE ... coming soon to Netflix ...

So the trailer for Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House is here, debuting October 12th.  I'm trying to remain optimistic, I really am, I swear; however, this is my favorite book of all time, and it's been ridiculously disgraced once before (eff you, Jan De Bont; Catherine Zeta Jones, you redeemed yourself with Chicago), so I'm very protective of it.  This definitely looks creepy, but ... familiar.  Creepy hands, people hanging over you as you sleep ... I dunno.  The novel was about a woman's mental disintegration; this looks like The Conjuring . Fuck The Conjuring.

Sigh.  I'll give it a shot.

Look for an episode on HoHH ... soon.

The Horror Hotel in the City of the Dead Scares Us

We started this episode talking about the 2018 revival of Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band ...

...featuring the hot hot hottie Matt Bomer.  Enjoy him for a moment before the true horror begins.  I'll wait.

Okay, we're back.

Everybody buy my play!  Click here to purchase Frankenstein Among the Dead.

Christina Heagney as Morgan LeFay and Zach French as Merlin in my new play, Morgan and Merlin, currently touring around the state of Montana.

Morgana gets real; Merlin crawls out of a tree that totally does not contain vaginal imagery.

Here's a link to Horror Hotel ... watch it before you continue!

Our old friend Jack Davis, the illustrator famously known for helping the evolution of EC Comic's The Crypt Keeper for Tales from the Crypt (check out our episode on TFTC by clicking here), did a ridiculously rad poster for Horror Hotel -- "doom service" ... tee hee.

That looks like Peter Cushing to me.  Fail.

The video cover of Horror Hotel that I purchased at that long ago Sam Goody's in the Missoula Southgate Mall.

Patricia Jessel as Elizabeth Selwyn, that beautiful bitch.

Christopher Lee as Alan Driscoll, seducing Venetia Bradley's Nan Barlow with a creepy little town in New England.

And Christopher Lee baring his fangs in his first foray as Count Dracula in The Horror of Dracula.

This gorgeous landscape of the horrors that dwell within the mind of H.P. Lovecraft was separated into individual paperback covers from Del Rey in the 80s and 90s.  Whitewood might as well have been Dunwich.

13 o'clock, from the 1980s series Friday the 13th: The Series that had nothing to do with Jason Voorhees and all to do with cursed antiques. 

Witches, easily disposed.

The big reveal of Elizabeth Selwyn's demise at the end of Horror Hotel ...

...and a similar moment in Hitchcock's Psycho.

Angelique/Cassandra from Dark Shadows with her brother/fellow warlock Nicholas Blair ...

... and their counterparts in Horror Hotel:  Jethro Keene and Elizabeth Selwyn/Mrs. Newlys.

And finally ... THE CRONES OF WHITEWOOD!  May they haunt your dreams.

Horror Hotel Scares Us

Hi Dear Listeners,

Did you enjoy your Labor Day weekend or were you stuck in a Horror Hotel?  Perhaps you visited a City of the Dead (these are all related to the episode I promise)?  Whatever you did with your holiday we hope it was a restful and spooky one!

This week's episode is the movie Horror Hotel (also known as The City of the Dead).  Horror Hotel was released in America in 1963 and chronicles the foggy witchy nightmare that befalls a plucky college student visiting Whitewood Massachusetts.  This movie really has everything: fog, witches, death, virgin sacrifice, fog, witches, and more fog.  Katya and Laramie also discuss the horror that is the Missoula Gun Show.

We have been adjusting to life here in Missoula now that Katya has left to become Dr. Mickelson.  While we are sad we are so excited for her, and we will be continuing this podcast with updates coming in the future.  We Love you dear listeners and encourage you to be our fact checkers for some of the crazy stuff we say!

**Clinkies**

Katya and Laramie

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