The Monster She Wrote Podcast
Episodes
Holly Black's Doll Bones
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Poppy, Zack and Alice are three friends who meet after school to play a game of fantasy and imagination. They use dolls and action figures to tell an ...
Episode 52: Behind the Attic Wall
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
12 year-old Maggie has been moved from boarding house to boarding house. She’s never quite fit in anywhere, as every new school has labeled her “i...
Episode 51: The Dollhouse Murders
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While spending time with her Aunt Clare in her grandparents’ old house, 12-year-old, going on 13, Amy Treloar makes a startling discovery in the att...
Episode 50: "The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth"
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth de Wynt and Cecilia Montresor are friends, writing letters back and forth, sharing news of their lives as friends do. Elizabeth is traveling...
Episode 49 "Christmas Meeting"
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Rosemary Timperley’s story “Christmas Meeting,” two lonely people find company during the holiday season. [Story can be found in Roald Dahl’...
Episode 48: "Adaptation"
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You know the most famous Christmas ghost story of them all. A miserly, miserable man must learn the true meaning of Christmas by meeting with three ap...
Episode 47: Jeanette Winterson's "Dark Christmas"
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The narrator of Jeanette Winterson’s “Dark Christmas” will be celebrating Christmas at Highfallen House with friends. No one seems to know who o...
Ep. 46: Bell, Book, and Candle
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following our discussion of Elsa Lanchester and her iconic role as The Bride of Frankenstein, we wanted to take another look at another one of her ico...
The Bride of Frankenstein
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
She’s one of the most recognizable women in classic horror as the Bride of Frankenstein in the 1935 film. And her iconic moment was only for the las...
Episode 44: "The Eight People Who Murdered Me"
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Mina Harker makes it to the final battle against the vampire, even though she fell victim to his bite along the way...
Episode 43: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this 1988 horror comedy, Cassandra Peterson plays her best known role, the Gothic horror host queen, Elvira. In this film (which was co-written by ...
Episode 42: The Horror Hosts
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You know these women. You know their long black dresses, usually with dangerously plunging necklines. You know their jet black hair and “vampy” ma...