Books in the Freezer - A Horror Fiction Podcast

What nightmares are hiding behind manicured lawns and white picket fences? Stoker-Award Winning author and Queen Weenie herself, Emily C. Hughes is here to help me talk about what makes suburban horror so scary. I rant about The Stepford Wives and more. Movies/Shows Mentioned: Blue Velvet Stepford Wives The Burbs I Saw the TV Glow Safe Donnie Darko Edward Scissorhands Virgin Suicides “Arcadia” – X- Files episode It’s Always Sunny – suburban horror episode It Follows Carrie Get Out Invasion of the Body Snatchers Buffy Twin Peaks Stranger Things Addams Family Books Mentioned: The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste Real World by Natsuo Kirino Linghun by Ai Jiang The Devil and Mrs. Davenport by Paulette Kennedy We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan A Better World by Sarah Langan The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix Model Home by Rivers Solomon The September House by Carissa Orlando The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons Check out the Final Girl Playlist Support the podcast on Patreon to access the newsletter, The Cold Front and the bonus series, The House at the End of Fear Street and get early, ad-free access to episodes.

In Shadyside Hospital, the people are dying .....to get out!  Okay, doesn't that sound like we should be talking about a slasher? Well, people are getting murdered, but first Laurie will  have to dive headfirst into a dark conspiracy at the heart of the hospital where she's been volunteering. HIPAA violations all over the place!  Full episode available on Patreon. 

Courtney Summers is back on the podcast to talk about the re-animation and adaptation of her 2012 young adult novel, This is Not a Test. Books Mentioned: This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers Ring by Koji Suzuki “The Birds” by Daphne DuMaurier (From After Midnight) Under the Skin by Michel Faber Who Goes There by John W. Campbell I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan Foe by Iain Reid Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin The Ruins by Scott Smith Chilling Obsession: The Wolf of Snow Hollow Check out the Final Girl Playlist Support the podcast on Patreon to access the newsletter, The Cold Front and the bonus series, The House at the End of Fear Street and get early, ad-free access to episodes.

So this is the new year Welcome to 2026 listeners, it's looking like we are in for another great year of horror full of fresh voices and terrors. It's the perfect time to join the Books in the Freezer Reading Challenge.  Books Mentioned:  This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers Pig Wife by Abbey Luck A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 by Robert Brockway Mama Came Callin' by Ezra Clayton Daniels Cruelty Free by Caroline Glenn Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaeffer The Body by Bethany C. Morrow For Human Use by Sarah G. Pierce How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates by Shailee Thompson Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward Dollface by Lindy Ryan Greedy by Callie Kazumi Dead First by Johnny Compton  First Date by Gemma Amor Sweetside Motel by E.L. Chen You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran Wretch: or the Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw by Eric LaRocca Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson Nothing Tastes as Good by Luke Dumas Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker Molka by Monika Kim Bodies of Work by Clay McLeod Chapman The Seventh Sister by Dawn Kurtagich Odessa by Gabrielle Sher The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer Shy Girl by Mia Ballard Not Your Final Girl by Mikayla Randolph Accumulation by Aimee Pokwata Make Me Better by Sarah Gailley Femme Feral by Sam Beckbessinger Headlights by CJ Leede Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay Check out the Final Girl Playlist      

Full episode available on Patreon Angela Sylvaine, horror author and the internet's favorite Cheerful Goth has stopped by Fear Street to talk about what is going on in the Secret Bedroom in Lea Carson's house. We talk about Benetton sweaters, VHS rental problems, Victorian ghost girls and more