Super Scary Haunted Homeschool
New York Times Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, brings his lunacy directly into your earholes with the world's spookiest spooky history podcast.
Episodes
15 episodes
Haunted Houses 3: Christmas Ghosts
The world's spookiest spooky history podcast reaches episode 3 and that means it's time to tackle that most haunted time of the year: Christmas! Ever since Shakespeare, Christmas has been all about ghost stories, but why? We'll tell you! Let's ...
Haunted Houses 2: Totally Goth
The world's spookiest spooky history podcast is still talking about haunted houses! When did houses get so scary? And why is everything so totally gothic, all the time? Let's go on a haunted hayride and learn about 18th century architecture, gi...
Haunted Houses 1: What Is Ghost?
Season 2 of the world's spookiest spooky history podcast begins! This time we're talking about Haunted Houses! But before we can bust ghosts we all have to agree on what ghosts are in the first place: solid air? Hallucinations? Transparent dead...
Vampires 9: Twilight of the Vampires
Season 1 ends as we reach...The TWILIGHT of the Vampires! Join us at this terminal moment as vampires achieve their sexiest, most sparkly form and consciously uncouple from disease forever. Who is hottest: vampire or werewolf? And why was every...
Vampires 8: Queen of the Damned
Vampire evolution ground to a standstill in the '80s, then a woman appeared who completely changed everything we thought about vampires. With the power of her pen, she made vampires less about disease, and more about sex. Today, every vampire l...
Vampires 7: Black Vampires
Three of the most important vampires of the '70s were Black, and here they are in all their glory. Black vampires have been an important part of the canon all the way back to the beginning, and this is just a part of their stories. Also, a lot ...
Vampires 6: Surviving the 70s!
As the '70s began, motion picture vampires were d-e-a-d dead. How would they survive the disco decade? By moving to the small screen, starring on Broadway, and trying to be funny. In the process, they fulfilled their true destiny and finally be...
Vampires 5: House of Hammer!
We're back! Welcome to the House of Hammer! This tiny British film studio resurrected Dracula in 1958 and gave movies the most iconic image of the vampire since Bela Lugosi in 1931! There's also a lots of talk about the menace of dope and the i...
Vampires 4: Vampire Movies!
We're going to the movies! Three vampire movies planted the seeds for the 20th century's gallery of glampires and we'll tackle them all in this episode. It's time for some nookie with Nosferatu, drama with Dracula, and cold va...
Saturday School 3: Not Draculas
Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay debunking the legends of notorious real-life vampires, Vlad...
Vampires 3: Dracula & Energy Vampires!
It's a monster-sized marathon of mayhem as Super Scary Haunted Homeschool finally tackles Dracula! Also, emotional vampires, feminism, Baby Mozart, sapphic bloodsuckers, the prom king and queen of Vampire High School, and why tall peop...
Saturday School 2: Ancient Vampires
Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you about the world's two first, most ancient vampires.&n...
Vampires 2: 18th & 19th Century Vampires
In episode two of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool we continue our coursework on VAMPIRES!!!! Will the suffering never stop? In this episode, we discuss almost 200 years of Vampire History, from the very first vampire on record (1725) to the last...
Saturday School 1: Hopping Vampires
Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you about China's hopping vampires. Fortunately, we liste...
Vampires 1: Where Do They Come From?
It's the very first episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool and Season One is all about VAMPIRES!!!! In this first lesson, we sit down and discuss Vampire Geography. What horrible vampires come from which terrible countries? Geographic inform...