Andy and Alyssa continue their discussion of Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps (Special Edition #3) with "I'm Telling," "The Haunted House Game," "Change for the Strange," and "The Perfect School." Along the way, they discuss art contests, King Midas, turning to stone, Patrick Skene Catling's The Chocolate Touch, gargoyles (the creatures, the TV series, and the made-for-TV movie), Ghostbusters, the locus terribilis, games that play you, hellscapes, repetition compulsion, Shutter Island, not knowing you're dead, The Sixth Sense, Jumanji (1995), games as metaphors for trauma, ending at the beginning, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, Southbound, diverging adolescent interests, the Rainforest Cafe, doping, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki's This One Summer, lesbians and small businesses, "The White Gown" from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, cursed fashions, Animorphs, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Angela Carter's The Tiger's Bride, safe stories, ominous retail experiences, Lord Dunsany's "The Bureau d'Echange de Maux," Harlan Ellison's "Shoppe Keeper," William F. Wu's "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium," rigid parents, Cold Spring Harbor, The Stepford Wives, 28 Days Later, Karl Capek's R.U.R., Millennium, reform school, Louis Sachar's Holes, Karen Joy Fowler's "The Pelican Bar," Brian Evenson's "A Report," and the panopticon. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com
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