Paranormal Pajama Party
Isn't it weird how often the horrors in our favourite scary stories tend to look a lot like, uh… ladies? Join me as I dig up the social and cultural contexts behind classic ghost stories and legends to challenge the often one-dimensional portrayal of women in horror.
Podcasting since 2024 • 41 episodes
Paranormal Pajama Party
Latest Episodes
Mermaids, Part 2: From Killers to Disney Princesses
For thousands of years, mermaids were apex predators whose voices could kill. Then somewhere between Homer's bone-littered shores and Disney's underwater utopia, something fundamental changed. How did creatures who used their voices as weapons ...
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Season 3
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Episode 37
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30:57
Mermaids, Part 1: The Indifferent Deep
A Scottish lord hears a woman drowning in his loch. Every instinct tells him to dive in and save her. But his servant grabs his arm: "My lord, that's no woman."This is the mermaid most of human history has feared – not Disney's lovestruc...
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Season 3
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Episode 36
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23:12
The Women of “Dracula”, Part 2: Patriarchy Bites
This isn't just a vampire story; it's a chilling exposé of Victorian anxieties. In part two of our series on the women of “Dracula”, the Paranormal Pajama Party podcast plunges deeper into Bram Stoker's classic, exploring how it grapples with f...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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39:36
The Women of “Dracula”, Part 1: Lucy Westenra and Victorian fear of female desire
Think you know “Dracula”? Think again. In this first part of our two-part deep dive into the world's most famous vampire novel, we're sinking our teeth into the real monsters of the story – and spoiler alert, it's not the Count.Join Step...
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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32:36
Hagsploitation: “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” | 33
In this spine-tingling episode, we watch the 1962 psychological thriller "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" and dive deep into the hagsploitation film subgenre it spawned. When Hollywood legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford found themselves di...
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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37:07
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