Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #14: Jekyll and Heidi. Along they way, they discuss grief; Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; billboards in Vermont; 411; class tensions; fiction v. nonfiction; Gothic tropes; ski sweaters; the  Foundation; Heidi; exposition; IT: Chapter 2; Spiral; Shamela; orphans sent to live with mysterious relatives; A Series of Unfortunate Events; The Secret Garden; New England Horror; Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Hangsaman; Wolf; Bless the Child; The Spiral Staircase; “The Whisperer in Darkness”; torch-bearing mobs; Frankenstein; queer coding; Phantom of the Opera; Fritz Lang’s M; deviancy narratives and marginalization; Vermont’s history of sheep farming and industrial decline; unresolved endings; Halloween; No Country for Old Men; Certain Dark Things; Cube; mad scientist labs; Plague Dogs; The Island of Dr. Moreau; Herbert West: Reanimator; “Cool Air”; The House; going back for something; The Amityville Horror; The Matrix; cursed family members; Pet Sematary; The X-Files episode “The Post-Modern Prometheus”; Firestarter; disability; Of Mice and Men; the Gooseverse timeline; North American v. European werewolves; scientific research funding; and the year 1999. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at [email protected]

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