There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast

There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast

Carla is: a bookdragon; a 50-something with psychology and counseling degrees with post-grad work in grief/loss/trauma, sex crimes, and forensic anthropology; a woman who has lived in three haunted houses; a former freelance journalist and counselor, who is never bored; a disabled introvert who sees connections everywhere--like John Nash, only less math-y; a knitting fidget who loves horror movies with a skewed passion. Like one of her heroes, Harriet the Spy, she wants to learn everything and write in all down in her commonplace book. Join her (and sometimes her friends) in her strange library as she INFJs everything from unused angles. It’s going to get weird in the best way. Let’s play. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast--4761852/support.

Episodes

April 12, 2025 42 mins
In which Carla reenters the…why is it a house of leaves?

Preorder Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski: https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781524747718

Sources and references:

The House of Leaves universe:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves
Poe’s album “Haunted”: Apple, Spotify

The Little Blue Kite by Mark Z. Danielewski https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781524747695
The Collected Poetry of W. B. Yea...
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In which Carla goes deeper into the Five and a Half Hallway and The Three Attic Whalestoe Letters of the House of Leaves novel (fourth and fifth episodes in the series). Remember, Mother loves you.

The House of Leaves universe:

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 

The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves 

Poe’s album “Haunted”: Apple, Spotify

Demented domiciles: the term I coined for houses in literature and movies for houses t...
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In which Carla continues to explore the Navidson Record of House of Leaves, so that we may go deeper. Further down and further in. This is the third glow stick we have popped; we have two more, and much more darkness.

The House of Leaves universe:

The Cipher by Kathe Koja 
The Willows by Algernon Black...
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In which Carla recaps the second episode (Ergodic) in the series on the universe of the horror novel House of Leaves, so that we may go deeper. Further down and further in, cupcakes. This is the only map we have.

The House of Leaves universe:
Referenced:
The Griffin and Sabine Series by Nick Bantock:
1....
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Recap of the first episode in the series on the universe of the horror novel House of Leaves, so that we may go deeper. Further down and further in.

The House of Leaves universe:


Demented domiciles: the term I coined for houses in literature and movies for houses that are just Not Right. My favorite i...
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In which Carla returns to the haunted English coastline for Victorian Christmas ghost stories.

Source: Strange Stories of Ghosts and Coincidence, ed. Arthur Conan Doyle https://archive.org/details/doyle-arthur-conan-et-al.-strange-stories-of-coincidence-and-ghostly-adventure-george-redway-1891
Contents: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?369419 
Alternative source: Doyle, Arthur Conan; Scott, Sir Walter. The Valancourt Book of Victo...
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In which Carla expands a horror movie project that began as a challenge from her best friend: what high-quality horror movies don't have gore?

Originally broadcast November 9, 2021

How to Support Cupcakes: 
Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R
Substack: http://theremightbecupcakes.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremightbecupcakes
and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their a...
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In which Carla expands a horror movie project that began as a challenge from her best friend: what high-quality horror movies don't have gore?

Originally broadcast July 2, 2017

How to Support Cupcakes: 
Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R
Substack: http://theremightbecupcakes.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremightbecupcakes
and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads o...
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August 17, 2024 89 mins
In which Carla looks back over ten years of disability.
plus: From the Pantry, originally episode 12, to honor what is missed: Driving, Dancing, and Pizza Hut 

Loop earplugs: loopearplugs.com will redirect you to your local site

Recommended and referenced reading:

Bob Ford: official website: http://robertfordauthor.com, YouTube: Youtube Channel, Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/258046.Robert_Ford
The God Beneath My Garde...
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May 5, 2024 46 mins
Talking about where I have been, plus:

From the Pantry, originally episode 19, to honor the recent eclipse: In which Carla starts with Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game--Stephen King's planned In the Path of the Eclipse series—and explores folktales used to explain solar eclipses. It gets weird. 

Recommended and referenced reading:
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781501143809
Gerald's Game by Stephen Ki...
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In which Carla celebrates the Twelve Days of Christmas by connecting M. R. James to Ash’s chainsaw.

M. R. James adaptations listed at Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/jwlZ
Adaptations of this story: 1956: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-whistle-and-ill-come-to-you-1956-online only for those in the UK, or those using a VPN (BFI’s words, not mine) 1960: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRGfEk0cnL4 2010: https://tubitv.com/movies/5...
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Happy anniversary to all of us! Thank you for six years of cupcakes; you are the cupcakes I find on difficult days. I hope I have given you some.

Show notes: In which Carla and Princess Jones Curtis from the Bye, Pumkin Podcast talk about being mysteriously early readers, the effect V. C. Andrews had on (mostly) the women of their generation, Paperbacks From Hell, Stephen King, how Carla’s earliest reading habits explain a lot, and ...
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April 24, 2023 24 mins
Show notes:
In which Carla tells the fairy tale within Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

Sources:
“The Fisherman and His Wife”, from Grimm, Wilhelm; Grimm, Jacob. The Complete Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9789176374559
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780156907392
To join a FrizzLit book club/class: https://www.frizzlit.com/bookclubs
“The Charge of the Light B...
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March 10, 2023 75 mins
Show notes: In which Carla updates the story of episode 21, Nine Days and Two Car Seats, which tells the story of the murder of Michael and Alex Smith, and updates what their murderer, her mother, Susan Smith, has been up to in the time since the murder.

Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission

Sources:
Beyond All Reason: My Life with Susan Smith by David Smith https://app...
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December 7, 2022 29 mins
In which Carla shares lots of good news, and reads more Victorian horror for the holidays.
Sources and Recommended Reading:
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories (pp. 117-123) https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781943910564
Ada Buisson on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18335715.Ada_Buisson
Belgravia catalog archive: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000680041

There Might Be Cupcakes on IMDb:
https://www...
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September 23, 2022 66 mins
In which Carla explores the kerfuffle behind The Little Mermaid.
Original story by Hans Christian Andersen begins at 19:22

Recommended Reading:
Haunted Waters by Mary Pope Osborne https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780763629953
Disney: The Little Mermaid: The Film Script https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781645171522
The Little Mermaid: The Classic Edition https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781604333770
The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales, the (Illu...
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August 5, 2022 48 mins
In which Carla discusses the current eating disorder drama and pain in reality tv, her history with an eating disorder, and revisits her interview with Eli Sirota for National Eating Disorders Week.

Suggested reading material:
Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780142415573
The Best Little Girl in the World, by Steven Levenkron https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/3b654c44-4271-4734-858d-fa028bfe8bf3

Eli'...
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June 26, 2022 37 mins
In which Carla revisits her first episode and updates it, to celebrate five years of podcasting.
Guest visit: Bye, Pumkin Podcast: Surlesque and Lisa’s Angels: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/bye-pumkin-936759/episodes/surlesque-and-lisas-angels-142924068
Greg Behrendt is Uncool: “There Might Be Cake”: https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/there-might-be-cake/453250524?i=453250561&itsct=music_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&app=music
The ...
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In which Carla goes deeper into the Five and a Half Hallway and The Three Attic Whalestoe Letters of the House of Leaves novel (fifth episode in the series).

Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission

The House of Leaves universe:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780375703768
The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves https://bookshop.org/a/...
In which Carla explores the echoes of Johnny's past and the house's present, the spiral of echoes, and the beginning of the exploration of the Five and a Half Minute Hallway. Letters from an asylum and always echoes hallways.

Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission

The House of Leaves universe:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski https://bookshop.org/a/6560/978037570376...
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