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.
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Sources and References:
Books by Charlotte Riddell available from Project Gutenberg
Books by Mrs. J. H. Riddell available from archive.org
Theme song and stinger: “She Comes Through the Fog” by Haunted Me, used with permission.
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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
Starling House, Alix E. Harrow https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781250799067 House of Windows by John Langan and Adam Levill https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781682308110 The Silent Land by Graham Joyce https://boo...
bannedbooksweek.org
Theme song and stinger: “She Comes Through the Fog” by Haunted Me, used with permission.
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Subscribe to ad-free episodes and the newsletter at theremightbecupcakes.com (hosted by ghost.io).
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Shop at Bookshop for physical books and eb...
Theme song and stinger: “She Comes Through the Fog” by Haunted Me, used with permission.
How to Support Cupcakes:
Subscribe to ad-free episodes and the newsletter at theremightbecupcakes.com (hosted by ghost.io),
Buy used books from the podcast's bookstore at Pango Books.
Shop at Bookshop for physical books and ebooks, also supporting Judy B...
Sources:
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Tales - Berenice
Berenice – The Poe Museum
Berenice (short story) - Wikipedia
Southern Literary Messenger - Wikipedia
A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe, edited by J. Gerald Kennedy
Theme song and stinger: “She Comes Through the Fog” by Haunted Me, used with permission.
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List of Bob's works
robertfordauthor.com: Instagram, Bluesky
Rattlesnake Kisses (Knucklebucket) by Bob Ford and John Boden
Cattywampus (Knucklebucket) by Bob Ford and John Boden
Wounds to Wishes: Tales of Mystery and Melancholy by Bob Ford, John Boden, and Chad Lutzke
...
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...
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...
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, Amazon
The Cipher by Kathe Koja
The Willows by Algernon Black...
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, Amazon
The Griffin and Sabine Series by Nick Bantock:
1....
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, Amazon
Demented domiciles: the term I coined for houses in literature and movies for houses that are just Not Right. My favorite i...
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...
Originally broadcast November 9, 2021
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Originally broadcast July 2, 2017
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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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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