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
October 7, 2025 • 26 mins
In which Carla shares her nonfiction five star reads of the past year, and celebrates Banned Books Week.
bannedbooksweek.org
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 eb...
bannedbooksweek.org
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 eb...
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September 23, 2025 • 26 mins
In which Carla shares her five star reads of the past year, and talks about where she's been.
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...
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...
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August 17, 2025 • 25 mins
In which Carla shares one of Poe's more controversial and violent stories with you.
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.
How to Support Cupcakes: ...
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.
How to Support Cupcakes: ...
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May 5, 2025 • 40 mins
In which Carla and her co-author and friend Robert Ford have fun and find cupcakes. Hope you do as well.
Video version to follow shortly. Uninterrupted by ads on all feeds.
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
...
Video version to follow shortly. Uninterrupted by ads on all feeds.
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
...
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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...
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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March 15, 2025 • 84 mins
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...
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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March 9, 2025 • 34 mins
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...
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...
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March 4, 2025 • 32 mins
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:
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
The Griffin and Sabine Series by Nick Bantock:
1....
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March 2, 2025 • 23 mins
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...
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...
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December 21, 2024 • 35 mins
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...
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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October 19, 2024 • 69 mins
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...
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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October 18, 2024 • 30 mins
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...
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...
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...
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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December 31, 2023 • 95 mins
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...
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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April 28, 2023 • 77 mins
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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