This month on Horror Hangover, Ryan and Cass are joined by Stoker Award-nominated horror author Laurel Hightower to delve into all things related to GHOST HUNTING in horror. Double check you packed enough flashlight batteries, turn on Find My Friends, & suit up to explore the creepiness awaiting you in a long, long, hallway cast in lurking shadows...

We'll stumble into the battered doors of 2011's Grave Encounters & 2018's Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum.

If you survive, stay tuned for an interview with Laurel about her latest book, The Day of the Door, its inspiration, & traumatic unearthing in its pages.

The Day of the Door

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. But on a hellish night that marked the end of their childhood, eldest brother Shawn died violently after being dragged behind closed doors. Though the official finding was accidental death, Nathan Lasco knows better, and has never forgiven their mother, Stella.

Now two decades later, Stella promises to finally reveal the truth of what happened on The Day of the Door. Accompanied by a paranormal investigative team, the Lasco family comes together one final time, but no one is prepared for the revelations waiting for them on the third floor.

Available now from Ghoulish Books!

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• Q&A: Actor Sean Rogerson Explains How To Survive GRAVE ENCOUNTERS
• Indie Horror Month 2021: Celebrating 10 Years of GRAVE ENCOUNTERS with Filmmakers Colin Minihan & Stuart Ortiz
• Navigating the dark corners of a haunted asylum
• Cass' take on using the real in found footage-style horror in "How Curse of Aurore Resurrects Aurore Gagnon: A Conversation with Llana Barron"

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• Long live the camera men of horror
• Bathtub worm holes?
• The Body Keeps the Score book on trauma recovery

This month on Horror Hangover, Ryan and Cass are joined by cinephile Charles, co-host of When Will It End? -- a podcast exploring the beauty & bizarreness behind serialized storytelling in film.

Turn your lights off ... or on ... but will either choice save you from these existentialist entries? Silence your phone. Or call a friend? We're covering J-Horror & Tech & prodding into all its dis/connections through the iconic works of Kurosawa's Pulse & Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

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• Kurosawa delves into what makes ghosts so haunting in this interview with Paul Matthews
• "The Broken Technology of Ghost Hunting" by Colin Dickey
• Subscribe to WHEN WILL IT END? podcast here for more of Charles' thoughts on franchises in film

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• FeliceY for our logo design
• Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix
• Ryan's metallic magic sound effects
• Walkscares! Twice the dread in twice the time!

Horror writer and host of Brooklyn's Word for Word Reel Talks film commentary series Scott Adlerberg joins us to discuss unexpected mystery twists. What makes a twist work? How do films balance this magical act without tipping their hand? Should we ever follow a spooky child in a raincoat? We answer these questions and more!

We also discuss Scott's latest book, The Screaming Child, now available from Ghoulish Books. Order a copy now...if you dare!

Synopsis:

Scott Adlerberg’s The Screaming Child is a mystery horror novel told by a grieving woman working on a book about an explorer who was murdered in a remote wilderness region, only to get caught up in a dangerous journey after hearing the distant screams from her own vanished child somewhere in the woods.

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• An interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• More of Scott's writing on crime!

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• FeliceY for our logo design
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• Ryan's killer riffs!