Still Scared: Talking Children's Horror
Episode Archive
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The Water-Babies
In this episode, your hosts Adam Whybray and Ren Wednesday go way back to 1863 for their discussion of the bizarre and 'nearly unreadable' Victorian morality tale The Water-Babies, by Charles Ki...
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The Crysalids
In this week's podcast, your hosts Ren and Adam discuss the 1955 novel The Crysalids by John Wyndham in an unusually disciplined 45 minute episode!
This episode we chat about the implic...
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Over the Garden Wall
Trees made of people, skeletons dressed in pumpkins, and a paddle steamer of holidaying frogs distraught at not getting to hear a bassoon - it can only be Over the Garden Wall! Join Ren Wednesda...
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Mercedes Ice and Kasper in the Glitter
City kids, moonlight dudes and pearly queens, welcome to Philip Ridley week on Still Scared!
In this episode Ren and Adam discuss the urban fairy tales Mercedes Ice and Kasper in the Gli...
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Creeped Out
What's up, fellow kids? Ren and Adam put on their backwards baseball caps, throw a skateboard over their shoulders, and show up to talk about the 2017 CBBC children's horror anthology series Cre...
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Paperhouse and Marianne Dreams
Ren, Adam and special guest Ali Kay delve into Catherine Storr's 1958 novel Marianne Dreams, and the 1990 film based upon it, Paperhouse.
We go full children's horror this week, as we e...
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Witch Week
This episode your co-hosts go back to one of Ren's childhood favourites, Witch Week by Dianna Wynne Jones.
Adam and Ren discuss ad-lib approaches to magic, the horror of not being able ...
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House Of Stairs
Five teenage orphans are subject to an alarming test of both their morality and balance, in William Sleator's 1974 novel House of Stairs.
Adam and Ren discuss queer subtexts, classical ...
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Interstellar Pig
Enter into the board game with Ren and Adam as they begin a two-parter into William Sleator novels, starting with 1984's Interstellar Pig.
Laugh nervously, as they discuss gelatinous, s...
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Beetlejuice, or The Ghosts Who Were Nice
Adam yearns for the sweet release of the void and Ren goes googly-eyed over Shelley Duval as Still Scared discusses Tim Burton's Beetlejuice, and the short films Frankenweenie and Vincent.
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