Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are back to discuss the 2006 animated film Monster House and be floored by the progression of time. Talking about a film that has been described as 'Shirely Jackson for kids', your co-hosts discuss concrete entombed skeletons, smelly carpet tongues and digress more times than you can shake a rotten floorboard at.

Content note: Some discussion of police violence and racism in the context of recent events and the portrayal of police in this film.

If you prefer to read your podcasts, or read along, a full transcript of this episode is available here: https://stillscared.podigee.io/37-monster-house

This time Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are safely ensconced in their respective houses to chat about the 2019 reboot (or possibly sequel?) of The Demon Headmaster.

In full-spoiler detail for the 10 episode season we talk resistance and hypnotism, and hypothesise the existence of a super-being who creates Demon Headmasters.

And as always, texture fans will be glad to catch the latest instalment of our Texture of the Week feature, this time featuring sparkly holograms.

Content notes: Mentions of coronavirus, and allusions to fascist and eugenicist perspectives.

A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/36-demonheadmaster2019

Well, it's no Return to Oz, but 1980's The Watcher in the Woods is an interesting if flawed curio from Disney's dark-fantasy live-action back-catalogue that hosts Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are keen to dip their fingers into in this episode.

Featuring a brooding Bette Davis, a dog called Nerak and the spectral dancing of ominous mist, this episode leans intensely into your ear and asks: 'are you sensitive? do you sense things?'.

A full transcript is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/35-watcherinthewoods

Blood and thunder! It's a showdown for the ages. Join Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray and Ava Foxfort as they discuss the final part of The Final Reckoning, the last book in the Deptford Mice series by Robin Jarvis.

Your hardy crew discuss ice textures, brutal character deaths and mouse-based metal concept albums, as they dive into the icy waters of this most epic of endings.

Content note for gory and disturbing descriptions in this episode, and some British politics chat, both of which some listeners might find hard to stomach.

A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/34-finalreckoningpart2

Hang onto your mouse-knees, spooky kids! In this episode Ren Wednesday, Adam Whybray and Ava Foxfort discuss the first part of The Final Reckoning, the last book in Robin Jarvis's sublimely horrifying Deptford Mice series.

Your co-hosts talk star-milking, blood-frenzies and of course, textures, as they travel with mice into the dangerous sewers below London, and with the bats to the rooftops above.

Speed to the green, because you're not going to want to miss this!

A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/33-final-reckoning-part1

Mouselets and Corn Dolllies! Join Adam Whybray, Ren Wednesday and Ava Foxfort as they discuss Robin Jarvis's The Crystal Prison from 1989, the second in his Deptford Mice series.

Featuring Green Mouse fundamentalists, gods of the fields and Starwife the astrology squirrel, The Crystal Prison takes our characters on a peril-drenched trip to the countryside where there's a new threat around every corn stalk.

Shout 'Fenny' if it gets too much, but even that might not save you.

A full transcript is available in the shownotes at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/29-crystal-prison

Be aware this episode contains grisly character deaths and a subplot of an abusive father.

Put on your welly boots, spooky kids and join Adam Whybray, Ren Wednesday and returning guest Ava Foxfort as they go beyond the Grill into the murky sewers of Robin Jarvis's novel The Dark Portal from 1989.

Featuring jerk-ass bats, dad mice and notable hazards of the murdering profession, fans of rodent ultra-violence and Lovecraftian deities will find plenty to gnaw their teeth into in this episode.

A full transcript of this episode is available in the show notes at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/32-darkportal

Join us this time for a mini-episode, as Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray gleefully chomp on a monstrous spread of picture books from Maurice Sendak, David McKee, Beatrix Potter and Neil Gaiman.

Featuring undulating midnight oceans, trembling patchwork elephants and the existential crisis of a monster who finds himself treated as a boy, it's a zippy tour around the creepiest picture books of our childhoods.

A full transcript of the episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/31-picturebooks

Once again, spooky kids, Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray are here to take you into the world of children's horror literature with Room 13 from 1989 and Nightmare Stairs from 1997, both by Robert Swindells.

This time, Ren and Adam are at the seaside, enjoying the fresh air, the pier treats, and the sound of the Dracula in the next room gnawing on his latest victim. Join us for stakes, sleepwalking, stairs and a special guest interview with a fictional teenager.

A full transcript is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/30-room13

What's that haunted tune whistling through the calliope? Find out with Ren Wednesday and Adam Whybray as they take a tour of Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Circus and explore the whirlingly evocative, if admittedly morally confusing world of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.

We talk Dust Witches, balloon funerals and masculinity, in a rollickingly ghoulish episode filled with plenty of children's horror to get your panic-coloured teeth into.

A full transcript of this episode is available at: https://stillscared.podigee.io/28-somethingwicked