Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! We are BACK! I know, I know. It’s been a crazy long time since you’ve heard from us. Lots of Life Stuff happened, and we had to take an unscheduled break from the podcast. But, like I said: Kait and I are back, and we’re excited to finish up 2026 with a few more book club episodes, including a December episode where we’ll read… Christmas horror. Yeah. I’m stoked. For this October 2026 episode, we...
Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the classic horror novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
Kait and I decided to read more “classic” spooky stories, and The Haunting of Hill House was a great one to start with. It was fun to read a novel that has inspired countless horror authors and books, and that continues to be adapted into...
Love can be creepy. And The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, among many other things, is a love story. A twisted, gruesome, incredibly disturbing love story. AND IT’S AMAZING. What's The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein about? The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein is a re-telling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from the viewpoint of Elizabeth Lavenza, a woman who's taken in by the Frankenstein...
Well. That was certainly a different take on my favorite “serendipitous inheritance” theme! As you’ve learned from previous posts, I have a soft spot for books in which the main character (usually a woman whose life has become up-ended) either buys a house in some random place in an attempt to build a new life (à la Under the Tuscan Sun or Tumbledown Manor), or happily inherits a charming fixer-upper from some unknown relative just as her...
