Speaker 1: Hi, this is Christina. And before the episode starts, just
a couple of announcements. One, if you haven't listened to
my episode with P ANDW. Hansen Homicides, go listen to it.
It was fun but very depressing but also fun. You
should go listen. Second announcement, we have a new podcast
with Laney from It's Haunted, What Now and true crime
Cases with Laney and Aiden from Susto. If you don't remember,
that was the whole reason they had an episode with
us back in October, and we just now finally recorded
episode one of that podcast. It's called Gonsee Hitos Anonymous,
where we who are very very qualified to give advice
on your problems are given advice on your problems. So
if you have a problem that you want advice on,
it doesn't matter how small you think it is, send
it in the infos in the show notes, but you
can also go to gozehitos anonymous dot com. All right,
onto the episode. Hi, this is Christina, and this time
no Karme because she ditched me. But I have an
awesome guest and I almost forgot to say, but this
is a Spooky tell Us, the podcast for all Things
as Spooky true crime. Sometimes not today because we have
again a special guest that's telling us a paranormal story
and telling us about her book. Her name is Amanda B.
Weaver formerly Amanda Ross. She writes dark fantasy and horror,
and she co hosts the Horror Host support group, book
club and podcasts, which actually sounds amazing and like you
would all love it.
Speaker 2: So say, hi, hey, thank you for having me. I'm
really excited to be here. Yes, you said it right
for a host poor group. When you reached out to me,
I was really excited to be on your podcast too,
because it felt like kids met I was like, ooh,
more spooky people to talk to you right right.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's always more room to grow your spooky circle.
Also very sad because I don't know what's going to
happen to TikTok, but that is where I found Amanda.
I came across her sharing her story and then I
was like, oh, I don't I can't watch all this,
but let me email her right now or send a
TikTok message because you were sharing your story but I'm like,
I don't want to hear it right now because I
want to be surprised. So I heard the beginning, like
the first three words of like nope, let me just
send a quick message so we'll see what happens to TikTok.
But that is where we found each other.
Speaker 2: I know. I'm so glad you reached out, and I'm
very sad about the TikTok ban. I've been just scrolling
through all day today, trying to watch as many videos
as possible, trying to save as many videos. Right, Yeah,
follow people other places.
Speaker 1: Yeah, find them wherever they're at. And then this episode
we're gonna do, like we always do, a listener story.
If you have a story that you want to send
us email at spookytalesigmail dot com. You can send it
on discord, you can record a voice now and email that.
You can call these Spooky hotline. There's a lot of
ways to get us your paranormal story. We love receiving them.
So we're gonna hear the listener's story. We're gonna hear
Amanda's super crazy, creepy story, and then she's going to
tell us about her book, which I just ordered. It's
my only, my first and only TikTok shop order.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was like, I've never used to talk shop,
and I was like, oh, let me just get this
book really quick, so I can't wait for that to
get here. But we'll talk about that after all the
paranormal things. Yeah, all right, So let me get into
this listener's story. And this is a update sort of
sorts from another story we received. I don't know if
anyone remembers that story, but it was about a Ouiji
board that some friends made while the rest of the
school was on a field trip. They made this like
makeshift Wigi board with some I don't remember if it
was rocks or they drew it. I can't remember, but
it was Teresa who sent it into us, and so
she's just sending us that update. So here it goes.
I remembered why my friends and I started doing all
this paranormal stuff in the sixth grade. In the beginning
of the school year, a female fourth grader drowned in
a local river during Labor Day weekend. It really affected
the school because her surviving siblings still went and the
school helped the family with fundraising for her burial. I
tried looking for the news broadcast about this event but
couldn't find it. I only remember the girl's first name,
so I couldn't find her on another database regarding local drownings.
As the family removed her name and info from these records.
I can respect that. I hope her family is doing
well and wish them the best. And now this is
her other STORYO. She titled it school bathroom ritual. I
don't remember around what time of the school year this happened,
but it once again involves Chrissy, Pam, and I. It
was recess and Chrissie suggested we try one of those
bathroom rituals. It was the kind where you chant or
recite something and make specific hand and arm movements. It
involved the bathroom doorway. You do the ritual and then
press the back of your hands on the doorframe while
it's open. You take a step back, and the ghost
or spirit is supposed to raise you or your hands up.
Once again. Chrissy was conducting this and volunteered me to
do the ritual first. Chrissy and Pam both stood inside
the girl's bathroom and I stood in the door facing
the hallway. I did the ritual and nothing happened. I
must have done it wrong, or at least rushed it
because I didn't want to be in anyone's way if
they had to use the bathroom. Chrissy asked Pam to
try it, but this time I would be standing outside
of the door staring at Pam. She did the ritual.
As she sat back, her arms started to rise on
their own, and Pam started crying. She pulled her arms
down and cried. She said her back felt hot. Kirsty
took her by the sink and lifted the back of
her shirt from the middle of her back to the
top of her pants. There were three vivid red scratches.
She cried even more when she saw the marks through
the mirror. We took her to the school nurse and
she calmed down a bit. Eventually, the school nurse asked
all of us what happened, but we were all separated
for this interrogation, not them being interrogeted like they did
a crime. Oh my god. Somehow I ended up in
a school counseling program because of this. It lasted about
two weeks and didn't do much for me, as I
concluded what happened to Pam wasn't paranormal, at least that's
what I told the counselor. To get out of it.
I know Chrissy didn't harm Pam because she wasn't close
enough to scratch her, and the motion would have been
visible from where I was standing. Pam was fairly petite
and height and stature, and Chrissy and I were fairly tall,
about five six. I would have noticed Chrissy lunging to
scratch Pam. After this experience, we were still curious about
the paranormal and spirits. But try not to do anything
in the girl's bathroom. Thank you for your time, and
stay as spooky.
Speaker 2: Okay, wow, okay, meeting in the ladies room.
Speaker 1: All right, just a little casual, A ritual in the
girl's bathroom, you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, just you know, a casual Wednesday ritual, get
through the day. Some people were paying some people the rituals.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, on Wednesdays. Some people were being in on.
There's two rituals in the bathroom. It's fine, yes, yeah,
but no, that is for sure weird. I mean, like,
where did the scratches come from? I don't know. I'm
curious about the ritual though, because I know several paranormal
games and I haven't heard of any about like standing
in the doorway and raising your arm so.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard of that one. I was expecting, you know,
Bloody Mary or some.
Speaker 1: Bride on that right. And then there's there's another one
where what was it called? Man, there's too many, but
I remember there's one where you use your fingers and
supposedly the spirit is helping you, like raise someone. I
thought it was going to be that one. Board Yes,
that's what I thought it was going to be, but no,
I don't know what this was so interesting.
Speaker 2: The people want to know what the name of this
one is.
Speaker 1: Yes, please tell it, but no, I wouldn't. I would never.
I was too scared to do Bloody Mary in the bathroom,
same same anytime. Soone was like, all right, let's do it.
They'd like turn everything off and they'd be like bloody
Marry and they'd be like, nope, nope, I'm leaving. I
would run out. Yeah, I am a weedie. Even though
I have this podcast and so many people have paramal
stories in my family, I'm such a weani. So I
could never. I could never do any any ritual.
Speaker 2: See, I'm the same way, and the paranormal in this
case found me. I was not looking for it, right,
But I'm the same I don't even I don't even
own a wiki board like that. You know, when you
talked to me, came out in the hand. Yes, my
co host owns the hand right, oh the hole, and
she she nothing's happened. She lives alone. But I said,
you know you're playing with fire right, you're doing that right?
Speaker 1: No, thank you before back, you're right right, But let's
get it into your story, like what what happened?
Speaker 2: So this was twenty ten. I was working at Macy's.
Can believe it? And you know, twenty ten, it feels
like that was peak Macy's time. It was twenty ten.
I was in college, so it was I want to
stay between my junior and senior year, and so I
was working during the day. I remember that it was
a Wednesday, so I was working during the day. It
was about eleven am. I know Wednesday. Things happen on Wednesdays,
I guess. So I worked in the junior's department, which
also had the same manager as the addresses department. And
that's important later to put a pin in that. So
at this point the store is it went busy. It's
two hours since opening. Nobody's in there. So my coworker
and I are just kind of shooting the shit by
the cash wrap, I'd say, And I had my back
towards where the customers come, right, And so we're just talking,
probably talking mess about a coworker and her face just
suddenly changes from chill to like she just gets this
litt on her face. So I think it's our manager.
So I went around prepared to pretend that I'm planing
or something, and it wasn't. On the other side was
this woman. She had a blonde bob. It looked, you know,
bleach blonde. She was wearing casual clothes, jeans, t shirt,
were blops, and she looked her skin was just ashen.
But beyond all of that, she was glaring at us
and her eyes from corner in the corner were black.
I'm not sure if you've seemed supernatural, but it kind
of looked like how they stylized the demons where yeahs.
And I've had people when I'm told the story say well,
maybe she just had black eyes, And I said, like,
I got people in my family that had really dark
brown eyes. I've seen that. I know what that looks like.
Speaker 1: That's not what this was, right, I mean, like the
part like your eyes still wouldn't be black corner to
the corner. Do you still need some in your eyes?
Speaker 2: Exactly? Even if you near you have dark eyes and
you narrow them. It wasn't It wasn't like that. So
looking at her, you know, little surprise, like not expecting this.
Then we say, hey, can we help you, and she's
just glaring at us. So we have to ask her
a couple of times, ma'am can we help you? Before
she says the dresses. And she didn't say dresses in
a normal tempo like dresses. Her voice is very very deep.
I tried to replicate it when I when I was
talking to somebody, I said like dresses, but probably deeper
than that. And it was just the one word. And
so I point say, hey, it's in the back. You
go back this way to the left, that's where you'll
find them. And she just continued to stare. She was
rooted in place, repeated the instructions again, rooted in place.
So then my co worker Athena says, we'll show you
where the dresses are and grabbed my hand for us
to show this woman where the dresses are.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, you show her where the dresses are?
Speaker 2: That part. I was looking at her like, come on,
who we like? Who is weed? So we're walking and
it's not far, you know, it's it's really just the
other department over takes less than a minute to walk
over there. But the lady insisted on walking behind us,
which okay, right. However, like I was so uncomfortable by
her that it was weird to have my back to her.
That's what That's what it was. It felt weird for
her to I just didn't feel safe with her behind
me because of the vibes. Because the second we met her,
she just I got this feeling of just this tremendous
heat all over my body. I was feeling nauseist. I
had a headache from the second that, Like I said,
that I met her. So we show her way the
dresses are and ask her she needs anything else. She
just turns and looks at us and continues to glare.
So we like Homer Simpson in that day, and just
start backing up right, and we just leave and we
go back to our area. And I'm like girl to Athena,
like this is this is how you you would end
up being the first one to die in a horror movie.
You don't just do that. You don't like you you
you should have just it's over there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just point, but don't move from where
you are, Just like over there, keep going exactly.
Speaker 2: But she she says, well, you know, I'm loan my
sales numbers. I wanted to see if I can get
a sale. Okay, whatever. Then I'm thinking I'm gonna just
put this incident behind me, not even mention it, even
though I'm still kind of feeling that nausea, the heat,
all of that. I think it's just me. But then
Athena confirms that she also felt the same. She says, like, man,
I just feel really nauseous hot in here?
Speaker 1: Do you?
Speaker 2: I just feel really hot.
Speaker 1: I've said this so many times from all the stories
of stories we've heard, but the minute someone else confirms
what you're feeling, that's like, oh no, this is real,
this is real exactly.
Speaker 2: And I've had a lot of people on the TikTok
say that she could have been on drugs, she could
have been any number of things, and yes, that is
also a possibility. However, Calma, the second that Athena told
me that she was feeling the exact same things that
I was without me even saying anything. Is when I
knew that this was not something that you know, she's
just a drug user who was having a bad day,
right right, So I don't think anything of it. Ladies
and Dresses. We continue on with our day. An hour
or so later, our manager comes over and then we
have a team meeting with the dresses department, and so
we're all kind of just standing there, managers talking about
oh specials blah blah blah, and I have a coworker
in dresses who's looking a little freaked out and like, yo,
you're good. She starts to tell a story very similar
to ours of the same woman who's glaring, doesn't really
say anything and just kind of standing there whatever. And
it then also describes like, man, I just don't feel good.
I'm not maybe it ate something for lunch and feeling nauseous.
I'm you know, I'm really hot whatever, And what she
also says is that she's putting the dresses back and
she turns around and the woman's right behind her, like
she turned around and just up to her notes.
Speaker 1: Like no sense of awareness or like space. Oh no,
that's odd.
Speaker 2: And so again this is now the third person who's
had the same experience with this woman. And at this
point we collectively say to our manager, Hey, this she
have you seen her? We're all freaked out. We don't
want to interact with this woman. You know, what do
we do? Would you be able to help her when
she comes here? Because mind you, all of us are
early twenties, our manager was in her forties, so we're
still very much thinking, oh, I'm a little I'm a kid.
I'm just say maybe, yeah, right, So we're very much
still in that I need the adult, even though we're
all adults, you know, but I need an adultier adult,
adult adult, like a real adult exactly. So our manager
just she brushes us off and says, well, you know,
she's she's probably a drugs she's probably homeless, she'd probably this,
that and the third, and you know, don't worry about it.
You know, she like you have to help her. She's
a customer. She comes by another person who in a
horror movie would be sacrificed to the horror mom.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it's not a final girl.
Speaker 2: No, no, not final energy at all. So I don't
see this woman for the rest of the day, none
of us do. We think maybe it was just a random,
bad experience. But again, all three of us the same
exact physical sensations when interacting with this woman. I saw
her one other time, not in the store, but I
was driving into work and I was about to turn
left into the parking lot and she was on the
on the other side of the road, standing by the
bus stop, just kind of swaying a little bit in
the in the breeze. And mind you, this is summer.
It is Fresno, California, so it's that dry heat. Yeah,
we're talking ninety something degrees right right, no breeze, So
what are you swaying for?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Like, you know what you do. But even from that
distance across the street whatever, I could still see the
same dark like a corner to corner, black eyes, the
same kind of glaring look as she's staring directly at
the mazing. So I light timed screen book it into
the parking lot, walk in, and I'm like, yo, I
just saw that lady. I just saw her. Oh my,
And they knew exactly Athena knew exactly who was talking
about the lady, and dresses knew exactly who I was
talking about. And we all kind of collectively went like
shuttered thinking about disparence, and I never saw her again
at all.
Speaker 1: So ow, I know in your text act you're like,
I encountered someone like, you know, going on possessed, going
through a demonic possession.
Speaker 2: I think she was possessed, That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering now though, have you heard of black eyed kids?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, could have a black eyed adult. I don't know
if they're a thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's the thing is that I wonder if
it was that, because usually I think black eyed kids
don't they ask you, let me end like that they
want to be invited into your home, your car or
whatever it is. Yeah, but I mean maybe once they
hit adulthood, they they I don't know.
Speaker 1: They say they act like weird, like they don't act normal.
And nothing about this person was normal, like her standing
to close the way it said dresses. That's why I'm like,
was it possessed or was it a black eyed adult?
Speaker 2: Right? And again, like I said, you know, people have
commented saying this person was obviously a you know, a
drug abuser, and you're making light of that. That's not
when I'm doing this, not my intention at all I
would not have told the story if again, I did
not have those physical sensations, and if I did not
have other people who also had that same experience, right,
because we've all been around people who probably had to
what you're doing, spoke too much? Whatever it is like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean even the heavier drugs, nobody's eyes turn
you know, completely black.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't suddenly forget. I mean you can like,
you know, become very sluggish and things like that, but
you don't like get too close to people, or your
voice isn't suddenly a deep like right? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that was I'd say, probably the creepiest thing
that's happened to me. And I live near the Winchester
Mystery House and I've toured that place, So.
Speaker 1: Have you seen anything weird? My twin also went to
the Winchester Mystery House and she was like, no, it's
just like a normal tour and they try to scare you,
but I don't. She's like, I don't even know is
it really haunted. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know that it is. I think it's more
the story, yeah, more than anything. And you know, it's
an old house, there's old things in there. In terms
of the furniture, the clothing and stuff. And I think
that all that has its own energy. So whether it's
haunted or not, you're still probably picking up on the
energy of whoever owned all of these things.
Speaker 1: Right right, that makes sense. Before we get to your book,
do you have any other panormal experiences that you want
to share atheen?
Speaker 2: You know, I would say not nothing too intence. I did,
you know, drive late at night one time and get
freaked out because somebody was just standing in the middle
of the road, just standing, you know, and it was
it was lit, and they were just stockstill, not moving, hurting, creepy,
you know, But I would say nothing of note. I'm
I guess I'm thankful to say that I haven't had
any more paranormal experiences. I like to read about him,
I like to write about him, but I don't understand,
like I don't want to have exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one more thing, because you mentioned did you grow
up in Fresne.
Speaker 2: No, So I went to Fresno State. I grew up
in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1: Oh where in the Bay Area? Oh, very nice. I
grew up in Oakland. Yeah, my twitter and I am
from Oakland. And then we moved to Modesto because I
was gonna say, if you had grown up in Fresno,
they say there's a haunted high school there, Roosevelt High School.
Speaker 2: Tracks. I met people who grew up in Fresnel that
mentioned that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a ghost of a It's always
it's always a theater usually whenever there is a I
don't I guess you know, if someone was to hunt
a high school, it would be a theater, kid like dramatic. Yeah, yeah,
And I wouldn't expect them in the afterlife to be
less dramatic. Will They say? The teen's name is Leslie
Chambers and he haunts the theater. And they even supposedly,
according to legend, they have plays and each play they
have to like write in his name that he was
part of the play or the production is going to
go bad in some way.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Why do I feel like they kind of made a
movie about very similar.
Speaker 1: You know, because there's a lot of supposedly allegedly haunted
high schools, and they're always going to involve the theater
and someone. So even if it's not about Fresno and
Roosevelt High School, if there is a movie out there.
I'm not. I'm not surprised at all, because again there's
always either for some reason, the school has a tall
tower and someone jumped off this tower, or someone died
by suicide in the theater. Like those are always the
haunted high school stories. I don't think I've heard another
variation of a haunted high school.
Speaker 2: Right. Well, there was supposedly a haunted building at Fresno State,
and coincidentally, it was the Mass Communications and Journalism building,
which was my major. And the rumor was that somebody
had hanged themselves in the doorway, and so sometimes the
doors would open and you know you nobody would be there.
It was just the door would just open by itself,
like Motion center doors. So that's you know, that's suspicious.
Speaker 1: Did you see it?
Speaker 2: I did once where I just opened by itself and
I went.
Speaker 1: Well, that's weird. Yeah, it was it late.
Speaker 2: It was it was one like winter. I had a
class like you know four whatever saw it booked it
back to my dorms and not today. Not today?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man, that's funny. Okay, Well, let's hear about
your book. Should I read this synopsis? I haven't because
I was looking at it because I bought the book
and I'm sure that I read description. I'm like, there's
I don't think there's a single listener that would not
enjoy this book. So the book is called No One's
Going to Take Her Soul Away. Fira Gail is dead.
What's worse, She's in Pandemonia, cast down to the worst
part of this healthscape by a terrifying mercurial goddess who
determines the fate of every being. Sophira knows she doesn't
belong in Pandemonia, so she plans to escape, confront the goddess,
and return across the veil back to the land of
the living to find the person responsible for her death.
But the journey is treacherous. Sophira must travel the Path
of the Damned, following it through every part of Pandemonia
to make it to the Goddess's seat of power. Along
the way, she meets an irritable yet carrying vampire love
vampires whose touch soothes Sophira broke Sophira's broken heart, a
charismatic werewolf, Oh my god, werewolf's too nurseing a betrayal
similar to Sophira's, and a melancholic demon. This book has
it all determined to get her freedom by enemy necessary,
though she recruits them as allies on her quest for retribution.
This is Pandemonia after all. Can any of them truly
be trusted? And will Sophia escape or will she remain
tortured for all eternity? I mean, sounds amazing. Excise me
haites vibes. Do you play games? In all video games?
Speaker 2: I do not, but you know I wrote this. It's
very inspired by Jontaus and Ferno and and hell Raiser.
Speaker 1: So oh that sounds amazing.
Speaker 2: Imagine those three things together with vampires, were wolves and demons,
and that's the book.
Speaker 1: That's the baby right there of the book's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the baby. Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what were your I mean you mentioned these three things,
but like what were how long did this take you
to write? Where were the inspiration?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What give us everything?
Speaker 2: So the idea initially popped in my head with the
line carriage of Blue Debt. That's all that popped in
my head when I initially started thinking of this idea,
and I went through multiple versions of this book, I
would say it's quite It leans a lot into Gothic
horror there's quite a bit of bodyhore, but there's that
Gothic aspect too. The initial idea was it was going
to be set in nineteen oh six, right after the
earthquake in San Francisco, but that proved to be a
little too complicated, though I might still do something with.
Speaker 1: That, you should, you know.
Speaker 2: And I just imagined this person in this carriage of
the dead being taken to you know, Hell and knowing
that they don't belong there, and then I thought this
kind of gives a little wizard of Oz vibes. Then
I wove that in with the Path of Damned being
like the yellow brick road that they have to follow,
the three people that the main character meets that helped
them along in their journey, and you know, wicked Witch
of the West, and you know, analogous with different gods.
Then I was listening to a podcast about Dante's Inferno,
which is I will always kind of been obsessed with that.
I'm not Catholic or particularly religious, but I've always been
obsessed with the Seven Deadly Sins, thinking why did we
choose those? Why specifically? So I just I just took
all of it, and then the Hell Raiser elements came
through as I was drafting. What would torture look like?
And what better example than the cinempites?
Speaker 1: Right right? Okay, okay, No, this sounds like a great book.
I'm very excited to read it. Yeah. I wish I
would have ordered it sooner, but then I forgot of NHD.
So I'm like every time I'm like, I'm going to
do this, then I don't do it till two months later.
But no, I'm glad at least I finally got it,
so for sure I'm going to read it next. But
do you have any other like books in the works
right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So I'm actually working on a screenplay. Well, so
I'm working on two screenplays. Actually. Firstly, I'm working to
adapt No One's going to Take Her sol Away into
a movie. You know, I wanted for so long to
see this on screen, and I just thought, when I
do it myself, if I'm gonna you know, who better
to put this vision forth than me? I know what
I would want to see on the screen, how I
would want the story to be presented in a different format.
And then I'm working on this other screenplay called Every
Last Job, which is kind of based on this tweet
that when viral last Year of Mine. Oh and it
was a picture of n Hathaway and Sundeia looking gorgeous
and stunning and very gothicy. I said that they looked
like queens of rival vampire covens conspiring against a common enemy.
And I do that again that when viral millions of views,
hundreds of thousands of lights and such, people tagging Amazon
and Jordan Peel and Hulu and all this, and then
I went, okay, well, look let me just let me
just write this screenplay real quick for somebody else besides
the right, right, And so you know that that tweet
is a big component of this screenplay, Every Last Job,
which is about a vampire coven that tears itself apart
when their leader dies and leaves no successor.
Speaker 1: Wow, So that that sounds so fun. I recently started
watching a lot of vampire things because for a patron
episode my Twitter and Night, we're going to go through
with their zombies already, but we're just going to go
through our favorite vampire media. And so I've been reading
a bunch of vampire books. But this sounds like it's
going to be so good. I love a I mean
that kind of thing where there's like a group and
it's falling apart, like something happened and it's falling apart.
What did I just read? Oh my god, it's sat
in Alaska. There's a crime. There's colonies of vampires, like
vampires and humans. Oh, the Gathering, that's what it is.
The Gathering Byja Twitter. So good, so good.
Speaker 2: That sounds good. That sounded really good.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, you should read it. It's so good. Another
one I just read though, that also makes me think
of what you just described.
Speaker 2: What was this?
Speaker 1: I'm so bad at names. This one was The Lesser Dead,
The Lesser Dead. That that's another fun vampire book. Like
there's these vampires that all have agreed to like live
underground basically hidden away. And then there's this like other
group of vampires that threatens basically the existence of all
vampires by doing what they're doing because they're menaces. And
then there's like a vampire fight. I hope and spoil anything,
but that's what Like. I love both those and just
hearing your screenplay, I'm like, no, that's gonna be that's
gonna be good.
Speaker 2: That that sounds so good. You know, I'm so glad
that it feels like we're in a monster renaissance. And
I say that because I want to see more wear
wolves on screen too. They don't get their shine as
much as vampires, that's true, So I just I want
to be part of that. I want to create stuff
that people go ooh, I'm getting my vampire fixed. Like,
I'm so excited about Sinners. I loved Nasra too.
Speaker 1: So I have to see that. Still. I heard it's long,
and I'm like, all right, I have to set asign
the good day for this.
Speaker 2: She's long long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what my t told me. Yes, she's long.
Be prepared.
Speaker 2: If you go into it prepared, then yes. It's funny
because I watched it with my girlfriend and she's not
a gothic horror girl. She loves horror, but that's not
her favorite. She fell asleep a little bit, so you know,
I had. When we got out of the theater, I said,
here's with you, miss babes. But she liked it. The
part she saw she like, so of course she saw.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god. And while we're talking about horror,
tell me about your podcast.
Speaker 2: Yes, so Horror host to port Group book Club podcast.
So is with one of my besties, Samara, we met
in another book club. Actually we met in Fantasy book Club,
and we were always the ones wanting to read more
dark fantasy and kind of push that envelope with what
the book wreck was. And you know, a lot of
people there were really wanting to read stuff with fairies
and giving very Lord of the Rings kind of vibes
and oh.
Speaker 1: No, not like, what's that book everyone loves? And I'm sorry,
but I just couldn't Oh yes, yeah, yes, oh my god.
I just I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the book club thankfully was dedicated to
reading fantasy by Black Brown. Okay, so that was great,
But even so we were wanting.
Speaker 1: You were like, more dark, more dark, Yeah, give me a.
Speaker 2: Little, give me a little scarce, yeah, fantasy. And so
she and I just connected and she thought of the
book club idea, I thought of the podcast, and we
melded it together. We've been doing it for almost three
years now, okay, and it's I mean, it's so much fun.
We just we talk about everything from the books we
read in the book club we do a monthly review
of those books, to what we're watching two different horror
subgenres and we'll do every year, you know, our best
and worst horror.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, how fun. Yeah. No, I am positive
that all our listeners are gonna love you and everything
you're doing, because yeah, this is like the same stuff
that we love. You know, what we should do? There's
we have. We read so slow though. We have a
book club associated with the podcast called we called it
the Spookitos book Club for busy people because we read
so slow, and it's mostly it's like we send out
discussion questions on substack and then people were replying, well,
we'll go through our own like recap of whatever book
we chose and then do discussion questions after and then
post the episode, and they don't come out as often
because yeah, again we read super slow. But we should
take a joint book to do with your co hosts
and you guys can come on, Oh my god, let's
do it. Let's plan it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk. That'd be so so much fun. We
just actually finished reading This Cursed House. Well, we're finishing
reading it, this er January book, This Cursed House by
Dale Sendin, which is one of my recommendations because if
you love gothic core Southern Gothic Horse specifically, Yes, then
you will love this book. I crushed it in a week.
Speaker 1: And wow, okay, like, because I have.
Speaker 2: A full time job in addition to doing all this
writing and kind of managing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so my reading that covers so good, I have
to just so beautiful so everyone can see it. But
oh my god, I'm let me add this to my
TVR right now, this Curtis House.
Speaker 2: It's so good and you can get it at the
library because one of the things we try to do
with picking book club books is make sure that whatever
book we can we choose can be gotten at the library.
Led yeah, who you know can just buy a new
book every month, so yes, we always do that.
Speaker 1: I personally love Libby, Like I try not to buy
new books unless I'm supporting you know, authors that I'm like, oh, no,
I love this author. I'm going to buy this no
matter what. But yeah, I try not to buy new
books and mostly just do Libby audiobooks and like ebooks.
But what are we just Oh, we just finished The
Witches of Olpaso for our our book club, and we
just sent out the questions because for us, we only
read author horror written by LATINX authors and then but
for other horror, I try to change what I read.
So mostly I'm like, I stick to either black authors
or LATINX authors because I'm like, for the longest time,
I only read white white authors like and I'm like, yeah,
I think, like five years ago, I'm like, no more,
I'm tired of it.
Speaker 2: And that, and that's exactly why we also started this too,
is because we were creating horror by black authors, by
indigenous authors, you know, LATINX authors, et cetera. And so
we will read white authors on our own time, right, Yeah,
only two or three who I actually will read for
them this part, I'm reading black and brown, indigenous, etcetera. Authors.
So that's the book club. So we did this Cursed
House last month. We did The Visitor by Sergio Gomez.
Oh okay, which is a alien Christmas novella.
Speaker 1: Wow, this sounds fun.
Speaker 2: It was so good. Sergio Romez is one of my
favorite indie authors to be self published. He has the
series I think it's Halloween Slaughter. The first book is
called Campslaughter.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've heard of Campslaughter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so good. I loved it. I haven't finished
the series. But so good to this month it's This
Cursed House. Next month is Devil's Killed Devils by Johnny Compton,
and then March is Our Share of Nights by Marina.
Speaker 1: I want to say, Enriquez, Oh, that is on our
list of like books to choose from, like our super
long ass list. But I haven't wanting to read that.
I feel like I remember seeing that it's super long.
Speaker 2: It could be, I think, but we put pick books
three months in advance. Nice, we can get it from
the library then you requested or you die it or
whatever time.
Speaker 1: Some of these holes are insane on Libby, like it
gets insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so we do that three months in advance.
We align it usually with any kind of history month.
Speaker 1: Oh I love it, love it. Yeah, No, that sounds
so good. I'm going to go back and like listen
to all the episodes as well. And it's such a
good way to I think, discover like people you have
not read.
Speaker 2: Maybe yeah, And I think that's why I was also
so glad when you reached out to me, because I've
been wanting to read, to listen to more horror podcasts,
to support more horror podcasts and just grow that community.
Because you're not that many of us.
Speaker 1: You know, That's what I thought at first when I
first started, I'm like, I feel like there's not that
many of us. But now I'm like, no, they were there.
I just didn't know because it's hard to find. But like,
I have found so many fun especial horror horror. Oh
my god. I always say it sounds like horror. The
word horror, no horror movie review podcast. There's so many
fun ones. Girl, that's scary. Have you heard them? I
love them. I love them so much. They're my like
top and my top ten for sure. And then oh
my god, what is Sharai is the host and she
oh nightmareight we're on fear Street and Blurty Massacre, both
so fun. Oh my gosh. Yes, and they're like they're
out there. You know. She has a are you on
Blue Sky?
Speaker 2: I am just starting to get my feet right in it.
I haven't been on it as much, but I'm going
to be on it now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have no choice but to find new social
media places to go. But she made a list of
like all horror black horror creators and it's huge, Like
I'll look for the link to send to you. Because
there's so many like cool people that I'm like, didn't
even know we're out here like creating things. And that's
the fun thing about like finding people rip TikTok through
TikTok because you like people that I would have never
found before, like your video. I'm like, oh, this is perfect.
It's like the algorithm knew what I wanted you, you know,
and all the things are doing. So I'm gonna miss that.
I'm going to miss that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're just going to have to make our own community.
I did so. Samorrow did bring to my attention this
platform called slasher. I guess it's a social media platform
for horror. Love you heard of this, Okay, now I
just signed up. I don't know what it's given yet. Yes,
but it could be the place for the horror community. Okay,
you know, I'm I'm cautiously optimistic.
Speaker 1: So right right, Well, before we go, anything you want
to add and then of course tell people where to
find you and like plug your things again always sure.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I'm just going to say thanks for
having this is so much fun. Love to this again.
We'd love to have you in the Horror host support
group podcast. Test Win and I just want to say,
you know, make sure that to the listeners that you're
supporting these podcasts like follow share. You know, I'd love
it if you can pick up my book no one's
see you. Take your soul away flash to tie the
cover again because it's giving.
Speaker 1: Yes, look at that cover, look at her love it.
I am going to put the link in the show notes,
and then any links you give me on where to
find you as well, that'll all be in the show notes.
And everyone just make sure you first buy the book
and then also follow Amanda Everywhere and her podcast.
Speaker 2: Yes, you can find me everywhere at Amanda bee Weaver.
That's my handle on TikTok, Instagram, Blue Sky Threads YouTube
which can revive my YouTube channel, and then horror host
support group host spelled at aux. Check our instagram and
if you want to join the book club, if you
just click the link in our instagram, go to our
discord and you're there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go join right now, All right, perfect and
everyone else, Oh wait, no, I'm forgetting I guess. Spooky recommendations,
did you have one?
Speaker 2: Sure? Well, this Curse House was probably my first one.
I'll say from I mean that people should.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, from From I was obsessed.
Speaker 2: Oh what do you if if you're not watching from
what are you doing? Where?
Speaker 1: Even are you? Yes?
Speaker 2: So good? And then Interview with a Vampire is also
if you are a vampire lover.
Speaker 1: I need to watch that.
Speaker 2: Still the Vampire is my top recommendation. I love that show,
so check it out.
Speaker 1: And then do I have speaker recommendations? You know, I
had one and then I I forgot it. But you
know what your book let's all just get that. I
haven't read it. Every recommendation I saw a review use
Rabian reviews all like, well, I think I saw the
star ratings. If people look at those, I am like,
I'm wary of those because sometimes people are like, I
didn't connect with this person just because it's not like
a white character, and then they'll like so I never
like look at those. But honestly, even the reviews are great,
but again just based off the description, like I know
I'm gonna like it, so can wait to read it.
But yeah, thank you so much for joining. This was
so fun. I'm gonna go check out the podcast and
join your book club as well. And yeah, thank you.
Everyone else says spooky, We'll catch everyone next time. Whye
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