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At long last, Andy and Alyssa wrap up Series 2000 with the final installment: Ghost in the Mirror. Along the way, they discuss  interior design hot takes, monster twists, friendship reversals, scary furniture, splatterpunk, and more. Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

This month, Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #24: Earth Geeks Must Go! As they discuss the penultimate book in Series 2000, they consider aliens, bugs, animal intelligence, bad assignments, baffling world building, body horror, and more. Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

In their first episode of 2023, Andy and Alyssa discuss Goosebumps Series 2000 #23, Slappy's Nightmare. Along the way they discuss curses, stand-up horror, the nature of good deeds, doubles, multiple POVs, and a twist on the usual Slappy narrative. Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

This week, Andy and Alyssa discuss Goosebumps Series 2000 #22: Full Moon Fever. Along they way, they talk  monster prejudice, Halloween rampaging, aphorisms, Deliverance, Dr. Satan, frickin' mermaids, scary old men, The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, sideshows, The Phantom of the Opera, lunacy and moon pseudoscience, family dinner and messed up hungers, imaginary friends, caged animals, curses, tainted candy, Tom Petty, and ethically-sourced curses. Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

On this Guestpunk episode, Andy and Alyssa talk with Alex of the Gattsy on Goosebumps podcast  about the TV adaptation of Calling all Creeps. The message is media rare. You can find Gattsy on Goosebumps on any podcast platform, and you can follow Gattsy on Goosebumps at @goosebumps.podcast on Instagram and follow Alex on Twitter and Instagram at @latterature_ .   Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

At long last, Andy and Alyssa return to Goosebumps Series 2000 with #21: The Haunted Car. Along the way, they discuss  Home Improvement, cars, Jocelyn from Bob's Burgers, The Virgin Suicides, ghost missions, dangerous dads, The Conjuring, Dr. Death, faking expertise, Catch Me If You Can, evil sexy cars, Stephen King's Christine (of course), Titane, mystery girls, Zoje Stage's Wonderland, declaring oneself evil, Edgar Allan Poe, Hellraiser, complicating evil vs complicating villains, trapped kids, Marianne, The Ring, secret twins, The Prestige, homelessness, Candyman, The Vagrant, C.H.U.D., divine election vs. open world games, fetishes, and how cars relate to gender. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com    Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Give Yourself Goosebumps #8: The Curse of the Creeping Coffins. Along the way, they discuss art and science; Liz & Dick; desecrated graves; tile puzzles; seraphim; Elvira; Last Night in Soho; co-op living; real estate schemes; transing characters; the yellow pages; humane ghost trapping; The Most Dangerous Game; settler colonialism (again); visual aids; word games; Princess Di; Heaven’s Gate; Roland Barthes; “The Puffy Shirt” episode of Seinfeld; Pet Sematary; El Orfanato/The Orphanage; Thirteen Ghosts; & serial killers’ trophies. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com   Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

This week, Andy and Alyssa get NSFW with arguably the best Give Yourself Goosebumps they’ve read to date, GYG #7: Under the Magician’s Spell. Along the way, they discuss nonbinary representation; your local tv listings; Joan Crawford; fog machines; the Necronomicon; the crucifixion; a fanart request; fireballing; dolly jelly; regular tools; The Wizard of Oz; the FIsher-Price Deluxe Kick n' Play piano gym. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Give Yourself Goosebumps #6: Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter. Along the way, they discuss Ritter sport; childcare costs; Staying Out of the Basement; undercompensated academic labor; counting by fives; Persephone; Peppermint Patty; broken windows theory; George Washington and George Washington Carver; Officer Jenny; bovine growth hormones; Go Ask Alice; Jefferson Airplane; the circus; cotton candy; Midvale School for the Gifted; and Monster Blood 3. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Give Yourself Goosebumps #5: Night in Werewolf Woods. Along the way, they discuss their new relationship to the closet; 30 years of Goosebumps (shorturl.at/HIQ34); wolf dance parties; nerds; Robert “That F*ckin Guy” Frost; Shark Week; pewter figures; triskaidekaphobia; Warhammer; The Boy 2; howling; trailblazing; guano; psychedelic horror; and gendering characters. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #20: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. Along the way, they discuss anagrams; Arkham Horror; goths; Gertrude Stein;  RPGs; Mazes and Monsters; Stranger Things; Through the Looking Glass; chess piece gender; Choose or Die; Stay Alive; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; The Sand Kings; destroyed towns; The Avengers; If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler; I, the Divine; starting over; withholding authors; 1,001 Nights; Romeo and Juliet; getting lost in a good book; Sophie’s World; Space Jam; deadly vegetation; The Thing from Another World; Attack of the Triffids; and Jekel theory.  // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #19: Return to Ghost Camp. Along the way, they discuss gayness; the Snatch…er; viral encephalitis; muscles; Mark McGwire; Gertrude Stein; bee-fueled ghosts; Kitty Genovese; Camp Crystal Lake; West Milford, NJ; deranged set pieces; summer camp taxation codes; the Rapture; scary foxes; “The Gingerbread Man”; ghost camper math; swapped identities; It Takes Two; 13 Tzameti; untrustworthy women; Genesis; psychosexual thrillers; Body of Evidence; Body Heat; sacrifices; John Lyly’s Gallathea; Willow; Jennifer’s Body as folk horror; infestation horror; Pushing Daisies; HP Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls”; crossing rivers; dead faces in the water; the J.R.R. Tolkien poem “Mewlips”; hallucinations v. ghosts; bees; ghost camper math; and 1974.  // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa continue their discussion of Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps (Special Edition #3) with "For the Birds," "Aliens in the Garden," and "The Thumbprint of Doom." Along the way, they discuss The Staircase; taxidermy; topiary; The Shining; Alice in Wonderland; Edward Scissorhands; speculative hedge maze history; creepy hotels; The Witches; Puppet Master; unasked-for help; Phantom of the Opera; Misery; One Hour Photo; trapped souls; The Little Mermaid; Dante’s Inferno; Twilight Zone rip-offs; boomerang bullies; playing with human lives; Planet of the Apes; Battlestar Galactica; “The Invaders”; tv adaptations of short stories; Richard Matheson; The Twilight Man graphic novel; Horton Hears a Who; benevolent and malevolent overlords; The Lion King; colonial propaganda; girl crushes; superstitions; horoscopes; budding cult leaders; heists and counterschemes; Fingersmith; Saw; Hellraiser; OCD; Maria Bamford; As Good As It Gets; Fun Home; Elektra; R.L. Stine’s Superstitious; Haxan; curses; Princess Mononoke; bird theory; and the carnival circuit in the Gooseverse..  // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa continue their discussion of Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps (Special Edition #3) with "I'm Telling," "The Haunted House Game," "Change for the Strange," and "The Perfect School." Along the way, they discuss  art contests, King Midas, turning to stone, Patrick Skene Catling's The Chocolate Touch, gargoyles (the creatures, the TV series, and the made-for-TV movie), Ghostbusters, the locus terribilis,  games that play you, hellscapes, repetition compulsion, Shutter Island, not knowing you're dead, The Sixth Sense, Jumanji (1995), games as metaphors for trauma, ending at the beginning, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, Southbound,  diverging adolescent interests, the Rainforest Cafe, doping, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki's This One Summer, lesbians and small businesses, "The White Gown" from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, cursed fashions, Animorphs, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Angela Carter's The Tiger's Bride, safe stories, ominous retail experiences, Lord Dunsany's "The Bureau d'Echange de Maux," Harlan Ellison's "Shoppe Keeper," William F. Wu's "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium,"  rigid parents, Cold Spring Harbor, The Stepford Wives, 28 Days Later, Karl Capek's R.U.R., Millennium, reform school, Louis Sachar's Holes, Karen Joy Fowler's "The Pelican Bar," Brian Evenson's "A Report," and the panopticon.  // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

In the first of this three-part series covering Special Edition #3 - Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Andy and Alyssa read "The Chalk Closet" "Home Sweet Home," and "Don't Wake Mummy" Along the way, they discuss 17th-century recycling;  Natalie Sideserf; Dante’s Inferno; time loops; Triangle; too-strict teachers; Roald Dahl; The Third Wave; The Next Karate Kid; disappearances; And Then There Were None; insufficient square footage; the Ed Gein of frogs; mommy issues; spider women; Coraline; Arachne; Curse of the Black Widow; disproportionate punishment; Scrooged; Kafka;Toy Story; McCarthyism; Deadly Garage Sale; small-town museums and weird personal collections; Bluebeard; “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”; Frankenstein; backfiring pranks; The Lodge; The Collector; No Child Left Behind; and mumia. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #18: Horrors of the Black Ring. Along they way, they discuss HR Giger’s jewelry box; slow deaths; sociopathic joiners; Barbie rating scales; A Dangerous Son; unrequited love; Angel; Maria Bafmord; Shrill; corruption; possession; ruining school events; Never Been Kissed; Grease; Daria; cursed rings; passing on a curse; The Ring; Breaking Bad; Monkeybone; Problematic Teachers; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Hangsaman; Confessions; Matilda; Loving Annabelle; transitional objects; scary children; The Bad Seed; the tv show “The Baby”; The Outsider; symbolically significant art objects; Aleister Crowley; Horrors of the Black Museum; & the carnivalesque.. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #17: The Werewolf in the Living Room. Along they way, they discuss Fritz Haarmann; shark tooth necklaces; Mario jokes; werewolf teeth; bifurcated story form; The Bailey School Kids; human trafficking; merchandizing; raisin squares; Teddy Roosevelt; Sylvia Likens; the layered look; following someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing; Moby Dick; The Glass Castle; erratic parents; Russian Doll; Home Improvement; The Host; Squid Game; Homer Simpson; The People Under the Stairs; imprisonment horror; The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl in the Box; being repulsed by your own hunger; Raw; Uzumaki; dangerous woods; Antichrist; the difference between good movies and movies you like; the Pied Piper of Hamlin; bad sheriffs; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; the sheriff of Nottingham; Desperation; amulets; Pirates of the Caribbean; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; kidnapping; Mommy is a Murderer; Gold Fame Citrus; Big Daddy; Tucker and Dale v. Evil; Leviathan; Teen Wolf; The Lost World; surprise second monsters; Lake Placid; Scream; & eastern Europe in the Gooseverse. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #16: The Mummy Walks. Along they way, they discuss some first-rate #FoodWatch; hijacking; the basis of national economies; Jeep safety; snake wranglers; Shirley Jackson’s “Paranoia”; the Black Mirror episode “White Bear”; Old Enough; Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; The Da Vinci Code; secret royalty; The Princess Diaries; middle eastern political conflict; Jesus Christ Superstar; upsetting Easter egg hunts; Left Behind; double-crossing dames; Get Out; 1984; James Bond; The Killers; Bound; Game of Thrones; the Necronomicon; Walter Benjamin; the repatriation of human remains; King Hezekiah; the oldest mummies; and yellow sapphires. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #15: Scream School. Along they way, they discuss new heights of GooseDaddy issues; circling around good storylines without entering them; Doug Jones; postmodern ennui; L.A. novels; Don DeLillo; Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence; awkward snakes; the new VW Bug; British colonial uniforms; #MeToo; Carly Beth’s mom; Silver City, NV; the Donner party; the Chicago Bears; non sequiturs; Back to the Future III; Jason X; bad dads; The Stepfather; Frankenstein; Why Are Dads?; father-son team-ups; Frailty; Leatherface; the horrors of repression; cursed films; the X-Files episode, “Hollywood, A.D.”; Dead Set; The Phantom of the Opera; filming on location; Grave Encounters; Sinister; The Bunker Game; father-son rivalries; Jungle to Jungle; Man of the House; Getting Even with Dad; Hamlet; the word “agon”; revenge; The Craft; Oldboy; Vanished; manipulation; The Addams Family; The Best Friend; Hook; dynasties; Oedipus Rex; Saw; The Godfather; patriarchal torch-passing; the Gooseverse horror industry; Peeping Tom; psychological horror; ghost towns; ghouls; Poe’s journalism; & the second Red Scare. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Andy and Alyssa return to the Fear Street series with R.L. Stine's controversial tome The Best Friend (1997). Along the way, they discuss My Cousin Rachel; man hands; Brian de Palma; memory lapses; mirroring; gendered exercise; Love is Blind; Guns n' Roses; hysteria; queer villains; Single White Female; Nella Larsen’s Passing; All About Eve; hair twins; Basic Instinct; Dead Ringer; the penultimate season of The L Word; Mulholland Drive; Gothika; Dollhouse; figures from your sordid past; The Gift; bullies; Teju Cole’s Open City; Street Fighter; The Yellow Wallpaper; Baby Teeth; Rosemary’s Baby; The Stepford Wives; non-naturalistic dialogue; being hung up on your ex; My Best Friend’s Wedding; Scott Pilgrim; Forgetting Sarah Marshall; parental disapproval; Romeo and Juliet; Pet Sematary; Twilight; Gilmore Girls; protagonists with two less hot friends; Nancy Drew; unclear motives; Leatherface; Ils; House of 1000 Corpses; nominal destiny; and Christmas stories. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com