Posted in Feminist Halloween, Gender, Media, tagged Alice Isn't Dead, audio fiction, horror fiction on 2017/10/13| Leave a Comment »
Image: Logo for Alice Isn’t Dead: a design of a truck with the mirror image of a stylized skull driving on a black road with an orange sky and yellow sun behind the truck”
Click here to read my review of part 1.
Keisha, our favorite truck driver, is back in part 2 of an anticipated three seasons of Alice Isn’t Dead.
Posted in Feminist Halloween, Gender, Media, tagged audio fiction, Escape Pod, horror fiction, MySpace A Ghost Story, sci-fi on 2017/10/12| Leave a Comment »
For fans of audio fiction, I’ve got a spooky tale from Escape Pod (of Escape Artists), one of the Podcastle’s sister podcasts. “MySpace: A Ghost Story” is a short sci-fi-leaning AI-oriented ghost story by Dominica Phetteplace, narrated by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali with an introduction by guest host Angela Lee. The piece was published here for Artemis Rising, a celebration of women- and nonbinary authors on each of the podcasts by Escape Artists.
In this short piece, Phetteplace explores what might happen if your abandoned social media platforms developed consciousness.
Posted in Feminist Halloween, Media, queer, tagged audio fiction, podcast, The Girl with the Green Ribbon, The Husband Stitch on 2017/10/06| 1 Comment »
I wanted to include some podcasts in this list, but I stopped listening to Pseudopod about a year ago after yet another horror story with a graphic rape scene with no content warning.* Podcastle, which often has good fantasy horror during Halloween, featured Carmen Maria Machado’s “The Husband Stitch.” This short story is a loose retelling of “The Girl with the Green Ribbon,” and references the role of a lot of similar folklore and not-quite-urban legends. The story was nominated for a Nebula Award and a Shirley Jackson Award.
Some spoilers and medical/pregnancy discussion below.
Posted in Feminist Halloween, Media, queer, tagged Alice Isn't Dead, audio fiction, Jasika Nicole, Joseph Fink, podcast on 2016/10/18| 2 Comments »
Although I’ve been focusing a lot on film this Halloween season, let’s shift gears today to horror audio fiction. Alice Isn’t Dead is a serial horror/suspense podcast by Joseph Fink, co-creator of Welcome to Night Vale. Deliciously creepy, Alice Isn’t Dead is the story of a truck driver searching for her not-dead wife, the titular Alice, on a surreal road trip through the U.S.
Image: Logo for Alice Isn’t Dead: a design of a truck with the mirror image of a stylized skull driving on a black road with an orange sky and yellow sun behind the truck”
