Sleepwalking parents, Japanese folklore, and viral marketing campaigns? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids and two of their podcastin? heroes as they turn up the horror dial with a millennial classic that shaped the genre as we now know it. Em Schulz brings the FASCINATING history of chain letters, Christine Schiefer shares childhood nightmares that prevent her from watching horror movies to this day, and your Ghost Hosts guide you through the film?s production history and cyclical Japanese ghost stories that inspired it. Though it wasn?t made for children, many of us caught The Ring early in life?. and if you want to heal that ?TV trauma,? listen and forward this episode to 10 friends! Or else. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chanting townsfolk, quarantined premises, and The Little Engine That Could? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they head back to Hillwood for Arnold?s very first toe-dip into urban legend territory. These airwaves are consistently partial to the Boo-Radley-kind, and Stoop Kid is no exception. Highlighting the effects of neglect, societal pressure, and the power of one?s mindset, this Hey Arnold! fixture not only stuck in our minds but showed us that there?s life beyond one?s stoop? but that doesn?t mean it?s easy to leave. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bracket busters, trolley problems, and exploding heads? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! These FOUR ?90s kids take you through their first annual March ?Dadness? bracket (underscored by Jeri?s foolproof Daddy/Babygirl scale), in which they rate, rank, compare, and debate the traits of 16 randomly selected Pretty Dark villains to determine The Darkest of Them All. The final matchup is one for the ages, and it?s possible your Ghost Hosts have never soapboxed this hard, so get your March Madness fix a month late with laughs, logic, and these tangenting ParaPods partners in crime.  Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Super Soaker battles, gravedigging legends, and androgynous icons? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! These ?90s kids are finishing up season 2 of Are You Afraid of the Dark? and going out with a bang? a game, really, of potentially disastrous consequences. Around here, we recognize that it?s important?maybe now more than ever?to play. To connect to our inner children and re-live carefree times gone by. In fact, kids have been hiding-and-seeking for nearly all of recorded history. But in the case of this Midnight Society tale, we find that play can sometimes become an eternal state of being. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Unicornian origins, Greek mythology, and bodies that are dying around us? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! These ?90s kids are rounding out their coverage of a film (and novel) that, though elusive to both of them in childhood, has plenty of nostalgic, achy yearning to go around. They?ll lead you through this Unicorn-hero?s journey centered on mortality, identity, and regret ? built by not only the terrifyingly finite nature of time, but our inherent need for authenticity and community. Don?t worry, Darklings, your Unicorn might still be coming ?round the mountain. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Existentialism, unicornicopias, and speed dating EM SCHULZ? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! These ?90s kids are beside themselves with anticipation to announce their new home?the ParaPods network, founded by Em Schulz and Christine Scheifer of And That?s Why We Drink podcast! First up, Em joins Kalyn for a Valentine?s extravaganza. Then, they get into your regularly scheduled programming with a trip through 1970s animation culture. The Last Unicorn, from earliest origins, is a tale for those who harbor a phantom, fading magic, and are up to the daunting task of finding their place in the world. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reptilian subjugation, Walkman contraband, and Spunge? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for another Midnight Society gathering where nothing is as it seems. From boarding school horrors to binaural beats, they?ll unpack the psychological reasoning behind one of Are You Afraid of the Dark??s most conspiracy-laden tales. It might seem coldblooded, but as usual, there are more layers to crack into than one might eggspect. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Demonic forces, prestidigitation, and a braided ficus? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids around the Midnight Society campfire for a mysterious, magnificent trip through the history and art of stage magic. They?ll explore the enduring legacy of magic as performance, ponder portals and vortexes, and uncover references buried so deep you might miss them if you didn?t know where to look?. kinda like a magic trick.  Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Optimistic reflections, Ghost Host life, and introducing Editing Mason? Oh lawd, it?s about to get Pretty Dark as we ring in 2026! Join these ?90s kids around the annual campfire to decompress, hear about editing triumphs and turmoils, and candidly discuss what made the Pretty Darkness most poignant in our collective and individual 2025 experiences. TPD is poised to grow in exciting ways this year, but one thing is for sure?we couldn?t be more grateful to be not-alone with our Darkling community. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ancient gift-bringers, corporal punishment, and Santa?s manna? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for a long overdue folkloric account detailing the traditions that brought our most recognizable Christmas character into the mainstream. From spectral horsemen and old world saints to cautionary characters and medieval stage plays, this Pretty Dark version of Christmas cheer is sure to bring a chill to your spine and a Ruprecht to your door. Just trust us. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Electroshock therapy, egg allergies, and sentient furniture? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Journey with these ?90s kids through the most confusing, labyrinthian corners of either a far-off, fantastical world, or a traumatized young girl?s psyche. With haunting whispers of early 20th century quack psychiatry and multiple, varied dissections of self and identity, the idea that there?s ?no place like home? takes on new meaning not only for Dorothy Gale, but any child willing to read between Baum?s sparkliest lines. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Talkin' fowl, prosaic protection, and the importance of mannequins? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for a culturally-relevant trip through the life and times of 'The Wizard of Oz' originator L. Frank Baum, then peek behind the production curtain on what might be the darkest Oz adaptation to date. With ethereal grit only found in a kids? film of the 1980s, it?s safe to say 'Return to Oz' confounded yet comforted your Ghost Hosts ? and changed a generation of child audiences For Good. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pubescent parenting perils, ancient cycles, and the real trick to magic? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for a double-stuffed Halloween celebration as they unpack both the production details and plot behind of one of the finest DCOMs of the mortal world. They?ll revisit their own coming-of-age criticisms with new perspective, and by way of the witchy, underscore the importance of developmentally appropriate education. It?s a heavy helping of Halloween nostalgia and a timely reminder that when we honor our true selves (and the agency of those around us)?. it just might be enough to save the day. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Annual seances, proverbial outcasts, and an undying sense of dark humor? Oh lawd, it?s about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids on a romp to remember as they reacquaint themselves with the 1991 Addams Family, whose gruesome yet affectionate nature has perplexed, delighted, and influenced audiences for a nearly a century, earning their macabre place in the annals of pretty dark history. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Death iconography, spooky satire, and mid-century screa-ums? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for the history behind everyone?s favorite ooky, spooky family. Straight from the morbidly curious mind of Charles Addams, these characters and their macabre sensibilities sent shockwaves throughout the 20th century. They and their disquieting hospitality evolved (along with the public) all the way into our ?90s living rooms, paving the way for alternative thinking, self-assurance, and those of us who have never fit into the boxes society would prefer. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Otherworldly invaders, radio Tricks, and Well(e)s of Treats? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they investigate one of America?s most notorious Halloween hijinks?the 1938 'War of the Worlds' radio broadcast?through the lens of everyone?s favorite Football Head on All Hallows Eve. With a harrowing recap of the myths and realities of this historical ?alien invasion? entwined with a walkthrough of Hillwood's own recreation, they?ll raise all kinds of questions about what we collectively believe and the mechanics of how and why we decide to believe it. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wicked purple ooze, violent programming, and enslaved parents ... Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids getting real about the silliest and most sinister(?) sides of the Power Rangers prism. Come tie together the loosest ends, bemoan missed opportunities, insert more euphemism than ever thought possible, and round it all out with the realization that maybe a dose of accessible empowerment and planetary preservation wasn?t the worst thing to feed your child-self. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Capitalistic considerations, Morphin mythos, and erotic planets? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they learn the layered history behind one of the biggest franchises (complete with infinite merchandise) their show has ever seen. Whether you were, yourself, a childhood Mighty Morpher or you?ve always wondered where all of its colorful chaos originated - the complex cultural overlap and monetary motivation are plentiful? and pretty dark.  Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Law of the Jungle, ripples of consequence, and a childhood lost?or gained? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they STAMPEDE through a recap ? and reevaluation ? of Jumanji?s darkest truths, traipsing through the strange comfort and coping found in urban legend, the enduring-if-harmful performance of ?masculinity,? and the unraveling of a town?s legacy?. Society?s games may have been established long ago, but if there?s anything this sentient tabletop teaches us, it?s that it?s our decision which ones to keep playing. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Imposter syndrome, improbable illustrations, and Robin?s legacy? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for a JUNGLE of a time as they dig up long buried lore around Jumanji?s original author and its picture-book beginning, hit harrowing production highlights, and pay homage to one of the greatest comedians and thinkers the world has ever known. Like most good fiction, it turns out Jumanji was born from a reserved mind with a chaotic craving? A sense of wonder, a curious ?what if???? a persistent itch only imagination ? and a few million in special effects ? could scratch. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bicycle independence, Blockbuster Fridays, and a revenant paradox? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these rusty ?90s kids for a crash course through Christian?s favorite 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?' tale, which thrusts us all into the golden, glowing nostalgia of a good ol? fashioned bike ride, offers a snapshot of how the ?90s handled PTSD, and chills with the poignant reminder that some friendships reach beyond the grave. Strap on your bike helmets, your fishing boots, and your most haunting ?would?ve, could?ve, should?ve,? and meet us down at our bridge?. You know the one. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tower of Terror stories, the great Disney vs. Nickelodeon debate, and a look at modern horror conventions? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they continue to pick the brain of DJ MacHale, Co-Creator of Are You Afraid of the Dark, and get his thoughts on everything from his film projects, to his TV show with Lizzie McGuire producer Stan Rogow, to his honest thoughts on Goosebumps! It?s a far-reaching, nostalgic-as-ever episode culminating in some of DJ?s own worst fears? if you?re brave enough to hear ?em! Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nostalgic Nickelodeon, the schematics of fear, and D.J.?s own haunted house? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for their 100-episode-extravaganza! Here, they celebrate a cornerstone of children?s horror, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, WITH the mastermind behind its success. Together, they?ll share insights from the show?s conception and excavate societal and psychological ingredients that make up the DNA of AYAOTD. Honored, amazed, and as spooked as ever, your Ghost Hosts and their proverbial patron saint FINALLY get the chance to geek out about TPD?s most timeless themes? and realize the question isn?t whether you?re afraid of the dark? but why. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Campy dialogue, stucco surreality, and the history of the Pet Detective? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for a dose of tongue-in-cheek noir as their season binge takes them back to suburban xenophobia and the fascinating intersections of vampire and werewolf lore. Somewhere between after-school-special and self-aware ?60s horror, it serves as a unique metaphor within the AYAOTD catalog - not only an early LGBTQ+ pride flag, but a reminder that we shouldn?t judge books by their covers?. Though we?d do well to keep our pets indoors. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fractured personalities, toilet humor, and reparenting your inner self? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they apply a heaping helping of psychology and personal reflection to the cringiest and most chaotic parts of adulthood. They get deep about the roles of mothers (and women) in society, pick at their own parental wounds, and thoroughly excavate this Jack-In-The-Box chocked full of everything you repressed... and everything you were socialized to believe?.. or not to.  Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Snot faces, imaginary ?friends?, and impending doom? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids to get into the history behind one of the deepest darkest?loudest and most obnoxious? corners of your childhood memory. If ever you (or your parents) wondered how the hell this film came to be, you?re in the right place. Clutch your pearls and hang on to your cobwebs as we find psychological through lines and open the doors for a deep dive into what it means to reparent oneself. We?ll be on our worst behavior, we promise! Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Man-handed crocodiles, moonshinin? muskrats, and the building blocks of feminism? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids down on the bayou to examine everything from The Rescuers? infectious hope and faith (and some real-life messages-in-bottles), to the film?s feminist slant and the ways it managed? or failed? to manifest. So many of these charming (and violent) southern frames have stayed tucked away in children?s minds decades over. It?s high time we hold them up to our flashlights, together in this shimmering swamp of nostalgia, and maybe even try to see them from a new angle or two. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tearful tributes, scandalous snafus, and the birth of Medusa? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids, returning in all their Movie Night glory, to regale you with the history behind this? gem? of a Disney classic. Bridging the gap between the studio?s famed Nine Old Men and a whole new class of animators that would eventually herald the Disney Renaissance, this murky production story, and the PR nightmare that followed, are sure to turn some heads. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Generational grudges, queer-coded aunties, and home-owning horrors? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for one of Are You Afraid of the Dark??s most chilling hauntings as they unpack the lasting impression of a singular phrase, raid the corners of the internet for ?real? frozen ghost stories, and reminisce on the magical career of Melissa Joan Hart. The day might?ve been saved, but there are still plenty of dark conclusions to draw surrounding the disappearance of this little boy turned ghostly ?90s icon. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Possessed babysitters, Leap Day haunts, and a Black Parade? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for a year-late Midnight Society meeting as they indulge millennial references and roadside ghost nostalgia, get the history behind one of the most notorious figures in capitalistic Americana, and connect the dots between many of the horror genre?s most enduring tropes. This liminal episode begs the question? What happens when the house itself does the haunting? Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hot nerds, killer dinner parties, and disturbing duality? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids, and the Midnight Society, as they explore the complexities of the human experience through yet another surprisingly literary SNICK lens. Examine with them their own ties to societal norms, ponder the effects of rigidity vs. fluidity, and, at long last, learn fascinating truths behind the oft referenced Jekyll and Hyde.  Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wrathful grapes, magnetoreception, and a crazy, psychopathic freak (affectionate)? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they get a crash course in the history of homing pigeons, reminisce on a time when the streetlights signaled THEM home, and let their jazzy, melancholy little hearts break for the misfits and outcasts. They?ll send a jolt of New Year inspiration to your hobbies and hyper-fixations, iterate the necessity of wonder, and remind Darkling-kind that we?re all a lot more alike than we are different ? pizza toppings notwithstanding. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Major life updates, nostalgic debates, and UNEDITED un-seriousness? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark as the sun has set on 2024! Join your '90s kid Ghost Hosts around the proverbial campfire to unpack their personal lives over the past year, answer some thoughtful listener questions, discuss plans for 2025 (we?re creeping up on episode 100!), and through their ramblings, ravings, and unscripted nonsense, continue to remind you how not-alone you are. Cheers to the new year! Have a frightfully nostalgic memory to share or a pretty dark topic you'd like us to cover? Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Foreign invaders, squirrelly stair lifts, and class consciousness? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they walk through the terrors, tropes, and stereotypes littering the Rockwellian landscape of Kingston Falls, appreciate unexpected parallels to current events, and have some? less-than-clean fun with this gutsy, gooey ?80s horror. Its hyperbolic contrasts and reflections on societal ignorance truly hold up a mirror to moviegoers and ask what they might do when saddled with great responsibility, or perhaps more importantly, if they understand that the REAL enemies are entitlement, greed? and the ultra wealthy. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Historical hijinks, mischievous miniatures, and the birth of the PG-13 rating? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they learn how society?s need for a scapegoat evolved from imps and elves, took to the sky to vex the Royal Air Force in wartime, and eventually inspired a slapstick horror comedy? with some sticky parental guidance suggestions. Between Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus, its production story is a who?s who of ?80s cinema blending behind the scenes serendipity and on-screen mayhem? To understand, one only has to listen. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Undead appendages, backwoods suspense, and... Little Red Riding Hood?! Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they get back to their roots with this southern gothic folktale turned childhood bookshelf staple. Trace with them the daunting heritage of a vengeful fictional critter and the strangely familiar motifs that accompany it, including but not limited to expressions of guilt, grief, grave robbing, swamp witches, and cannibalism. Luckily, we learn that these stories CAN empower folks, inevitable as the endings may be, and provide an avenue both to cope with our fears and mercilessly jump scare one another. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Glowing typewriters, bathroom snacks, and gaping wide graves? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they gather ?round the SNICK campfire to honor words, the most basic of elements bringing metaphors, musings, and stories to life. It?s no secret that these magical shapes and sounds have immense power. Power to bring us that much closer to ourselves, and one another, or power to split us apart. Whether dreaming of your crush or envisioning something more nightmarish? take a moment to ask yourself, if your words could project your ideas into the minds of others? or even reality? what kind of reality would you be creating? Oh, wait? they CAN!  Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Soul bargains, Samhain sensationalism, and the language of the gargoyles? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they explore even more cultural celebrations and institutions found in Ray Bradbury?s expressive pages including witchy wonders, creepy cathedrals, and deep, dark Mexican catacombs. Some of the show?s darkest revelations yet, like, y?know, children making deals with Death to maintain their friend?s very existence, accompany this spooky swirl of historic proportions. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Poetic peril, classic costumes, and the crisp air of autumn? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for their journey into the Undiscovered Country and parse out the wistful nostalgia found among the twirly, twisty branches of Halloween?s history. Buckle in as Ray Bradbury?s aching, heavy-handed prose guides us all on a dream-like quest to capture the essence of humanity?s biggest questions? and the customs that help us answer them. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Horrific house parties, sensual feasting, and Boris Karloff? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for a bloodcurdling bash as they recount the fascinating and frightful origins of everyone?s favorite Halloween novelty track, spooking its way into society amidst an upswing of mid-century dance fads and crazes. Get down as your Ghost Hosts get scientific with memetic theory and follow these crypt-kicking tunes (including new imaginings and parodies) all the way through a life cycle that may have overstayed its welcome? Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Grizzly reapers, manic moral commentary, and sneaky snozzberries? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for their THREE YEAR anniversary extravaganza as they theorize and fantasize their way through the darkest corners of Wonka?s (okay, mostly Roald Dahl?s) potentially not-so-pure imagination - complete with haunting real world racial implications. Oompa Loompa doompity DO come with us and you?ll be in a world of simultaneous whimsical escape, satirical, societal criticism, and as always, some good old fashioned existentialism to taste. At least we still have one another? Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Everlasting literary quips, Bavarian asteroids, and Pure Imagination? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they take you on your very own Golden Ticket tour behind the scenes of one of the pillars of the ?Pretty Dark? genre and learn a little more about two of its founding fathers: Roald Dahl and Gene Wilder. Get a taste of everything you?ve ever wondered about the film?s storied history, fantastical sets, and legendary performances, plus unwrap the details on the brand deals and production rumors that left generations of mouths watering. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recurring cosmic phenomena, terrible toy testing, and triskaidekaphobia? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they settle into Are You Afraid of the Dark??s second season by discussing society?s denial of the proverbial and literal ?thirteenth floor,? the potential for intergalactic adoptive trauma, and the coming-of-age drama behind morphing into your ?final form.? If you?ve ever thought your sibling might be from another planet? or maybe felt more like a faceless misfit, yourself? this episode proves once and for all, that even still, you?re never really alone. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Birthday curses, chem lab terror, and rejection sensitive dysphoria? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for another round of Midnight Society mayhem as they get groovy with ?60s slang, walk the graffitied hallways of their childhood, and even uncover some reported high school hauntings from this side of the TV screen. This episode will have you spiraling into the 30 year pop culture cycle, seeing not only its stamp on the present and our (increasingly obsolete) place within it, but also its implications for the future? Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Identity crises, lactose intolerance, and the Hare Krishna? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids in the back-to-school spirit for a good old fashioned mingling of history lesson and book report where they?ll investigate a well-meaning, if dark phenomenon that swept the country in the ?80s ? milk carton kids ? via a controversial young adult novel born from it by Caroline B. Cooney. They?ll bust some myths, pay homage to the devastating realities, and get to the haunting core of the novel? what if the face staring back at you from the breakfast table was your own? Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sploosh, supernatural serendipity, and the ?Troubled Teen" Industry? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids to celebrate and unpack what is, arguably, one of the best book-to-film adaptions ever created. This time, they?ll revel in magical, mystical romance, wax poetic about generational curses and cycles, plus build character while exploring deeper themes of abuse in teen ?rehabilitation? programs, and America?s dark history with segregation and racial prejudice. This is a heavy one, Darklings, but it?s important, and your Ghost Hosts hope you enjoy it with all the same curiosity you?d bring to the Scholastic Book Fair. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Holey euphemisms, storyboard solidarity, and... Donnie Darko?!? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids in the dusty desert of Camp Green Lake (21 years later!) where they dig up all kinds of exposition including production stories you?ve always wondered about, details on the cast and crew, and the importance of empowering children?s literature? Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Flashlight flasks, Bram Stoker?s widow, and Dr. Nosferatu? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids in another Midnight Society flashback where they reminisce on theatrical magic and ?Fright Nights? gone by, revel in the glory (and grief) of early Germanic horror, and uncover every disturbing detail available about the legend of the Pied Piper. Sometimes, movie monsters are so terrifying they seem like they might just step out of the screen and into our very lives?but what if one actually did? Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eye boogers, bedside weapons, and iron nests on the moon? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids as they gather ?round the Midnight Society campfire to laud and applaud some of the darkest forgotten Grimm tales, get cozy with Jekyll and Hyde?s originator, and learn the eye-popping lore behind everyone?s favorite nighttime visitor?The Sandman. Growing up is hard to do, and despite enormous pressure to give up our whimsy, it?s nice to know imagination is, was, and will always be our saving grace in the face of?dun dun dun?reality. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Haunted islands, dreadful pennies, and idiotic scheming? Oh lawd, it's about to get pretty dark! Join these ?90s kids for a Saturday back in Hey Arnold!?s Hillwood as they break down one of Gerald?s true-blue urban legends involving a phlegm-hacking murderous figure and counterfeit buried treasure. Kalyn and Christian join Arnold and the gang, flashlights and jellybeans in tow, to make some Goonies and Scooby Doo connections and unravel a few real-world examples of spooky islands along the way. Email us at [email protected] Give to our Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/tpdpodcast Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @thatsprettydarkpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices