This week Kelly and Katai read WITCH'S FIRE by Beverly Butler, the story of a girl with a fucking terrible dad and oh yeah also a witch is there. They talk this absolutely awful fucking dad, poor Kirsty, poor Pam, poor Mrs. Vohl, good disabilit
This week Kelly and Katai talk FEAR STREET #40: NIGHT GAMES by R.L. Stine, the story of a boy who goads his friends into playing nighttime pranks on people as part of a revenge plan. They talk night games definitely being a normal thing we all
This week Kelly and Katai read THE BODY OF CHRISTOPHER CREED by Carol Plum-Ucci, the story of a boy whose life changes after the class weirdo goes missing. They talk teen empathy, blamming oneself, theatre kids using trauma in warm up circles,
This week Kelly and Katai read GHOSTS BENEATH OUR FEET by Betty Ren Wright, the story of a girl and her stepbrother needing a house to collapse into an old mine just to get their grief-stricken mom to wake the fuck up. They talk old covers, kid
This week Kelly and Katai read INTO THE LAND OF THE UNICORNS by Bruce Coville, the story of a girl who must balance generational trauma with loving unicorns. They talk doing Chosen One without doing Chosen One, accessible fantasy, unicorns bein
This week Kelly and Katai read THE CHEERLEADERS by John Hall, the story of a girl whose former best friend cheats death so she can kill a bunch of bitchy girls who, oh yeah, also happen to be cheerleaders. They talk hating Holly, glimmers of a
This week Kelly and Katai read THE DOLL IN THE GARDEN by Mary Downing Hahn, the story of a ghost, a doll, and a bitchy old lady. They talk forgiveness, consumption, lying babies, bike dicks, and more!SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to ge
This week Kelly and Katai read TWILIGHT #1: DEADLY SLEEP by Dale Cowan, the story of a girl who gets swept up in an angry ghost's Macbeth centered revenge plot on a trip to Scotland. They talk real Macbeth facts, creepy blood licking, amateur p
This week Kelly and Katai read TWILIGHT #5: BLINK OF THE MIND by Dorothy Brenner Francis, the story of a girl whose parents join a Satanic country club and then she goes on a Princess Cruise. They talk lame songs for babies, setting your teenag
This week Kelly and Katai read THE NANCY DREW FILES #117: SKIPPING A BEAT by Carolyn Keene, wherein our girl Nance has to solve the mystery of who's trying to sabotage a rock star's restaurant and never once suspects the actual culprit. They di
This week Kelly and Katai read HELP WANTED by Richie Tankersley Cusick, the story of a girl who takes a job for a rich family and ends up with three killers and two boyfriends. They talk villains so busy they need an assistant, crazy artist gho
The Creeps are taking a week off, so here's a full episode preview from our Outside Genre Patreon feed! Kelly and Katai discuss THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett! Huge thanks to listener Christine for the book suggestion! They talk
This week Kelly and Katai read CHAMBER OF HORRORS #4: WAITING SPIRITS by Bruce Coville, the story of a family being haunted by… their family. They talk hunky but patronizing townies, cunty grandmas, crazy ghost moms, shitty dads with misplaced
This week Kelly and Katai read THE DOLLHOUSE MURDERS by Betty Ren Wright, the story of a girl who has to confront some haunted dolls and her family's ableism. They talk loving this book, shitty florists, parents who treat their kids like unpaid
This week Kelly and Katai read DARK FORCES #1: THE GAME by Les Logan, the story of a girl who has a drama loving demon in her room and brain. They talk Conjuring exorcisms, demons making you mack on your sister’s boyfriend, boring Mozart boys,
This week Kelly and Katai read FEAR STREET #26: THE MIND READER by R.L. Stine, the story of a girl who has visions and also a boy who has visions and neither of them can help solve a GOTDAMN MURDER. They talk gaping plot holes, dumb visions, th
This week Kelly and Katai read FEAR STREET SUPER CHILLER #12: HIGH TIDE by R.L. Stine, the story of a guy who did *not* kill his girlfriend via Kawasaki Jet Ski®. They talk personal watercraft brand names, unhinged therapy techniques, yet anoth
This week Kelly and Katai read STONEWORDS by Pam Conrad, the story of a girl who has to find a way to save the ghost best friend who lived in her house in 1870. They talk evocative writing, complex friendships, absent parents, and how saving a
This week Kelly and Katai read FEAR STREET #43: ALL-NIGHT PARTY by R.L. Stine, the story of a group of teens who go out to celebrate their frenemy's birthday on an island and end up accusing each other of murder, as you do. They talk getting fo
This week Kelly and Katai read DEMON 2 by Samantha Lee, the better but not quite good sequel to Demon. They talk English sounding characters, interesting villains, wrong eras, nihilistic tone, and more!SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to
This week Kelly and Katai read FOLLOWERS by Anna Davies, another internet-centric entry in the early 2010s Point Horror reboot, this one a supposed Twitter horror story that left them both rolling their eyes. They talk not getting the Twitter v
This week Kelly and Katai read WITCH CHILD by Celia Rees, a “found diary” 1600s witch trial story. They talk feeling too distant from the main character, frustrations with the format, oh by the way she’s an actual witch moments, nasty Puritan p
This week Kelly and Katai read NIGHTMARE HALL: THE WHISPERER by Diane Hoh, the story of a girl who steals a biology exam and gets whisper blackmailed into pranks. They talk a promising premise, lackluster protagonist, iconic villain, and more!
This week Kelly and Katai read THE CALL by Peadar O’Guilin, a story of Irish teens getting punished by fairies for their ancestors' colonization sins in a Hunger Games style trial for which everyone is chosen. They talk difficult Gaelic pronunc
This week Kelly and Katai read BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY by Violet Kupersmith, a story of missing women, ghosts, smoke monsters, and the things that bind them. They talk looooooving the book, intersecting storylines, snakes snakes snakes,