Graveyard Coffee Talk Pod

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they chat with debut horror author Jenny Kiefer. Jenny’s novel THIS WRETCHED VALLEY was published earlier this month and can be found anywhere books are sold. Come hear more about Jenny’s work, the spookiest things she’s found in the woods (it’s not what you think!), and what she’s got lined up next! Note: the editor (Corinne) is sorry for the audio - this was recorded live in a local brew pub For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne in a surprisingly laughter-filled episode about death! Amanda looks at a more historical view of how death has been discussed in the United States, which Corinne goes on a broader folkloric tour of superstitions from Europe and China. CW: Covid-19 discussions, infant mortality For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne in a special recording of a live show performed at the Louisville Free Public Library! In a nod to their hometown and their favorite library, Amanda shares scary stories from Louisville. Corinne ventures to Louisville’s sister cities to unearth some creepy stories of her own. Includes a brief Q&A at the end of the episode! For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they chat about traveling the paths of the dead alongside psychopomps. Amanda digs into Santa Muerte, who guides people along all sorts of difficult journeys. Corinne gets to talk about her two favorite things: Animals with jobs and blasphemy (of a mild sort). For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they chat with debut Romantasy author EA Fortneaux! Learn how Fortneaux’s background in history and archaeology helped her build a rich fantasy world replete with folklore and magic. Once you’re done listening, pre-order FOLLOWING THE SNOW by clicking the link: https://shorturl.at/bpBQ1 For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Quick correction: Corinne inadvertently mixed up Heather Dale and Alexander James Adams. Both singers perform folk and/or filk and were active in the 90s and 00s and released music under the first name “Heather”. We regret the error! “The Maiden and the Selkie” was performed by Heather Dale, not Alexander James Adams. Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they take it easy this episode and talk about folklore in pop culture again! This time, Amanda examines the folkloric elements of one of her favorite ballets. Corinne talks ad nauseum about selkies, surprising no one. For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they talk metal - the material, not the musical genre. Amanda tells us all about a mystery from the Ozarks, and Corinne takes a meandering path that ends in the Bronze Age. For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they continue their conversation about the fae. This time it’s all about the things the fair folk get blamed for. Amanda introduced us to a fae creature who came to Detroit by way of France, while Corinne a) probably invites a whole host of troubles on herself and b) somehow finds a way to bring linguistics into this. For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they start talking about the fair folk, the kindly ones, the good folk - that’s right, they’re talking about fairies today! Amanda explores the connections between Scots-Irish and Cherokee fairy lore, while Corinne attempts to get scientific about types of fairies. For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they interview author Zach Rosenberg ahead of the release of his novella Hungers as Old As This Land. They discuss his experience publishing the novella, his wide range of influences, and a lot of Jewish and Western Horror. Take notes, because Zach introduces us to a ton of writers, filmmakers, and more! You can also preorder the novella online now! For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they trickster archetypes. Amanda skirts the line of blasphemy and gets biblical. Corinne unearths some core childhood memories of popular African and West Indian folklore. For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they about food! Specifically, they talk about food in folklore and folk culture. Amanda speaks eloquently about the humble green bean casserole, as well as some spirited spirits. Corinne goes down a tumblr fueled rabbit hole and talks about bread. cw: discussions of alcohol For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they talk tree-lore. Amanda brings some grade-school nostalgia while talking about an American folk-hero. Corinne finally learns why the fae in urban fantasy swear by rowan and thorn. Both of them go on some weird research tangents. For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they try something a little different. In this episode they go back to older episodes to explore how those topics are represented in pop culture. Amanda explores werewolves in literature (and introduces us to the term eco-gothic, which is a style Corinne desperately wants), and Corinne looks at various yokai in both Japanese and Western media. For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they interview author and editor Chelsea Pumpkins about upcoming horror anthology Ahh That’s What I Call Horror. Enjoy a lot of 90s nostalgia, an extra heaping of silliness, and learn why editing is sometimes like herding cats! They also talk a little about how witch tropes shifted in the 90s, and the influences of the Disney renaissance. For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they settle in to tell Christmas ghost stories and discuss a little of the history behind this spooky tradition. Laugh as you realize that Corinne both suggested this topic and then immediately regretted it! There’s also a first-ever corrections section, to explain what we got wrong last episode. For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Episode 29 of Graveyard Coffee Talk is live on Apple, Spotify, Google, and Stitcher. Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they dig into the concept of Fakelore! Amanda finds American examples containing a lot of capitalism and cultural appropriations (seriously guys, support your local unions and stop appropriating Native culture!), while Corinne digs into the academic side of Fakelore (as a note: She 100% misunderstood an article she read, Hans Moser was writing in the 1960s, not the 1930s as stated in this episode). From there, things get a little unhinged as we discuss the intersection of fakelore, folklore, and online storytelling. For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they interview indie horror author Laurel Hightower in a episode that was recorded at an in-person event at Butcher Cabin Books! Together they discuss Mothman, driving through the Appalachian Mountains, sleep paralysis and more. Laurel essentially gives this podcast its thesis statement while talking about the importance of horror, and also lists authors you don’t want to be sleeping on if you’re exploring the genre. For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they talk about the challenges they had researching Old Wives’ Tales! After a discussion of what old wives’ tales are and how they may have come about, Amanda shares a few tales that are common in Appalachia. Corinne talks European superstitions and how the traditions of old wives’ tales have affected classic literature. Then stay a bit longer for a quick retrospective on the last year and a bit of Graveyard Coffee Talk! For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they continue swapping urban legends! Amanda explores the role that creepy pastas fulfill in contemporary urban legends and attempts to actually not traumatize Corinne for once. Corinne chases down a story she was told by one of the show’s twitter followers and then cries over a recently developed urban legend from Ukraine. For show notes and more visit gravyardcoffeetalkpod.com