Spooky Frog Horrifying Books Podcast

Welcome to The Spooky Frog Horrifying Bookcast! Your cozy crypt of chilling literature, unsettling stories, and strange fiction that hops straight into your nightmares. Join your hosts each week as we crack open terrifying tomes, unearth forgotten horror gems, and chat about the books that haunt our shelves and our dreams. Whether it’s gothic classics, spine-tingling indie horrors, or cursed children’s books (yes, really), Spooky Frog’s got something for every little freak who reads in the dark.

Spooky Frog Horrifying Books Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by spookyfrogpodcast, with 51 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

spookyfrogpodcast hosts Spooky Frog Horrifying Books Podcast, a arts show with 51 episodes published.

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  Episode #55

  Campfire Confessions: A Family Slasher Whodunit

  Aug 20, 202653 min

  Hosts Sam and Jeffy dig into Arthur Avalos’s debut novel Something Happened, a summer-camp slasher that unfolds as a psychological whodunit. The episode breaks down the rotating character POVs, the family’s buried trauma, and how the killer’s identity is revealed through shifting perspectives. They also interview the author’s influences, share trigger warnings, recommend similar books and films, and unbox a special Glamgoria care package during a stormy, off-the-cuff recording filled with humor and spoilers-free reactions.

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  Episode #54

  Undertone: The Podcast That Breaks You (2025) Indie Horror Movie Review | S02E32

  Aug 13, 202649 min

  Tonight’s episode of Spooky Frog dives into Undertone, an indie meta-horror film about corrupted audio files that begin to destroy a skeptic podcaster’s life and body. Hosts Jeffy and Samantha unpack the film’s isolating atmosphere, inventive sound design, and the tension between skepticism and grief as the protagonist caretakes her comatose mother. This episode also includes related recommendations, festival updates, and a brief content note for listeners sensitive to intense audio or caregiver-related themes.

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  Episode #53

  Wisconsin Death Trip: A.J. Humphreys’ Trip Horror Novel Review | S02E31

  Aug 6, 202652 min

  When a depressed writer and his overly optimistic agent camp at Devil's Lake with enough LSD to make every tree, shadow, and intrusive thought feel like it's trying to kill them, their trip spirals into a nightmarish cat-and-mouse survival against violent criminals where hallucination and reality blur into deadly danger. Hosts Samantha and Jeffy break down the novel's psychological horror, its Wisconsin setting and folklore, the risks of psychedelics for vulnerable minds, and related books, films and local events in a punchy, conversational episode.

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  Episode #52

  When Love Becomes a Prison: Curry Barker’s Obsession (2026) Indie Horror Movie Review | S02E30

  Jul 31, 202652 min

  Curry Barker’s film twists the wish-for-love premise into a brutal study of bodily autonomy, following a mystical toy that forces Nikki into a horrifyingly controlled existence. This episode breaks down the movie’s move from dark comedy to psychological terror, its commentary on entitlement and control, the practical effects, and the performances that make the concept fully chilling.

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  Episode #51

  Pulled Under by Pure Temptation: Siren (2004) Indie Horror Book Review | S02E29

  Jul 23, 202651 min

  Hosts Samantha and Jeffy dive into John Everson’s 2004 novel Siren, a gritty beach horror about grief, compulsion, and a deadly siren luring men into the sea. They discuss the book’s erotic and violent elements, its dual timelines (including a rum‑running ship a century earlier), and how mythology informs the creature. The episode also wanders through author tidbits-pinball obsession and pet cockatoos-podcast events, related book and film recommendations, and plenty of seaside anecdotes and dark humor.

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