There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast
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There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast
Carla is: a bookdragon; a 50-something with psychology and counseling degrees with post-grad work in grief/loss/trauma, sex crimes, and forensic anthropology; a woman who has lived in three haunted houses; a former freelance journalist and counselor, who is never bored; a disabled introvert who sees...
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I Contain Multitudes: 103
In which Carla shares her nonfiction five star reads of the past year, and celebrates Banned Books Week.
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Five Star Fall: 102
In which Carla shares her five star reads of the past year, and talks about where she's been.
Theme song and stinger: “She Comes T...
To the Teeth: 101
In which Carla shares one of Poe's more controversial and violent stories with you.
Sources:
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore -...
Rattlesnake Kisses and Caviar Dreams: 100
In which Carla and her co-author and friend Robert Ford have fun and find cupcakes. Hope you do as well.
Video version to follow shortly. Uninte...
House of Leaves: Playing in the Halls of Hells: 99
In which Carla reenters the…why is it a house of leaves?
Preorder Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski: https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781...
House of Leaves Recap 4 and 5/5: Build a Casket for My Tears: 98
In which Carla goes deeper into the Five and a Half Hallway and The Three Attic Whalestoe Letters of the House of Leaves novel (fourth and fifth episo...
House of Leaves Recap 3/5: The Hallways in This Tiny Room: 98
In which Carla continues to explore the Navidson Record of House of Leaves, so that we may go deeper. Further down and further in. This is the third g...
House of Leaves Series Recap 2/5: And These Shadows Keep On Changing: 96
In which Carla recaps the second episode (Ergodic) in the series on the universe of the horror novel House of Leaves, so that we may go deeper. Furthe...
House of Leaves Series Recap 1/5: So Many Splintered Trees: 95
Recap of the first episode in the series on the universe of the horror novel House of Leaves, so that we may go deeper. Further down and further in.
Victorian Christmas: Rock of Ages, Haunt for Me: 94
In which Carla returns to the haunted English coastline for Victorian Christmas ghost stories.
Source: Strange Stories of Ghosts and Coin...
From the Pantry: Boo Without Goo: Scary Movies for the Squeamish Part 2: 93
In which Carla expands a horror movie project that began as a challenge from her best friend: what high-quality horror movies don't have gore?
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From the Pantry: Boo Without Goo: Scary Movies For the Squeamish Part 1: 92
In which Carla expands a horror movie project that began as a challenge from her best friend: what high-quality horror movies don't have gore?
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Ten: Trekking Stubborn: 91
In which Carla looks back over ten years of disability.
plus: From the Pantry, originally episode 12, to honor what is missed: Driving, Dancing,...
From the Pantry: Eclipse: 90
Talking about where I have been, plus:
From the Pantry, originally episode 19, to honor the recent eclipse: In which Carla starts with Do...
Victorian Christmas: A Peculiar Atmosphere of Cranky Scholarship: 89
In which Carla celebrates the Twelve Days of Christmas by connecting M. R. James to Ash’s chainsaw.
M. R. James adaptations listed at Let...
Library Pirates (with Princess Jones Curtis): 88
Happy anniversary to all of us! Thank you for six years of cupcakes; you are the cupcakes I find on difficult days. I hope I have given you some.
To the Lighthouse to Catch a Fish: 87
Show notes:
In which Carla tells the fairy tale within Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.
Sources:
“The Fisherman and His W...
The Children Are Not Alright: 86
Show notes: In which Carla updates the story of episode 21, Nine Days and Two Car Seats, which tells the story of the murder of Michael and Alex Smith...
Victorian Christmas: Fingering Death: 85
In which Carla shares lots of good news, and reads more Victorian horror for the holidays.
Sources and Recommended Reading:
The Valancourt...
The Little Mermaid: 84
In which Carla explores the kerfuffle behind The Little Mermaid.
Original story by Hans Christian Andersen begins at 19:22
Recommen...
Social Appetites: 83
In which Carla discusses the current eating disorder drama and pain in reality tv, her history with an eating disorder, and revisits her interview wit...
Reintroduction and Celebration: 82
In which Carla revisits her first episode and updates it, to celebrate five years of podcasting.
Guest visit: Bye, Pumkin Podcast: Surlesque and...
In the Spirit of the Staircase: House of Leaves: 81
In which Carla goes deeper into the Five and a Half Hallway and The Three Attic Whalestoe Letters of the House of Leaves novel (fifth episode in the s...
Rooms Full of Indistinguishable Remains: House of Leaves: 80
In which Carla explores the echoes of Johnny's past and the house's present, the spiral of echoes, and the beginning of the exploration of the Five an...
Teenage Hero: Reaching for the Moon: 79
In which Carla learns that the most important Supreme Court case of the civil rights movement was brought about by a sixteen-year-old in her state...a...
Beloved: The Chaos of the Needy Dead: 78
In which Carla reviews Toni Morrison’s multi-award-winning horror novel Beloved, and the horrific history that inspired it for Black History Month.
Epiphany: Breaking Up Christmas: 77
In which Carla celebrates Epiphany by exploring barriers, and celebrating the Victorian tradition of horror at Christmas one more time this season, by...
Victorian Christmas Horror: The Girl in the Snow: 76
In which Carla once again explores the horror realm of Victorian Christmastide and reads another story by a Victorian horror author.
Referenced...
Holly Jolly Horror: 75
In which Carla reads her original Christmas horror short story, “Holly Jolly Christmas”. All rights reserved.
Music: “Deck the Halls” by...
Boo Without Goo, Volume Two: 74
In which Carla reviews and discusses 31 more horror movies without blood and gore, suitable for the squeamish viewer or beginner to horror. No spoiler...
Tangerines to Apples: House of Leaves: 73
In which Carla continues to explore the Navidson Record of House of Leaves. This is the third episode; to begin, start with episode 68: Bone-Chimes an...
What's Your Motivation, Heather?: 72
Show notes:
In which Carla explores the horror subgenre found footage, and its subgenre internet horror
Creepypasta: https://creepy...
Red Death: 71
In which Carla explores Poe’s plague, and its relationship to Shakespeare’s desert island.
Sources:
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales...
Ergodic: House of Leaves: 70
In which Carla explores the beginning of the Navidson Record, the structure of the novel, the history of ergodic literature, and the social phenomenon...
Four Cupcakes: 69
In which Carla celebrated four years of There Might Be Cupcakes! (April 28, 2017)
Sources:
https://poestories.com/read/alone
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2017 Entire Halloween Special: 27
The entire episode 27 has been found and saved. Let us celebrate #halfwaytohalloween! Enjoy this flashback to 2017, and enjoy my story and stories fro...
Bone-Chimes and Primitive Spiders: House of Leaves: 68
In which Carla begins her series on the horror novel House of Leaves.
The House of Leaves universe:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Dani...
Halloween Cupcakes: 27
This is my segment from the 2018 multi podcast collaboration for Halloween, which was published as my episode 27. When I transferred to Spreaker Prime...
Haunted Yule: Twelve Days: 67
In which Carla explores the Twelve Days of Christmas and why we send Christmas cards, and reads a Victorian horror story by F. Marion Crawford.
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Deck the Hall with Horror: 66
In which Carla revisits the Victorian Christmas tradition of scary stories at Christmas by reading four horror classics of the era--and, in doing so,...