Interlude IV: II - A Ballad for a Bug

Halloween is a time for treats, yet, but let us never forget how moving a ghoulish trick can be.... Join your ghosts, I mean hosts, and Workers' Lit to discuss the rapture, the politics of the eschaton, and a little movie or novel series or another movie called The Left Behind. Boo! Follow Workers' Lit: https://www.workerslit.com Don't forget the treats, support Workers' Lit here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/WorkersLit Subscribe to Current Affairs Magazine this spooky season -- Use code ZOMBIES for 20% off a print subscription for 12 months. www.currentaffairs.org/membership We post like once every six months on social media, but why not give us a follow at: @horrorvangaurd on Instagram and bsky You can support the show for less than the cost of replacing all of your clothes after the rapture at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Eerie waves emanate from the Horror Vanguard radio tower as author Gretchen Felker-Martin joins us to discuss all things horror and the body. Support Gretchen on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scumbelievable Check out, pre-order several copies of, Gretchen's new book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250347978/chimera/ Subscribe to Current Affairs Magazine this spooky season -- Use code ZOMBIES for 20% off a print subscription for 12 months. www.currentaffairs.org/membership We post like once every six months on social media, but why not give us a follow at: @horrorvangaurd on Instagram and bsky You can support the show for less than the cost of coming in second at a John Waters lookalike contest held at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Subscribe to Current Affairs Magazine this spooky season -- Use code ZOMBIES for 20% off a print subscription for 12 months. https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership We're joined by Alex Skopic of Current Affairs Magazine to discuss the viral creepypasta and now major motion picture: Backrooms. Step in, get lost, discuss the cultural implications of a world increasingly indifferentiable from a long-closed retail store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. We're hosting a worker appreciation pizza party in the backrooms. More info at: @horrorvangaurd on Instagram and bsky You can support the show for less than the cost of the legal nightmare of creepypasta copyright at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

No matter how far you travel, you always slam in the back of my Dragula. Are you now or have you ever been a lords of Salem, if so, discuss your experiences with Horror Vanguard at: @horrorvangaurd on Instagram and bsky You can support the show for less than the cost of pressing a limited edition vinyl disturbed only to cursed women vis-á-vis broadcast radio in order to generate dubious buzz for your band's unlikely revival at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Owing in no small part to histories of national character, a one from American and another from the UK find themselves drawn out to sea in their search for meaning and home. Oh, what we'd trade for several chapters on cetology. Discuss cetology or of whales in paint; in teeth; in wood; in sheet-iron; in stone; in mountains; in stars; et cetera with Horror Vanguard at: @horrorvangaurd on Instagram and bsky You can support the show for less than the cost of shooting on set at an actual castle at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

The new home for Horror Vanguard just might be the past, or, rather, how our present desires shape and mediate what comes to pass as a "past." In any event, is that the Left Page's music I hear? Subscribe to Left Page: https://www.patreon.com/c/leftpage/posts Discuss the best, and most fun, ways to defend a castle with Horror Vanguard at: @horrorvangaurd on Instagram and bsky You can support the show for less than the cost of shooting on set at an actual castle at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

A song harvested from conversations lost. Discuss the movie Bug with Horror Vanguard at: @horrorvangaurd on Instagram and bsky You can support the show for less than the cost of seeing the movie Bug at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Your (g)hosts continue their quest to uncover the new home of Horror Vanguard. However, this leg of the journey unravels as a computer glitch renders the Bug half of the discussion unusable; for now. Unexpectedly akin to a certain truck fused together like a certain literary monster like certain gendered bodies, this show is also a thing made of its own dissolution, at times. Enjoy, won't we. Discuss the geopolitics of metaphor with Horror Vanguard at: @horrorvangaurd on Instagram and bsky You can support the show for less than the cost of a oneway ticket out of the material conditions that have come to define your life at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Perhaps the new home for Horror Vanguard awaits overseas where the trains run on steam, the jackbooted thugs are nondescript by studio mandate, and where Cricket is a game for men who love each other. Discuss your favorite highlights from the most recent cricket sporting event with Horror Vanguard at: @horrorvangaurd on Instagram and bsky You can support the show for less than the cost of season tickets for the Haddonfield Haunts cricket team at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Well, that's enough of big city living. I'm sure it will be far safer and far more normal-er for us if we take this camper van where Google Maps fears to tread. Discuss your favorite hills, cols, escarpments, and terracettes which also have occularity with Horror Vanguard at: @horrorvangaurd on Instagram and bsky You can support the show for less than the cost of franchise opportunity at a rural gas station with a nearby community and frequent tourists! at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard