Super Scary Haunted Homeschool – Details, episodes & analysis

Season 2 of the world's spookiest spooky history podcast begins! This time we're talking about Haunted Houses! But before we can bust ghosts we all have to agree on what ghosts are in the first place: solid air? Hallucinations? Transparent dead people? Catholics? Who Ghost? Why Ghost? How Ghost? When Ghost? Such question! But we have answers! So let's finally learn: What Ghost?

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer John Walker.

Season 1 ends as we reach...The TWILIGHT of the Vampires! Join us at this terminal moment as vampires achieve their sexiest, most sparkly form and consciously uncouple from disease forever. Who is hottest: vampire or werewolf? And why was everyone wrong about Twilight? Prepare to declare your allegiance: Team Edward or Team Jacob?

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

In episode two of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool we continue our coursework on VAMPIRES!!!! Will the suffering never stop? In this episode, we discuss almost 200 years of Vampire History, from the very first vampire on record (1725) to the last filthy bloodsucker dug up and crushed like a tick (1893), we're there every horrible step of the way with brief stops to visit Karl Marx, Vlad the Impaler, and Voltaire. Also, what's the matter with Rhode Island? Award-winning author, Grady Hendrix, takes you on an educational journey. 

(Note: This episode was recorded during lockdown, so it's technically pretty rough.)

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you about China's hopping vampires. Fortunately, we listened to the very first Saturday School episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool so we knew all the answers. 

Saturday Schools are special, shorter episodes of SSHH that focus in excruciating detail on one particular facet of vampire lore.

It's the very first episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool and Season One is all about VAMPIRES!!!! In this first lesson, we sit down and discuss Vampire Geography. What horrible vampires come from which terrible countries? Geographic information comes courtesy of Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer, the 19th century's worst and yet most popular travel book writer, and all the ridiculous yet true facts about vampires come courtesy of award-winning author, Grady Hendrix. Let's get educated! 

(NOTE: This episode was recorded during lockdown and it's technically very rough, but it has a lot of heart!)

Vampire evolution ground to a standstill in the '80s, then a woman appeared who completely changed everything we thought about vampires. With the power of her pen, she made vampires less about disease, and more about sex. Today, every vampire lives in the shadow of our Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice.

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

Three of the most important vampires of the '70s were Black, and here they are in all their glory. Black vampires have been an important part of the canon all the way back to the beginning, and this is just a part of their stories. Also, a lot of the music in this episode is by the inimitable Sam Waymon. Used with his permission. You can find more of his music here.

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

As the '70s began, motion picture vampires were d-e-a-d dead. How would they survive the disco decade? By moving to the small screen, starring on Broadway, and trying to be funny. In the process, they fulfilled their true destiny and finally became romantic heroes.

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

We're back! Welcome to the House of Hammer! This tiny British film studio resurrected Dracula in 1958 and gave movies the most iconic image of the vampire since Bela Lugosi in 1931! There's also a lots of talk about the menace of dope and the illegal international vampire trafficking business. 

This episode marks the podcast's RETURN after a two-year break. It now has professional technical quality, an entire cast to do the voices, sound effects, and music thanks to its director and producer, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special fame, and its sound engineer, Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

We're going to the movies! Three vampire movies planted the seeds for the 20th century's gallery of glampires and we'll tackle them all in this episode. It's time for some nookie with Nosferatu, drama with Dracula, and cold vampin' with Vampyr. Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, continues his history of vampirism and to make his argument he throws in plain talk about syphilis, sexually insatiable women, hideous war wounds, gas attacks, super-clean underwear, and poetry.

(Note: This episode is the last one recorded during lockdown, so it's the last one to be so technically rough.)