Explore every episode of the podcast The Problem: A Lockwood and Co Podcast

Caitlin and Alan have a gaming podcast named “Inferior Gaming.” If you like listening to us talk about stories, maybe try out us talking about role playing games. We aren’t good at games, or even that good at talking about them, but we have original ideas and a lot of fun.

Inferior Gaming!

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan debate if Christmas is Heaven or Hell, what counts as Micro Fiction, and wrap up the whole podcast! Maybe. We know nothing about English food at Christmas time, but that won’t stop us from talking about it. We sneak in a lot of Scarlette and Browne thoughts. We find The Apple Tree to be a very sad story- but so well done. Thank you to everyone who has listened to the podcast and followed us all the way to this ending!

A Portland Row Christmas

The Apple Tree

These stories might fall into the Flash Fiction category

The Wheel of Time pilot with Billy Zane

Sardines is a version of Hide and Seek

Mince Pie is an English thing

Coffee Shop AU trope is a fan fiction thing

Seriously go listen to Haunting the Narrative because it is do good

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan hang out in the kitchen and read the newspaper! We did it. We finished the last book of the series. What did it all mean? Is it about adulthood, economics, friendship- or about cowardice? We reveal our favorite characters and our favorite cases from the series. Come sit at the Thinking Cloth and wrap things up with us!

Neoliberalism is dystopian economics thing

The Truth and Reconciliation process in the history of world governments is not a very successful record

Anarchy is a Political Science thing, not a Chaos thing

King Charles made a land acknowledgement in Canada

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan send Penelope Fittes off in a Lockwood and Co style! By burning her house down. We talk about skeleton’s in the closet, Skull getting out of his jar, and Battle-Damage Lockwood. In a change of pace for us- we talk about LockLyle as a ship. And living life to the fullest!

Wild Seed by Octavia Butler

Haunting the Narrative is the other Lockwood and Co podcast

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan get some corrections out in the open. Then we get back to talking about Quill Kipps! We can’t help ourselves. Later there are explosions- but fewer than Caitlin would like! And Lucy confronts Penelope alone. Listener vs Listener

Disney Hyperion imprint was sold to Hachette after Lockwood and Co was published and is currently owned by Hachette as of this podcast publication

Wade’s death scene in Saving Private Ryan is harrowing

Araboth in Jewish cosmology is the 7th Heaven. The highest Heaven with the throne of God.

Georges Bataille was a French philosopher

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan take a stroll through Dark London. Come stare at a portal with us as we learn the sinister truth of Penelope’s plan! Fences. We meet a limping ghost in a wide-brimmed hat, some living people harvesting plasm, and Ezekiel! Make sure to stick around for us complaining about Kipps- but not in the way you might think.

An Ankou is a ghost thing

The Backrooms are an internet horror thing

Gundam Wing is an anime thing

The Scarlett and Browne series is great and you should read it

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan address some corrections about necklaces. But then! We deal with home invaders on two fronts! Did George’s improvised spears help anything? Should the team have guessed Rupert Gale would show up? How could Lucy lose Skull AGAIN?!

Haunting the Narrative is a great Lockwood and Co podcast you should be listening to

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan finish fortifying Portland Row and watch Lucy and Lockwood take a break under the garden apple tree. We dig into Skull’s backstory and wonder if he could “move on” from his captivity. Is Rupert Gale the same man that Marissa knew when she was young, or his descendant? How did wax, wood, and pouches contain the Sources of the ghosts that Lockwood’s parents stored away?

Home Alone is a classic children’s film

Peter and Wendy is the novel of the Peter Pan story

Spike is an evil vampire boyfriend thing

A Bolthole is an escape thing

Castration is a psychological thing

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan witness the breaking and entering of The Orpheus Society. Is it OK to mock someone’s laugh? We lament the loss of “A Cartography of Dark London”. We imagine Ruby Stokes firing a proton pack at a room full of elderly industrialists. Come “Batman” on the rooftops of London with us as we read about a gang of teens stealing a book from a library!

The Count of Monty Cristo is a revenge thing

Fly on the Wall is a film theory term

Orpheus is a Greek myth thing

Freddy Krueger is Horror Movie character

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan attend a meeting of small ghost-hunting agencies. We dwell on the details for way too long- like normal. We get terrible news about George. And Lockwood forms a plan while Lucy gives in to her rage.

Zordon is a Power Ranger thing

Yoga does not keep you alive forever

The Body is stunning episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan visit Inspector Barnes house, and get schooled in English poetry. Lucy dishes about Lockwood to her bestie- Skull. Barnes warns the agency to follow the rules or end up like Bunchurch. George presents his evidence for how The Problem started to the rest of the company.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci is an English ballad by John Keats

Death Note is a Horror Manga/ Anime thing

Ectoplasm is a science thing about a supernatural thing

Neoliberalism is an Economic Theory thing

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan try our skills on the trapeze- and mostly successfully land! La Belle Dame is finally trapped while we talk horror tropes, how emotionally well-balanced characters are boring, and if this ghost matters to the plot of the book.

Mechanical Fortune Tellers are more than a century old genre of coin-op game

The House on the Rock is a tourist thing

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan go to the graveyard. We found the titular Empty Grave! Take a burning car ride towards inevitable death and then grab a cup of ectoplasm. Lockwood shares the resting place of his family, Skull shares the meaning of the afterlife, and we discuss George’s autism.

Ectoplasm is a paranormal thing

Desire might be a psychoanalytic thing

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan talk about the French language and political problems in dystopias. Fictional dystopias… mostly. Lockwood and Co get a new client and we learn about the new normal at 35 Portland Row. We try to figure out how Skull can talk in the sunlight, and why Mr Tufnell feels so slimy.

Smucker’s is an American company of various fruit preserves

Chicken Run is an animated classic

Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan kick off the final book of Lockwood and Co “The Empty Grave” by Jonathan Stroud! We talk about traps in monuments, the fate of the royal family during the problem, and how great it is to read a finale WITHOUT interpersonal drama among the heroes.

Kate Adams is the artist for the chapter pictures in the Lockwood and Co series.

The Great Train Robbery was a notorious event in UK history during the 60s that was chronicled in a book and adapted into movie and TV.

Lying in state is an English thing

Madame Tussauds is a real-life creepy thing

The mannequin scene from 2016 Ghostbusters

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan put on their Ghost CSI Monster INC suits and finish The Creeping Shadow! We wish Carlyle and Skull would happen, but we are grateful Lockwood and Co is back. We debate who the unexpected visitor is, ponder how old the protagonists of another Jonathan Stroud series are, and have a flashback to the Lockwood and Co TV show.

The trope of shining glasses usually indicates a lack of humanity

Yin and Yang are not really anything like Lucy and Skull but this doesn’t slow Alan down

If you haven’t read The Scarlett and Browne books by Jonathan Stroud then you should

Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss meme might have always been about Penelope Fittes

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan finish Part Five: The Iron Chain of The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud. We talk about horror movies, the big Locklye moment in the spirit cape, and the reasons we didn’t become mad scientists. Throw some bombs randomly and join us in burning the place down.

A Whole New World is a Disney musical thing

Escarpment is a word beyond the ken of North Americans

The Cube is a horror film series thing

IT was a miniseries adaptation of Steven King’s novel

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan pull off a heist. OK maybe we don’t exactly pull it off. And by heist we mean- do a podcast about a book. But we do manage to discuss how Kipps has been sworn into all the secrets, Lucy wants ghost experiments to stop, and Lockwood can’t be stopped. Confessions are made, spirit cloaks are worn, and portals are entered.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a video game thing

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan put on some goggles to see ghosts, then smash a matchstick ship model, and meet with a captain of industry. There is a lot of energy flying around… and it is compensating for- something. We get deep about possible time travel, but make time for ghost lore.

The Sink Spirit scene from Spirited Away

ED-209 from Robocop

Turning left in Hell is a thing in Dante’s Inferno

In the northern hemisphere sundials make a shadow that runs clockwise

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan take a trip to the country in Part 4 of The Creeping Shadow. We lean against the table in a leaderish way to explain why Penelope’s offer is insulting. Kipps joins the crew while everyone takes a trip to the countryside.

Orpheus is a Greek myth thing

The Judgement Day conversation from Ghostbusters

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan descend into the London Underground and find Skull! Instead we find out just how useful those Spirit Capes are. We debate the meaning of pudding, the proper use of “tube,” and if a woman’s bathroom has less dignity than other rooms.

Ask for pudding in any country and who knows what you will get!

A Final Fantasy Moogle is not the same as the Mughal Dynasty.

London Underground is not just a public transit thing

The fur coat scene in Ghostbusters 2

Noble Savages are a backhandedly racist thing

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan find Portland Row has changed. Lucy’s room has George’s clothes everywhere, Lockwood wants Lucy to explore Jessica’s forbidden room, and the first Type Two we met is now named Abigail Ward. Errr actually no. No she is not. We also learn that being 40 is ancient and obviously it is good that Lockwood is opening up to Holly. Obviously.

Dis is a thing from the 1980s and 90s

Battenberg Cake is an English cakey thing

Shamanism is a blanket term for religious practices n “primitive” societies

The video of grandma who “yearns for the urn”

New Guinea is an Oceania thing

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan talk about mystery stories as Carlyle and Skull get very hardboiled. Grab a jacket potato and join the hunt for Skull’s kidnappers. We case the meeting place and get into a foot chase- well Lucy did because we don’t have the energy for all that. At least we get to return to 35 Portland Row.

Sir David Suchet CBE is famous for playing the role of Poirot for television adaptations of Agatha Christie’s novels.

In Episode 116 Amanda (Sister) tells the story of losing her car in a parking lot.

Will Parry (His Dark Materials) is hard to notice when he wants to be incognito.

Baked potato vs jacket potato

St James Church in Clerkenwell is a thing

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan try to figure out why Penelope sent Quill Kipps on this case, why Lucy needs to be here, and if the Ealing Cannibal only had one victim. Take a tour of the house with us as we try to find the Source. Please not all the unique amenities like grease stained walls, human stew on the gas stove, and the human pool in the basement.

Ealing is only hard to pronounce for English speakers outside the UK.

In “A Wizard of Earthsea” the main character must reckon with his dark side.

Rage Rooms are a thing

The Head Crusher was a recurring character on the sketch comedy show Kids in the Hall

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan have an important meeting with top officials. And by that we mean Flo Bones- but Barnes and Fittes made an appearance. We answer the age-old question- Is Connecticut more relatable than England? And we talk about Lockwood and Co sometimes.

In England Capital Punishment ended in the 1960s, but in France it continued into the 1970s.

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan finish Part One of The Creeping Shadow. We try to figure out how Harold runs his illicit operation. We discuss the metaphysics and ethics of burning Sources. But mostly we stand at the door- stunned and scratching our butts- when Anthony Lockwood comes calling.

The Maltese Falcon is a hardboiled detective thing

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan look in a mirror to start reading The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud. We debate the nature of time, the mummification of severed heads (hey it’s an honest living!), and how infuriating the concept of demerits is. Lucy and Skull are in business for themselves, but life is hard without Lockwood and Co.

Peanuts evolved on the South American continent and were cultivated there for thousands of years before European contact.

Jonathan Stroud talked about the enmeshment of Lucy and Skull on The Writing Community Chat Show.

Matador is a noun and not a verb

Mummified heads as spiritual talismans is a diverse practice including Christian saints, Egyptian nobles, and South American warriors.

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan meet the Hollow Boy and finish the third Lockwood and Co book! Light a candle, get a concussion, and worry if your crush is dead. Actually don’t worry. Come off it. You know they would die for you. Warning that at the end of the podcast, one of the hosts quits the show! (not really)

The Sorceror’s Stone vs Philosopher’s Stone

Tom is the OG Rotwell and Steve Rotwell is the contemporary leader of his agency

Rachele Raka is the artist adapting Lockwood and Co into graphic novels. Her fanart of the sewer conversation.

Rucksack vs Backpack

Tobacconist is a specialty shop thing in England

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan finish Part Five: Dark Hearts of The Hollow Boy. Grab and egg whisk and watch out for elevator shafts, because it’s finally time for Holly and Lucy to fight! Who is the most patronizing? What is the best kitchenware for murder?

Fetch is a folklore thing

Compliment vs Complement

Jungian Shadows are a mental thing

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan weigh in on the greatest debate in history: Should the English name chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chip biscuits? Also George reveals the true center of the Chelsea Outbreak. Come sit in the plague pit garden with us, as we ponder if a Fetch walks on all fours.

Harrod’s is a shopping thing in London

Neoliberalism is political philosophy thing

Plague Pits are an historical London thing

Jonathan Stroud interview on YouTube

Father Ted joke about cows

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan race across the rooftops to finish Part Four: Unrest. We debate about what swords should be made of, what Polaroids look like, and slander the quality of Bunchurch and Co. It is time to snoop in Lockwood’s secret room! Are you a snooper? Come listen to what we find.

Rorschach tests are a thing

The Watchmen are a thing

Polaroids are a thing

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan stay laser focused on the topic of these three chapters. We don’t talk about hockey. We don’t mention the origins of sweet tea. We never talk about bodisattvas either. Just this incredibly painful section of The Hollow Boy. We don’t avoid the hard stuff!

Hockey Romance is a thing

Tesssa Virtue and Scott Moir are the longest running skating team ever, and highly decorated

Bodhisattvas are a Buddhism thing

Sherlock Holmes often says, ""When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

99 Flake is an ice cream thing

Meghan Duggan and Gillian Apps were married in 2018

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan deal with the stress of unspoken tension as Lockwood and Co close the case of The Bloody Footprints. Drop your rapier and let your defenses down as we plunge you into the angst.

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan race up the spiral staircase, but one of us must plunge to the basement! Or… we talk about about a couple more chapters of the book. No one needs to die. Our reading comprehension is questionable, but we know we don’t like Mrs Wintergarden.

In our world, children in the UK cannot be younger than 13, if they are hired for a job.

Bloody is a (slightly) vulgar thing

Bethlem Royal Hospital is an ancient thing

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan get a cuppa at the DEPRAC Tea Van and read into Part 3 of “The Hollow Boy” by Jonathan Stroud. Lockwood gets caught cheating, Lucy is on a different page than literally everyone, and George is tired of hearing about Lucy’s hips.

Cosplay cafes and specifically Maid Cafes are a thing in Japan

Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan dip into the second part of The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud. Bagsy on looking at Lockwood’s legs. Dibs on not doing the laundry! Its time to go on a date. Maybe? Do you want to change first? Its not a date!

Dibs vs Bagsy

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan begin “The Hollow Boy” by Jonathan Stroud. We talk about our life-goals of being 80 year old serial killers, the inferiority of Old People, and the color of coffins. Come and Steal The Source with us as we witness Lockwood and Co’s finest moment- involving a water bottle.

SAD is a real condition of depression and can be medically treated

Tea chests are a thing

Lockwood vs Water Bottle by Lav

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan finish The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud. Lucy whips Bickerstaff, George comes back to life, and Lockwood opens up. Oh and Kipps survived. Apologies for Alan getting over a head cold in this episode.

The Xander Harmony Fight from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Check vs Cheque

English flapjacks are like American granola bars- kinda

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan begin the end of The Whispering Skull when Lockwood and Lucy realize that George is not coming home. We go to the graveyard to find him, but the Kipps team is waiting there. Its time to gaze into the boneglass and find out all the answers!

How to say Fungi??

Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 6 is a thing

Have Fun Storming the Castle is a movie thing

Jonathan Stroud talking about touring Kensal Greene Catacombs when he was younger

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan finished the Big Night Out by discussing masks, explosions, and the rules about adults seeing ghosts. Come jump into the water with us- because we have a plan! What could go wrong?

Balaclavas are a hat thing

Rupert Gale is the character who spoke to Penelope, and attended the Winkman Auction. However he was never in the Black Library.

Graveyards are a type of Cemetery

Through the Looking Glass is a Lewis Carrol thing

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan go to the Fittes Ball and break into a library. The first half of the Big Night Out in The Whispering Skull is the discovery that Quill Kipps has been invited to this party- so it can’t be all that great! And he follows us home. But for a 50 the driver would…. crash into him??

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan get locked in a dark room full of ghost rats. What could go wrong? Quill Kipps showing up is what could go wrong. It’s chapters 18 and 19 of The Whispering Skull! Grab your night lantern, or at least tell us what a night lantern is- and follow Skull’s instructions. But watch your back!

Muraphobia is a thing

All seasons in Canada are getting warmer

Is Kat Godwin carrying a Sky Lantern???

ClusterCon panel with Jonathan Stroud talking about the cut Kipps scene in The Screaming Staircase

The One Ring is a Tolkien thing

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan read chapters 15-17 of The Whispering Skull. The Race of Dead Men are talking and we are listening. Jack Carver asks for some juice with his bogeys and we are not happy about it. Skull gets stuck in his bedroom- aka the stove. And we talk about real estate prices!

Orange Julius is a thing in North America

Were Mughal Daggers just called daggers in the Mughal Empire?

Ghosts are a literary and religious thing

Pay Phones were a thing in the past

Duloc Is A Perfect Place

Canadian Real Estate bubbles are a very real thing

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan read chapters 12-14 of “The Whispering Skull.” Lucy “helps” Flo Bones with a cold maiden, Lockwood wears Bermuda shorts, and George talks back. Meanwhile we worry about dogs that are reincarnated British queens, and the meaning of the word “jumper.”

Tidal Rivers are a thing

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is not a historical document

Sherlock Holmes loved to dress up too

A Palimpsest is an ancient document thing

Death Drive is a Subconscious thing

Haunted Doll Watch is a McElroy Brothers thing

Tolkien Dwarves are a Middle Earth thing

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan read chapters 9-11 of The Whispering Skull. No sleep for heroes when you get called into Scotland Yard to work with your rivals. The world is a dangerous place full of ghostly artifacts, skinheads, and dungeons and dragons. But don’t worry because Flo Bones is here to help. Or is she?

Caitlin and Alan take a trip to the graveyard in chapters 6-8. We get sensitive about the Sensitives, give advice on how to get rid of a dead body, and debate if it is monstrous to add sugar to hot cocoa.

Edmund Pevensie is a Narnia thing

Kensal Green Cemetery is a dead people thing

Denialism is NOT a thing and if you think it is then you are wrong

The “Not Like Other Girls Trope” is backhandedly condescending to all women, and therefore anti-feminist

Funeral Chapels and Chapels of Rest are typical places involved in burial for Christians.

Beelzebub is a fly thing

Magic Mirrors are an ancient folklore thing

The Mummy is a favorite of ours

Memento Mori is a Latin thing

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan read chapters 3-5 of “The Whispering Skull” which starts Part Two: The Unexpected Grave. We dig into the dark side, eat some Swiss Roll, and meet a new client!

Swiss Roll is a thing

Victor Frankenstein is a fictional grave-robbing thing

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan begin “The Whispering Skull” with Part One The Wimbledon Wraiths by Jonathan Stroud. Our favorite ghost-hunters dig themselves into a hole, literally, and make a terrible bet. We talk about finding dead bodies all over London, Lucy hating on women (again), and the Anti-Lockwood Team.

Wimbledon Tennis Tournament is held in England

Velcro is a thing

Richard III was “parked” underground for a long time before 2012

A foil is a literary thing.
ClusterCon interview with Jonathon Stroud

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan read “The Dagger in the Desk” by Jonathan Stroud. This short story first appeared as a choose-your-own-adventure style article in The Guardian. We debate what kind of ghost is causing the haunting, and feel guilty about laughing at all the George jokes.

The Dagger in the Desk is free to read or free to listen to.

Fighting Fantasy is a game book series published during the 1980s

Choose Your Own Adventure was a book thing

Lone Wolf was a game book thing

Encyclopedia Brown is a children’s book series thing

Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters is the “secret” base of Marvel’s X-Men.

St Simeon was an ancient saint

Fatphobia is a social stigma thing

Isaac Asimov had some sideburns

Trench knives were notorious weapons from WWI and WWII

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan read Part Five of “The Screaming Staircase.” Inspector Barnes arrives with the DEPRAC cavalry to hand out adrenaline like candy and cover up the crimes of the rich. Lockwood gets his name in the papers, George gets celebratory doughnuts, and Lucy has a conversation with Skull!

Adrenaline is useful for suppressing strong allergic reactions or stimulating a failing circulatory system- but not so much for giving an energy boost to a teenager.

Esquire has meant a lot of things over time

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is a movie thing

Ginger ale vs ginger beer

The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne is Jonathan Stroud’s ongoing series as the time of recording.

The Dagger in the Desk is free to read (or listen to) in The Guardian.

Follow Caitlin on Twitter @inferiorcaitlin

Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast

Our theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.

If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.