Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

It's time for a freaky, free-for-all Friday.

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, I'm your host, Cathering Inc. as a Apologist,

Trent Horn.

On Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk of apologetics and theology, how to explain and defend the

Catholic faith.

But on Friday, we talk about whatever I want to talk about.

And today I want to talk about two book series that scared me as a kid.

At least they raised the hairs on the back of my neck, but they introduced me to the

horror genre, to the psychological thriller genre, to the creepy and the weird.

And I like that.

I think it was really cool.

And it was, you know, when you're a kid and you start getting into reading, I mean,

it's amazing to unlock the world of reading when you're actually able to open a book and

read the words and enter into the story.

It's just something else.

I'm sure you remember just the first books that you devoured as a kid.

I feel bad, especially if they're kids who are not reading now who are just addicted to

electronic devices or things like that.

Nothing can really replace reading a really good book.

And people are attracted to different genres, of course.

But these genres, kind of these scarier books, I really devoured them as a kid because they

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