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Teen Creeps

Emily Ruth Verona's Midnight on Beacon Street

Teen Creeps

Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai

Arts, Club, Book, Comedy, Books, Social

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week Kelly and Katai read MIDNIGHT ON BEACON STREET by Emily Ruth Verona, a clever take on the Teen Creeps slasher genre that had them cheering. They talk loving the book, hating Gabby of Goodreads, beautiful inner turmoil, a textbook example of surprising but inevitable, what they’ve been watching/playing, and more!

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0:00.0

One night, one house, one dead body.

0:05.6

This week on the podcast, Emily Ruth Verona's Midnight on Beacon Street.

0:18.9

Hello and welcome to Teen, Creeps, the podcast that discusses by Fiction.

0:27.5

I'm one of your host, Lindsay K. Tai.

0:31.2

I'm another one of your host, Kelly Nugent.

0:33.8

Is some of the vigorous toddler play in the background coming through?

0:41.2

That's funny.

0:44.7

Yeah, we covered Midnight on Beacon Street.

0:50.0

I thought I'd read this book before because the cover looks exactly like a cover that I think I had as a kid or something.

0:58.4

I don't know why.

0:59.1

It looks exactly, like it looks familiar to me.

1:02.3

It's very like exorcist-ish.

1:06.3

It does look exorcist-ish.

1:08.6

And what else does that remind me of?

1:13.2

It's very, I mean, that's the like, you know, horror placement and Stephen Kingie font.

1:23.6

Yeah.

1:25.1

I just remembered having, you know, it might just be a Berenstein Bears, Berenstain

1:29.4

Bears thing.

1:30.5

Yeah, maybe.

1:31.6

Mandela effect.

1:32.3

But it is, I mean, it's for sure trying to evoke that and it's set in 1993.

1:40.7

I was really curious as to whether the author, Emily Ruth Verona, is like my age and truly grew up in 1993 because like, or maybe this was a, maybe this is like a region specific thing, but she kept saying tapes.

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