Ep 382 - Penpal, by Dathan Auerbach

Overdue

Headgum

Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Come on into our spooky kitchen and let us cook you up a big steaming bowlful of creepypasta! This week's book began life as a series of Reddit posts that were later Kickstarted into a book self-published on Amazon, which is maybe the most early-2010s sentence that has ever been written. Join us for a lesson in creepy story etymology, and also a lesson in Skinhorse, the inside-out horse.

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0:00.0	This is a head gum podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Hey!
0:42.0	When I'm recording podcasts now, we do the sync clap to get our audio tracks synced
0:48.2	up.
0:49.2	But to do that clap, I lean back in my office chair.
0:53.3	And then the first thing I do after I clap after the podcast audio is officially started
0:57.3	as I lean forward in my podcast chair which creaks a lot.
1:01.8	Which is pretty spooky I think.
1:03.3	It's all because it only started creaking recently.
1:06.1	The story of Andrew's haunted chair.
1:09.1	Welcome to Are You Afraid of the Dark.
1:11.0	I'm Andrew.
1:12.0	This is the tale of the haunted chair.
1:14.1	Welcome to the Midnight Society.
1:16.9	Also overdue a podcast about the books.
1:18.6	You wouldn't mean to read my name is Craig.
1:20.2	My name is Andrew.
1:22.0	And we are going to talk about Penpal by Nathan our Bach which is our third book in
1:27.9	Spooktober.
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