Monster of the Week w/ Emily VanDerWerff
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Vampires, werewolves, and aliens, oh my! We’re joined this week by the incomparable Emily VanDerWerff to talk about her book, the Monster of the Week genre, and the horror genre. We discover Emily’s love for A Christmas Carol, Emily breaks a cardinal vampire rule, and make a LOT of horror recommendations.
This week, Amanda recommends Jane Harper’s mystery thrillers and Well Met by Jen DeLuca.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about diseases, body horror, death & existentialism, misogyny, environmental destruction, isolationist horror, the horror genre, and possession.
Guest
Emily VanDerWerff is a critic at Vox, author of Monster of the Week (with Zach Handlen), host of the TV history podcast Primetime, and co-creator of the comedy-mystery podcast Arden. Find her on Twitter @tvoti.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirit Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.4 | Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.9 | It is 2020, and I'm Amanda. |
| 0:09.5 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:10.4 | And this is episode 161, Monster of the Week with Emily Vanderwerf. |
| 0:14.8 | I, one, can't believe we got to talk to Emily. |
| 0:17.2 | She is a fantastic writer and just a really knowledgeable and overall charismatic and |
| 0:23.3 | wonderful person. And a podcaster. And a podcaster. And two, I can't believe it's 2020. Oh, |
| 0:28.8 | my God. I know. I feel like 2019 being my first year of full self-employment. I know you're |
| 0:35.7 | second, I guess, Julia, or second and a half. |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah, second and a half. Or like first and a half? I don't remember. I don't remember. |
| 0:41.7 | Time is irrelevant. Yeah, for both of us either, our first or second full year. And time just |
| 0:46.7 | passes differently when everything is on your shoulders. And it's good. It's bad. It's terrifying. It's wonderful. And it's, I'm up for |
| 0:55.9 | another year. Yeah. And we wouldn't be able to do the kind of things that we do without our |
| 1:00.7 | wonderful patrons. Truly, the only reason that I am not suffering and crying after work every day |
| 1:06.3 | in a terrible job is because of the support of our patrons. It's true. Yeah, it is. So welcome, Anna, |
| 1:12.3 | Diamond, Leanne, and I'm with. What a great name. Just fill in the blank. So good. Thank you. |
| 1:18.0 | Who are you with right now, Julia? I'm with our supporting producer level patrons. Oh, so good. Philip, |
| 1:23.0 | Megan, Deborah, Molly, Skyla, Samantha, Sammy, Neil, Jessica, and Phil Fresh. |
| 1:28.0 | Who join our legend-level patrons. These are the folks that get a physical gift from us in the mail every dang month. |
| 1:34.4 | Josie, Kylie, Charlotte, Kylo the Husky, Morgan, Emily, B.M.E.F. Scotty, Audra, Chris, Mark, Mr. Folk, Sarah, and Jack Marie. |
| 1:41.5 | What wonderful folks. What good starts to the years listing off those |
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