{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/2a4883cf-66ce-43d8-a2fc-752bff1e7d8c/64810bcc-466d-42a7-b070-65d01e3be630?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Kate Hodges – Spooky Books Special","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/611e841d06c05e9aa6f409bc/611e84339f0a93001282fb4b.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Black Shuck! The melting monk! Highgate Vampires! A mystically powerful WH Smiths!&nbsp;&nbsp;To celebrate USBORNE’S WORLD OF THE UNKNOWN: GHOSTS and WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE: OCCULT LONDON, Sarah invited author KATE HODGES (@theekatehodges) to revisit the horror books that traumatised them into the women they are today.&nbsp;&nbsp;Finally, an answer to the eternal question, who’s fitter, Gef the talking mongoose, or a werecrocodile? Plus: Jan Pienowski’s Haunted House, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ('s monster), spontaneous human combustion, Bizarre magazine, The Unexplained partwork magazine, The Day of The Triffids, Climate Change, and Plague panic…</p><p><br></p><p>OCCULT LONDON:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://shop.herblester.com/products/welcome-to-the-dark-side-occult-london\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://shop.herblester.com/products/welcome-to-the-dark-side-occult-london</a></p><p>THE HARE AND HOOFE:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://thehareandhoofe.wordpress.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://thehareandhoofe.wordpress.com/</a></p><p><br></p><p>The&nbsp;Fear&nbsp;is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode, comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three&nbsp;fears&nbsp;- a scary moment from film or tv; a&nbsp;fear&nbsp;from their childhood, and a&nbsp;fear&nbsp;or phobia they live with now. It's spooktacular...</p><p><br></p><p>The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, tell your friends, or rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, not that you will, 'cause you're a bunch of ungrateful goth hipsters who think they're too cool to live. (prove me wrong, kids!)&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This programme is a member of the Great Big Owl Network. (insert spooky owl noise here)</p>","author_name":"Sarah Morgan"}