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Horror Hosts, Films & Other Strange Realities w/ David Metcalfe, Conspirinormal & Recluse

Season 2
Horror hosts, Vaudeville, penny dreadfuls, Maila Nurmi, Vampira, radio dramas, pulp fiction, EG Comics, Tales From the Crypt, early genre anthology shows, Joe Bob Briggs, Mystery Science Theater 3000, USA Network, development of modern horror movie from Gothic fiction to slashers, Psycho, horror in suburbia, horror movies, The Exorcist, People Under the Stairs, Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Last House on the Left, Prince od Darkness, Larry Cohen, God Told Me To, Strange Realities 2023, Strange Realities preview


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