This week Kelly and Katai read KRAZY 4 U by A. Bates. They talk premonitions, the unacceptable lack of sexy stepbrother shenanigans, '90s health foods, sleeping in separate bathrooms, a character suddenly coming out as psychic, and becoming best friends with your stalker. It's important to note that this was recorded two weeks before the election. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitte...
Nov 04, 2020•52 min•Ep. 223
Firstly, VOTE VOTE VOTE. Okay, now to the show. This week Kelly and Katai read THE WAITRESS by Sinclair Smith, joined by very special guest Scott Frazier ( LA Podcast ). They talk more fun murder pranks, boyfriend gaslighting (both of and by), urban legends, Blockbuster Video (RIP), red herrings that weren’t and should have been, divorce by text, and talk about the lead-up to a very special announcement from their frenemy The Moon. PROGRESSIVE VOTER GUIDES! These guides are specific to Los Angel...
Oct 28, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 222
This week Kelly and Katai read SWEET SIXTEEN by Francesca Jeffries. They talk birthdays (duh), May-December chat rooms, quality communication skills in teenage relationships, how only GIANT LOSERS watch daytime talk shows, their own dorky teen years, and how the worst thing you can be as a teenager is yourself. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.insta...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 221
This week Kelly and Katai read CALL WAITING by R.L. Stine. They discuss yet more fakeout cliffhangers, picking up extra shifts at the Sizzler, the dangers of making your main character an emotionally abusive girlfriend, and are absolutely furious to discover that prankster R.L. Stine is at it again with the breakfast foods. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod http...
Oct 14, 2020•56 min•Ep. 220
VOTE! Verify that you're registered and make a plan to vote on or before November 3rd 2020. Find voting resources here: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/vote This week Kelly and Katai read THE BODY by Carol Ellis. They talk Portrait of a Lady style shipping, speaking one language and that language being the prose of Jane Eyre, relating with people's physical disabilities because you're new in town, and daddy dom Victorian hikers. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, a...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 219
VOTE! Verify that you're registered and make a plan to vote on or before November 3rd 2020. Find voting resources here: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/vote This week Kelly and Katai read THE CRUEL PRINCE by Holly Black, about a human girl navigating her way through a ruthless kingdom of faeries. They discuss the classic hot evil boy boning out for the protagonist trope, nuanced faerie murder dads, being turned against your own culture, fantasy food, and the continuing evolution of their stance o...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 218
This week Kelly and Katai are joined by friend of the pod Nick Wiger ( Doughboys, How Did This Get Played, Earth to Ned ) to discuss BROG THE STOOP by Joe Boyle. They talk impenetrable fantasy vocabulary, super hot mantis elves, their favorite character Planimal, and Wiger helps Kelly and Katai reverse their previous stance on genocide (they are now against it). Rock 'N Flowers: https://youtu.be/EDtBQjmbdHM SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www....
Sep 23, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 217
This week Kelly and Katai read CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE by Tomi Adeyemi. They discuss magic kingdoms, going for the kill shot, who they do and do not ship, getting whiplash from character flip-flops, and give some constructive criticism on how to be an evil despot. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.instagram.com/teencreepspod https://www.facebook.c...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 216
This week Kelly and Katai read OF TWO MINDS by Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman. They discuss purple people vs yellow people, what kind of sick fucked up mind could imagine puppies in different colors, the morality of sending people into the gray, how very smelly trolls are, and generally agree that this book is for babies. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https:...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 215
It's Fantasy month here at Teen Creeps and Kelly and Katai are kicking it off with Susan Price's ELFGIFT. They talk Anglo-Saxon names, non-formulaic plotting, battle-women, how the 9th century sucked for absolutely everyone, and a face so beautiful it's like you've been slapped, but somehow neglect to talk about what a weird name Elfgift is. CW: mention of rape. Is this necessary? There's no description of it. I dunno. Kinda losing track of the line between what needs a cw and what doesn't. ELFG...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 214
This week Kelly and Katai get screamed at by Sinclair Smith's THE BOY NEXT DOOR. They talk attic boys, healthy sodas, ALL CAPS, pranks as a gateway drug, breaking someone's leg to keep them from getting murdered, and too many fake-outs. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.instagram.com/teencreepspod https://www.facebook.com/teencreepspod BUY TEEN CREEP...
Aug 26, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 213
This week Kelly and Katai find themselves along for the ride on another quality anti-bullying entry in the Point Horror label, THE TRAIN by Diane Hoh. They talk train phobias, taking notes and doing actual pre-show research for once, fancy dress high school parties, the classic "I'm in high school drama and can therefore do extremely realistic corpse makeup," and feeling actual empathy and sadness for a boy named Frog. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: ...
Aug 19, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 212
This week Kelly and Katai read NIGHT SCHOOL by Caroline B. Cooney. They talk well-drawn characters, books with a capital 'M' Message, spatially confusing action, and selling your soul to disembodied teachers tryna tell everyone who your crush is. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.instagram.com/teencreepspod https://www.facebook.com/teencreepspod BUY ...
Aug 12, 2020•49 min•Ep. 211
This week Kelly and Katai read THE MUMMY by Barbara Steiner. They talk staging an intervention for your friend who wants to fuck a mummy, whether or not it's cultural appropriation if you're the literal reincarnation of an Egyptian princess, another busybee villain, and plump bitch coworkers. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.instagram.com/teencreeps...
Aug 05, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 210
This week Kelly and Katai read SILENT STALKER by Richie Tankersley Cusick. They discuss people saying things at each other, bad journalism dads, unforgivable jester antics, twins on twins on twins, running running running, and one of the worst WHAT? endings we've had yet. Listen! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.instagram.com/teencreepspod https://w...
Jul 29, 2020•55 min•Ep. 209
This week Kelly and Katai read DEMON by Samantha Lee. (First off, do not read this book. It is Problematic with a capital P and its culture crimes outweigh its strengths.) They discuss why British authors need an American editor, nebulous Indigenous "magic" as a plot device, authorial fat shaming, why this book should have taken place in the 1950s, and of course, the name MIGUEL COYOTE. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreep...
Jul 22, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 208
This week Kelly and Katai read Helen Oyeyemi's WHITE IS FOR WITCHING, a British Gothic ghost story in the vein of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. They talk more boy-girl twin weirdness, poetic language, continually fail to pronounce soucouyant correctly, possessive houses, and talk about kids who call their mother by their first name: why? SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://...
Jul 15, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 207
This week Kelly and Katai read THE DEAD GAME by A. Bates. It's the thrilling (not thrilling) story of three friends who decide to make a Kill List (Prank List) to give payback to the fakers (people they don't like) in their school. They discuss unreliable narrators, the difficulty in adapting a mafia-type game to play pranks, whether or not charcoal drawings are enough to convict someone of shoplifting, and give kudos to A. Bates for making an Asian character the Final Girl. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEE...
Jul 08, 2020•58 min•Ep. 206
PARTY SUMMER! This week Kelly and Katai read R.L. Stine's Fear Street Super Chiller: PARTY SUMMER! And it's about as much of a party as 2020 is. They talk nonsensical character descriptions, PARTY SUMMER, yet another weird implied incestual relationship, PARTY SUMMER, the depressing lack of Fear lore, and PARTY SUMMER. Listen! Because it's gonna be PARTY SUMMER! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS:...
Jul 01, 2020•49 min•Ep. 205
It was a night to never forget to remember, Teen Creeps "Safer At Home" Prom 2020! Experience Kelly and Katai's original masterpiece, PROM DANCE, recorded live via Twitch, with Oscar-worthy performances from TC favorites Patrick Ehlers, Ryan Mogge, Oscar Montoya, and Omar Najam. Drawing from our now embarrassingly extensive expertise on the genre, we crafted an original tale of horror and boredom. It's got everything you could want in a teen creeps story: unforgivably problematic red herrings, b...
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 204
Kelly and Katai read the very strange SISTER DEAREST by D.E. Athkins. It's full of action packed things like implied incest, T-Bird antics, implied incest, papier-mache shoes, implied incest, crazy dreams, implied incest, inconsistent character behavior, implied incest, and also implied incest. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.instagram.com/teencree...
Jun 17, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 203
Kelly and Katai return to Christopher Pike with THE HOLLOW SKULL and looooooove it. It's got everything: small dead-end town, badass main character, creepy alien stuff, evil teens, existential explorations of what it means to be human, bitter ex-lovers, world-gobbling death gods, nano bugs, and also goo! Oh my goo! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.i...
Jun 10, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 202
Hi, everyone! First of all ... #BLACKLIVESMATTER #DEFUNDTHEPOLICE To make a donation that will split evenly among 60+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers, go here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd And we'd like to highlight the fund for Breonna Taylor's family, as no police officers have yet been held accountable. https://gf.me/u/x6ngqj #JusticeForBre If you're not a black POC and want to learn how to be a better ally, educate yourself. ...
Jun 03, 2020•2 hr 45 min•Ep. 201
Happy 200th episode, everyone! For this momentous occasion Kelly and Katai welcome Film Correspondent Oscar Montoya ( Spanish Aquí Presents , Bless the Harts ) to talk about not just one Carrie movie, but two: the seminal 1976 Brian De Palma Carrie adaptation and the not-so-seminal 2013 Kimberly Peirce Carrie remake. They discuss the glorious thought-she-was-in-a-comedy performance of Piper Laurie, confusing remake vs. book decisions, why hot Carrie was maybe not the way to go, and why everyone ...
May 27, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 200
Kelly and Katai welcome the expertise of Sweet Valley High Correspondent Ryan Mogge ( Welcome Back to Roswell ) to discuss Francine Pascal's SWEET VALLEY HIGH: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER a.k.a. motherfucking JUNGLE PROM! Yes, what ends in SWEET VALLEY HIGH #100: THE EVIL TWIN begins here with a rockin' beach party, some VERY cavalier attitudes about rape, twin vs. twin and cow vs. whore, Todd Wilkins as the Michael Jordan of Sweet Valley, and Elizabeth's absolute FAVORITE MEAL. What is that meal, you a...
May 20, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 199
Kelly and Katai welcome back LoDunc Correspondent Patrick Ehlers ( Transformers , TMNT , Nintendo Cartridge Society ) to discuss Lois Duncan's very first novel DEBUTANTE HILL. They talk good old fashioned fun, the Wonder Twins, going full Dodie, Magic: The Gathering, and the differences between being pör and riche. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.i...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 198
This week Kelly and Katai read L.J. Smith's Night World Book 6: SOULMATE and talk bumbling therapists, cringeworthy fan service, and how teens are babies and nobody wants them to be vampires. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.instagram.com/teencreepspod https://www.facebook.com/teencreepspod BUY TEEN CREEPS MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/tee...
May 06, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 197
SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.instagram.com/teencreepspod https://www.facebook.com/teencreepspod BUY TEEN CREEPS MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/teen-creeps TEEN CREEPS IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/teen-creeps *All creepy opinions expressed are those of the hosts and guests. Help us out by taking an ads...
Apr 29, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 196
This week Kelly and Katai read Grady Hendrix's THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB'S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES and they looooooooooved it. It's got everything you could want in a book: evil vampire drifters, earlobe chomping, gag-inducing insect trauma, and some truly infuriating gaslighting. Content Warning: brief mentions of rape and suicide SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepsp...
Apr 22, 2020•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 195
Kelly & Katai read Barbara Steiner's PHANTOM and discuss the logistics of staging a ghost, woefully inconsistent characters, nostalgia for teen experiences we never had ( mostly for boats?), and ask the very important question "why is that guy SO WET??" SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.instagram.com/teencreepspod https://www.facebook.com/teencre...
Apr 15, 2020•54 min•Ep. 194
