It’s that time of year once again, a time for horror books, comics, movies, and more during Horror Week 2025! With each spooky season, we love to embrace the horror genre here at the Capes and Tights Podcast and have wonderful conversations with some of the voices in the genre. This year, we have four new episodes dropping this coming week.
This year’s guests include voices from horror instagram, horror fiction, horror non-fiction, horror films, and more. In addition, each person this week is a first time guest of the podcast. So be sure to subscribe to your favorite podcasting platform or our YouTube channel as to not miss out on all of these great horror conversations!
Tuesday, October 28: Tanya Pell – Author
Tanya Pell is a former high school teacher and aerial arts instructor who is the author of Killer VHS: Cicada as well as the upcoming Her Wicked Roots. Her stories have been featured in Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror, Twisted Tales to Tell in the Night: A Halloween Horror Anthology, Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology, and more!
Wednesday, October 29: Anna Dupre & Matt Morris – Bookstagrammers
Celebrating our milestone episode 250, we are joined by Anna Dupre and Matt Morris. Dupre is a contributing writer at Capes and Tights as well as a popular voice in the horror genre on Instagram and YouTube known as Anna Rose Reads. Morris is another popular voice on Instagram as well as hosts a number of horror book clubs, he is known online as Matts Books and Drams.
Thursday, October 30: Becky Siegel Spratford – Author, Editor & Librarian
Becky Siegel Spratford, MLIS, is a librarian specializing in serving patrons ages thirteen and up. She trains library staff all over the world on how to match books with readers through the local public library. She writes reviews for Booklist and a horror review column for Library Journal. Known for her work with horror readers, Becky is the author of three text books for library workers, most recently, The Reader’s Advisory Guide to Horror, Third Edition and Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature.
Friday, October 31: Dave Schilling – Filmmaker & Writer
We celebrate Halloween Day with Dave Schilling. Schilling is a filmmaker and author. He is currently working on the short film Can’t Float and co-authored Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse with Blumhouse. Horror’s New Wave celebrates the legendary horror studio Blumhouse’s legacy with this lavishly illustrated visual compendium that takes you behind the scenes of the films that have reshaped the horror genre, from The Exorcist to the Paranormal Activity and Halloween franchises.
