Teen Creeps
by Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai
Grownup comedians Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai discuss the trashy teen horror of their awkward neon youth - from the rise of MTV to the fall of ... well, MTV. So tighten those side ponytails, push your pogs to one side, fire up your 56k dial-up modem, and subscribe. New episodes every Wednesday. All creepy opinions expressed are those of the hosts.
Episodes
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Neil R. Selden's Twilight: Drawing the Dead
This week Kelly and Katai read TWILIGHT: DRAWING THE DEAD by Neil R. Selden, the story of a love triangle that spans the centuries and puns. They talk loving the setting, rooting for the characters, being in denial about your jealous rage, creeping channeling, and when puns are or are not an...
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Caroline B. Cooney's Horror High: Toxic Beauty
This week Kelly and Katai read HORROR HIGH: TOXIC BEAUTY by Caroline B. Cooney, a repackaged version of THE RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE from her VAMPIRE'S PROMISE trilogy that changed some of the names and NOTHING ELSE. They talk Bethenny/Devnee being a drip, not understanding anything of the vampire's...
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Imogen Howe's Twilight: FATAL ATTRACTION
This week Kelly and Katai read FATAL ATTRACTION by Imogen Howe from Dell's 1980s Twilight series, the story of an evil witch who won't stop bringing down positive teens with her sob stories. They talk toxic positivity, vague plant-based religious philosophy, the book's anti-empathy narrative…
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Francis W. Dixon's Hardy Boys Casefiles No. 48: ROCK 'N' REVENGE (w/ Patrick Ehlers)
Kelly and guest co-host Patrick Ehlers talk Hardy Boys Casefiles No. 48: ROCK 'N' REVENGE! The Hardy Boys sort of stop the murder of Buddy Death, famous death metal musician! Too many military knives, yakuza tattoos, being splintered to death, deserved electrocutions, and video game talk! Listen…
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Lou Kassem's Twilight: Dance of Death (w/ Brendan Milove)
Kelly and guest co-host Brendan Milove talk Dance of Death by Lou Kassem! An extremely boring (but cursed?) main character must unravel the truth of two handsome identical twin boy ghosts, aided by her star quarterback, mystery-obsessed boyfriend and her horsefreak best friend who disappears...
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R.L. Stine's Fear Street: THE THRILL CLUB
This week Kelly and Katai read FEAR STREET #24: THE THRILL CLUB by R.L. Stine (or apparently Tom Perrotta??), the dumb story of a girl whose brain is getting hijacked by her boyfriend in order to force her to kill her short story club friends. They talk barely-there character motivations, cool...
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Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High #57: Teacher Crush (w/ Ryan Mogge)
Kelly and guest co-host Ryan Mogge (Made Up Murder) talk Sweet Valley High #57: Teacher Crush by Francine Pascal. The twins' friend Olivia is in love with their art teacher Stuart (yeah he has them call him that) and is completely stalking him, Jessica is building a computer all to humiliate…
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Franklin Dixon's The Hardy Boys Casefiles No. 42: The Last Laugh (w/ Brandon Winfrey)
Kelly and guest co-host Brandon Winfrey talk about Hardy Boys Casefiles No. 42: The Last Laugh! Frank and Joe go to SDCC, encounter evil comic book villains come to life, drop an old man and break his legs, and somehow accidentally solve a ... kidnapping/insurance fraud ring? Plus, tangents: leg...
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Julia Armfield's Private Rites
This week Kelly and Katai read PRIVATE RITES by Julia Armfield, the story of three sisters and an inheritance that is NOT a full reimagining of King Lear. They talk stressful family dynamics, never changing in the eyes of the people who knew you when, not giving grace, end times, nebulous cult...
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Laurie Bridges and Paul Alexander's Dark Forces: DEVIL WIND (w/ Patrick Ehlers)
Kelly is joined by Patrick Ehlers to talk DEVIL WIND by Laurie Bridges and Paul Alexander! They talk being possessed by whistles, being obsessed with whistles, hating whistles, loving whistles, and also sailing! Get a copy of Patrick's book:...
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Zoe Daniels's Year of the Cat Book 3: THE AMULET
This week Kelly and Katai read YEAR OF THE CAT 3: THE AMULET by Zoe Daniels, aka Yucky Lucky Twilight Panther. They talk hating Tisha's characterization, lack of concrete Panther lore, wtf is Alex even, Holly being a giant baby weakling, how Zack needs to distance himself from these drips, and...
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Zoe Daniels's The Year of the Cat Book 2: THE HUNT
This week Kelly and Katai read THE YEAR OF THE CAT 2: THE HUNT by Zoe Daniels, aka Panther Twilight But Now Worse. They talk everyone being crazy and annoying, simp poetry, inventing archeological intrigue to get your friend off your back, mugs vs. goblets, and more! Support BROTHER MANOR…
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Zoe Daniels's Year of the Cat Book One: THE DREAM
This week Kelly and Katai read THE YEAR OF THE CAT 1: THE DREAM by Zoe Daniels, aka Panther Twilight. They talk terrifyingly twisted murals, drippy comebacks, go on a very long Wicked: For Good tangent, and more! Support BROTHER MANOR, Kelly's gothic romance miniseries, on Kickstarter! INFO AND...
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Catriona Ward's Sundial (w/ Brendan Milove)
Kelly is joined by guest cohost and fellow Catriona Ward stan Brendan Milove! They talk children being mirrors, generational trauma, freaky dog experiments, and evil evil evil husbands! Content warning: this book depicts child abuse, animal abuse, violence against pregnant women. Support BROTHER...
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Carolyn Keene's The Nancy Drew Files Case 111: THE STOLEN KISS
This week Kelly and Katai read THE NANCY DREW FILES #111: THE STOLEN KISS, a snooze of a mystery about a stolen painting and blah blah blah. They talk Ned holding Nancy back, George wanting Ned, questionable modeling outfits, and more! Support BROTHER MANOR, Kelly's gothic romance miniseries, on...
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Jo Gibson's The Dead Girl (w/ Omar Najam)
Kelly and guest co-host Omar Najam discuss THE DEAD GIRL by Jo Gibson! Too many men, put it in your peak, twin cousins, author lore, and more! Support BROTHER MANOR, Kelly's gothic romance miniseries, on Kickstarter! INFO AND DONATE! SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON for ad free and video eps, bonus eps, &...
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Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High #56: LOST AT SEA (w/ Ryan Mogge)
Kelly is joined by guest cohost Ryan Mogge to talk Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High #56: LOST AT SEA! Jessica and Winston Egbert are lost at sea! They wash up on a non-desert island and build a house complete with sofa, encounter a bear, and DO NOT reach anything other than platonic respect!...
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Carolyn Keene's The Nancy Drew Files #31: Trouble in Tahiti
This week Kelly and Katai read THE NANCY DREW FILES #31: TROUBLE IN TAHITI by Carolyn Keene, a banger of a Nancy Drew from start to finish. They talk stereotyping the French but not the Tahitians, action action action, karate performances, Nan being over the bullshit, Nan having to actively…
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Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond
This week Kelly and Katai cover THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND by Elizabeth George Speare! Cute sailor boys, misunderstood pond witches, nuanced New England politics, and more! Support BROTHER MANOR, Kelly's gothic romance miniseries, on Kickstarter! INFO AND DONATE! SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON for ad free...
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Richie Tankersley Cusick's Walk of the Spirits
This week Kelly and Katai subject themselves to WALK OF THE SPIRITS by their former friend, Richie Tankersley Cusick, a barely there ghost story glorifying the Confederacy??? They talk racism, slavery erasure, and, unfortunately, more. It goes badly. Support BROTHER MANOR, Kelly's gothic romance...
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Margaret Buffie's The Haunting of Frances Rain
This week Kelly and Katai read THE HAUNTING OF FRANCES RAIN by Margaret Buffie, the story of a girl who sees ghosts whenever she puts on an old pair of glasses… in Canada! They talk compelling family drama, loving Toothy Tim, their love of DTF St Louis, absent mothers, underdeveloped ghosts, and...
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Avi's The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
This week Kelly and Katai read the 1991 Newbury Honor winner THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE by Avi, the story of a thirteen-year-old Regency era snob who becomes a sailor. They talk the right kind of Mary Sues, skillful changing of minds, how you should always keep the dirk, how you…
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Jason Pargin's I'M STARTING TO WORRY ABOUT THIS BLACK BOX OF DOOM
This week Kelly and Katai read I’M STARTING TO WORRY ABOUT THIS BLACK BOX OF DOOM by Jason Parkin, the story of a girl, a boy, and a black box traveling across the country stirring internet conspiracy theories along the way. They talk lack of story, too many monologues, liking the characters,...
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Companion
This week Kelly and Katai watched COMPANION (2025), written and directed by Drew Hancock. They talk Chekov’s automatic wine opener, funny character actors, money grubbing friends, cruelty without consequences, and more! Support BROTHER MANOR, Kelly's gothic romance miniseries, on Kickstarter!…
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Ben Lerner's Transcription
This week Kelly and Katai read TRANSCRIPTION by Ben Lerner, a thoughtful meditation on memory, truth, technology, parenting, and the distance between people. They talk smart writing (in more ways than one), who is stealing from whom (if anyone), parallels and patterns, ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive...
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Paul Tremblay's Disappearance at Devil's Rock
This week Kelly and Katai read DISAPPEARANCE AT DEVIL’S ROCK by Paul Tremblay, the story of a boy who goes missing and the twisty investigation that follows. They talk oh so good writing, put M. Night Shyamalan on blast for Knock at the Cabin again, loving everyone EXCEPT ARNOLD, and more!…
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PATREON PREVIEW: Evie Wyld's ALL THE BIRDS, SINGING
Life is crazy busy and Kelly and Katai are playing a little catch up this week! So here's a PATREON PREVIEW! Episodes like this are available to $8+ Patrons, and all at that tier and above have a chance to pick the book for our monthly additional episode! Kelly and Katai discuss Evie Wyld's ALL…
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Josh Malerman's It Waits in the Woods
This week Kelly and Katai read IT WAITS IN THE WOODS by Josh Malerman, another Amazon Kondle short story that they…do not like as much! They talk too much filmmaking shit, lack of relationship, the unforgivable crime of leaving Heather or Kimberly or whoever, dumb little hats, and more! Support...
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Owen King's Letter Slot
This week Kelly and Katai read LETTER SLOT by Owen King, another entry in Amazon's Shivers collection, about a boy who puts his woes in a letter and inadvertently kills people's loved ones. They talk King family dynamics (with apologies to the King family), feminist undertones, unequal labor in…
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Xenobe Purvis's The Hounding
This week Kelly and Katai read THE HOUNDING by Xenobe Purvis, the story that asks, “What if the virgin suicides, but dogs?” They talk Pete being a little shit, missing youthful crushing, loving Joseph and Robin, the problem being people, and more! Support BROTHER MANOR, Kelly's gothic romance...
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Jo Gibson's Dance of Death
This week Kelly and Katai read DANCE OF DEATH by Jo Gibson, a return to our roots with a silly little book about a pair of evil shoes and the drip who is powerless to stop them. They talk being delighted to return to stupidity, being confounded by what a flier for an article is, pooooors and...
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T.J. Payne's Intercepts
This week Kelly and Katai read INTERCEPTSby T.J. Payne, the story of a man who gets counterintelligence by way of disembodying people's consciousness who is seemingly surprised to learn there are personal consequences! They talk feeling nothing for the book, wanting some goddamn angst from Joe,...
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Alix E. Harrow's The Six Deaths of the Saint
This week Kelly and Katai read THE SIX DEATHS OF THE SAINT by Alix E. Harrow, a short story from Amazon’s “Into Shadow” series that asks the question, what if your terrible college relationship was in the Dark Ages instead? They talk power structures, Ambrosius!, who knew what and when in terms…
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Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary
This week Kelly and Katai read PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir, the story of a Swiss cheese brained scientist who wakes up in space and has to save humanity. They talk losing time, perfect casting, the stories we tell ourselves in order to be cowards, alien besties, and more! Support BROTHER…
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R.F. Kuang's Making Space
This week Kelly and Katai read MAKING SPACE by R.F. Kuang, a short story for Amazon's Time Traveler's Passport series about a woman finding a boy in the woods, bringing him home, and her terrible husband being terrible. They talk A LOT about Goodreads reviewers NOT GETTING IT, the nuance of...
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Kylie Lee Baker's Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
This week Kelly and Katai read BAT EATER AND OTHER NAMES FOR CORA ZENG by Kylie Lee Baker, a pandemic era tale of a serial killer attacking East Asian women and the insecure, germ obsessed woman who finally stops it. They talk lack of nuance on Cora's mixed ethnic background, tragedy porn, loving...
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Jaqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men
This week Kelly and Katai read I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jaqueline Harpman, a speculative fiction about a woman raised in a cage with 39 other women on a probable alien planet and how she adapts. They talk the Child's endearing oddness, theorize on why the hell they were being imprisoned,...
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Grady Hendrix's The Blanks
This week Kelly and Katai read THE BLANKS by Grady Hendrix, a 35 page banger of an entry in the #KONDLE horror anthology miniseries “The Shivers.” They talk Rachel being wrong wrong wrong, not allowing themselves to feel this one, RIP Tom Docks, reenacting relationship trauma, Bad Bunny’s…
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Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child
This week Kelly and Katai read THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey, the story of a homesteading couple in 1920s Alaska who conjure a child made of snow and a shit ton of tears. They talk love, loss, parenthood, richly realized characters, stunning descriptions of nature, straightforward but poetic…
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Jennifer Thorne's Diavola
This week Kelly and Katai read DIAVOLA by Jennifer Thorne, the story of an emotionally withholding woman who visits a haunted villa with her toxic family and #girlboss #gaslight #gatekeeps her way through an exorcism. They talk their extreme disappointment with the last third of the book, their...
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Lily King's Heart the Lover
This week Kelly and Katai read HEART THE LOVER by Lily King, the story of a college romance and saying goodbye. They talk how much they loved the book, cry, talk assholes and non-assholes they've loved, and then Katai has to abruptly leave because her doctor calls for a phone appointment a half...
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Martha Wells's All Systems Red
This week Kelly and Katai read ALL SYSTEMS RED by Martha Kelly, the first in the MURDERBOT DIARIES series of sci-fi novellas about an anxious, morose security android who hacks its software to have free will, but who has to keep his day job or be found out. They talk loving Murderbot, technical...
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Caitlin Starling's The Starving Saints
This week Kelly and Katai read THE STARVING SAINTS by Caitlin Starling, the story of a castle under siege starving to death until some false gods show up to feed everyone to each other. They talk an inability to lose one's fanfic roots, characters running to and fro, hating Treila, unearned...
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Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew Case Files No. 102: Counterfeit Christmas
This week Kelly and Katai read THE NANCY DREW CASE FILES #102: COUNTERFEIT CHRISTMAS by Carolyn Keene, the story of some counterfeit bills, some kind of publication, and cartoonists? They talk cuckolding Ned, law school logistics, Nancy being a stone cold bitch, overthinking logistics, cringe…
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Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew Case Files No. 5: Hit and Run Holiday
This week Kelly and Katai read NANCY DREW CASE FILES #5: HIT AND RUN HOLIDAY by Carolyn Keene, the story of undocumented immigrants, slavery, hit and run incidents, and Nancy being a dumb little idiot. They talk everyone feeling middle aged, go on a long Whedonverse tangent, floashing in the…
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Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons
This week Kelly and Katai read WALK TWO MOONS by Sharon Creech, the 1995 Newbery Award Winner aka ‘The Hours’ for children. They talk mom’s mom’s moms, the pain of living, loving Phoebe’s food bullshit, overly quirky grandparents, and do some more crying! Support BROTHER MANOR, Kelly's gothic...
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Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted
This week Kelly and Katai read ELLA ENCHANTED by Gail Carson Levine, the 1997 retelling of Cinderella. They talk fat shaming, questionable Centaur owning, disliking Ella, pointless finishing schools, movie adaptation improvements, consider revoking the book’s Newbery honor, and more! Support...
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Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins (w/ Steven Ray Morris)
This week Kelly and Katai were joined by friend and human ray of light Steven Ray Morris to talk about the required reading classic ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS by Scott O’Dell. They talked their feelings on the ocean, whether Karana is queer coded (no, but yes), school experiences, growing up, a...
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Gus Moreno's This Thing Between Us
This week Kelly and Katai read THIS THING BETWEEN US by Gus Moreno, a beautiful, gutting tale of grief as told via possession. They talk guilt, darkness, dying, loving, dogs, a not-evil Vera, Bruce Willis guest star spots, petty gossip podcast recs, and more! Support BROTHER MANOR, Kelly's gothic...
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Molly O'Neill's Greenteeth
This week Kelly and Katai read GREENTEETH by Molly O'Neill, a cozy fantasy about a bog hag mother, a witch mother, and a gay-coded goblin who is not a mother. They talk frustratingly straightforward quests, dangerous-but-not-really fae, unicorn martyrs, superficial emotions, not-lush prose, and…
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About this show
Grownup comedians Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai discuss the trashy teen horror of their awkward neon youth - from the rise of MTV to the fall of ... well, MTV. So tighten those side ponytails, push your pogs to one side, fire up your 56k dial-up modem, and subscribe. New episodes every Wednesday. All creepy opinions expressed are those of the hosts.
Hosted by
Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai