177 - Chilling Tales for Christmas with Jeff C. Carter - Big Seance

  Jeff C. Carter, author of We Bleed Red & Green: 12 Chilling Tales for Christmas, returns to parlor! Is winter even scarier than Halloween? Jeff thinks so! Plus childhood memories of wintertime, Rudolph poop, lots of Santa talk, and the spooky Christmas traditions that you probably haven't heard of! Visit BigSeance.com/177   Other Listening Options Direct Download Link   In this episode: Episode Teaser :00 Intro :58 A little update from Patrick 1:42 A laundry folding ghost? A story sent in by Joanne Jarrett, host of the Fancy Free Podcast! To hear Patrick share embarrassing stories on Joanne's podcast, visit fancyfreepodcast.com/episode68 and fancyfreepodcast.com/episode75. 2:24 Jeff C. Carter's Bio and the description of his latest book, We Bleed Red & Green: 12 Chilling Tales for Christmas! 10:14 What colors are next? More on the "We Bleed" series. 12:52 "Winter is the real scary time. We as a species have evolved to survive winter. We didn't survive to evolve Halloween. Halloween is like, that's the party and wintertime is the darkest, coldest, leanest time of year. It's when the animals starve to death and the crops wilt. It's bleak. But it's a great time for horror." 15:00 A pandemic-free book! 16:17 Jeff's memories of Christmas and wintertime. 19:30 Rudolph Poop! When parents go out of their way to make Christmas special! 21:30 Jeff can talk about Santa Claus all day! 24:00 Christmas creep and the booming holiday industry! 27:09 Krampus and the signs that "Christmas is mutating with creepy Halloweeny goodness!" 31:37 Other spooky Christmas traditions that you probably haven't heard of! 33:40 The Christmas Log! WHAT?! 41:52 Frostbite and more memories of childhood in the winter. 43:43 The book is not recommended for kids! 50:50 Where to find Jeff and what's coming up! 54:35 A special THANK YOU to Patreon supporters at the Super Paranerd and Parlor Guest level! 55:55 Outro 57:53   For more on Jeff C. Carter JeffCCarter.com We Bleed Red & Green on Amazon Instagram: @jeffc.carter  Twitter: @Carterwroteit Facebook Six Demon Bag Podcast   The Big Seance Podcast can be found right here, on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn Radio, Stitcher, Amazon Music, and iHeart Radio. Please subscribe and share with a fellow paranerd! Do you have any comments or feedback? Please contact me at [email protected]. Consider recording your voice feedback directly from your device on my SpeakPipe page! You can also call the show and leave feedback at (775) 583-5563 (or 7755-TELL-ME). I would love to include your voice feedback in a future show. The candles are already lit, so come on in and join the séance!