Fear Feasts

20/04/2025

Happy Easter, horror afficionados! 🤣🐱🐈🧟‍♂️

01/04/2025

What would you do if you were a young lady living in an isolated country house with your often-absent father, your very bossy governess who was constantly trying to control how you dress and what you ate, some servants who brought you coffee and chocolate upon request......and along came a mysterious woman who you were sure you knew but who was a total stranger? What if this strangely alluring woman had bitten you as a child and gave you strange cravings? What if these cravings turned into a bizarre hunger for blood? What if this strange woman turned out to be a blood-sucking vampire who was trying to lure you into a passionate love affair? We'll explore these horrifyingly hungry questions as we discuss the connection between food and horror - along with very special guest Jamieson Ridenhour, creator of the podcast Palimpsest, in Sheridan Le Fanu's Gothic vampire classic Carmilla, so please join us!

This very fun and special episode features our favorite guest, Jamieson Ridenhour, creator of the podcast Palimpsest, as we analyze Sheridan Le Fanu's masterpiece of vampirism.Jamieson Ridenhourhttps://www.jamiesonridenhourwriter.com/Carmilla (1871-72)J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edited by Jamieson Ridenhou...

21/03/2025

Recording our next episode with the very cool, talented and intelligent Jamieson Ridenhour, creator of the most awesome horror podcast Palimpsest . Stay tuned for the episode, coming to you in two weeks!

04/03/2025

We're talking bored housewives and book clubs, bratty kids, boorish husbands, casseroles and cakes, cocktails and cheesestraws, and one bad-ass bloodsucker in our latest episode, so give it a listen below!

What would you do if you were a bored Southern housewife in a book club that focused on true crime, horror and murder, in addition to drinking wine and eating lots of snacks? What would you do if your boring doctor husband and bratty, dysfunctional kids befriended the strange new guy who moved in ju...

12/02/2025

Allie has been experimenting with pomegranates in the kitchen lately, so she thought you FearFeasters would appreciate a Pomegranate Bloodlust Smoothie—perfectly inspired by The Radleys, a vampire tale where the struggle to abstain from blood is constant and temptation is never far away. This deep red smoothie embodies the novel’s themes of suppressed desires, hidden instincts, and indulgence in the things we crave most.

Bloodlust Pomegranate Smoothie

Serves: 2

Ingredients

250ml pomegranate juice
75g frozen cherries
75g frozen raspberries
1 frozen banana
120g Greek yogurt or coconut yogurt
1 tbsp (15ml) honey or maple syrup (optional)
½ tsp (2.5ml) vanilla extract
A squeeze of lemon juice
Ice cubes (optional)

Method

1. Blend all ingredients together until smooth.
2. Pour into glasses and serve immediately.
3. For a vampire-inspired effect, rim the glasses with crushed freeze-dried raspberries or drizzle pomegranate syrup down the sides for a “blood-streaked” look.

05/02/2025

New Fear Feasts Episode: The Radleys 🩸

Imagine growing up in an ordinary town, in an ordinary house, with an ordinary family—until one night, everything changes…

In this episode, we delve into Matt Haig’s The Radleys (2010) and its 2024 film adaptation, exploring the deliciously dark connections between food and horror. From fish and chips to forbidden cravings, we’ll be sinking our teeth into it all.

📅 Tune in now, wherever you get your podcasts!

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fear-feasts/id1672786626?i=1000688914541

22/01/2025

Vanessa, the non-academic half of Fear Feasts, finally popped her cherry and went to Summerisle last night. If you haven't seen The Wicker Man, it is a trip! Pagans and sacrifices and lots of food. And speaking of cherry-popping, there's t**s and ass galore. An excellent horror classic, and Christopher Lee has some awesome hair. We will definitely be covering this one when we do our podcast season on folk horror.