Don't Be Afraid of Your Dreams

The good news is your date is here, the bad news is he's dead. David is back with an extra girthy episode just in time for Valentine's Day! Find out what "Bram Stoker's Dracula" has to teach us about love, fate, and hair care as we enroll in Prince Vlad's Charm School. It's the time of the season for luhhhhhhveeeeeeeeng.

Pull down your moon magic and walk between the worlds! It's Halloween, and it's A Course in Fearacles-Day 31!

It's Devil's Night, and special guest Brooke Adair Walters joins us to discuss the gift of fear! We revisit her time as a maze designer at Knott's Scary Farm, and explore the importance of saying "yes" when life presents unexpected opportunities. Brooke shares the journey that led her to becoming a marketing expert and life coach, as well as insights into nurturing our creative spirit. It's A Course in Fearacles-Day 30!

Carla returns once again as we report live from Nights of the Jack: A Drive-Thru Halloween (s)Experience. We bring you all the jack o'lantern content you could want, along with hot topics like the whereabouts of Suri Cruise and bathtub drowning statistics. It's A Course in Fearacles-Day 29!

Today we join good friend Anthony Methvin in the patch to await The Great Pumpkin. We're missing spooky season the way we've come to know and love it, but Halloween finds a way! We discuss our love of haunts, the significance of our favorite time of year, and the magic of the Paul Lynde Halloween Special. It's A Course in Fearacles-Day 28!

Writer, lover of all things horror, and friend in Halloween Kevin Larkin Angioli drops in for Day 27! How do we reinvent Halloween for 2020? When do you decide to share your most cherished films and experiences with your children? Were things just BETTER in the 70s and 80s? Today's installment of A Course in Fearacles is an overstuffed Trick or Treat bag bursting with the Halloween spirit!

Today the absolutely delightful Alexander Legér-Small drops by to discuss the intersection of music and horror, his favorite films, and an insatiable hunger for bad ass bitches. We also ponder if we should blame or thank our mothers for everything. All of this and more! It's A Course in Fearacles-Day 26.

Today we talk old and new favorites! It's time to freshen up our watch lists for Halloween week.

As we head into the last week of October, let's pull a card from the Oracle Deck and see what the Spirit of Halloween would like us to know. It's a Course in Fearacles-Day 24.

Who needs a haunted house when you have yourself! Is your house...clean? It's A Course in Fearacles-Day 23.

Today we talk about costumes, positive projections, slipping into someone else's skin, and cultivating aspects of self. BUT. Not before warming up with a rant about candy and why seasonal items disappear from store shelves so quickly Seriously. WHY!? It's all in a day's work, and today is A Course in Fearacles-Day 22!

Grab your jammies and join our slumber watch party! Carla returns for her first ever viewing (! ! !) of "A Nightmare On Elm Street". Sync up our audio commentary and watch along with us. Stay tuned after the movie for riveting reveries as we rhapsodize about the 80s and lament the loss of franchises that stand the test of time. It's A Course in Fearacles-Day 21!

Today we're insane in the membrane, Samhain in the brain! (Ok fine it's pronounced Sow-in but that doesn't rhyme.) For day 20, we get our Woo on with special guest Soleil as we discuss how we can honor the pagan roots of our favorite holiday. Halloween but make it RITUAL.

What do you do to rest and regain your evil power? When the world is just too much, sometimes you need to withdraw into your box of earth until you're ready to face it all again. Today we discuss keeping your seasonal tank full, and stop by some of the filming locations from the original "Halloween". It's A Course in Fearacles-Day 19.

A scary story for you today! An Unexpected Journey, or Why Hiking is Bad Reason #4397.

Quick question! If your soul was fed into a machine that could turn it into a movie or a song, what would it be? Today we take a whirlwind journey though art we recognize at a soul level, delighting in the absurd, and cap things off with some listener mail. It's A Course in Fearacles-Day 17!

Today we hit the lab for a little weird science and ponder--do love and Halloween mix? Nah! That's the kind of chemistry that leads to broken hearts and explosions. Halloween is your boyfriend now! It's a Course in Fearacles-Day 16.

It's parents day on Don't Be Afraid of Your Dreams! My Mom and Dad drop by the studio so I can hold their feet to the fire on hot topics like raising horror-loving gaybies, old timey Halloween memories, and what the hell even are our family portraits!? Things really escalate with our Frightening Round challenge when we determine if they have what it takes to be awarded with honorary horror Doctorates. All this and more on Day 15 of A Course in Fearacles!

When did you come out as a Hallow-sexual? Were you a Hallow-baby or did you experiment with Nativity-normativity before embracing your authentic self? Share your story as we declare today National Halloween Coming Out Day!

Why be a PG-13 ghoul grabber when you can be a slow burn succubus? Today we remind ourselves that mainstream success is no indicator of quality; if you're being ignored and under-appreciated, you're on the right path! The things that move and challenge us aren't for everybody, and neither are you.