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Espooky Tales
@espookytales.bsky.social
An espooky podcast hosted by twins Carmen & Cristina. We talk about all things spooky, legends, myths, true crime (and horror book club) in Latin America. On Spotify, YouTube & all podcast apps.
New episodes every Friday (this is Cristina on here though)
Every time I need a book for podcast research, I check my library and they had one out of two I was looking for! Placed a hold.
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We got rid of a bunch of streaming services and started going to our local video rental store once a week. It’s been so fun seeing what the kids pick out! Today one chose Goosebumps: Attack of the Jack-O’-Lanterns and the other chose the Smurfs: the Legend of Smurfy Hollow
October 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I’ve been trying to watch more Mexican horror, well Latine horror as a whole, and why did I not know about Belzebuth before? This was a wild watch. Joaquin Cosío was phenomenal
October 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The child chose Monster Night from Scarecrow video and WHO WAS THIS MADE FOR?? This was strange and bad lol
October 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Need someone to watch this so I can yap about with said someone
September 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Have you heard the legend of las Casas de Las Canicas in Coahuila, Mexico?

#espookytales #hauntedplaces
September 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I've been reading Defectors for my history podcast's book club and for the first time ever, have been using these sticky notes to annotate
February 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
2025 is THE year for Latina horror books and I'm loving it
February 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We are donating 20% of patreon funds (for Espooky Tales & our other podcast Historias Unknown) to a different organization every month. This month, it's Al Otro Lado's water drop program. An initiative aimed at saving lives by providing water, seasonal clothing, food & first aid at the border
February 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Speculative fiction is great because it let's you change how something happened and one of my absolute favorites stories of all time is @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social the Nightmare Box & Other Stories.

All the stories were a 5/5 for me, but especially Red Brick with all the increasing deportations.
January 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
We run a Latine Horror Book Club too! We read horror, written by Latine authors at a super slow pace,then we release 2 hour long episodes talking about each book! YOU can keep up with book club discussion, announcements on Substack.

We are SO CLOSE TO 100 subscribers!
December 22, 2024 at 5:20 AM
Anybody else watching Happiness on Netflix? I just finished ep 2, as always, South Korean Zombies never disappoint
December 14, 2024 at 2:53 AM
What’s a single frame from a film that could hang in an art gallery?

Not a movie but those early seasons of the Walking Dead had top notch scenery
#Filmsky
November 22, 2024 at 9:54 PM
YESSS, I was looking for a podcast about From season 1 and of course @girlthatsscary.bsky.social just released an episode 🙌🏼
November 21, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Finally started From, just finished ep 1. I'm hooked!
November 20, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Has she read anything in the Rick Riordan presents books? There's some fun ones there! There's so many too
November 19, 2024 at 5:06 AM
Why yes, we do have a Latinx horror book club where we spend almost 2 hours talking about the books we read!

books we've read for the book club:
Gods of Jade and Shadow
The Hacienda
The Haunting of Alejandra
Silver Nitrate
Vampires of El Norte
The Nightmare Box
Piñata
November 18, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Not us recording an almost 2 hour long episode about our fav Zombie media and forgetting the unique indigenous Zombie flick, Blood Quantum 😭
November 18, 2024 at 3:12 AM