Super Scary Haunted Homeschool Wed, 27 May 2026 19:39:24 -0400 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1080659 en-us © 2026 Super Scary Haunted Homeschool yes e8993055-c6af-5fa3-862b-e61d909adbeb Grady Hendrix episodic false New York Times Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, brings his lunacy directly into your earholes with the world's spookiest spooky history podcast. 

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Grady Hendrix https://storage.buzzsprout.com/mliatx457nsu1h7beutxm1btm5vb?.jpg Super Scary Haunted Homeschool Haunted Houses 4: Haunted Objects Haunted Houses 4: Haunted Objects In episode 4 of the world's spookiest spooky podcast the time has come to discuss your tables, chairs, knick knacks, jewels and why they're haunted. Because everything is haunted and if you don't believe that then you're lying. Includes real talk about ghosts unionizing, Terence Conran, yellow wallpaper, screaming skulls, morbid architects and their terrible sons.

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer John Walker. 

]]> In episode 4 of the world's spookiest spooky podcast the time has come to discuss your tables, chairs, knick knacks, jewels and why they're haunted. Because everything is haunted and if you don't believe that then you're lying. Includes real talk about ghosts unionizing, Terence Conran, yellow wallpaper, screaming skulls, morbid architects and their terrible sons.

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer John Walker. 

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-19251345 Wed, 27 May 2026 19:00:00 -0400 2383 2 4 full false Haunted Houses 3: Christmas Ghosts Haunted Houses 3: Christmas Ghosts The world's spookiest spooky history podcast reaches episode 3 and that means it's time to tackle that most haunted time of the year: Christmas! Ever since Shakespeare, Christmas has been all about ghost stories, but why? We'll tell you! Let's dive into the middle of the 19th century and learn about seasonal spirits and the first Great Ghost Boom.(Featuring far fewer mentions of incest than Episode 2. But not zero.)

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer John Walker. 

]]> The world's spookiest spooky history podcast reaches episode 3 and that means it's time to tackle that most haunted time of the year: Christmas! Ever since Shakespeare, Christmas has been all about ghost stories, but why? We'll tell you! Let's dive into the middle of the 19th century and learn about seasonal spirits and the first Great Ghost Boom.(Featuring far fewer mentions of incest than Episode 2. But not zero.)

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer John Walker. 

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-19054431 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:00:00 -0400 3145 2 3 full false Haunted Houses 2: Totally Goth Haunted Houses 2: Totally Goth The world's spookiest spooky history podcast is still talking about haunted houses! When did houses get so scary? And why is everything so totally gothic, all the time? Let's go on a haunted hayride and learn about 18th century architecture, giant helmets, Irish manor houses, and hermaphroditic horses in the second episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool, Season 2!

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer John Walker.

]]> The world's spookiest spooky history podcast is still talking about haunted houses! When did houses get so scary? And why is everything so totally gothic, all the time? Let's go on a haunted hayride and learn about 18th century architecture, giant helmets, Irish manor houses, and hermaphroditic horses in the second episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool, Season 2!

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer John Walker.

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-18892780 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0400 3270 full false Haunted Houses 1: What Is Ghost? Haunted Houses 1: What Is Ghost? Season 2 of the world's spookiest spooky history podcast begins! This time we're talking about Haunted Houses! But before we can bust ghosts we all have to agree on what ghosts are in the first place: solid air? Hallucinations? Transparent dead people? Catholics? Who Ghost? Why Ghost? How Ghost? When Ghost? Such question! But we have answers! So let's finally learn: What Ghost?

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer John Walker.

]]> Season 2 of the world's spookiest spooky history podcast begins! This time we're talking about Haunted Houses! But before we can bust ghosts we all have to agree on what ghosts are in the first place: solid air? Hallucinations? Transparent dead people? Catholics? Who Ghost? Why Ghost? How Ghost? When Ghost? Such question! But we have answers! So let's finally learn: What Ghost?

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer John Walker.

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-18730707 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:00:00 -0500 3834 2 1 full false Vampires 9: Twilight of the Vampires Vampires 9: Twilight of the Vampires Season 1 ends as we reach...The TWILIGHT of the Vampires! Join us at this terminal moment as vampires achieve their sexiest, most sparkly form and consciously uncouple from disease forever. Who is hottest: vampire or werewolf? And why was everyone wrong about Twilight? Prepare to declare your allegiance: Team Edward or Team Jacob?

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

]]> Season 1 ends as we reach...The TWILIGHT of the Vampires! Join us at this terminal moment as vampires achieve their sexiest, most sparkly form and consciously uncouple from disease forever. Who is hottest: vampire or werewolf? And why was everyone wrong about Twilight? Prepare to declare your allegiance: Team Edward or Team Jacob?

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-16283167 Sun, 15 Dec 2024 16:00:00 -0500 4680 1 12 full false Vampires 8: Queen of the Damned Vampires 8: Queen of the Damned Vampire evolution ground to a standstill in the '80s, then a woman appeared who completely changed everything we thought about vampires. With the power of her pen, she made vampires less about disease, and more about sex. Today, every vampire lives in the shadow of our Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice.

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

]]> Vampire evolution ground to a standstill in the '80s, then a woman appeared who completely changed everything we thought about vampires. With the power of her pen, she made vampires less about disease, and more about sex. Today, every vampire lives in the shadow of our Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice.

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-15159302 Wed, 29 May 2024 15:00:00 -0400 4356 1 11 full false Vampires 7: Black Vampires Vampires 7: Black Vampires Three of the most important vampires of the '70s were Black, and here they are in all their glory. Black vampires have been an important part of the canon all the way back to the beginning, and this is just a part of their stories. Also, a lot of the music in this episode is by the inimitable Sam Waymon. Used with his permission. You can find more of his music here.

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

]]> Three of the most important vampires of the '70s were Black, and here they are in all their glory. Black vampires have been an important part of the canon all the way back to the beginning, and this is just a part of their stories. Also, a lot of the music in this episode is by the inimitable Sam Waymon. Used with his permission. You can find more of his music here.

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-12497806 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:00:00 -0400 4390 1 10 full false Vampires 6: Surviving the 70s! Vampires 6: Surviving the 70s! As the '70s began, motion picture vampires were d-e-a-d dead. How would they survive the disco decade? By moving to the small screen, starring on Broadway, and trying to be funny. In the process, they fulfilled their true destiny and finally became romantic heroes.

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

]]> As the '70s began, motion picture vampires were d-e-a-d dead. How would they survive the disco decade? By moving to the small screen, starring on Broadway, and trying to be funny. In the process, they fulfilled their true destiny and finally became romantic heroes.

This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and sound engineer Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-12391388 Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:00:00 -0500 2306 1 9 full false Vampires 5: House of Hammer! Vampires 5: House of Hammer! We're back! Welcome to the House of Hammer! This tiny British film studio resurrected Dracula in 1958 and gave movies the most iconic image of the vampire since Bela Lugosi in 1931! There's also a lots of talk about the menace of dope and the illegal international vampire trafficking business. 

This episode marks the podcast's RETURN after a two-year break. It now has professional technical quality, an entire cast to do the voices, sound effects, and music thanks to its director and producer, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special fame, and its sound engineer, Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

]]> We're back! Welcome to the House of Hammer! This tiny British film studio resurrected Dracula in 1958 and gave movies the most iconic image of the vampire since Bela Lugosi in 1931! There's also a lots of talk about the menace of dope and the illegal international vampire trafficking business. 

This episode marks the podcast's RETURN after a two-year break. It now has professional technical quality, an entire cast to do the voices, sound effects, and music thanks to its director and producer, Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special fame, and its sound engineer, Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica.

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-12289819 Mon, 20 Feb 2023 11:00:00 -0500 3105 1 8 full false Vampires 4: Vampire Movies! Vampires 4: Vampire Movies! We're going to the movies! Three vampire movies planted the seeds for the 20th century's gallery of glampires and we'll tackle them all in this episode. It's time for some nookie with Nosferatu, drama with Dracula, and cold vampin' with Vampyr. Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, continues his history of vampirism and to make his argument he throws in plain talk about syphilis, sexually insatiable women, hideous war wounds, gas attacks, super-clean underwear, and poetry.

(Note: This episode is the last one recorded during lockdown, so it's the last one to be so technically rough.)

]]> We're going to the movies! Three vampire movies planted the seeds for the 20th century's gallery of glampires and we'll tackle them all in this episode. It's time for some nookie with Nosferatu, drama with Dracula, and cold vampin' with Vampyr. Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, continues his history of vampirism and to make his argument he throws in plain talk about syphilis, sexually insatiable women, hideous war wounds, gas attacks, super-clean underwear, and poetry.

(Note: This episode is the last one recorded during lockdown, so it's the last one to be so technically rough.)

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-6156646 Sat, 31 Oct 2020 10:00:00 -0400 4382 1 7 full false Saturday School 3: Not Draculas Saturday School 3: Not Draculas Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay  debunking the legends of notorious real-life vampires, Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory. Who turn out to have nothing to do with vampires after all.

Saturday Schools are special, shorter episodes of SSHH that focus in excruciating detail on one particular facet of vampire lore.

]]> Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay  debunking the legends of notorious real-life vampires, Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory. Who turn out to have nothing to do with vampires after all.

Saturday Schools are special, shorter episodes of SSHH that focus in excruciating detail on one particular facet of vampire lore.

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-5407768 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 11:00:00 -0400 2220 1 6 full false Vampires 3: Dracula & Energy Vampires! Vampires 3: Dracula & Energy Vampires! It's a monster-sized marathon of mayhem as Super Scary Haunted Homeschool finally tackles Dracula! Also, emotional vampires, feminism, Baby Mozart, sapphic bloodsuckers, the prom king and queen of Vampire High School, and why tall people are degenerates. Except for George Washington. Award-winning author, Grady Hendrix, takes you on an educational and emotional (edumotional?) journey to the bloody heart of 19th century vampirism. You'll never be the same.

(Note: This episode was recorded during lockdown, so it's technically rickety.)

]]> It's a monster-sized marathon of mayhem as Super Scary Haunted Homeschool finally tackles Dracula! Also, emotional vampires, feminism, Baby Mozart, sapphic bloodsuckers, the prom king and queen of Vampire High School, and why tall people are degenerates. Except for George Washington. Award-winning author, Grady Hendrix, takes you on an educational and emotional (edumotional?) journey to the bloody heart of 19th century vampirism. You'll never be the same.

(Note: This episode was recorded during lockdown, so it's technically rickety.)

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-4516073 Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:00:00 -0400 3219 1 5 full false Saturday School 2: Ancient Vampires Saturday School 2: Ancient Vampires Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you about the world's two first, most ancient vampires. 

Saturday Schools are special, shorter episodes of SSHH that focus in excruciating detail on one particular facet of vampire lore.

]]> Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you about the world's two first, most ancient vampires. 

Saturday Schools are special, shorter episodes of SSHH that focus in excruciating detail on one particular facet of vampire lore.

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-4160990 Sat, 13 Jun 2020 17:00:00 -0400 1266 1 4 full false Vampires 2: 18th & 19th Century Vampires Vampires 2: 18th & 19th Century Vampires In episode two of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool we continue our coursework on VAMPIRES!!!! Will the suffering never stop? In this episode, we discuss almost 200 years of Vampire History, from the very first vampire on record (1725) to the last filthy bloodsucker dug up and crushed like a tick (1893), we're there every horrible step of the way with brief stops to visit Karl Marx, Vlad the Impaler, and Voltaire. Also, what's the matter with Rhode Island? Award-winning author, Grady Hendrix, takes you on an educational journey. 

(Note: This episode was recorded during lockdown, so it's technically pretty rough.)

]]> In episode two of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool we continue our coursework on VAMPIRES!!!! Will the suffering never stop? In this episode, we discuss almost 200 years of Vampire History, from the very first vampire on record (1725) to the last filthy bloodsucker dug up and crushed like a tick (1893), we're there every horrible step of the way with brief stops to visit Karl Marx, Vlad the Impaler, and Voltaire. Also, what's the matter with Rhode Island? Award-winning author, Grady Hendrix, takes you on an educational journey. 

(Note: This episode was recorded during lockdown, so it's technically pretty rough.)

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-3943490 Wed, 27 May 2020 21:00:00 -0400 2295 1 3 full false Saturday School 1: Hopping Vampires Saturday School 1: Hopping Vampires Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you about China's hopping vampires. Fortunately, we listened to the very first Saturday School episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool so we knew all the answers. 

Saturday Schools are special, shorter episodes of SSHH that focus in excruciating detail on one particular facet of vampire lore.

]]> Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you about China's hopping vampires. Fortunately, we listened to the very first Saturday School episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool so we knew all the answers. 

Saturday Schools are special, shorter episodes of SSHH that focus in excruciating detail on one particular facet of vampire lore.

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-3877544 Fri, 22 May 2020 16:00:00 -0400 1328 1 2 full false Vampires 1: Where Do They Come From? Vampires 1: Where Do They Come From? It's the very first episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool and Season One is all about VAMPIRES!!!! In this first lesson, we sit down and discuss Vampire Geography. What horrible vampires come from which terrible countries? Geographic information comes courtesy of Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer, the 19th century's worst and yet most popular travel book writer, and all the ridiculous yet true facts about vampires come courtesy of award-winning author, Grady Hendrix. Let's get educated! 

(NOTE: This episode was recorded during lockdown and it's technically very rough, but it has a lot of heart!)

]]> It's the very first episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool and Season One is all about VAMPIRES!!!! In this first lesson, we sit down and discuss Vampire Geography. What horrible vampires come from which terrible countries? Geographic information comes courtesy of Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer, the 19th century's worst and yet most popular travel book writer, and all the ridiculous yet true facts about vampires come courtesy of award-winning author, Grady Hendrix. Let's get educated! 

(NOTE: This episode was recorded during lockdown and it's technically very rough, but it has a lot of heart!)

]]> Grady Hendrix Buzzsprout-3712013 Mon, 11 May 2020 11:00:00 -0400 2273 1 1 full false