The Book Fix

Episodes

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  reddit paranormal: something waved at me in the dark 22.10.2026 14m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast: Reddit Paranormal Edition, Yajaira and Cheli read a story that might make you think twice before answering anything that waves at you from a dark field. When a teenage boy living on an isolated Iowa farm is mysteriously warned by his father not to go outside, he immediately realizes something is wrong. But later that night, he spots a strange, rust-colored figure standing beneath the orange glow of a distant floodlight, silently motioning fo...
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  The Church of the Mountain of Flesh by Kyle Wakefield | making a deal with God for a new body 20.10.2026 34m

  Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode of The Book Fix podcast, hosts Yajaira and Cheli are diving into The Church of the Mountain of Flesh by Kyle Wakefield, a bizarre and gruesome religious horror novel packed with body horror, angels, obsession, and one deeply tortured artist. The story follows Sole, a sculptor who makes a deal with God: resurrect a fallen church, and in return, Soul can finally have the body he’s always wanted. Will this grotesque tale of faith, flesh, art, identit...
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  reddit nosleep: notifications from the future 15.10.2026 16m

  Send us Fan Mail Yajaira and Cheli are continuing with a Reddit NoSleep for spooky season of The Book Fix! This time, they’re diving into the creepy story “My phone started notifying me about things that hadn’t happened yet,” where an ordinary phone begins delivering very unordinary notifications... revealing people’s secrets, predicting terrifying events, and eventually knowing way too much about its owner. What starts as unsettling quickly turns into full-on nightmare fuel when the notifica...
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  Between Two Fires by Christopher by Buehlman | a disgraced knight and an orphan that speaks to angels 13.10.2026 25m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are diving headfirst into medieval horror with Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman. Set during the Black Death, the story follows Thomas, a disgraced knight who reluctantly becomes the protector of Delphine, a young orphan who claims she can communicate with angels. Together, they set off across plague-ravaged France on a journey involving demonic forces, terrifying creatures, religious horror, and a possible war betw...
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  reddit nosleep: was my imaginary friend real? 08.10.2026 14m

  Send us Fan Mail Happy spooky season!! Or perhaps not-so-happy spooky season because this week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are diving into another disturbing story from Reddit’s NoSleep. This one is told from the perspective of a lonely child who befriends a tall, skeletal figure named Oliver near the river behind their home. Oliver may be the child’s only companion, but his cold touch, cracking bones, unsettling gifts, and increasingly painful “games” suggest that he is anythi...
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  The Mad Wife by Meagan Church | she needed help, so he bought her a dishwasher 06.10.2026 25m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are diving into The Mad Wife by Meagan Church which is a haunting historical story about motherhood, marriage, and what happens when a woman refuses to fit neatly into the role everyone has chosen for her. Set in the 1950s, the story follows Lulu, a wife and mother surrounded by women who seem to have the whole “perfect housewife” thing figured out. Lulu, meanwhile, is struggling to keep up with the cooking, cleaning, mothe...
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  reddit nosleep: paralyzed husband is hiding something 01.10.2026 23m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are taking Reddit NoSleep outside and somehow the mosquitoes and surprise bugs are only the beginning of the nightmare. The story follows a woman who has spent three exhausting years caring for her husband, Mark, after a devastating accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. But when his shattered phone mysteriously appears several feet away from his bed, she begins to suspect that something—or someone—is moving throug...
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  The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer | surviving the weekend in a haunted house 29.09.2026 31m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are reviewing The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer, and suddenly, being unemployed doesn’t sound that bad. Macy is desperate for work when she comes across an unusually well-paying caretaker job. The catch? When she arrives, she discovers there’s no elderly husband to care for at all. Instead, she’s being paid to stay alone in a remote house and follow a very specific set of bizarre rituals left behind by the woman’s late husban...
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  reddit nosleep: the ghost in the hallway 24.09.2026 10m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli officially continue spooky season with a chilling hospital story about a nurse who spots something impossible on the security cameras. A young patient named Madeline appears alone in the hallway wearing a mysterious black dress, even though she is still asleep in her room, connected to an IV. Yajaira and Cheli discuss whether the shadow was the Grim Reaper, debate how scary ghostly children really are, revisit a disturbing ...
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  The Troop by Nick Cutter | a camping trip turned into survival 22.09.2026 38m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli head into the woods for another Nick Cutter nightmare with The Troop, and this time, they’re recording from an actual spooky cabin for maximum immersion. A group of teenage boyscouts heads to a remote island for what should be a normal weekend camping trip, but everything changes when a severely emaciated stranger appears at their cabin with an insatiable hunger. Their Scoutmaster, Tim, quickly realizes the man is infected ...
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  The House of Gardenias by Isabel Cañas | knives out, but with a ghost 17.09.2026 34m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are diving into an ARC of The House of Gardenias by Isabel Cañas, and this gothic YA fantasy gave them A LOT to talk about. Sixteen-year-old Minerva Treviño thinks she’s finally escaped the worst of her life when she leaves her abusive home to work for Encarnación del Valle. But when political violence forces them to flee to the isolated del Valle estate, Minerva quickly realizes the family drama may be the least terrifying...
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  Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker | he can’t remember where he put the body 15.09.2026 34m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are bending the rules of time with Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker which is a dark, eerie story that connects two people living hundreds of years apart. In the present day, Lee Turner flees to his father’s home in Japan after becoming convinced that he murdered his college roommate… except he has no memory of what he did with the body. Then there’s Sen, a young samurai living in 1877 under the brutal expectations of her ...
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  reddit paranormal: a ghost in the catacombs caught on picture?! 10.09.2026 7m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are back with another Reddit Paranormal episode and this time, they’re heading beneath the streets of Paris. After examining a chilling photo taken inside the Paris Catacombs, the hosts debate whether the mysterious woman in white standing at the end of a dark, blocked-off tunnel is a ghost, a trick of the light, or simply someone who has made the catacombs her home. Either way, Cheli wants absolutely nothing to do with her...
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  The Lamb by Lucy Rose | Cannibal Mom, an Isolated Cabin & One Very Traumatized Child 08.09.2026 23m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are continuing spooky season with The Lamb by Lucy Rose, and apparently September has become the month of cannibalistic families. The Lamb follows eleven-year-old Margot, who lives alone with her mother, Ruth, in an isolated cabin where lost travelers, known as “strays” have a habit of disappearing. To Margot, her mother’s hunger for human flesh is simply a normal part of life. She loves Ruth, wants desperately to understan...
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  reddit nosleep: the monster feeding on his mind 03.09.2026 26m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are back with another Reddit No Sleep story and this one is less traditionally spooky and more emotionally devastating. They dive into a chilling tale about a man whose soul is attacked by a mysterious parasite, causing him to experience his life completely out of order. One moment he is meeting the love of his life, Mar, and the next he is discovering they have been married for years and share a child he does not remember....
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  Brother by Ania Ahlborn | his family eats people...but that's not the WORST part 01.09.2026 43m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are kicking off spooky season with Brother by Ania Ahlborn and somehow, a cannibalistic serial-killer family is only the beginning of the nightmare. The story follows Michael Morrow, a teenager trapped in an isolated family whose idea of a normal night involves kidnapping young women and making sure nothing goes to waste. Michael has spent most of his life believing escape isn’t really an option… until he meets Alice, a gir...
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  reddit nosleep: don't answer the call in your own voice 27.08.2026 24m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli dive into another terrifying Reddit NoSleep story and this one might make you permanently enable Do Not Disturb. At exactly 2:17 a.m., a man receives a phone call from his own number. On the other end is his own voice, warning him not to open the door, not to look into the mirrors, and most importantly, not to answer anything in his own voice. What follows is a nightmare of impossible phone calls, backward-facing feet, voic...
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  The Deep by Nick | a cure worse than the disease 25.08.2026 38m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are closing out Detective Month with their final, and most terrifying case yet: The Deep by Nick Cutter. Humanity is being devastated by a mysterious plague known as the ’Gets, an illness that causes people to slowly forget everything. With no cure in sight, hope emerges from the darkest depths of the Pacific Ocean, where scientists discover a strange substance called ambrosia that may be capable of healing any disease. For...
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  reddit paranormal: is my mother hexing me? 20.08.2026 16m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are back with another Reddit Paranormal episode, but this time, something smells seriously sinister. After reading a chilling story about mysterious rotting odors, unexplained incense, a strained relationship with a possibly witchy mother, and a sudden streak of terrible luck, the hosts debate whether the poster is dealing with a paranormal warning, a curse, or one horrifying coincidence. The conversation quickly spirals in...
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  Murder at Holly House by Denzil Meyrick | a corpse in the chimney?! 18.08.2026 21m

  Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Detective Month continues as Yajaira and Cheli take on the chilling case of Murder at Holly House by Denzil Meyrick. It’s December 1952, and the remote village of Elderby is preparing for Christmas when a dead stranger is discovered lodged inside the chimney of Holly House. Was he a thief, a would-be murderer, or something far more dangerous? Inspector Frank Grasby is sent to investigate, hoping the case might finally repair his damaged repu...