"Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die." - Sounds exhausting. This is not how Hine and Buckley do Halloween anymore. So, instead of re-living their twenties, or the Lost Decade, as they call it, they talk to Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn about the greatest horror movie of the 1980s, or the Lost Boys, as they call it.

Sorcha is a film critic, a writer, an academic - a Reader in Film Studies with a specialism in American Film at Manchester Metropolitan University specialising in Gothic Studies and Horror Cinema, with a particular focus on Vampires - and an all-round legend who helps Hine and Buckley get their teeth stuck deep into Joel Schumacher's 1987 masterpiece without getting lost in the gory details (but never over-looking the Corey details).

The Lost Boys stands up well to scrutiny (well, mostly...kind of...) and Sorcha leads a discussion ranging from the transplanting of vampiric folklore from dark-ages Europe to MTV-era USA, the history of the vampire as a metaphor in literature and cinema, the way in which the Lost Boys and contemporary 1980s vampire movies, Near Dark and Fright Night contributed to queer horror, exactly what it is that makes the Lost Boys one of the greatest movies of all time... and what's the deal with the greased up, pumped up, beach-party thrusting sax-player and why is it that he's brilliant? (recorded 6 October 2025)

Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Sorcha's Website
Sorcha's Instagram
Sorcha's Twitter
Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Wikipedia
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Good Reads
Visions of the Vampire: Two Centuries of Blood-sucking Tales, Edited by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn and Xavier Aldana Reyes - Good Reads
Clive Barker: Dark imaginer, Edited by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Good Reads
The Worlds of Back to the Future: Critical Essays on the Films, Edited by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Good Reads

The Lost Boys
Lost Boys Trailer - YouTube
Lost Boys - Wikipedia
Back to the Future Trailer - YouTube
Back to the Future - Wikipedia
Kiefer Sutherland - Wikipedia
Lost Boys - Michael Super Cut
Jason Patric - Wikipedia
Corey Feldman - Wikipedia
Corey Haim - Wikipedia
Alex Winter - Wikipedia
Vampire - Wikipedia
Clive Barker - Wikipedia
The X-Files Trailer - YouTube
The X-Files - Wikipedia
Fright Night Trailer - YouTube
Fright Night - Wikipedia
Interview With the Vampire Trailer - YouTube
Interview With the Vampire - Wikipedia
Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach
Near Dark Trailer - YouTube
Near Dark - Wikipedia
Twilight Trailer - YouTube
Twlight - Wikipedia
True Blood - Trailer
True Blood - Wikipedia
Thomas Ligotti - Wikipedia
Dracula - Wikipedia
Zombie - Wikipedia
John William Polidori - Wikipedia
The Vampyre - Wikipedia
Lord Byron - Wikipedia
Frankenstein - Wikipedia
Mary Shelley
Nosferatu - Wikipedia
F. W. Murnau - Wikipedia
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson - Wikipedia
Dracula (1931) Trailer - YouTube
The Hunger Trailer - YouTube
The Hunger - Wikipedia
Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia
Michael Chapman (cinematographer) - Wikipedia
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) - Wikipedia
Joel Schumacher - Wikipedia
St. Elmo's Fire (film) - Wikipedia
St. Elmo's Fire Trailer - YouTube
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film) - Wikipedia
Bram Stoker's Dracula Trailer - YouTube
Dianne Wiest
Tim Cappello - Wikipedia
I Still Believe by Tim Cappello
"30 Years Ago, The Lost Boys Introduced Me to Queer Cinema" by Alcy Leyva - Bright Wall/Dark Room
"The Night Has its Price: The Queer Fangs of ‘Near Dark’" by Brant Lewis - Dread Central
"THE BOYS NEXT DOOR: The Homoeroticism of Fright Night and how it saved my life" by Glenn McQuaid - Gayly Dreadful
Family Ties - Wikipedia

Sorcha's Recommendations
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Let the Right One In Trailer - YouTube
Let the Right One In (film) - Wikipedia
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Good Reads
Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach
Celluloid Vampires: Life After Death in the Modern World by Stacey Abbott - Good Reads
Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator by Heather O. Petrocelli - University of Wales Press

Vayse online
Website
Twitter
Bluesky
Instagram
Bandcamp (Music From Vayse)
Ko-Fi
Email: vayseinfo@gmail.com

Special Guest: Sorcha Ní Fhlainn.

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In this episode the Vayse boys launch an investigation into where these weird communications might be coming from and who might be behind them with a little help and a lot of expertise from some familiar and very welcome faces: Douglas Batchelor, Darragh Mason, Sequoyah Kennedy, Joseph Matheny, Stephanie Quick and AP Strange. The deeper they dig, the more they find themselves falling down rabbit holes within rabbit holes within rabbit holes... (Recorded October 2024)

VYSXXXX | The Real Vayse: Halloween 2024 - Show Notes

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Special Guests: AP Strange, Darragh Mason, Douglas Batchelor, Joseph Matheny, Sequoyah Kennedy, and Stephanie Quick.

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Four middle-aged men bravely join forces to confront ancient evils, spooks, spectres and ghosts - ok, so, Vayse did Ghostbusters last Halloween but instead, this year, Hine and Buckley welcome back master of the liminal soundscape, Field Lines Cartographer and the Occult Detective himself, Bob Freeman to sit around the virtual camp fire as they each tell a ghost story from their home towns.

FLC tells a tale of Warwickshire plague pits and feelings of stalking dread in the dark, Hine recounts a gruesome murder in Preston which led to bloody revenge from beyond the grave, Bob spins a classic American yarn of haunted houses in the deep, dark woods of rural Indiana and Buckley tells of the spirit of a young boy who haunts the picturesque town of Great Corby bringing those who encounter him great fortune followed by certain death.

The conversation also turns to whether ghosts are actually, really all that scary, the differences between ghost stories in the UK and the US, the nature of reality itself (of course, this is Vayse)... and digitally transported flies... (Recorded 10 October 2023)

Thanks again to Keith for the show notes and thanks to everyone for listening - please tell a friend (or benignly neutral acquaintance) and ask them to do the same!

Mark Burford/Field Lines Cartographer (FLC) - Links

FLC on Bandcamp
FLC/Castles in Space on Bandcamp
FLC on Twitter
FLC on Instagram
FLC on Bluesky
FLC’s Phases of This and Other Moons album

Bob Freeman/Occult Detective - Links

Occult Detective website
Occult Detective on Patreon
Occult Detective on YouTube
Occult Detective on Twitter
Occult Detective on Instagram
Occult Detective on Bluesky
Fire and Ice Miniatures Adventure Game, Kickstarter

Vayse - Links

Vayse website
Vayse on Twitter
Vayse on Instagram
Music From Vayse - Volume 1 by Polypores
Vayse on Ko-Fi

Introduction - Links

The Addams Family (1964 TV series) Intro
The Addams Family (1964 TV series) - Wikipedia page
Halloween - Wikipedia page
VYS0006 | Dreamtides - Vayse to Face with Field Lines Cartographer
Fox Mulder - Wikipedia page
Dana Scully, Wikipedia page
VYS0017 | Occult Detective - Vayse to Face with Bob Freeman
INTERVIEW: Sara Frazetta and Bob Freeman continue the Frazetta family legacy with VAMPIRELLA: DEAD FLOWERS, Comicsbeat article
Fire and Ice Miniatures Adventure Game, Kickstarter
Frank Frazetta - Wikipedia page

Mark’s Spooky Story: Encounter on Bush Heath Lane - Links

Harbury - Wikipedia page
Warwickshire - Wikipedia page
Meriden, West Midlands - Wikipedia page
History of Harbury, Harbury Parish Council website
Fosse Way - Wikipedia page
Britain’s Roman ‘Ghost Legions’: And a Meditation on the Nature of Time and Space - Burning Blogger article
Knights Templar, Wikipedia page
Indiana Jones, Wikipedia page
Holy Grail - Wikipedia page
Ark of the Covenant - Wikipedia page
Napton on the hill - Wikipedia page
Temple End, Harbury; Our Warwickshire entry
Site of Preceptory of Knights Templar, Castle Park, Warwick, Our Warwickshire entry
Knights Templar Warwickshire - website
Knights Templar in England - Wikipedia page
Wagstaffe School / Wagstaffe School House, Harbury; Historic England entry
Warwickshire Ghosts, Folklore and Forteana, Paranormal Database entry
Coventry - Wikipedia page
Leamington Spa - Wikipedia page
Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia page
Crowley’s Childhood Home - LAShTAL.com feature
Park Lane and Bush Heath Lane, Harbury (map)
Plague Pit - Wikipedia page
Black Death - Wikipedia page
Starless and Bible-Black – Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas - review by Mick Canning
Dylan Thomas - Wikipedia page
Under Milk Wood - Wikipedia page
King Crimson - Starless (and Bible Black)
Psychic staring effect - Wikipedia page
What causes that feeling of being watched - BBC Future article
The Psychological Explanation for When You Feel Like You’re Being Watched - The Cut article
The silent companions - explanations for ‘feelings of presence’ - BPS.org article
The fear frequency - Guardian Science article by Mark Pilkington
Paul Weston’s website
VYS0023 | Mercurial, Mutable, Mysterious Something - Vayse to Face with Paul Weston
Mass psychogenic illness (Mass hysteria) - Wikipedia page
Can Dogs See Ghosts? What the Science Says - Reader’s Digest article
Ghost - Wikipedia page
VYS0006 | Dreamtides - Vayse to Face with Field Lines Cartographer
Elemental - Wikipedia page
Ghosts and Liminality: A Brief Introduction by George P. Hansen, Tricksterbook.com article
The Wednesday Phenomenon - The Mothman Wiki article
Understanding the New Moon and Its Effects On You - Yovada Life article

Hine’s spooky story: The Bannister Doll - Links

Preston, Lancashire - Wikipedia page
Lancashire - Wikipedia page
Ladywell Street, Preston (map)
Shapeshifting - Wikipedia page
Black dog (folklore) - Wikipedia page
Flagellation from Middle Ages to modern times (incl. England 1530 - 1967) - Wikipedia entry
House of correction - Wikipedia page
The Retributory Haunting of Bannister Doll - Beyond the Black Pool article
Bannister Hall (Preston) - Fairyist.com article
Spine-chilling tale of Bannister Doll (newspaper cutting)
Holy Trinity Church, Preston (archive photos)
Snow Hill, Preston (archive photos)
Snow Hill, Preston (recent Google street view)
Cautionary tale - Wikipedia page
Haunted doll - Wikipedia page
Child’s Play (1988 film) - Wikipedia page
Candyman (1992 film) - Wikipedia page
Beetlejuice (1988 film) - Wikipedia page
Deal with the Devil (Faustian bargain) - Wikipedia page
Bloody Mary (folklore), Wikipedia page
Lancaster Ghost Walk - Facebook page
Lancashire Ghosts, Folklore and Forteana, Paranormal Database entry
York Ghost Walks and Tours, Visit York website
Urban legends and myths - Wikipedia page
Bogeyman - Wikipedia page
Lyme Regis - Wikipedia page
VYS0017 | Occult Detective - Vayse to Face with Bob Freeman
Stone Tape Theory - Wikipedia page
Are ghosts dangerous? Everything you need to know - Friendly Specter article
Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid of Spirits - Liveabout.com article
How Do We Explain Mysterious Spectral Scratches? - Stranger Dimensions article
X Files S3 E2 ‘War of the Coprophages” (cockroach on screen, still) - Reddit post
The Fly (1958 film) - Wikipedia page
The Fly (1958) “Help Me!” scene

Bob’s story: A Spectral Entity in Peoria - Links

Mississinewa Lake Dam - Wikipedia page
Peoria, Miami County, Indiana - Wikipedia page
Mississinewa River - Wikipedia page
Cliffs of the Seven Double Pillars, Miami County, Indiana - MountainZone.com entry
Seven Pillars of the Mississinewa, Atlas Obscura entry (photos)
“The Little People” of the Mississinewa, article on Bob’s blog
Somerset - Indiana
Hellier (TV series) - Wikipedia page
Hellier (to watch) - Planet Weird TV website
Somerset, Kentucky - Wikipedia page
Raccoon - Wikipedia page
Virginia opossum (North American opossum, possum) - Wikipedia page
The early history of dress forms and mannequins - Dress Forms USA article
Urantia Foundation - Wikipedia page
The Urantia Book - Wikipedia page
Urantia Foundation website
Carp - Wikipedia page
Legend Of Brigadoon: Mythical Village Where Time Stands Still - Ancient Pages article
Germelshausen (disappearing town) - Wikipedia page
House of Leaves (book) - Wikipedia page
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
Haunting of Hill House (book) - Wikipedia page
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Haunting of Hill House (TV series) - Wikipedia page
Mediumship - Wikipedia page
Invocation - Wikipedia page
Evocation - Wikipedia page
Beelzebub - Wikipedia page

Buckley’s story: The Radiant Boy - Links

Cumbria - Wikipedia page
Great Corby - Wikipedia page
Great Corby, Cumbria (map)
River Eden, Cumbria - Wikipedia page
Corby Castle - Wikipedia page
Fungus - Wikipedia page
Primary School - Wikipedia page
Chinese whispers (aka game of telephone) - Wikipedia page
Dinner lady (aka Lunch lady) - Wikipedia page
Jack o’ Lantern - Wikipedia page
Radiant Boy - Occult World article
Henry Howard (historian) - Wikipedia page
Deal with the Devil (Faustian bargain) - Wikipedia page
Sizergh castle - Wikipedia page
Rheged - Wikipedia page
Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits by Rosemary Ellen Guiley - Goodreads page
Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Rosemary Ellen Guiley - Wikipedia page
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh - Wikipedia page
Acts of Union 1800 - Wikipedia page
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Decline and death - Wikipedia entry
North Cray - Wikipedia page
Loring Hall (country residence of British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Castlereagh, later Marquess of Londonderry), Wikipedia page
Mania - Wikipedia page

Differences between US and UK ghost stories, experiences, and landscape - Links

Stonehenge - Wikipedia page
The Cabin in the Woods (2011 film) - Wikipedia page
The Hut in the Forest (German fairy tale) - Wikipedia page
The Evil Dead (1981 film) - Wikipedia page
Native American Mythology and Legends, Legends of America list and article
10 Native American Mythical Creatures, from Thunderbirds to Skinwalkers - Oldwest.org article
Gangster: United States and Canada - Wikipedia entry
Indian removals in Indiana - Wikipedia page
Sacred Native American Sites in Indiana - Only In Your State listing
Black Shuck - Wikipedia page
Black dog (folklore) - Wikipedia page
Boggart - Wikipedia page
The Wild Hunt - Wikipedia page
Terrified witnesses tell of creepy 'Dogmen' creatures prowling in woods and prairies, Mirror article
Exmoor - Wikipedia page
Dartmoor - Wikipedia page
Anglezarke - Wikipedia page
SideVayse: SVYS003 | Anglezarke
Scottish Highlands - Wikipedia page
Midwestern United States - Wikipedia page
Yosemite National Park - Wikipedia page
VYS0024 | Between Being Real and Not Real - Vayse to Face with Nathan Paul Isaac

Are weird stories more believable if they’re non-coherent? - Links

The Social, Personal, and Spiritual Dynamics of Ghost Stories in Early Modern England - Cambridge.org article
The Eagle River Incident (Joe Simonton and the Space Pancakes)
Slender Man - Wikipedia page
Egregore - Wikipedia page
Candyman (character) - Wikipedia page
Retrocausality - Wikipedia page
The Shape of the Other: The Evolution of UFO Sightings by Shape - Weird Data Science article
The Man Who Introduced the World to Flying Saucers - The Atlantic article
Mystery airship - Wikipedia page
Angels And Aliens: Is There A Heavenly Relationship? - Anomalien article
Quantum mechanics, Wikipedia page
VYS0012 | Order Out of Chaos - Vayse to Face with Mark Vincent
Paradigm shift - Wikipedia page
Inter-dimensional UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia page
Internal combustion engine - Wikipedia page
Gnat - Wikipedia page
Dark Matter - Wikipedia page
DMT - Reported encounters with external entities (machine elves) - Wikipedia entry

Buckley’s recommendations for Halloween - Links

Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel) - Wikipedia page
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Borderlands (2013 film) - Wikipedia page
Lana Del Ray - Season Of The Witch
Hole - Season of the Witch
Donavan - Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch (song) - Wikipedia Page

Hine’s recommendations for Halloween - Links

Richard Thompson - Season of the Witch
The October Country - Wikipedia page
The October Country by Ray Bradbury
The Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Spiderland - Wikipedia page
Slint - Spiderland

Mark’s recommendations for Halloween - Links

Legion (Blatty novel) - Wikipedia page
Legion by William Peter Blatty
The Fog (1980 film) - Wikipedia page
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920 film) - Wikipedia page
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Field Lines Cartographer's Live Improvised soundtrack to The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Bob’s recommendations for Halloween - Links

The Willows (story) - Wikipedia page
Algernon Blackwood: The Willows (BBC Radio Drama)
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
The Devil Rides Out (1968 film) - Wikipedia page
The Devil Rides Out aka The Devil’s Bride (US)/ Official Theatrical Trailer (1968)
Charming Disaster (goth-folk musical duo) website

Special Guests: Bob Freeman and Field Lines Cartographer.

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We got one! Before there was Hellier, before there was Twin Peaks there was Ghostbusters. In this special Halloween episode Hine and Buckley take a deep dive into this cherished classic - the movie that launched a thousand ghost hunting expeditions and at least one podcast about weird stuff. At the remove of 38 years and examined through the lens of Vayse, is Ghostbusters a beloved and harmless comedy blockbuster, a Lovecraftian cautionary tale, or a technicolour Reaganite super-dream? See you on the other side. Recorded 26 October 2022.

(Warning: Throughout this episode we operate on an all spoiler no explainer basis. But if you haven't seen Ghostbusters, perhaps it's time to carefully examine your life choices...?)

The Texts

Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Music Discussed we talk a lot about the music in Ghostbusters in this episode - here are some choice cuts:

Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr (...?)
I want a New Drug by Huey Lewis and the News
Elmer Bernstein's fantastic score
Magic by Mick Smiley (and as a special treat the very 80s MTV Video)
Savin’ The Day by the Alessi Brothers
In The Name of Love by The Thompson Twins
Vayse Soundtrack by Polypores

Other References

Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Visual History by Daniel Wallace
Ghostbusters: The Inside Story by Matt McAllister
Spook Central
Ghostbusters Fandom Wiki
Ghostbusters.net
Ghostbusters.net on Twitter
Welsh Ghostbusters on Twitter - Seemingly random but a really great account
Necronomicon by Simon
Close up of the doors to the temple of Gozer
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - a fantastic Lovecraft "Greatest Hits".
The Exorcist
The Evil Dead
The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant - probably the place to start with Grant. Discusses the idea that Lovecraft was, in fact, a psychic and that the Cthulhu mythos was a revelation.
The Real Ghostbusters – The Collect Call of Cthulhu
VYS0004 | The Uncanny Vallée and the Unreal Keel - The Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis Pt.1 and VYS0005 | UFOnauts and Inverted Crosses - The Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis Pt.2 - Our episodes on the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis
Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret by Jacques Vallée and Paola Leopizzi Harris - Our neoliberal overlords at Amazon seem to be by far the cheapest place to get this book at present.
Speaking of Neoliberal overlords, the New Economic Foundation did a great series of podcasts about neoliberalism which Hine borrowed from heartily to fuel the frenzied final third of this episode.
Life After Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row by Damien Echols - eye opening account of his time on death row following his wrongful and how Magic and love saved his life.
Making Ghostbusters by Don Shay - unfortunately long out of print and now ridiculously expensive.
A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever by Jr. Greene James

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