He Is Not Sneaky At All

Описание: Content Warning: This episode includes detailed discussion of death, historical embalming practices, and historical cannibalism.

For Spooky Season 2025, the gang ventures deep into the topic of mummies, and how they relate to Western horror fiction, cultural anxieties, history, heritage, and dubious medical practices.

In this episode:

"Encino Man" (1992)

"The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro" (from The Collector)

"From the Dark" (2014)

"The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine" (From Smithsonian Magazine)

"Lot No. 249" by Arthur Conan Doyle

"Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones" by Georgiana Burne-Jones

"The Mummy" (Universal Pictures franchise)

"The Mummy's Foot" by Theophile Gautier

"Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo" by Mary Douglas

"7 Surprising Uses For Mummies" (from Britannica.com)

"To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum" by Edward Bleiberg