Hardcover Hooligans
Two comedians read popular fantasy, sci-fi, and horror books.
Displaying all 5 Episode of Hardcover Hooligans with the tag “horror”.
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Is Fantasy Worldbuilding...Evil? (Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius)
September 19th, 2025 | 41 mins 16 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
After an unintentional summer hiatus, we’re back with the third and final installment of our short series on Borges short stories. And oh no! It turns out a billionaire creating a fantasy planet with his friends can destroy the world.
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One Long Book Joke (Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote)
June 2nd, 2025 | 51 mins 43 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
If we claimed we wrote a Borges story and read it in its entirety at the end of our podcast, that would make the story infinitely richer.
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The Nightmare of Infinite Books (The Library of Babel)
April 30th, 2025 | 48 mins 30 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
An infinite library implies the existence of infinite Mr. Beast video transcripts.
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High School Prank GONE WRONG (Carrie)
April 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 13 mins
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
The moral of this story is to not bully the girl with latent psychic abilities.
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Hard Vampire System (I Am Legend)
July 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 2 mins
book, book podcast, books, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, geek, horror, review, vampire
We dive into the mind of Robert Neville, a lonely, sexually repressed, alcoholic, 1950s white man who staves off his horniness by blasting classical music and checking out books from the library.