Our Halloween Horror Reading Recommendations
Oct 26, 2023•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
So we have come to the last of our horror genre shows…although we have decided we like the moniker 'dark literature’ better. We have a game-changing author to end it with (in time for Halloween): Paul Tremblay. If you read ‘dark literature’ and you haven’t devoured A Head Full of Ghosts on a dark and stormy night, RUN, do not walk, to your nearest independent bookstore. But Kate has read seven of his books (so far) and has not been disappointed in a single one. We also talk to horror writer and Professor Michael Arnzen of Seton Hill University about the courses he teaches in the dark art of writing what scares us. We hope you have enjoyed our ‘dark literature’ series….we might dip back from time to time. Happy Halloween.
Books mentioned in this week's episode:
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay
No Sleep Til Wonderland by Paul Tremblay
Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye by Paul Tremblay
Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn’t Fly by Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay
The Pallbearer’s Club by Paul Tremblay
In the Mean Time by Paul Tremblay
Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay
The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
Absolution by Alice McDermott
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Stand by Stephen King
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez
Psycho by Robert Bloch
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Ulysses by James Joyce
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Film by Carol Clover
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