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Episode 184 - Horror
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This episode we’re discussing the fiction genre of Horror! We talk about fear, control, Goosebumps, bad dogs, horror-comedy, creepypasta, the apocalypse, lizard romance, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
- Straight by Chuck Tingle
- Mister Magic by Kiersten White, narrated by Rebecca Lowman
- I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
- The Wicked Unseen by Gigi Griffis
- Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
- Leech by Hiron Ennes
- The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen edited by Ellen Datlow
- House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
- Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit: Fazbear Frights #1 by Scott Cawthon and Elley Cooper
- Sadako at the End of the World by Koma Natsumi
- The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 3 by Eiji Otsuka and Yamazaki Housui
Things We Read (but didn’t talk about in this episode)
- Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki! by Kanako Inuki
- Résumé With Monsters by William Browning Spencer
- Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
- Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee
- Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
- A Song for the Quiet by Cassandra Khaw
- The Helios Syndrome by Vivian Shaw
- Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum
Other Media (& Authors) We Mentioned
- Captain Britain And MI13, Volume 3: Vampire State by Paul Cornell, Leonard Kirk, and Mike Collins
- Dracula on the Moon
- Stephen King
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Alien: Isolation (Wikipedia)
- Dead Space (2008 video game) (Wikipedia)
- R.L. Stine
- Junji Ito
- The Enigma of Amigara Fault - “T-this is my hole! It was made for me!”
- Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
- Emily Carroll
- Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
- Candle Cove by Kris Straub
- Candle Cove (Wikipedia)
- Black Swan (film) (Wikipedia)
- The Addams Family (Wikipedia)
- Dune (franchise) (Wikipedia)
- SCP Foundation
- SCP-087
- The SCP Foundation: Declassified (YouTube)
- Terror in 16-bits
- Five Nights at Freddy's (Wikipedia)
- The Ring (2002 film) (Wikipedia)
- We talked more about the novel The Ring in Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers
- Crapshots Ep608 - The Old Ones (YouTube)
- Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (Wikipedia)
- Abbott and Costello (Wikipedia)
- Dread (role-playing game) (Wikipedia)
Links, Articles, Etc.
- Episode 176: Fantasy
- Episode 123: Psychological Horror
- Does the Dog Die?
- Matthew’s spooky phone case is a variant of this one
- Matthew did a “31 Spooky Manga” challenge a few years ago and read a different spooky manga every day in October.
- The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry
Sound Effects
- Big Thunder And Distant Thunder Rain Birds by morvei01
- Dramatic Organ, A by InspectorJ
- bats1 by sofie
- Pigeons (St Stephens Green, Dublin) by iainmccurdy
31 Recent Horror Books by BIPOC Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
This list features horror fiction by BIPOC authors published within the last 3 years.
- Jackal by Erin E. Adams
- Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
- The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
- The Spite House by Johnny Compton
- The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
- And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
- Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell
- Piñata by Leopoldo Gout
- Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
- Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
- The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
- Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
- My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
- The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
- Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
- Lone Women by Victor LaValle
- Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
- Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena-Garcia
- This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
- Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
- Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele
- Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn
- Manmade Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers
- Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
- I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
- Chlorine by Jade Song
- Midnight Storm Moonless Sky: Indigenous Horror Stories by Alex Soop
- There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer
- She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
- Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories by Lindsay Wong
- White Horse by Erika T. Wurth
Give us feedback!
Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read!
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Join us again on Tuesday, November 7th when we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Crafts and Crafting!
Then on Tuesday, December 5th we’ll be talking about the genre of Suspense Fiction!
207 episodes
Manage episode 378655663 series 1210826
This episode we’re discussing the fiction genre of Horror! We talk about fear, control, Goosebumps, bad dogs, horror-comedy, creepypasta, the apocalypse, lizard romance, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
- Straight by Chuck Tingle
- Mister Magic by Kiersten White, narrated by Rebecca Lowman
- I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
- The Wicked Unseen by Gigi Griffis
- Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
- Leech by Hiron Ennes
- The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen edited by Ellen Datlow
- House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
- Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit: Fazbear Frights #1 by Scott Cawthon and Elley Cooper
- Sadako at the End of the World by Koma Natsumi
- The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 3 by Eiji Otsuka and Yamazaki Housui
Things We Read (but didn’t talk about in this episode)
- Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki! by Kanako Inuki
- Résumé With Monsters by William Browning Spencer
- Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
- Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee
- Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
- A Song for the Quiet by Cassandra Khaw
- The Helios Syndrome by Vivian Shaw
- Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum
Other Media (& Authors) We Mentioned
- Captain Britain And MI13, Volume 3: Vampire State by Paul Cornell, Leonard Kirk, and Mike Collins
- Dracula on the Moon
- Stephen King
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Alien: Isolation (Wikipedia)
- Dead Space (2008 video game) (Wikipedia)
- R.L. Stine
- Junji Ito
- The Enigma of Amigara Fault - “T-this is my hole! It was made for me!”
- Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
- Emily Carroll
- Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
- Candle Cove by Kris Straub
- Candle Cove (Wikipedia)
- Black Swan (film) (Wikipedia)
- The Addams Family (Wikipedia)
- Dune (franchise) (Wikipedia)
- SCP Foundation
- SCP-087
- The SCP Foundation: Declassified (YouTube)
- Terror in 16-bits
- Five Nights at Freddy's (Wikipedia)
- The Ring (2002 film) (Wikipedia)
- We talked more about the novel The Ring in Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers
- Crapshots Ep608 - The Old Ones (YouTube)
- Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (Wikipedia)
- Abbott and Costello (Wikipedia)
- Dread (role-playing game) (Wikipedia)
Links, Articles, Etc.
- Episode 176: Fantasy
- Episode 123: Psychological Horror
- Does the Dog Die?
- Matthew’s spooky phone case is a variant of this one
- Matthew did a “31 Spooky Manga” challenge a few years ago and read a different spooky manga every day in October.
- The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry
Sound Effects
- Big Thunder And Distant Thunder Rain Birds by morvei01
- Dramatic Organ, A by InspectorJ
- bats1 by sofie
- Pigeons (St Stephens Green, Dublin) by iainmccurdy
31 Recent Horror Books by BIPOC Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
This list features horror fiction by BIPOC authors published within the last 3 years.
- Jackal by Erin E. Adams
- Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
- The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
- The Spite House by Johnny Compton
- The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
- And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
- Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell
- Piñata by Leopoldo Gout
- Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
- Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
- The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
- Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
- My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
- The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
- Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
- Lone Women by Victor LaValle
- Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
- Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena-Garcia
- This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
- Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
- Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele
- Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn
- Manmade Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers
- Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
- I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
- Chlorine by Jade Song
- Midnight Storm Moonless Sky: Indigenous Horror Stories by Alex Soop
- There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer
- She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
- Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories by Lindsay Wong
- White Horse by Erika T. Wurth
Give us feedback!
Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read!
Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!
Join us again on Tuesday, November 7th when we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Crafts and Crafting!
Then on Tuesday, December 5th we’ll be talking about the genre of Suspense Fiction!
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