The ‘ber months are here, so that means we’re reading horror. You know we read horror all year round, but we brought in the expert – Mother Horror herself! Tune in to hear Mhairie chat about horror books, women in horror, becoming an accidental author, and good old fashioned vibes reading.
Books mentioned:
- Feral and Hysterical Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women– Sadie Hartmann
- Ghost Story– Peter Straub
- 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered– Sadie Hartmann
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil– V. E. Schwab
- This House is Haunted– John Boyne
- The Doll Factory– Elizabeth Macneal (Audio)
- The Red Knot– Monique Asher (Audio)
- Born a Crime– Trevor Noah (Audiobook is an Audible exclusive so we won’t link it, screw you Amazon!)
- The Bewitching– Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Audio)
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter– Stephen Graham Jones (Audio)
- The Salvage– Anbara Salam
- The Hounding– Xenobe Purvis
Resources mentioned:
Nightworms
The Storygraph
NoveList Plus (Through your library, search: novelist library)
FBC’s Vampires of El Norte discussion
Other authors mentioned:
Anne Rice
Stephen King
John Sandford
Patricia Cornwell
Agatha Christie
Grady Hendrix
Isabel Cañas
Alexis Henderson
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This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
Original music by Amarissa
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