Episode 184 - Horror

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

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!

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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
  • Misery
  • The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
  • Cujo
• 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
  • Goosebumps
  • Fear Street
• 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
  • Smart Podcast Trashy Books: 579. Punk Rock Writing with 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

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