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The Starving Saints
19 May 2026
01:35:40
Discussing The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
The castle of Aymar is under siege and with only 15 days of provisions left, the inhabitants will soon starve. It appears that all is lost until the four saints arrive: The Constant Lady, The Warding Saint, The Loving Saint, and The Absolving Saint, bearing a cornucopia of food. But at what cost?
Next Up: Little Heaven – Nick Cutter Knock Knock, Open Wide – Neil Sharpson A Head Full of Ghosts – Paul Tremblay
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Wolves of Calla (Dark Tower #5) – Stephen King Young Man in a Hurry – Gavin Newsom Wizard of Oz – Frank Baum The Art of Slow Writing – Louise DeSalvo Between Two Fires – Christopher Buehlman Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales – Michael Shea Southern Reach Trilogy – Jeff VanderMeer The Unworthy – Agustina Bazterrica Between Two Fires – Christopher Buehlman
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Piñata
05 May 2026
01:05:26
Discussing Piñata by Leopoldo Gout
A little girl takes a piñata from the ancient ruins of a church in Mexico. It is a very bad idea and when she takes it back home to new York with her family, things begin to spiral out of control. As a possession takes hold, grasshoppers jump scare the Sanchez family and swarms of butterflies smash like hail against the windows. Will they be consumed by their vengeful ancestors, or is there hope to put things to rest and live peacefully again?
Next Up: The Starving Saints – Caitlin Starling Little Heaven – Nick Cutter Knock Knock, Open Wide – Neil Sharpson
Books Mentioned in this Episode: One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This – Omar El Akkad Those Across the River – Christopher Buehlman They Called Us Enemy – George Takei Girl in the Creek – Wendy N. Wagner
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Krampus: The Yule Lord
23 Dec 2025
00:45:08
Discussing Krampus: The Yule Lord by Gerald Brom
Mean old Krampus escapes centuries of imprisonment and returns to bring Yuletide cheer and birch tree whacks to the children of the modern world. Also he hates Santa Claus. Ho ho ho!
Next Up: Fever House – Keith Rosson The Devil By Name – Keith Rosson A Natural History of Hell – Jeffrey Ford
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Nibelungenlied The Saga of the Völsunga Edda (Prose & Poetic) – Snorri Sturluson Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery – Gerald Brom
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Candy Cain Kills
09 Dec 2025
01:08:07
Discussing Candy Cain Kills by Brian McAuley
Bad parents treat their daughters poorly resulting in the creation of a Christmas killer in this cozy cabin slasher.
Next Up: Krampus: The Yule Lord – Gerald Brom Fever House – Keith Rosson The Devil By Name – Keith Rosson
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Candy Cain Kills Again; Breathe In, Bleed Out – Brian McAuley 11/22/63 – Stephen King Crave: Extreme Space Horror – Crowley Barns Follow Me To Ground – Sue Rainsford The Barking Ghost – R.L. Stine Xenos (Warhammer 40k Eisenhorn Omnibus) – Dan Abnett
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North American Lake Monsters
25 Nov 2025
01:20:18
Discussing North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
This debut short story collection features nine tales of down and out ex-cons, single parents, unemployed laborers, and other desperate characters living on the margins of society, encountering horrors both human and supernatural.
Next Up: Candy Cain Kills – Brian McAuley Krampus: The Yule Lord – Gerald Brom Fever House – Keith Rosson
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the BubonicPlague – David K. Randall The King in Yellow – Robert W. Chambers Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History – Bill Schutt Saga of the Swamp Thing (Book 2) – Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben Jesus’ Son – Denis Johnson The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon
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Frankenstein
11 Nov 2025
01:25:59
Discussing Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
An asshole scientist channels his energy into bringing the dead back to life which he abhors the moment the experiment succeeds. People suffer and die and Victor feels little to no remorse over the whole thing. Meanwhile, the creature just wants to do people’s chores in exchange for not being hated on sight.
Next Up: North American Lake Monsters – Nathan Ballingrud Candy Cain Kills – Brian McAuley Krampus: The Yule Lord – Gerald Brom
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille John Dies at the End – Jason Pargin Mapping the Interior – Stephen Graham Jones Jaws – Peter Benchley Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi The Lamb – Lucy Rose Saga of the Swamp Thing (Book 1) – Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben
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Bonus Episode: Yeehaw Junction
05 Nov 2025
00:45:02
Discussing Yeehaw Junction by Kayli Scholz
When a family of thieves and runaways joins the search for a missing girl in rural Florida, they’re drawn into a chemical conspiracy that extends far beyond their worst nightmares.
Join us in this special bonus episode talking about a very weird, very Florida book!
Next Up: Frankenstein – Mary Shelley North American Lake Monsters – Nathan Ballingrud Candy Cain Kills – Brian McAuley
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The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre
28 Oct 2025
00:59:24
Discussing The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi
Old people are dropping like flies at the Autumn Springs Retirement Home and nobody seems to care until one Rose DuBois smells foul play, recruiting her best friend Miller to help investigate the string of deaths. Could it be the youthful and ubiquitous Administrator Blackwell, the cackling Baxter Sisters casting spells in the old asylum, or someone closer to home? The further she digs, the more Rose is convinced: there's a killer on the loose, and if she isn’t careful, she may be their next victim.
Next Up: Frankenstein – Mary Shelley North American Lake Monsters – Nathan Ballingrud Candy Cain Kills – Brian McAuley
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Eat the Ones You Love – Sarah Maria Griffin Nothing But Blackened Teeth – Cassandra Khaw The Werewolf of Fever Swamp – R.L. Stine In the Tall Grass – Stephen King & Joe Hill Something in the Walls – Daisy Pearce The Unworthy – Agustina Bazterrica Saga of the Swamp Thing #1 – Alan Moore
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Maeve Fly
14 Oct 2025
01:13:09
Discussing Maeve Fly by CJ Leede
By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place on earth as every child’s favorite ice princess. By night, she haunts dive bars in the Sunset Strip with a drink in one hand and a book in the other. Add in a few splashes of murder and horniness, and we're off!
Next Up: The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre – Philip Fracassi Frankenstein – Mary Shelley Candy Cain Kills – Brian McAuley
Books Mentioned in this Episode: American Rapture – CJ Leede Bury Your Gays – Chuck Tingle The Black Tree Atop the Hill – Karla Yvette Edenville – Sam Rebelein Backyard Starship – J.N. Chaney The Mean Ones – Tatiana Scholte-Bonne Goddess of Filth – V. Castro
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Lucky Day
30 Sep 2025
01:12:36
Discussing Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
8 million people were killed in the now infamous Low Probability Event. Fish fell from the sky, manholes exploded, animals ran amok, and everything else impossible and improbable occurred all at once in a spasm of murderous chaos. Four years after the LPE, Vera struggles to find meaning in life when Special Agent Layne barges in with orders to help him investigate a Las Vegas casino believed to be at the heart of another deadly improbability.
Next Up: Maeve Fly – CJ Leede The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre – Philip Fracassi Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Space Raptor Butt Invasion, Camp Damascus, Bury Your Gays – Chuck Tingle Yellowface; Babel, or the Necessity of Violence – R. F. Kuang Isola – Allegra Goodman The Werewolf of Fever Swamp – R.L. Stine Follow Me to Ground – Sue Rainsford The High Desert – James Spooner Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural – Wagner, Wise
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Author Interview: Jessica Lacy (Tastes like Candy)
19 Sep 2025
01:02:32
Meet Jessica Lacy, the author of Tastes Like Candy! Join us in this bonus interview where we discuss all things horror, the author's writing journey, and more.
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American Psycho
28 Apr 2026
01:19:18
Discussing AmericanPsycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Patrick Bateman is the ideal man. He’s rich, he’s attractive, and he can afford to eat at luxury restaurants for every single meal. He has impeccable taste in menswear and a refined ear for music. Unfortunately, he is also a psychopath, and his friends suck.
Next Up: Piñata – Leopoldo Gout The Starving Saints – Caitlin Starling Little Heaven – Nick Cutter
Books Mentioned in this Episode: White, Less than Zero, Lunar Park – Bret Easton Ellis Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien Night of the Living Trekkies – Kevin David Anderson, Sam Stall Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux Uncanny: The Origins of Fear, Uzumaki, Shiver, Venus in the Blind Spot – Junji Ito
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Tastes Like Candy
16 Sep 2025
01:09:02
Discussing Tastes Like Candy by Jessica Lacy
The incoming seniors at Pritchett High go on a scavenger hunt at the Poison Apple Halloween Carnival. Things go poorly for the girls in this gory, bubblegum slasher.
Next Up: Lucky Day – Chuck Tingle Maeve Fly – CJ Leede The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre – Philip Fracassi
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo – Adam Cesare Hungerstone – Kat Dunn Piranesi – Susanna Clark Providence – Alan Moore, illustrated by Jacen Burrows Time Waits – Chip Zdarsky and David Brothers, illustrated by Marcus To
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The Reformatory
02 Sep 2025
01:10:25
Discussing The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
12-year-old Robert Stephens Jr. gets sentenced to six months' time at the Gracetown School for Boys, a haunted reform school in the Jim Crow South run by a sadistic warden.
Next Up: Tastes Like Candy – Jessica Lacy Lucky Day – Chuck Tingle Maeve Fly – C.J. Leede
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, The Good House, The Living Blood – Tananarive Due The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad– Colson Whitehead The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander The Black Carnival – Harlequin Grim Appendix N – Edited by Peter Bebergal
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Summerween Update!
29 Jul 2025
00:47:37
Discussing G-Fest, Chicago Bookstores, Summer Reading
Summerween... Midsommar update... call it what you want, we miss you!
Next Up: Season 2 begins September 2! Stay tuned to dusk.to.dawn.podcast for the reading list.
Books Mentioned in this Episode: The Penguin Book of Demons The Penguin Book of the Undead The Penguin Book of Witches Last Evenings on Earth – Roberto Bolaño Occultation and Other Stories – Laird Barron Suicide – Édouard Levé
William – Mason Coile The Night Guest – Hildur Knútsdóttir Plastic Monsters – Daniel J. Volpe Listen to Your Sister – Neena Viel How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive – Craig DiLouie Fearless and Free – Josephine Baker The Coming of the Third Reich – Richard J. Evans The Creeper – A.M. Shine
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Tender Is the Flesh
01 Jul 2025
01:21:21
Discussing Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The meat processing industry... with humans!
Next Up: Summer break! See you again in September (and maybe once or twice over the summer). Stay tuned for the Season 2 reading list!
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird, Matar a la niña, The Unworthy – Agustina Bazterrica Nestlings, Mary: An Awakening of Terror – Nat Cassidy Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History – Bill Schutt The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Episode Trigger Warnings: Extreme body horror, sexual assault, suicide
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The Road Through the Wall
17 Jun 2025
01:23:31
Discussing The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson
Nobody likes anyone else on Pepper Street. Poor Caroline.
Next Up: Tender Is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica
Books Mentioned in this Episode: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery – Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin The Diving Pool – Yoko Ogawa Morality, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams – Stephen King The Song for the Unraveling of the World – Brian Evenson The Only Good Indians, Night of the Mannequins, My Heart is a Chainsaw – Stephen Graham Jones Where I End – Sophie White Reprieve – James Han Mattson The Coming of the Third Reich – Richard J. Evans Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk – Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil
Episode Trigger Warnings: Mean Neighbors, attempted suicide
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The Only Good Indians
03 Jun 2025
01:16:47
Discussing The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
A group of friends from the Blackfeet Nation – Ricky, Lewis, Cass, and Gabe – trespasses into the elder section of the reservation hunting grounds to pursue a herd of elk. The resulting hunt has dire consequences that haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Next Up (in order): The Road Through the Wall – Shirley Jackson Tender Is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Night of the Mannequins, I Was a Teenage Slasher, My Heart Is a Chainsaw – Stephen Graham Jones Sisters of the Lost Nation – Nick Medina Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology – Various Authors A People's History of the United States – Howard Zinn Moby Dick – Herman Melville (ugh...) The Fisherman – John Langan Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin Maul Rats – Ivy Tholen
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A Short Stay in Hell
20 May 2025
01:19:19
Discussing A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck
A Mormon man goes to library hell.
Next Up (in order): The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones The Road Through the Wall – Shirley Jackson Tender Is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica
Books Mentioned in this Episode: The Library of Babel, Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges Finnegan's Wake – James Joyce Song for the Unraveling of the World – Brian Evenson Moby Dick – Herman Melville The Horror at Red Hook – H.P. Lovecraft The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk – Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil Night of the Mannequins – Stephen Graham Jones
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Carmilla
06 May 2025
01:33:17
Discussing Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
A lonely 19 year old girl makes friends with a vampire at her castle in the woods of Austria. Things get steamy between them in a delicious serving of gothic tropes.
Next Up: The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones or maybe A Short Stay In Hell - Steven L. Peck
Books Mentioned in this Episode: The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe The Monk: A Romance - Matthew Gregory Lewis Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Vampyre - John William Polidori Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë Bleak House - Charles Dickens Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Dracula - Bram Stoker The Turn of the Screw - Henry James Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux Moby Dick - Herman Melville Maul Rats, Tastes Like Candy - Ivy Tholen
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Where I End
22 Apr 2025
01:03:03
Discussing Where I End by Sophie White
A young woman goes loopy caring for her invalid mother on a craggy island off the west coast of Ireland.
Next Up: Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Corpsing – Sophie White We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson My Darling Dreadful Thing – Johanna van Veen Dust & Grim – Chuck Wendig Edward II – Christopher Marlowe
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The Fisherman
08 Apr 2025
01:22:06
Discussing The Fisherman by John Langan
Two widowers strike up a friendship fishing. Things get fishy.
Next Up: Where I End - Sophie White
Books Mentioned in this Episode: The Book of Job – Old Testament Maeve Fly - CJ Leede At Dark, I Become Loathsome - Eric LaRocca Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty - Dan Jones Dark Tales - Shirley Jackson Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History - Bill Schutt Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare Othello - Shakespeare Metamorphoses - Ovid
Episode Trigger Warnings: Fishing Puns, Bait and Switch
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Psycho
14 Apr 2026
01:24:02
Discussing Psycho by Robert Bloch
Mary Crane is on the run after stealing $40,000 in cash from her employer. Driving late into the night in the pouring rain, she decides to stop for the night at the Bates Motel, run by middle-aged bachelor Norman Bates who lives with his mother in their house behind the motel. Or does he?
Next Up: American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis Piñata – Leopoldo Gout The Starving Saints – Caitlin Starling
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Mysteries of the Worm – Robert Bloch Titus Andronicus – William Shakespeare Realm of the Incas – Victor Wolfgang von Hagen Matrix – Lauren Groff
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Such Lovely Skin
25 Mar 2025
01:15:45
Discussing Such Lovely Skin by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
A self-absorbed Twitch streamer accidentally causes her little sister's death and is now being haunted by a mimic summoned through a horror video game.
Next Up: The Fisherman - John Langan
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Only the Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones The Mean Ones - Tatiana Schlote-Bonne Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer Throwback - Lynn Hortel So Thirsty / Black Sheep - Rachel Harrison Survive the Night - Riley Sager
Episode Trigger Warnings: Unaccountability, Hot Topic Goths
Books Mentioned in this Episode: We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix The Last Night to Kill Nazis, Boot Boys of the Wolf Reich, Goddamn Killing Machines, The Vegan Revolution... with Zombies – David Agranoff The Fisherman – John Langan The Great Mortality – John Kelly House of Bone and Rain – Gabino Iglesias
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The Shining
25 Feb 2025
01:21:39
Discussing The Shining by Stephen King
A desperate, alcoholic writer moves his family to the Overlook Hotel to work as the winter caretaker but instead of finishing his play he loses his mind. Come and take your medicine!
Next Up: Punk Rock Ghost Story - David Agranoff
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Carrie; Salem's Lot; The Stand – Stephen King The Black Guy Dies First – Robin R. Means Coleman, Mark H. Harris The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson Hamlet – Shakespeare The Haunted Forest Tour – James A. Moore, Jeff Strand The House of Bone and Rain – Gabino Iglesias The Familiar – Leigh Bardugo
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We Sold Our Souls
28 Jan 2025
01:19:11
Discussing We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
Everything comes crashing down on Kris Pulaski's heavy metal dreams of making it big in her band, Dürt Würk, and now she's working a dead-end hotel job where lodgers pee on the floor. Her best friend screwed everything up, signed a contract with demons, and taunts her with his successful nu metal band.
Next Up: Song for the Unraveling of the World - Brian Evenson
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Horrorstör; The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Vampire Slaying; The Final Girl Support Group; Paperbacks from Hell – Grady Hendrix Punk Rock Ghost Story – David Agranoff
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Revenge
13 Jan 2025
01:00:52
Discussing Revenge by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
Weird stuff happens to city people in this book of short stories with connected characters, eerie situations, and somebody who wears a bag over their heart!
Next Up: We Sold Our Souls - Grady Hendrix
Books Mentioned in this Episode: I Was a Teenage Slasher – Stephen Graham Jones Good Night, Sleep Tight; A Collapse of Horses; Last Days – Brian Evenson They Were Here Before Us – Eric LaRocca We Used to Live Here – Marcus Kliewer Sisters of the Lost Nation – Nick Medina A Natural History of Hell – Jeffrey Ford The Memory Police – Yōko Ogawa The Luminous Dead – Caitlin Starling Hiding Lies – Stephanie Rose Tastes Like Candy – Ivy Tholen
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Victorian Psycho
01 Apr 2026
01:08:41
Discussing Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
Winifred Notty becomes the new governess for the Pounds family at the prestigious Ensor House in Victorian England. She is crazy and things go poorly for the family.
Next Up: Pyscho – Robert Bloch American Pyscho – Bret Easton Ellis Piñata – Leopoldo Gout
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It – Janina Ramirez We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind – Jocelyn K. Glei
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The Watchers
17 Mar 2026
01:11:35
Discussing The Watchers by A.M. Shine
A group of strangers get stranded in a heavily wooded area in the west of Ireland. Things in the night watch them through the glass.
Next Up: Victorian Psycho – Virginia Feito Pyscho – Robert Bloch American Pyscho – Bret Easton Ellis
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Where I End – Sophie White Starling House – Alix E. Harrow Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution – Will Englund
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You Weren't Meant to Be Human
03 Mar 2026
01:26:57
Discussing You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White
Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few struggling humans salvation.
Crane is grateful for it. Among his hive’s followers, he has found a chance to transition, to never speak again, to live a life that won’t destroy him. He even met Levi: a handsome ex-Marine and brutal killer who treats him like a real man, mostly. But when Levi gets Crane pregnant—and the hive demands the child’s birth, no matter the cost—Crane’s desperation to make it stop will drive the community that saved him into a devastating spiral that can only end in blood.
Next Up: The Watchers – A.M. Shine Victorian Psycho – Virginia Feito Pyscho – Robert Bloch
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Medieval Europe: From the Breakup of the Western Roman Empire to the Reformation – Chris Wickham Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout – Laura Jane Grace Gender Queer – Maia Kobabe Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death – Peter V. Jones Incidents Around the House – Josh Malerman
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The Ballad of Black Tom
17 Feb 2026
01:06:47
Discussing The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
New York bluesman Charles Thomas Tester gets caught up in the arcane while hustling wealthy white people to help support his father. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tommy Tester opens a door to a deeper realm of magic and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.
Next Up: You Weren't Meant to Be Human – Andrew Joseph White The Watchers – A.M. Shine Victorian Psycho – Virginia Feito
Books Mentioned in this Episode: The Horror at Red Hook; Dagon; The Shadow Over Innsmouth; The Call of Cthulhu – H.P. Lovecraft Wolves of Winter – Dan Jones Old Wounds – Logan-Ashley Kisner The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History – Elizabeth Kolbert Tao Te Ching – Lou Tzu, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin James – Percival Everett
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A Natural History of Hell
03 Feb 2026
01:04:24
Discussing A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford
Exorcism is in vogue. A witch with a 300-pound smoking pig sells an ointment that makes people feel just right. A man rides in a rocket ship and lives to write about it and other stories in this baker's dozen of weird tales mixing humor, satire, and horror in a genre-bending delight!
Next Up: The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle You Weren't Meant to Be Human – Andrew Joseph White The Watchers – A.M. Shine
Books Mentioned in this Episode: Disco Mama – Tiffany Meuret Yeehaw Junction – Kayli Scholz Revenge – Yōko Ogawa The Art of Fiction – John Gardner Life Finds A Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity – Andreas Wagner Essex Dogs – Dan Jones A Shocker on Shock Street – R.L. Stine Semicolon: The Past, Present, And Future of a Misunderstood Mark – Cecelia Watson
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The Devil By Name (Month of Rosson Pt. 2)
20 Jan 2026
01:09:46
Discussing The Devil By Name by Keith Rosson
It's 5 years later. Things have gotten much worse.
Next Up: A Natural History of Hell – Jeffrey Ford The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle You Weren't Meant to Be Human – Andrew Joseph White
Books Mentioned in this Episode: The Stand – Stephen King Yeehaw Junction – Kayli Scholz The Fisherman – John Langan The Book of the New Sun – Gene Wolfe Punk Land – Carlton Mellick III Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King, Jr.