EP08. Horror Narratives
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In this episode, George and Janet talk about one of George’s favorite literary genres—Horror. The many ways in which we can relate to narratives centered around otherness and the toll of trauma responses take center stage this week, as we trace Horror’s history through gothic Europe into the modern American tradition. See below for books mentioned! (Lots for this episode!) Intro song Bookmark and editing by Quatroizer). Logo art by Gabriel de Mello). Books Mentioned: The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue It Came from the Closet ed. Joe Vallese The Beast You Are by Paul Tremblay Stuff of Nightmares RED MURDER by RL Stine and Adam Gorham The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Mist Over Pendle by Robert Neill Guillaume de Palerme by Anonymous Witch of Berkeley by William of Malmesbury Bluebeard by Charles Perrault The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Dracula by Bram Stoker The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Vampyre by John Polidori Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Invisible Man by HG Wells Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin The Other by Tom Tryon The Exorcist by Peter Blatty The Witching Hour by Anne Rice How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found by Sara Nickerson Spring-Heeled Jack by Phillip Pullman Twilight by Stephanie Meyer The Bailey School Kids series by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Jones Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin My Heart Is a Chainsaw and The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Dorohedoro and Dai Dark by Q Hayashida House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly