Come for the local color, stay for the HORROR! It's our annual spooky season episode, and this time around we discuss everything from classics of American lit that have a horror/gothic angle, to contemporary horror in translation, to pulp horror from the 80s care of the Paperbacks from Hell! We have a basic fall cozy, Sarah's take on one of the most anticipated books of the year (our one non-horror diversion), and plenty of to-be-reads (some horror and some not!). Break out a bag of candy and dig in! Happy Halloween!
Books discussed:
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Katie by Michale McDowell
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorn
The Reaping by Bernard Taylor
Four by Four by Sara Mesa translated by Katie Whittemore
Help the Witch by Tom Cox
The Villager by Tom Cox
(non-spooky season brief discussion) Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Cozy: Pumpkin Spice Peril by Jenn McKinlay
TBR
The Cunning Folk by Tabitha Stanmore
Hadriana in All My Dreams by Rene Depestre translated by Kaiama L. Glover
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Auctioneer by Joan Samson
