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Children's librarian Louise Tripp talks with us about graphic novels, reading in groups, and even horror films!

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.

Episode artwork: Eighth page from the story "lupa sin" in the zine kijetesantakalu monsuta [cropped], jan pana pi lipu monsuta. CC BY-SA 4.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Want to learn more about the books—and films!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!

Melissa Broder
Death Valley

Tomas Alfredson
Let the Right One In

Dario Argento
Suspiria

Joseph Barbera / William Hanna
The Jetsons

Betsy Bird

Truman Capote
In Cold Blood

Jeremiah S. Chechik
Diabolique

Johnnie Christmas
Swim Team

Henri-Georges Clouzot
Les diaboliques

Gavin de Becker
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence

Charles Dickens

Julia Ducournau
Raw

Evanston Public Library 101 Great Books for Kids List

William Friedkin
The Exorcist

Sarah Gerard
Carrie Carolyn Coco

Mia Goth

Alastair Gray
Lanark: A Life in Four Books

Luca Guadagnino
Suspiria

Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Tynset

HiLoBrow

Jim Jarmusch
Only Lovers Left Alive

Dakota Johnson
(article by Bethy Squires at Vulture)

Kanopy

Stanley Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey

Kekla Magoon
The Secret Library

Nida Manzoor
We Are Lady Parts

Joseph Moncure March
The Wild Party

David Robert Mitchell
It Follows

Daniel Myrick / Eduardo Sánchez
The Blair Witch Project

The Nation

School Library Journal

Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, vol. 1

Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

W. G. Sebald

Art Spiegelman
Maus: A Survivor's Tale

George Takei
They Called Us Enemy

Craig Thompson
Blankets

Alberto Toscano
Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea

Fernanda Trías
Pink Slime

Raymond Tyler / Summer McCinton
Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars

Logan Ury
How Not to Die Alone: The Surprising Science that Will Help You Find Love

Emily Van Duyne
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation

Anjana Vasan

Ti West
X Trilogy
(article by Scott Roxborough at The Hollywood Reporter)

Marguerite Young
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling