You are listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I am your host for the week, Tricia Brown, and this is episode number 441.5.

We are rapidly approaching the end of the calendar year, which I think at least for some people can lead to some level of introspection, especially given what's going on in the world and the horrific

tragedies that we have seen across the globe this year.

And also, for a lot of people, this is a season of joy and connection. So for a lot of us who are trying to manage our lives and be good citizens of the world, it's a really complicated time.

Honestly, for all of those reasons and some personal ones, this is also a really complicated time of year for me too.

And if that's the case for you as well, I'm pretty sure one thing that you don't need from me is for me to tell you what to read to be a better

person or citizen of the world or fan of the Grinch or Rudolph or whatever your thing is this time of year.

And if you are listening to this podcast, you are grown up enough to make those decisions for yourself.

Sometimes we offer a little bit of guidance, but today is not one of those days. So today we are going way off the

holiday theme, frankly, pretty far off of the introspection theme as well. Mostly, you can decide based on kind of

different content of different books, but we'll come back

around to that. And today we're going to talk about the horror graphic novels

you might be missing in your life. Is it kind of weird to do that in early

December?

Sure.

But maybe the thing that you and your brain need right now

is to take a hard turn into something that's a little weird.

And after we take a quick break, that's exactly what we're going to do.

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