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Hello and welcome back to the bookcase.

It is the first Thursday of the month.

So we are going to partake in what I hope would be a relatively long tradition of exploring the genre of horror.

And so with that, I'm going to introduce myself, who's the horror enthusiast?

I am Kate Gibson.

And I'll introduce my last horror enthusiastic co-host.. I am Kate Gibson, and I'll introduce my last horror

enthusiastic co-host. And I am Charlie Gibson, Kate's father, and less enthusiastic co-host.

This comes from a suggestion from the people at ABC Audio who underwrite this podcast, and they said,

pick a genre, and let's explore a genre of books that perhaps we would not otherwise be hearing

about. And Kate's first suggestion to my horror was horror. And she said, dad, don't, don't put your

nose up to it. It's there's good writing going on in this area. It's what made me a reader. Well,

Stephen King made her a reader.

And Stephen King, I guess, writes books. I've read many of his books that are what I would call

good horror. I've read something that's bad. And there's a fine line, I think, between what's

acceptable and what's not. But, Kay, why is it that you are so enthused about the genre?

You know, when we talked to Dave Barry a few weeks

ago, he talked about humor writing. And I think in some ways, horror and humor writing are

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