You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

to help you read better.

I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mera.

And I'm Brea Grant, actress filmmaker and e-reader. This episode we're talking trivia books and interviewing author and podcaster Andy McElfresh. But first...

What are you reading, Bria? I was sent a book by a friend.

It's coming out October 9th,

so if it sounds interesting to you,

you should definitely pre-order it

for the Halloween season.

It's called Spider season by Billy Hanson.

It's short stories, like spooky short stories that my friend

Billy wrote. It's already available for pre-order on Amazon it looks like and

you can get it on Kindle as well but yeah it's just like a bunch of spooky little short stories

So anywhere from like very short to like sort of like longer short stories and there's one that really creeped me out that is about

An empty chocolate bar wrapper haunting me. No, it's about a no, like I have to tell you no. It's about a no, like I have to tell you no. It's about an area of this town where it's haunted. The area of the town is like, kind of like cursed,

haunted something where any time anybody goes there,

they, their deepest desires, which is like like anger or something like that, they act on them.

So people get killed up there and it's sort of like the original story where it happened and then it like flashes to current and it's pretty great

and then there's like and there's some short ones there's like all mixed lengths

which I like and it's very creepy and I think for the Halloween the Halloween season it will be a really great buy

so if you want to pre-order that now I would suggest you do it not just because he's

my friend he is my friend but also because it's a really well-written fun

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