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The Book Case

Our Halloween Horror Reading Recommendations

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

So we have come to the last of our horror genre shows…although we have decided we like the moniker 'dark literature’ better. We have a game-changing author to end it with (in time for Halloween): Paul Tremblay. If you read ‘dark literature’ and you haven’t devoured A Head Full of Ghosts on a dark and stormy night, RUN, do not walk, to your nearest independent bookstore. But Kate has read seven of his books (so far) and has not been disappointed in a single one. We also talk to horror writer and Professor Michael Arnzen of Seton Hill University about the courses he teaches in the dark art of writing what scares us. We hope you have enjoyed our ‘dark literature’ series….we might dip back from time to time. Happy Halloween. Books mentioned in this week's episode: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay No Sleep Til Wonderland by Paul Tremblay Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye by Paul Tremblay Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn’t Fly by Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay The Pallbearer’s Club by Paul Tremblay In the Mean Time by Paul Tremblay Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay Sophie’s Choice by William Styron Absolution by Alice McDermott The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Stand by Stephen King Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates Pet Sematary by Stephen King Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez Psycho by Robert Bloch The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe Dracula by Bram Stoker The Turn of the Screw by Henry James  Ulysses by James Joyce Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Film by Carol Clover Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:34.1

Hello, but case listeners, and happy Halloween week. I am Kate Gibson. And I'm Charlie Gibson,

0:40.6

her father. We welcome you to the bookcase with Kate and Charlie. And this week, I can say with some

0:45.8

sense of relief, but maybe even some sense of respect for what we've done. We've done now a series

0:51.0

of shows on horror writers. And I must admit, Kate wanted to do this very

0:55.3

much. She's a fan of horror writers. And I came into it with great reluctance. And I have come out

1:00.7

of it with, I think, a good deal of respect for the writers that we have talked to. And I have

1:06.6

liked many of the books. You brought me into this kicking and screaming, and I go out,

1:11.6

applauding. I'm feeling the ground. You guys can't see it, but I'm feeling the ground beneath me

1:16.5

because I feel like maybe hell froze over. I'm so, I'm so happy to say that I built a sense

1:23.5

of respect and a skeptic as an understatement. I love that he is searching for words for how he feels about the end of this series.

1:29.8

I came stacked with words because I know that I use the word excited, super excited, super

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