Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard

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🗓️ 30 October 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

For this year's Hallowe'en special we're joined by Backlisted's old fiends Andrew Male and Laura Varnam, following previous guest appearances on episodes dedicated to Beowulf (2020) and Daphne du Maurier's The Breaking Point (2019). Together we explore the work of the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, specifically her ghost stories, tales of horror and accounts of psychological terror: Something in Disguise (1969), Odd Girl Out (1972), Mr Wrong (1975), Falling (1999), and We Are For the Dark (1951), the volume of strange stories she co-authored with previous Backlisted subject Robert Aickman. NB. THIS EPISODE IS PACKED WITH SPOILERS and you may wish to read Something in Disguise before you listen to the podcast. Also this week, Andy is gripped by Heike Gessler's Seasonal Associate (Semiotext), the novelist's account of working in Amazon's warehouse in Leipzig, while John enjoys being unsettled by Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1980-1940, edited by Melissa Edmundson, the first in a series of 'Weird' anthologies published by Handheld Press. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 08:41 - Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1980-1940, edited by Melissa Edmundson 14:26 - Seasonal Associate by Heike Gessle 21:00 - Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard *To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops *For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yellowton Dance, only by the other song Concert Dance.
0:19.0	Chris S. is a creep, when it?
0:25.0	Chris S. is a creep, when it?
0:29.0	Oh, where did you spring from?
0:31.0	Well, I'm a little rusty in my Latin, but I think it reads,
0:37.0	who is this, who is coming?
0:42.0	Hello.
0:43.0	Hello and welcome to our special Halloween edition of Batlisted,
0:47.0	the podcast that gives new life to all the books.
0:52.0	Today, you find us back in 1962, somewhere in the home counties.
0:57.0	We're standing in the hallway of a large, cold, and warden house.
1:01.0	The heavily-ledded windows are too high to add much in the way of light,
1:04.0	the huge stone fireplaces are empty,
1:07.0	and the yearning expanse of pinewall panels and floorboards fills the air
1:12.0	with a joyless odor of polish.
1:15.0	A large, black and white cat with lemony eyes waddls past,
1:18.0	smelling strongly of fish and full boating.
1:22.0	I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound,
1:25.0	a platform where readers crowdfund books they really want to read.
1:28.0	And I'm Andy Miller, author of the Year of Reading Dangerously,
1:31.0	and we're joined today, once again, by our two Halloween familiars.
1:37.0	Our Revenant, Laura Vaanham, and Andrew Mail.
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