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This episode we're talking about Psychological Horror! We discuss gore, people being weenies, books with running in them, kiwi fruit, checking the under the bed for monsters, Law & Order: SVU, and our guest host says they want to poison everyone! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Alan Woo Things We Read (or tried to…) A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado The Grip of It by Jac Jemc Read by Meghan but not discussed We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney Other Media We Mentioned Hostel (2005 film) (Wikipedia) Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena, translated by Tyran Grillo Parasite Eve (video game) (Wikipedia) Dead Space (video game) (Wikipedia) The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (Wikipedia) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Wikipedia) Your Turn to Die The manga's not legally available in English, but you can find it online... Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory Ring by Kōji Suzuki, translated by Robert B. Rohmer and Glynne Walley The Exorcist (film) (Wikipedia) The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Green Ribbon (Wikipedia) The first version of this story is The Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving (Wikipedia) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Wikipedia) TV Tropes In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Dark Fang, Vol. 1: Earth Calling by Miles Gunter Kelsey Shannon Links, Articles, and Things Junji Ito (Wikipedia) John Saul (Wikipedia) Dean Koontz (Wikipedia) Friday the 13th set to Benny Hill music Episode 004 - Psychological Thrillers Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers Shirley Jackson Award (Wikipedia) The four times Book Riot has linked to us: 25 More Outstanding Podcasts For Readers by Kate Scott Masochistic Reading by Tiffani Willis 13 Must-hear Librarian Podcasts by Anna Gooding-Call 33 Of The Best Book Podcasts For All Genres by Julia Rittenberg Japanese horror (Wikipedia) Korean horror (Wikipedia) SCP Foundation The wolves are under the bed, they're in the walls Over the Rainbow Booklist Not haunted house for sale To Arrakis by DarkSunn 16 Psychological Horror Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Fledgling by Octavia Butler Let's Play White by Chesya Burke The Between by Tananarive Due After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike, translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump Now You're One of Us by Asa Nonami, translated by Michael & Mitsuko Volek Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder Helter Skelter by Kyōko Okazaki White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun, translated by Sora Kim-Russell Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Dark Water by Kōji Suzuki, translated by Glynne Walley Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Just again on Tuesday, April 20th when we'll be giving an update on non-podcast media we've been reading, watching, and otherwise experiencing. Then on Tuesday, May 4th we'll be discussing the genre of Literary Theory and Literary Criticism!