Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This month our genre is Supernatural Thrillers! We discuss grand dogs, fairies stealing children, Abbott and Costello Meet the Eldritch Abominations, spooky houses, the best celery, whether hackers are supernatural, snuggling lake monsters, reading Wikipedia articles instead of consuming media, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…)

• The Devil's Labyrinth by John Saul
• • Meghan’s review
• Ring by Kōji Suzuki
• • The Ring (franchise)
  • Ring (novel series)
  • The Ring, Volume 1 by Misao Inagaki and Hiroshi Takahashi
• The Undesired by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
• NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
• Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
• Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
• Abbott by Saladin Ahmed,  Sami Kivelä, and Jason Wordie

Can RJ Recommend a Book by a Trans Author in this Genre?

• Blood Oranges by Kathleen Tierny
• • The Dreaming
• Drawing Blood by Billy Martin (published as Poppy Z. Brite)

Other Media We Mention

• Loose Time by RJ Edwards
• • Winner of a National Magazine Award for Fiction!
• Stephen King
• The Bishop Files Series by Kay Hooper
• Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (fantasy novel about a lawyer. It’s good!)
• Dean Koontz
• The Curse Workers Series by Holly Black
• • White Cat
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• Scooby-Doo
• The Changeling by Victor LaValle
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein
• Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu by Junji Ito
• • The Enigma of Amigara Fault is collected in Gyo
• The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
• Black Creek Crossing by John Saul
• The Cabin in the Woods
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• The Fireman by Joe Hill
• Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
• The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
• The Shape of Water
• Abbott and Costello
• Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Pontianak: “Pontianaks are usually depicted as pale-skinned women with long black hair, red eyes, and white dress smeared in blood, but they are said to be able to take on a beautiful humanly appearance since they prey on men and helpless people.”
• Penanggalan: “a detached female head capable of flying about on its own. As it flies, the stomach and entrails dangle below it, and these organs twinkle like fireflies as the Penanggalan moves through the night.”
• 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith
• Changeling: “A changeling was believed to be a fairy child that had been left in place of a human child stolen by the fairies.”

Ideas for Books

• The Corpse/Ghost With Good Taste
• (A good book about) a trans woman fighting monsters with a pickaxe in one hand and a pirate’s cutlass in the other

Questions

• Is “supernatural thriller” more of a movie genre?

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