S3 Ep. 3. Horror in the Headlines: Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy on Scary Stories

In this special Halloween episode, writers Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy tell creepy stories, and talk to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about how writing about politics relates to horror. LaValle explains how devices like monsters make it possible to write about how something feels, rather than merely what happened; Percy discusses doppelgängers, and asks whether politically, the call is coming from inside the house.

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Guests:

• Victor LaValle
• Benjamin Percy

Readings for the Episode:

Victor LaValle

• The Changeling
• The Ballad of Black Tom
• Victor LaValle's Destroyer

Benjamin Percy

• Suicide Woods
• The Dark Net
• Red Moon

Earlier F/n/F: Against Genre Snobbery, with Marlon James and Daniel Jose Older

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