Talking Scared 219 – State of the Horror Nation 2024, with Emily Hughes, Stephanie Gagnon & Anna Dupre
… and we’re back! Just in time for this seasonal tradition. The State of the Horror Nation 2024 – our expert-led review of the best that the year had to offer in terms of horror writing and pen-and-ink nightmares.
I’m joined, as ever by my stalwart co-host for this gig, Emily Hughes, author of Horror For Weenies (go check her mammoth 2025 anticipated horror book list at ReadJumpScares.com)
Our special correspondents are Anna Dupre, reviewer and interviewer at Anna Rose Reads, and Stephani Gagnon of the landmark, can’t-be-beaten horror podcast, Books In the Freezer
They pick their books of 2024, and we talk about the things that have defined the year, whilst also looking forward to what’s next.
Enjoy!
https://filmfreakcentral.net/2024/10/terrifier-3-2024/
Books Picked
The Eyes Are the Best Part (2024), by Monika Kim
Cuckoo (2024), by Gretchen Felker-Martin
American Rapture (2024), by C.J. Leede
Woodworm (2024), by Layla Martinez
Horror Movie (2024) by Paul Tremblay
Night’s Edge (2024), by Liz Kerin
So Thirsty (2024), by Rachel Harrison
Model Home (2024), by Rivers Solomon
I Was a Teenage Slasher (2024), by Stephen Graham Jones
Books Anticipated
Victorian Psycho (2025), by Virginia Feito
The Poorly Made (2025), by Sam Rebelein
The Unworthy (2025), by Augustina Bazterrica
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (2025), by Stephen Graham Jones
Bat Eater (2025), by Kylie Lee Baker
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread (2025), by Leila Taylor
The Haunting of Room 904 (2025), by Erika T. Wurth
8114 (2025),by Joshua Hull
When the Wolf Comes Home (2025), by Nat Cassidy
Senseless (2025), by Ronald Malfi
King Sorrow (2025), by Joe Hill
And He Shall Appear (2025), by Kate van der Borgh
Nowhere Burning (2025), by Catriona Ward
Girl in the Creek (2025), by Wendy Wagner
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre (2025), by Philip Fracassi
The End of the World As We Know It: Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand (2025), edited by Brian Keene and Christopher Golden
Old Soul (2025), by Susan Barker
rekt (2025), by Alex Gonzalez
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes (2025), by Clay McLeod Chapman
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