Marlon and Jake are back! And they’re catching up on the dead authors they’ve read since they last spoke—some of which they praise, others they don’t. From comparing Nella Larson’s Passing to the Netflix film, to discussing unsettling stories that linger with you, they cover a lot of literary ground. They also weigh in on longstanding debates like whether they read the book or watch the movie adaption first and the difference between horror and terror. Tune in for the witty book banter you know and love.

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The Letters of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn
Passing by Nella Larsen
A View From a Hill by Montague Roads James
The Turn of The Screw by Henry James
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Jesus’s Son by Denis Johnson
Airships by Barry Hannah
Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring

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