Feral and Hysterical: In conversation with Mother Horror

The ‘ber months are here, so that means we’re reading horror. You know we read horror all year round, but we brought in the expert - Mother Horror herself! Tune in to hear Mhairie chat about horror books, women in horror, becoming an accidental author, and good old fashioned vibes reading.  

Books mentioned:

• Feral and Hysterical Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women- Sadie Hartmann 

• Ghost Story- Peter Straub

• 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered- Sadie Hartmann

• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil- V. E. Schwab

• This House is Haunted- John Boyne

• The Doll Factory- Elizabeth Macneal (Audio)

• The Red Knot- Monique Asher (Audio)

• Born a Crime- Trevor Noah (Audiobook is an Audible exclusive so we won’t link it, screw you Amazon!)

• The Bewitching- Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Audio)

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter- Stephen Graham Jones (Audio)

• The Salvage- Anbara Salam 

• The Hounding- Xenobe Purvis

Resources mentioned:

Nightworms The StorygraphNoveList Plus (Through your library, search: novelist library) FBC’s Vampires of El Norte discussion 

Other authors mentioned: Anne Rice Stephen King John Sandford Patricia Cornwell Agatha ChristieGrady Hendrix Isabel Cañas Alexis Henderson

 

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This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.

 

Original music by Amarissa

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