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Monsters in the Archives - My Year of Fear with Stephen King
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On episode #164 author and King scholar Caroline Bicks discusses her latest book, Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King.
We talk about what makes Stephen King so ubiquitously beloved across generations, how horror stories are a way to face our deepest fears and how King called upon Shakespeare for one of his most famous manuscripts.
Plus we get a guest author recommendation from Emily Franklin author of Love & Other Monsters. (Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival by Maria Pinto.
And we get one from Jennifer N. Brown, author of The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton. (Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards)
Notes:
North Woods – Daniel Mason
London Falling – Patrick Radden Keefe
Why Be Happy When you Could Be Normal – Jeanette Winterson
The League of Gentleman Witches by India Holton
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
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