Episode 123 – Psychological Horror

This episode we’re talking about Psychological Horror! We discuss gore, people being weenies, books with running in them, kiwi fruit, checking the under the bed for monsters, Law & Order: SVU, and our guest host says they want to poison everyone!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Alan Woo

• Things We Read (or tried to…)
• A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay 
• Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
• The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
• Read by Meghan but not discussed
  • We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory
  • The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
  • Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy 
  • None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney

Other Media We Mentioned

• Hostel (2005 film) (Wikipedia)
• Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena, translated by Tyran Grillo 
• Parasite Eve (video game) (Wikipedia)
• Dead Space (video game) (Wikipedia)
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (Wikipedia)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Wikipedia)
• Your Turn to Die
  • The manga’s not legally available in English, but you can find it online…
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
• Ring by Kōji Suzuki, translated by Robert B. Rohmer and Glynne Walley
• The Exorcist (film) (Wikipedia)
• The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Green Ribbon (Wikipedia)
  • The first version of this story is The Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving (Wikipedia)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Wikipedia)
  • TV Tropes
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
• Dark Fang, Vol. 1: Earth Calling by Miles Gunter Kelsey Shannon

Links, Articles, and Things

• Junji Ito (Wikipedia)
• John Saul (Wikipedia)
• Dean Koontz (Wikipedia)
• Friday the 13th set to Benny Hill music
• Episode 004 – Psychological Thrillers
• Episode 078 – Supernatural Thrillers
• Shirley Jackson Award (Wikipedia)
• The four times Book Riot has linked to us:
  • 25 More Outstanding Podcasts For Readers by Kate Scott
  • Masochistic Reading by Tiffani Willis
  • 13 Must-hear Librarian Podcasts by Anna Gooding-Call
  • 33 Of The Best Book Podcasts For All Genres by Julia Rittenberg
• Japanese horror (Wikipedia)
• Korean horror (Wikipedia)
• SCP Foundation
• The wolves are under the bed, they’re in the walls
• Over the Rainbow Booklist
• Not haunted house for sale
• To Arrakis by DarkSunn

16 Psychological Horror Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Fledgling by Octavia Butler
• Let’s Play White by Chesya Burke
• The Between by Tananarive Due
• After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
• The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike, translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye, translated by  Jordan Stump
• Now You’re One of Us by Asa Nonami, translated by Michael & Mitsuko Volek
• Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
• Helter Skelter by Kyōko Okazaki
• White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
• The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun, translated by Sora Kim-Russell
• Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
• Dark Water by Kōji Suzuki, translated by Glynne Walley

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Just again on Tuesday, April 20th when we’ll be giving an update on non-podcast media we’ve been reading, watching, and otherwise experiencing.

Then on Tuesday, May 4th we’ll be discussing the genre of Literary Theory and Literary Criticism!