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Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Dan and Amber

21 episodes

4 days ago

Discussing Yeehaw Junction by Kayli Scholz When a family of thieves and runaways joins the search for a missing girl in rural Florida, they’re drawn into a chemical conspiracy that extends far beyond their worst nightmares. Join us in this special bonus episode talking about a very weird, very Florida book! Next Up: Frankenstein – Mary Shelley North American Lake Monsters – Nathan Ballingrud Candy Cain Kills – Brian McAuley Find Us: Dusk to Dawn Linktree Instagram: dusk.to.dawn.podcast Ema...

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Discussing Yeehaw Junction by Kayli Scholz When a family of thieves and runaways joins the search for a missing girl in rural Florida, they’re drawn into a chemical conspiracy that extends far beyond their worst nightmares. Join us in this special bonus episode talking about a very weird, very Florida book! Next Up: Frankenstein – Mary Shelley North American Lake Monsters – Nathan Ballingrud Candy Cain Kills – Brian McAuley Find Us: Dusk to Dawn Linktree Instagram: dusk.to.dawn.podcast Ema...

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Episodes (20/21)

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Bonus Episode: Yeehaw Junction

Discussing Yeehaw Junction by Kayli Scholz When a family of thieves and runaways joins the search for a missing girl in rural Florida, they’re drawn into a chemical conspiracy that extends far beyond their worst nightmares. Join us in this special bonus episode talking about a very weird, very Florida book! Next Up: Frankenstein – Mary Shelley North American Lake Monsters – Nathan Ballingrud Candy Cain Kills – Brian McAuley Find Us: Dusk to Dawn Linktree Instagram: dusk.to.dawn.podcast Ema...

4 days ago

45 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

Discussing The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi Old people are dropping like flies at the Autumn Springs Retirement Home and nobody seems to care until one Rose DuBois smells foul play, recruiting her best friend Miller to help investigate the string of deaths. Could it be the youthful and ubiquitous Administrator Blackwell, the cackling Baxter Sisters casting spells in the old asylum, or someone closer to home? The further she digs, the more Rose is convinced: ther...

1 week ago

59 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Discussing Maeve Fly by CJ Leede By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place on earth as every child’s favorite ice princess. By night, she haunts dive bars in the Sunset Strip with a drink in one hand and a book in the other. Add in a few splashes of murder and horniness, and we're off! Next Up: The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre – Philip Fracassi Frankenstein – Mary Shelley Candy Cain Kills – Brian McAuley Books Mentioned in this Episode: American Rapture – CJ Leede Bury ...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 13 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Discussing Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle 8 million people were killed in the now infamous Low Probability Event. Fish fell from the sky, manholes exploded, animals ran amok, and everything else impossible and improbable occurred all at once in a spasm of murderous chaos. Four years after the LPE, Vera struggles to find meaning in life when Special Agent Layne barges in with orders to help him investigate a Las Vegas casino believed to be at the heart of another deadly improbability. Next...

1 month ago

1 hour 12 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Author Interview: Jessica Lacy (Tastes like Candy)

Meet Jessica Lacy, the author of Tastes Like Candy! Join us in this bonus interview where we discuss all things horror, the author's writing journey, and more. Find Us: Dusk to Dawn Linktree Instagram: dusk.to.dawn.podcast Email Us: dusktodawnpodcast@gmail.com Thanks for listening! Tell your (disturbed) friends about us!

1 month ago

1 hour 2 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Tastes Like Candy

Discussing Tastes Like Candy by Jessica Lacy The incoming seniors at Pritchett High go on a scavenger hunt at the Poison Apple Halloween Carnival. Things go poorly for the girls in this gory, bubblegum slasher. Next Up: Lucky Day – Chuck Tingle Maeve Fly – CJ Leede The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre – Philip Fracassi Books Mentioned in this Episode: Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo – Adam Cesare Hungerstone – Kat Dunn Piranesi – Susanna Clark Providence – Alan Moore, i...

1 month ago

1 hour 9 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

The Reformatory

Discussing The Reformatory by Tananarive Due 12-year-old Robert Stephens Jr. gets sentenced to six months' time at the Gracetown School for Boys, a haunted reform school in the Jim Crow South run by a sadistic warden. Next Up: Tastes Like Candy – Jessica Lacy Lucky Day – Chuck Tingle Maeve Fly – C.J. Leede Books Mentioned in this Episode: Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, The Good House, The Living Blood – Tananarive Due The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad– Colson Whitehead ...

2 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Summerween Update!

Discussing G-Fest, Chicago Bookstores, Summer Reading Summerween... Midsommar update... call it what you want, we miss you! Next Up: Season 2 begins September 2! Stay tuned to dusk.to.dawn.podcast for the reading list. Books Mentioned in this Episode: The Penguin Book of Demons The Penguin Book of the Undead The Penguin Book of Witches Last Evenings on Earth – Roberto Bolaño Occultation and Other Stories – Laird Barron Suicide – Édouard Levé William – Mason Coile The Night Guest – Hildur ...

3 months ago

47 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Tender Is the Flesh

Discussing Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica The meat processing industry... with humans! Next Up: Summer break! See you again in September (and maybe once or twice over the summer). Stay tuned for the Season 2 reading list! Books Mentioned in this Episode: Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird, Matar a la niña, The Unworthy – Agustina Bazterrica Nestlings, Mary: An Awakening of Terror – Nat Cassidy Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History – Bill Schutt The Jungle – Upton Sinclair ...

4 months ago

1 hour 21 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

The Road Through the Wall

Discussing The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson Nobody likes anyone else on Pepper Street. Poor Caroline. Next Up: Tender Is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica Books Mentioned in this Episode: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery – Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin The Diving Pool – Yoko Ogawa Morality, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams – Stephen King The Song for the Unraveling of the World – Brian Evenson The Only Good ...

4 months ago

1 hour 23 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

The Only Good Indians

Discussing The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones A group of friends from the Blackfeet Nation – Ricky, Lewis, Cass, and Gabe – trespasses into the elder section of the reservation hunting grounds to pursue a herd of elk. The resulting hunt has dire consequences that haunt them for the rest of their lives. Next Up (in order): The Road Through the Wall – Shirley Jackson Tender Is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica Books Mentioned in this Episode: Night of the Mannequins, I Was a Teenage Sl...

5 months ago

1 hour 16 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

A Short Stay in Hell

Discussing A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck A Mormon man goes to library hell. Next Up (in order): The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones The Road Through the Wall – Shirley Jackson Tender Is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica Books Mentioned in this Episode: The Library of Babel, Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges Finnegan's Wake – James Joyce Song for the Unraveling of the World – Brian Evenson Moby Dick – Herman Melville The Horror at Red Hook – H.P. Lovecraft The Ballad of B...

5 months ago

1 hour 19 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Discussing Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu A lonely 19 year old girl makes friends with a vampire at her castle in the woods of Austria. Things get steamy between them in a delicious serving of gothic tropes. Next Up: The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones or maybe A Short Stay In Hell - Steven L. Peck Books Mentioned in this Episode: The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe The Monk: A Romance - Matthew Gregory Lewis Franken...

6 months ago

1 hour 33 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Discussing Where I End by Sophie White A young woman goes loopy caring for her invalid mother on a craggy island off the west coast of Ireland. Next Up: Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu Books Mentioned in this Episode: Corpsing – Sophie White We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson My Darling Dreadful Thing – Johanna van Veen Dust & Grim – Chuck Wendig Edward II – Christopher Marlowe Episode Trigger Warnings: Boddy Horror, Trauma Find Us: Dusk to Dawn Linktree Instagram: dusk.to.d...

6 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Discussing The Fisherman by John Langan Two widowers strike up a friendship fishing. Things get fishy. Next Up: Where I End - Sophie White Books Mentioned in this Episode: The Book of Job – Old Testament Maeve Fly - CJ Leede At Dark, I Become Loathsome - Eric LaRocca Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty - Dan Jones Dark Tales - Shirley Jackson Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History - Bill Schutt Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare Othello - Shakespeare ...

7 months ago

1 hour 22 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Such Lovely Skin

Discussing Such Lovely Skin by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne A self-absorbed Twitch streamer accidentally causes her little sister's death and is now being haunted by a mimic summoned through a horror video game. Next Up: The Fisherman - John Langan Books Mentioned in this Episode: Only the Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones The Mean Ones - Tatiana Schlote-Bonne Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer ...

7 months ago

1 hour 15 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Punk Rock Ghost Story

Discussing Punk Rock Ghost Story by David Agranoff A punk band goes on tour in a haunted van. Things end badly. Check out the Playlist on Spotify: Punk Rock Ghost Story Next Up: Such Lovely Skin - Tatiana Schlote-Bonne Books Mentioned in this Episode: We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix The Last Night to Kill Nazis, Boot Boys of the Wolf Reich, Goddamn Killing Machines, The Vegan Revolution... with Zombies – David Agranoff The Fisherman – John Langan The Great Mortality – John Kelly House...

8 months ago

1 hour 30 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Discussing The Shining by Stephen King A desperate, alcoholic writer moves his family to the Overlook Hotel to work as the winter caretaker but instead of finishing his play he loses his mind. Come and take your medicine! Next Up: Punk Rock Ghost Story - David Agranoff Books Mentioned in this Episode: Carrie; Salem's Lot; The Stand – Stephen King The Black Guy Dies First – Robin R. Means Coleman, Mark H. Harris The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson Hamlet – Shakespeare The Haunted For...

8 months ago

1 hour 21 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Song for the Unraveling of the World

Discussing Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson More short stories! Very odd, eerie, weird horror. Varies between realistic and sci fi settings. Next Up: The Shining - Stephen King Episode Trigger Warnings: Body horror Find Us: Dusk to Dawn Linktree Instagram: dusk.to.dawn.podcast Email Us: dusktodawnpodcast@gmail.com Send us a text Thanks for listening! Tell your (disturbed) friends about us!

9 months ago

1 hour 9 minutes

Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

We Sold Our Souls

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix. Grady Hendrix is an American author who started his professional writing career after working in the library for the American Society for Psychical Research. A huge movie buff, he is also one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival and was executive producer for Satanic Panic, a movie about a pizza delivery girl who gets trapped by satanists.Please note that this show is full of spoilers, so read the book first if you want to avoid them. Ou...

9 months ago

1 hour 18 minutes