Just in time for Halloween - we're off to a haunted house with our first aid kit packed with books to keep us sane while things go bump in the night. Will our books keep us safe from ghouls and poltergeists? There's only one way to find out...

Note - this episode was recorded when it was (briefly!) legal for two members of different households to mix indoors.

Angela's first aid kit:

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire by Arthur Conan Doyle (you can read it online here)

Nicola's first aid kit:

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Other resources/books we mention:

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward

A Rather Haunted Life: Guardian review

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilmour

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Bram Stoker Claimed That Parts of Dracula Were Real. Here's What We Know About the Story Behind the Novel (Time)

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