We’re talking about how the book sausage gets made! Publishing, publishers, libraries, horror, queerness, and maybe even some literal human sausage making. 

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Media mentioned

Cruising (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080569/ 

Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke https://ericlarocca.com/about

Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt, Cuckoo. https://twitter.com/scumbelievable

Hailey Piper, https://www.haileypiper.com/ 

Joe Koch, https://horrorsong.blog/

Suzan Palumbo, https://suzanpalumbo.wordpress.com/

Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur's Cookbook https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/feeding-hannibal-janice-poon/1123457647

Tender Is the Flesh https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tender-Is-the-Flesh/Agustina-Bazterrica/9781982150921 

On the Line: New Gay Fiction https://www.amazon.com/Line-New-Gay-Fiction/dp/0895940493

Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

The Borrowers

Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Rosemary’s Baby

Thomas Trion, The Other 

The Haunting of Hill House

Gerard Boesche, Feral

The Stepford Wives

The Exorcist

John Updike

John Cheever

Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

Margaret Atwood, Life Before Man, A Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace

David’s favourite contemporary queer/trans+ horror writers

Eric LaRocca

Gretchen Felker-Martin

Hailey Piper

Joe Koch

Suzan Palumbo

Adam Pottle

Allison Rumfitt

Lee Mandelo

1. Kingfisher

A.C. Wise

Sam J. Miller

Ashley Deng

Jordan Shiveley

Nino Cipri

Chuck Tingle