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224 – Susan Barker & The Denial of Death
Tyranny is the key this week on Talking Scared this week. How fitting.
Susan Barker’s Old Soul is a globe-trotting, decade-spanning supernatural tour of autocracies, from behind the Iron Curtain to contemporary China. If that isn’t frightening enough, it also features an ageless woman who curses anyone she meets, a grand cosmic entity, and the exhilaration and terror of deep time.
Heady stuff, and Susan and I talk about all of it – and just why she likes to write about as many times and places in each book as she can.
Enjoy.
Incarnations (2014) by Susan Barker
Sayonara Bar (2005), by Susan Barker
Ghostwritten (1999), by David Mitchell
Number9Dream (2001), by David Mitchell
Slade House (2015), by David Mitchell
House of Leaves (2000), by Mark Z. Danielewski
Under the Skin (2000), by Michelle Faber
Audition (1997), by Ryū Murakami
The Denial of Death (1973), by Ernest Becker
The Three Body Problem (2006), by Cixin Liu
You Like it Darker (2024), by Stephen King
Starve Acre (2019), by Andrew Michael Hurley
Barrowbeck (2024), by Andrew Michael Hurley
The Ritual (2011), by Adam Neville
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Tyranny is the key this week on Talking Scared this week. How fitting.
Susan Barker’s Old Soul is a globe-trotting, decade-spanning supernatural tour of autocracies, from behind the Iron Curtain to contemporary China. If that isn’t frightening enough, it also features an ageless woman who curses anyone she meets, a grand cosmic entity, and the exhilaration and terror of deep time.
Heady stuff, and Susan and I talk about all of it – and just why she likes to write about as many times and places in each book as she can.
Enjoy.
Incarnations (2014) by Susan Barker
Sayonara Bar (2005), by Susan Barker
Ghostwritten (1999), by David Mitchell
Number9Dream (2001), by David Mitchell
Slade House (2015), by David Mitchell
House of Leaves (2000), by Mark Z. Danielewski
Under the Skin (2000), by Michelle Faber
Audition (1997), by Ryū Murakami
The Denial of Death (1973), by Ernest Becker
The Three Body Problem (2006), by Cixin Liu
You Like it Darker (2024), by Stephen King
Starve Acre (2019), by Andrew Michael Hurley
Barrowbeck (2024), by Andrew Michael Hurley
The Ritual (2011), by Adam Neville
Support Talking Scared on Patreon
Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to [email protected]
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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