Creeps, chills, and carefully crafted dread - join Joseph and Amanda for this week’s episode as they recommend a stack of mood-heavy reads for spooky season. Plus, Team CR talks László Krasznahorkai - this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - and as always they discuss what they’ve been reading lately and what they’re looking forward to picking up next. 

(0:44) Book News

(0:51) Nobel Prize for Literature 

(1:46) Louisiana Channel

(2:52) Sátántangó by Lászlo Krasznahorkai

(5:41) Rivals by Jilly Cooper

(7:00) Current Reads

(7:04) Objects of Desire by Neil Blackmore

(10:43) Fair Play by Louise Hegarty 

(13:48)  Spooky Season Reading

(15:06)  Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

(17:55) Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfeld

(19:01) The Echoes by Evie Wyld

(19:28) Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

(19:51) Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

(20:27) Our Share of the Night by Mariana Enriquez 

(21:36) Pet Sematary by Stephen King

(22:55) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

(24:04) Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

(25:04) The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston

(27:22) Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

(27:36) Beloved by Toni Morrison

(28:25)  Ghost stories by MR James, Algernon Blackwood, Edgar Allen Poe and HP Lovecraft

(29:44) Come Closer by Sara Gran (Joseph’s Pick #1)

(34:23) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (Amanda’s Pick #1)

(39:04) The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila, tr. by Audrey Harris and Matthew Gleeson (Joseph Pick #2)

(44:21) Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll (Amanda’s Pick #2)

(46:24) Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

(49:32) Spooky Books Recommended to Amanda

(49:44) Sinead Hanna @sineadhannacraic

(50:14)  The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

(50:29) Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker 

(51:06) Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

(51:42) Spooky Books Recommended to Joseph

(51:52) A Game In Yellow by Hailey Piper

(52:42) Ashley @coffeeandcuentos

(52:59) Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, ed. Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

(52:32) Talking Scared Podcast with Neil McRobert

(53:47) Rekt by Alex Gonzalez

(54:33) What We’re Reading Next 

(55:03) Greyhound by Joanna Pocock

(55:41) Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett

(55:57) What A Time To Be Alive by Jenny Mustard

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