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On this episode of Booklist’s Shelf Care: The Podcast, Susan gets real scared…Summer Scare(d), that is! Ha ha ha ha ha, good one.

Hear from author Silvia Moreno-Garcia and librarian horror expert Becky Spratford, librarians Konrad Stump and Evelyn Gathu, and Booklist’s own Julia Smith about this year’s Summer Scares program, from how the books are selected to that one author in the UP who can only be reached if you call the gas station in town.

Here’s what we talked about:

Summer Scares 2021 list:

The Hunger, by Alma Katsu (2018)

The Cipher, by Kathe Koja (reissued by Meerkat Press, 2020)

Frankenstein in Baghdad, by Ahmed Saadawi, translated by Jonathan Wright (2018)

Undead Girl Gang, by Lily Anderson (2018)

The Diviners, by Libba Bray (2012)

The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline (2017)

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, by Hal Johnson and illustrated by Tom Mead (2015)

Ollie’s Odyssey, written and illustrated by William Joyce (2016)

Whichwood, by Tahereh Mafi (2017)

RA for All: Horror

Women in Horror month

Horror Writers Association

Summer Scares 2020 Program Guide (2021 guide is coming soon…)

UP Notable Books 2020

Yoopernatural Haunts: Upper Peninsula Paranormal Research Society Case Files, by Brad Blair, Tim Ellis, and Steve LaPlaunt

The Ballad of Black Tom, by Victor LaValle

Case File 13: Zombie Kid, by J. Scott Savage

In the Valley of the Sun, by Andy Davidson

Goosebumps series, by R. L. Stine

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen Gammell