CW: for child abuse at 33:02. Also racist tweets and disgusting keyboards.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! We chat about literary horror queen Shirley Jackson’s infamous short story, The Lottery, which, upon publication in The New Yorker in 1948, inspired thousands of people to wring their hands and gnash their teeth and write angry letters demanding to know why a nice lady would write such a thing. (Don’t you want to read it now?) We also talk about the horrors of Joyce Carol Oates’s casually racist tweets as well as her retch-inducing keyboard. And speaking of badly-behaving authors, we also discuss the dangers of denying your subjects review rights, then acting SHOCKED when you publish a book essentially making fun of them and they have the audacity to COMPLAIN about it. Finally, we discuss the need to read more women horror writers of color, the disappearing ethics of the American death industry, and how much nicer a place the world would be if we all gave out king size candy bars on Halloween.

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