Erica talks about recent library finds and Kelly interviews author and editor Rob Costello about short story collections, horror, and queer reads.

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Books Discussed

My Lady Jane (on Prime)

Cat + Gamer by Wataru Nadatani

A Certain October by Angela Johnson

A Sign of Affection, Vol. 2 by Suu Morishita

Space Trash Vol. 1 by Jenn Woodall

We Mostly Come Out of Night edited by Rob Costello

Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter 

Looking for Love in All The Haunted Places by Claire Kann

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

The Marbury Lens and Passenger by Andrew Smith

All These Bodies by Kendare Blake

Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros

The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

Monstrous Affections edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant

Slasher Girls & Monster Boys edited by April Genevieve Tucholke

Night of the Living Queers edited by Shelly Page and Alex Brown

Our Shadows Have Claws edited by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz

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