Tanith Lee's "Where All Things Perish"
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“She looks through water, / She looks through air, She leaps at the moon / And she looks in. Give her silver, Give her gold, / And bind her eyes With a brick and a pin.” “Where All Things Perish” by Tanith Lee was first published in Weird Tales #325 (Fall 2001). It’s available in full on , which also links to an interview with Lee by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer. Recommended in this episode: by Lindsey Fitzharris NEWS: We have a now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out small businesses. UP NEXT: by Elizabeth Hand Buy...
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MSW Classic: "The Summer People" by Shirley Jackson
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We are on a summer hiatus, but we will be returning with brand-new episodes soon! Please enjoy this classic episode on "The Summer People" by Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson once again proves that she is the queen of creepy short stories, this time with her story “The Summer People.” The story starts idyllic, like many of Jackson’s stories. The Allisons are a wealthy older couple who summer in a cabin by a lake in rural New England. Their picturesque existence quickly turns nightmarish, however, when they decide to extend their trip and stay past Labor Day.
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MSW Classic: "Summer" by Tananarive Due
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We are on summer hiatus! So please enjoy this MSW Classic episode on Tanarive Due's "Ghost Summer" Tananarive Due’s “Summer” (from her story collection Ghost Summer) is set in her fictional town of Gracetown, Florida, where the humid and murky swamps hide bodies and demon leeches. It’s not a place to raise a baby–or maybe it is.
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Interview with R. A. Busby (Part 2)
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Author of , the eco-horror YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD, and the Stoker-nominated story “Ten Thousand Crawling Children,” R.A. Busby spends her spare time running in the desert with her dog and thinking about weird things to write about. Recommended in this episode: and by R. A. Busby NEWS: We have a now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out small businesses. UP NEXT: Summer HIATUS! Buy our books , including our newest
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Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games
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Every year, two children from one of twelve districts in Panem are chosen to participate in the where they will fight each other to the death for the entertainment of the Capitol–and the chance to bring undreamt of wealth back to their poor families. When young Primrose is chosen as one of the tributes, her older sister Katniss sacrifices herself to go in her place. But now, 16-year-old Katniss must learn how to survive–and how to kill. Recommended in this episode: Julia Bartz’s and Paulette Kennedy’s Thanks to Fox and Wit for sending us their Nightshade . ...
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MSW Classic: R. A. Busby
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Please enjoy this re-run of a classic Monster, She Wrote episode. Author of the novella Corporate Body and the Shirley Jackson Award-winning story "Not the Man I Married," R.A. Busby spends her spare time running in the desert with her dog and finding weird things to write about.
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Interview with Tracy Cross
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Tracy Cross is a dealer in dark fiction, her gripping stories featured in a range of podcasts and anthologies. Her debut novel, the gripping "Rootwork" (Dark Hart Publishing, November 2022), explores the strong bonds of family and draws on her own heritage in hoodoo. This is followed by "A Gathering of Weapons" (October 2024), the second book of the Rootwork series. Tracy resides in Washington, DC, where she is an active member of the Horror Writers Association. When she's not busy writing scary stories, she's dancing to disco. Keep up with her news and musings at her blog: . You can also...
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Reading Banned Books
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(launched in 1982) is normally in September/October, but given the state of things, we thought it was a relevant topic. Buying physical copies of books, when you can, seems to be a smart thing to do. PEN estimates that book bans have doubled in the past year; h Some of our sources: Data from the ; ; ; ; Recommended in this episode: and NEWS: We have a now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out small businesses. UP NEXT: Buy our books , including our newest
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MSW Classic: Moths by Rosalind Ashe
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We are rerunning the classic episode to celebrate the upcoming release of Moths through Valancourt Books as part of their Monster, She Wrote series. Rosalind Ashe’s Moths was marketed as a book for fans of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca. And there are some similarities: a beautiful old estate with a crumbling wing. A young wife who moves in determined to make it her own. And a dead woman haunting the home that was once hers. But what would happen if Rebecca had possessed the body of the new wife? That’s what Ashe’s book posits. So join us as we discuss Moths. UP NEXT: an episode on...
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"The End of the Voyage" by Bora Chung
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In “The End of the Voyage,” a short story in Bora Chung’s collection , a group escapes a pandemic here on Earth by jumping into a spaceship. As they search for a safe place to live, their trip takes a dark turn. Recommended in this episode: by Emily Henry NEWS: We have a now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out small businesses. UP NEXT: Banned Books Buy our books , including our newest
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