Mary Wilkins Freeman's Luella Miller
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In Mary Wilkins Freeman’s short story “Luella Miller,” a tale is told about a woman named Luella, who is prone to hysterics and drains the energy from everyone around her. Is she just a woman in need of help? Or something much, much more sinister? Read Freeman’s story on the Library of America site or listen to it via the Podcastle podcast, here: 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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Jen Julian's Red Rabbit Ghost
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Last episode, we welcomed author Jen Julian on podcast. And this episode, Mel and Lisa discuss her book in more detail. College Freshman Jesse Calloway returns to his hometown of Blacknot in North Carolina after receiving mysterious anonymous texts in a college social media app with clues about his mother’s unresolved death. She died when he was an infant, so he doesn’t remember much of her–and he will do anything to learn more. Unfortunately, layers of secrets cover this small town tragedy (and other aspects of its past as well), and it will be hard for Jesse to uncover the truth...
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Interview with Jen Julian
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Today, we welcome writer Jen Julian to discuss her book . Jen Julian is a writer from Eastern North Carolina. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and an MFA in Fiction from UNC Greensboro. Her short story collection, , was the winner of the Press 53 Fiction Prize and was published in 2018, and her debut novel, , is out now through Orbit/Redhook, 2025. Recent work has appeared in Gulf Coast Magazine, , , , , Third Coast Magazine, , and , among other places. She has won numerous awards, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best...
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Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill
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In Elizabeth Hand’s , Holly Sherwin is living every writer's dream. She has grant money to finish her new play, which she uses to rent a mansion in the woods so that she can work in peace. The only problem? The mansion is Hill House, a living, breathing bad place that promises to turn Holly’s dream into a nightmare. Recommended in this episode: Laura Purcell’s NEWS: We have a now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out small businesses. UP NEXT: Interview with author Buy our books , including our newest
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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.
info_outlineIn Mary Wilkins Freeman’s short story “Luella Miller,” a tale is told about a woman named Luella, who is prone to hysterics and drains the energy from everyone around her. Is she just a woman in need of help? Or something much, much more sinister?
Read Freeman’s story on the Library of America “Story of the Week” site or listen to it via the Podcastle podcast, here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcastle-650-luella-miller/id276266378?i=1000496354075
Recommended in this episode: Rachel Harrison’s Play Nice and Lora Senf’s The Nighthouse Keeper
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