Ep 21: Reading for Spooky Season

24/10/2025 57 min Temporada 1
Ep 21: Reading for Spooky Season

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Creeps, chills, and carefully crafted dread - join Joseph and Amanda for this week’s episode as they recommend a stack of mood-heavy reads for spooky season. Plus, Team CR talks László Krasznahorkai - this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - and as always they discuss what they’ve been reading lately and what they’re looking forward to picking up next. (0:44) Book News(0:51) Nobel Prize for Literature (1:46) Louisiana Channel(2:52) Sátántangó by Lászlo Krasznahorkai(5:41) Rivals by Jilly Cooper(7:00) Current Reads(7:04) Objects of Desire by Neil Blackmore(10:43) Fair Play by Louise Hegarty (13:48)  Spooky Season Reading(15:06)  Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica(17:55) Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfeld(19:01) The Echoes by Evie Wyld(19:28) Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda(19:51) Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab(20:27) Our Share of the Night by Mariana Enriquez (21:36) Pet Sematary by Stephen King(22:55) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving(24:04) Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn(25:04) The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston(27:22) Earthlings by Sayaka Murata(27:36) Beloved by Toni Morrison(28:25)  Ghost stories by MR James, Algernon Blackwood, Edgar Allen Poe and HP Lovecraft(29:44) Come Closer by Sara Gran (Joseph’s Pick #1)(34:23) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (Amanda’s Pick #1)(39:04) The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila, tr. by Audrey Harris and Matthew Gleeson (Joseph Pick #2)(44:21) Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll (Amanda’s Pick #2)(46:24) Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka(49:32) Spooky Books Recommended to Amanda(49:44) Sinead Hanna @sineadhannacraic(50:14)  The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell(50:29) Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker (51:06) Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison(51:42) Spooky Books Recommended to Joseph(51:52) A Game In Yellow by Hailey Piper(52:42) Ashley @coffeeandcuentos(52:59) Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, ed. Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.(52:32) Talking Scared Podcast with Neil McRobert(53:47) Rekt by Alex Gonzalez(54:33) What We’re Reading Next (55:03) Greyhound by Joanna Pocock(55:41) Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett(55:57) What A Time To Be Alive by Jenny Mustard Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.