This week is all about the spooky ancestral homes as we talk about And Don’t Look Back by Rebecca Barrow and All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley, two young adult novels about family homes and the dark secrets they hide. Topics include what constitutes a haunted house (does there have to be a literal ghost?), twisty mysteries, and the inherent queerness of the gothic genre.
(Also, as you may have guessed, we did NOT release this episode before traveling internationally despite our optimism about doing so in this recording.)
As usual, this episode is available on Podbean, Spotify, iTunes, and more.
Media Mentioned:
- Shogun (2024)
- Dungeon Meshi
- The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
- Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill
- Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes
- Tramps (2016) dir. Adam Leon
- Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow
- Episode 26: Bad Things at the Beach
- The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Episode 18: Reduce Reuse Reanimate
Content Warnings: Discussions of parental death, animal death, domestic abuse, murder, drowning