Spooky Season: What Make a Monster
What actually makes a book horror? In this spooky season episode, Andrea and Elizabeth explore where horror, fantasy, science fiction, and literary fiction start to blur together. They discuss unsettling books without traditional monsters, monsters that aren't necessarily scary, and the horror of human behavior and systemic injustice. Along the way, they discover that horror can take many forms, and perhaps the genre is harder to define than they thought.
00:47 Recent Reads
07:08 What Even Is Horror?
11:34 When Fantasy Starts to Feel Like Horror
14:39 When People Become Monsters
18:00 So, Do We Actually Like Horror?
23:58 Widening the Definition of Horror
Books Mentioned
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher
It by Stephen King
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monica Kim
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
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