Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction
Welcome to Dusk to Dawn, Reading Horror and Weird Fiction! We post every two weeks discussing novels and short stories from old to new, the literary and the pulp. We look at tropes, themes, and plot points of our current read, and mention what we’ve been reading in between episodes. If it scares us or makes us squirm, we’re on it. There are plentiful spoilers, so read the episode’s book first if you want to avoid them. Tell your friends about us and enjoy the show! Email us: dusktodawnpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: dusk.to.dawn.podcast
Episodes
Discussing Maeve Fly by CJ Leede
By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place on earth as every child’s favorite ice princess. By night, she haunts dive bars in the Sunset Strip with a drink in one hand and a book in the other. Add in a few splashes of murder and horniness, and we're off!
Next Up:
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre – Philip Fracassi
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Candy Cai...
Discussing Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
8 million people were killed in the now infamous Low Probability Event. Fish fell from the sky, manholes exploded, animals ran amok, and everything else impossible and improbable occurred all at once in a spasm of murderous chaos. Four years after the LPE, Vera struggles to find meaning in life when Special Agent Layne barges in with orders to help him investigate a Las Vegas casino bel...
Meet Jessica Lacy, the author of Tastes Like Candy! Join us in this bonus interview where we discuss all things horror, the author's writing journey, and more.
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Discussing Tastes Like Candy by Jessica Lacy
The incoming seniors at Pritchett High go on a scavenger hunt at the Poison Apple Halloween Carnival. Things go poorly for the girls in this gory, bubblegum slasher.
Next Up:
Lucky Day – Chuck Tingle
Maeve Fly – CJ Leede
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre – Philip Fracassi
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Fr...
Discussing The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
12-year-old Robert Stephens Jr. gets sentenced to six months' time at the Gracetown School for Boys, a haunted reform school in the Jim Crow South run by a sadistic warden.
Next Up:
Tastes Like Candy – Jessica Lacy
Lucky Day – Chuck Tingle
Maeve Fly – C.J. Leede
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, The G...
Discussing G-Fest, Chicago Bookstores, Summer Reading
Summerween... Midsommar update... call it what you want, we miss you!
Next Up:
Season 2 begins September 2! Stay tuned to dusk.to.dawn.podcast for the reading list.
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
The Penguin Book of Demons
The Penguin Book of the Undead
The Penguin Book of Witches
Last Evenings on Earth – Roberto Bolaño
Occul...
Discussing Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The meat processing industry... with humans!
Next Up:
Summer break! See you again in September (and maybe once or twice over the summer). Stay tuned for the Season 2 reading list!
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird, Matar a la niña, The Unworthy – Agustina Bazterrica
Nestlings, Mary: An Awakening of Terror – Na...
Discussing The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson
Nobody likes anyone else on Pepper Street. Poor Caroline.
Next Up:
Tender Is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin
The Diving Pool – Yoko Ogawa
Morality, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams – Steph...
Discussing The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
A group of friends from the Blackfeet Nation – Ricky, Lewis, Cass, and Gabe – trespasses into the elder section of the reservation hunting grounds to pursue a herd of elk. The resulting hunt has dire consequences that haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Next Up (in order):
The Road Through the Wall – Shirley Jackson
Tender Is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica
Books Men...
Discussing A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck
A Mormon man goes to library hell.
Next Up (in order):
The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones
The Road Through the Wall – Shirley Jackson
Tender Is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
The Library of Babel, Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Finnegan's Wake – James Joyce
Song for the Unraveling of the World – Brian Evenson
M...
Discussing Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
A lonely 19 year old girl makes friends with a vampire at her castle in the woods of Austria. Things get steamy between them in a delicious serving of gothic tropes.
Next Up:
The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
or maybe A Short Stay In Hell - Steven L. Peck
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
Vathek - William Beckford
The Mysteries...
Discussing Where I End by Sophie White
A young woman goes loopy caring for her invalid mother on a craggy island off the west coast of Ireland.
Next Up:
Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Corpsing – Sophie White
We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
My Darling Dreadful Thing – Johanna van Veen
Dust & Grim – Chuck Wendig
Edward II – Christopher Marlowe
Episode Trigger ...
Discussing The Fisherman by John Langan
Two widowers strike up a friendship fishing. Things get fishy.
Next Up:
Where I End - Sophie White
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
The Book of Job – Old Testament
Maeve Fly - CJ Leede
At Dark, I Become Loathsome - Eric LaRocca
Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman
Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty - Dan Jones
Dark Tales - Shirley Jackson
Cannibalism: A Perfect...
Discussing Such Lovely Skin by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
A self-absorbed Twitch streamer accidentally causes her little sister's death and is now being haunted by a mimic summoned through a horror video game.
Next Up:
The Fisherman - John Langan
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Only the Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones
The Mean Ones - Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Wi...
Discussing Punk Rock Ghost Story by David Agranoff
A punk band goes on tour in a haunted van. Things end badly.
Check out the Playlist on Spotify: Punk Rock Ghost Story
Next Up:
Such Lovely Skin - Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix
The Last Night to Kill Nazis, Boot Boys of the Wolf Reich, Goddamn Killing Machines, The Vegan Revolution... with Zombies – David Agranoff
Discussing The Shining by Stephen King
A desperate, alcoholic writer moves his family to the Overlook Hotel to work as the winter caretaker but instead of finishing his play he loses his mind. Come and take your medicine!
Next Up:
Punk Rock Ghost Story - David Agranoff
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Carrie; Salem's Lot; The Stand – Stephen King
The Black Guy Dies First – Robin R. Means Coleman, Mark H. Harris
Th...
Discussing Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson
More short stories! Very odd, eerie, weird horror. Varies between realistic and sci fi settings.
Next Up:
The Shining - Stephen King
Episode Trigger Warnings:
Body horror
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Discussing We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
Everything comes crashing down on Kris Pulaski's heavy metal dreams of making it big in her band, Dürt Würk, and now she's working a dead-end hotel job where lodgers pee on the floor. Her best friend screwed everything up, signed a contract with demons, and taunts her with his successful nu metal band.
Check out the Playlist on Spotify: We Sold Our Souls
Next Up:
Song for th...
Discussing Revenge by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
Weird stuff happens to city people in this book of short stories with connected characters, eerie situations, and somebody who wears a bag over their heart!
Next Up:
We Sold Our Souls - Grady Hendrix
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
I Was a Teenage Slasher – Stephen Graham Jones
Good Night, Sleep Tight; A Collapse of Horses; Last Days – Brian Evenson
They W...
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