Dusk to Dawn: Reading Horror and Weird Fiction

Discussing A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford

Exorcism is in vogue. A witch with a 300-pound smoking pig sells an ointment that makes people feel just right. A man rides in a rocket ship and lives to write about it and other stories in this baker's dozen of weird tales mixing humor, satire, and horror in a genre-bending delight!

Next Up:
The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle
You Weren't...

Discussing The Devil By Name by Keith Rosson

It's 5 years later. Things have gotten much worse.

Next Up:
A Natural History of Hell – Jeffrey Ford
The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle
You Weren't Meant to Be Human – Andrew Joseph White

Books Mentioned in this Episode:
The Stand – Stephen King
Yeehaw Junction – Kayli Scholz
The Fisherman – John Langan
The Book of the New Sun ...

Discussing Fever House by Keith Rosson

A dismembered hand makes people go super crazy and it’s really bad if someone dies around it.

Next Up:
The Devil By Name – Keith Rosson
A Natural History of Hell – Jeffrey Ford
The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle

Books Mentioned in this Episode:
We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix
Thorn City – Pamela Statz

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Discussing Krampus: The Yule Lord by Gerald Brom

Mean old Krampus escapes centuries of imprisonment and returns to bring Yuletide cheer and birch tree whacks to the children of the modern world. Also he hates Santa Claus. Ho ho ho!

Next Up:
Fever House – Keith Rosson
The Devil By Name – Keith Rosson
A Natural History of Hell – Jeffrey Ford

Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Nibelungenlied
The Saga...

Discussing Candy Cain Kills by Brian McAuley

Bad parents treat their daughters poorly resulting in the creation of a Christmas killer in this cozy cabin slasher.

Next Up:
Krampus: The Yule Lord – Gerald Brom
Fever House – Keith Rosson
The Devil By Name – Keith Rosson

Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Candy Cain Kills Again; Breathe In, Bleed Out – Brian McAuley
11/22/63 – Stephen King
Crave: ...

Discussing North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

This debut short story collection features nine tales of down and out ex-cons, single parents, unemployed laborers, and other desperate characters living on the margins of society, encountering horrors both human and supernatural.

Next Up:
Candy Cain Kills – Brian McAuley
Krampus: The Yule Lord – Gerald Brom
Fever House – Keith Rosson

Books Me...

Discussing Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

An asshole scientist channels his energy into bringing the dead back to life which he abhors the moment the experiment succeeds. People suffer and die and Victor feels little to no remorse over the whole thing. Meanwhile, the creature just wants to do people’s chores in exchange for not being hated on sight.

Next Up:
North American Lake Monsters – Nathan Ballingrud
C...

Discussing Yeehaw Junction by Kayli Scholz

When a family of thieves and runaways joins the search for a missing girl in rural Florida, they’re drawn into a chemical conspiracy that extends far beyond their worst nightmares.

Join us in this special bonus episode talking about a very weird, very Florida book!

Next Up:
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
North American Lake Monsters – Nathan Ballingrud
Candy Cain ...

Discussing The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi

Old people are dropping like flies at the Autumn Springs Retirement Home and nobody seems to care until one Rose DuBois smells foul play, recruiting her best friend Miller to help investigate the string of deaths. Could it be the youthful and ubiquitous Administrator Blackwell, the cackling Baxter Sisters casting spells in the old asylum, or someone ...

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...

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...