Episode 155 is a book club episode, and we’re talking about Gen’s summer pick, Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo. It offers up some spooky southern gothic vibes with a side of car races and a family curse. Show Notes After picking this book, Gen realized it was blurbed by the …
In Episode 154, it’s time for another instalment of #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt with I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones. We just can’t stay away from the spooky books this summer, but this one has a distinctly summer vibe with it’s unique twist on the slasher genre. You’ll want to …
In Episode 153, Gen and Jette talk about Reality Squall by Jason Krawczyk. Space-time gets funky in this one, so you know we loved it! Show Notes One of Jason’s other books, It Look Like Dad, was published by Little Ghosts Books, one of our favourite Toronto bookstores that is …
In Episode 144, Gen and Jette read the first volume of Night Eaters, a horror graphic novel by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda.You know we’re all about the creepy graphic novels, but this one had the added bonus of being very funny. Safe to say we loved it! Show Notes …
In Episode 111, Gen and Jette talk about their most recent book club book, The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle. It’s a retelling of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story, “The Horror at Red Hook” that subverts the xenophobic message of the original tale. Show Notes We fell down a …
It’s almost Halloween! Which means episode 106 is dedicated to all things spooky — specifically Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera, and Miquel Muerto. And we’re welcoming guest and friend of the pod, Mike Storey, to talk all things horror and graphic novels. Show Notes …
Gen and Jette dive into a book club book to kick off 2021. They discuss Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Show Notes How did we not know that Silvia Moreno-Garcia was Canadian? Check out this CBC article on how Moreno-Garcia subverts the genre Do you know the Oprah Effect? The Guillermo del …
In Episdoe 34 Gen and Jette talk about The Institute by Stephen King, our 2019 November/December book club selection. King’s latest novel follows a group of children with special powers who are prisoners of a mysterious Institute that runs experiments on them. We chat about fate and chance, shady governments, …
In Episode 29 Gen and Jette do another genre breakdown and this time we’re haunted by horror! We take on the spookiest of genres in our latest genre breakdown. So many genres cross over with horror and we had so much fun picking this one apart, talking about some of …
