Episode 238 - Cosmic Horror

It's episode 238 and time for Halloween! Join us as we talk about the genre of Cosmic Horror! We discuss the differences between "a cosmic horror" and "cosmic horror", creepy noises, reading series out of order, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Blindsight by Peter Watts
• The Croning by Laird Barron
• Remina by Junji Ito
• Beyond the Bounds of Infinity: An Anthology of Diverse (Cosmic) Horror edited by Vaughn A. Jackson and Stephanie Pearre
• The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
• Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Tindalos Asset by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Midnight Pals
  • Comedic fiction about various horror writers that started as Twitter threads. There are collected editions.
• Crapshots Ep608 - The Old Ones
  • "Everything sucks now that the great old ones have risen."
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
  • We didn't actually mention any specific books by him, but here's the one Matthew was thinking about
• The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
• Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
• Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• Stalker directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
• SCP Foundation
• There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
• The Backrooms
• Backrooms directed by Kane Parsons
• Trapped in the Backrooms || Crapshots Ep725
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  • Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Hellboy by Mike Mignola and others
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• The Horror at Red Hook by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito
• Comprehensive List of Cosmic Horror (IMDB)
• Control (video game)
• Dead Space
• The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
• The Room directed by Tommy Wiseau
• The Mountain Goats - Lovecraft in Brooklyn

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 019 - Weird Fiction
• Episode 115 - New Weird
• Lovecraftian horror (Wikipedia)
• Conan the Barbarian (Wikipedia)
• Cthulhu Mythos (Wikipedia)
• List of Cthulhu Mythos characters (Wikipedia)
• Libro.fm's Audiobook Listening Copy Program
• Providence Athenaeum
• Arkham Horror (board game)
• Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)
• Abbott and Costello
• Space!!! (Tim Curry)
• Anxiety (Academia) - Matthew's playlist of music that makes him anxious

16 Cosmic Horror Books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
• Ten Sleep by Nicholas Belardes
• You've Awoken Her by Ann Dávila Cardinal
• Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
• Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
• A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-Young, translated by Sophie Bowman
• The Black Orb by Ewhan Kim, translated by Sean Lin Halbert
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• Up From The Deep by Vaughn A. Jackson
• This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
• Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed
• Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker
• The Flock of Ba-Hui and Other Stories by Oobmab, translated by Arthur Meursault and Akira
• Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn
• They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
• Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson

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Join us again on Tuesday,  October 20th we'll be talking about The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett.

Then on Tuesday, November 3rd we'll be discussing Taiwanese Fiction!