A Meal of Thorns 56- KILLER, COME BACK TO ME with Aigner Loren Wilson

More famous for his science fiction and dark fantasy, Ray Bradbury also tried his hand at crime fiction, with often-fascinating results. Writer, critic, and editor Aigner Loren Wilson talks us through the strange flourishes and tonal experiments of Killer, Come Back To Me!

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• Guest: Aigner Loren Wilson
• Title: Killer, Come Back To Me by Ray Bradbury
• Host:Jake Casella Brookins
• Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork byRob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• The Possession of Alba Díaz & Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
• Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues
• The Ship of Death by Kyle Winkler
• Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shroud
• Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction by Jonathan R. Eller & William F. Touponce
• Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett
• Dandelion Wine, Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, The Martian Chronicles
• Damon Knight
• "The Smallest Assassin"
• Leigh Brackett
• The Chucky franchise
• Frank Miller’s Sin City, Shane Black’s The Nice Guys
• Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures
• "Dead Men Rise Up never"
• "Where Everything Ends"
• "The Town Where No One Got Off"
• "The Utterly Perfect Murder"
• The Bradbury Chronicles by Sam Weller
• "Punishment Without Crime"
• "The Whole Town’s Sleeping" & "At Midnight in the Month of June"
• "The Women" from I Sing the Body Electric
• "And So Died Riabouchinska"
• "The Smiling People"
• "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl"
• "Some Live Like Lazarus"
• Octavia E. Butler
• Darker Times
• Writing Skins, Aigner’s newsletter
• Aigner's website
• Scene Builder