Every month, we try to give you, our listeners, some recommendations for good reads. This month, we want to do something a little different and offer up one spotlight selection, related to the Daphne du Maurier episode that you voted for on social media.
Read MoreWhat's better than a good book on a long, lazy summer day? Here's a couple we're loving, plus a few on our to-read list.
Read MoreDark Matter (2016)
Blake Crouch
According to NPR, this book is a “whole bag of barbecue chips.” It is (or your particular chip of choice). The science-fiction/thriller plotting makes the book hard to put down. The existential implications about our identities, our decisions, and the questions of whether we truly ever can know ourselves make the book deeply unsettling. Science is astounding, but in human hands, it also has a dark side.
The Underground Railroad (2016)
Colson Whitehead
Whitehead is no stranger to the horror genre. He wrote the zombie novel Zone One. Now he has won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award with his latest literary work. During our haunted house series, we talked about how American history has wounds that refuse to be ignored and often remain open in our supernatural literature and at our haunted historical landmarks. In The Underground Railroad, readers face the horrific history of slavery and the courage, hope, humanity, and dangers of the book title’s escape network to the North. Whitehead represents the railroad with an actual subterranean train that crisscrosses America, lending a speculative element to the historical fiction with its haunted characters.
Read MoreIt's no secret that the hosts of the Know Fear cast are book lovers, so we've rounded up some things we've been loving this month. Let us know if you've read these, and share what you're loving too. We are always on the look out for a good book.
Read MoreWe all know love hurts, but when do love and horror meet? As it turns out, the line between love and hate really is pretty thin. In honor of the holiday (you know the one), I’ve compiled a list of some of the best reading and watching for those of us feeling a little less than romantic.
Read MoreWe at the Know Fear podcast are truly honored and humbled to be on the shortlist for the This is Horror 2016 Awards for Nonfiction Podcast of the Year.
Read MoreBy the end of every year, I am exhausted. I’m tired from too many celebrations. I’ve eaten too much sugar and drank too much wine. I’m wishing that darkness didn’t begin to fall at 4 p.m. Usually, I’m eager to put the holidays behind me and get back to my “real” life. But the prospect of a new year also brings excitement.
I love getting to review my past year and, yes, make plans for the next. Every year, I try to read 50 books, though I rarely make it. This year, I finished 33; if I count the six that I’m in the middle of, then I’m at 39, and I didn’t do so poorly. Of course, there’s always 2017 to beat that record.
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