Episode 67: Coming of Age Horror with Tracy Robinson

“It was the most beautiful and horrible thing I’d ever seen, watching her become all that she was meant to be.”

Gwendolyn Kiste, The Rust Maidens

I talked with Tracy from Sci-Fi and Scary and Ladies of Horror Fiction to talk about one of the horror community’s favorite sub-genre, coming of age stories. Listen to our chat about what we have been reading and some of our favorite coming of age movies and books.

This episode is brough to you by Macmillan Audio’s production of The Shadows by Alex North, available wherever you get books and audiobooks.

Books Mentioned:

• Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
• Attack of the 50ft Indian by Stephen Graham Jones
• Jedi Summer by John Boden
• Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
• Both Sides edited by Gabino Iglesias
• Miscreations: Gods, Monstrocities and Other Horrors edited by Doug Murano
• Final Cuts edited by Ellen Datlow
• The Pale White by Chad Lutzke
• Scream All Night by Derek Milman
• It by Stephen King
• The Body by Stephen King
• My Favorite Thing is Monsters vol. 1 by Emil Ferris
• The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste
• Benny and the Cannibal King by Hailey Piper
• Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
• Itza by Rios De La Luz
• Knock Knock by SP Miskowski
• Touch the Night by Max Booth III
• Carnivorous Lunar Activities by Max Booth III

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Tracy picked “Paint It Black” by The Rolling Stones. Check it out here!

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