Let’s dive right into the new year with some meta-fictional horror with fantastic and ultra-knowledgeable host of the Talking Scared podcast Neil McRobert. What makes a good meta story? What about it works within the horror genre? Is it cake? All this and more in this episode.
Books Mentioned:
- The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp
- Haunted by Chuck Pahlanuik
- Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
- Misery by Stephen King
- Carrie by Stephen King
- Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
- Good Girls Don’t Die by Christina Henry
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Human-Shaped Fiends by Chandler Morrison
- Lunar Park by Brett Easton Ellis
- A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
- Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
- The Ghost That Ate Us: The Story of the Burger City Poltergeist by Daniel Kraus
Movies Mentioned:
- Scream
- Cabin In the Woods
- Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
- Funny Games
- The Blair Witch Project
- The Last Horror Movie
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