Marlon and Jake are back! And they’re catching up on the dead authors they’ve read since they last spoke—some of which they praise, others they don’t. From comparing Nella Larson’s Passing to the Netflix film, to discussing unsettling stories that linger with you, they cover a lot of literary ground. They also weigh in on longstanding debates like whether they read the book or watch the movie adaption first and the difference between horror and terror. Tune in for the witty book banter you know and love. 

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• The Letters of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn
• Passing by Nella Larsen 
• A View From a Hill by Montague Roads James
• The Turn of The Screw by Henry James
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelly 
• The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris 
• The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
• Jesus’s Son by Denis Johnson
• Airships by Barry Hannah 
• Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
• Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 
• Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
• Hell House by Richard Matheson
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 
• Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring