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Listen to Sleazoids #401: PET SEMATARY (1989) + DREAMCATCHER (2003) ft. Mike Thorn

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Mike Thorn kick off SPOOKTOBER by discussing two different eras of largely faithful Stephen King adaptations: Mary Lambert’s playful, colorful and yet still effectively upsetting and morbid realization of PET SEMATARY (1989) and Lawrence Kasdan’s attempt at keeping a straight (expensive Hollywood production) face while King bizarrely remixes many of his career-long obsessions in the painkiller induced fever dream of DREAMCATCHER (2003).

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Craftwork Episode 22: Tonal Registers, Byzantine Journeys, & Repurposing Research w/ Michael LaPointe

Listen to Craftwork Episode 22: Tonal Registers, Byzantine Journeys, & Repurposing Research w/ Michael LaPointe.

In this interview, we chat with Michael LaPointe about navigating the pipeline between impulse and expression, breaking the genteel picture of literature, finding liberation in failure, and so much more.

Michael LaPointe is the author of The Creep, a novel published by Random House Canada. He has written for The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and he was a columnist with The Paris Review. His work has been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and Best Canadian Essays, and he lives in Toronto.

Books mentioned in this episode:

  • Affliction; Continental Drift; Rule of the Bone; The Sweet Hereafter – Russell Banks 
  • Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs 
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi 
  • Bleak House – Charles Dickens 
  • Play it as it Lays – Joan Didion 
  • The Lover – Marguerite Duras 
  • Middlemarch – George Eliot 
  • American Psycho; Less Than Zero; The Shards – Bret Easton Ellis 
  • Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 
  • Bad Behavior; Two Girls, Fat and Thin – Mary Gaitskill 
  • In a Lonely Place – Dorothy B. Hughes 
  • Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata 
  • Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination; Sula – Toni Morrison 
  • The Sorrow of War – Bảo Ninh 
  • Inherent Vice – Thomas Pynchon 
  • All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque 
  • Voyage in the Dark – Jean Rhys 
  • Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger 
  • Last Exit to Brooklyn – Hubert Selby Jr.  
  • Alice James: A Biography – Jean Strouse 
  • The Invisible Woman: The Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles Dickens – Claire Tomalin 
  • Rejection – Tony Tulathimutte 
  • Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton 
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Craftwork Episode 21: Myth, Fetishism, & the Horror of Living in an Allistic World w/ Gemma Files

Listen to Craftwork Episode 21: Myth, Fetishism, & the Horror of Living in an Allistic World w/ Gemma Files.

In this interview, we chat with Gemma Files about horny monsters, Lovecraftian Airbnbs, the female gaze, and so much more.

Previously a film critic, journalist and teacher, Gemma Files has been an award-winning horror author since 1999. She’s best-known for her novel Experimental Film (Open Road Media) and her collections of short fiction, including the Bram Stoker Award-winning In That Endlessness, Our End and Blood From the Air (both from Grimscribe). Her next book, Little Horn: Stories, will be out in October from Shortwave. She is the autistic mother of an autistic son. For fun she sings, and doodles pretty monsters.

Books mentioned in this episode: 

  • Empire of the Sun – J. G. Ballard 
  • D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths; Norse Gods and Giants – Edgar Parin d’Aulaire and Ingri Parin d’Aulaire 
  • Black Flame – Gretchen Felker-Martin 
  • The Rotting Room – Viggy Parr Hampton 
  • Barrowbeck; The Loney; Starve Acre – Andrew Michael Hurley 
  • Bright Dead Star; Zoetrope Bizarre – Caitlín R. Kiernan 
  • The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling 
  • The Magician’s Nephew – C. S. Lewis 
  • The Reddening – Adam Nevill 
  • Metamorphoses – Ovid 
  • Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand 
  • Frankenstein – Mary Shelley 
  • Dracula – Bram Stoker 
  • A Dark Matter – Peter Straub 
  • The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole 
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Craftwork Episode 18: Ekphrasis, Sinuous Sentences, & the Logic of Sound w/ Sarah Bernstein

Listen to Craftwork Episode 18: Ekphrasis, Sinuous Sentences, & the Logic of Sound w/ Sarah Bernstein.

In this interview, we chat with Sarah Bernstein about contemplation, finding time for writing, capturing the rush of language, and so much more.

Sarah Bernstein is the author of two novels, The Coming Bad Days and Study for Obedience, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is from Montreal and lives in the Scottish Highlands.

Books and stories mentioned in this episode:

  • Hysteric; Whore – Nelly Arcan
  • Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
  • The Moonstone; The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  • “A Mown Lawn” – Lydia Davis
  • Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin
  • The Book of Questions – Edmond Jabès
  • The Haunting of Hill House; “The Lottery”; The Sundial; We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
  • The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
  • The Place of Shells – Mai Ishizawa
  • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being – Christina Sharpe
  • The House Next Door – Anne Rivers Siddons
  • The Door – Magda Szabó
  • Clean – Alia Trabucco Zerán
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Craftwork Episode 17: Worldbuilding, Aha Moments, & Writing for the Stage w/ S. P. Miskowski

Listen to Craftwork Episode 17: Worldbuilding, Aha Moments, & Writing for the Stage w/ S. P. Miskowski.

In this interview, we chat with S. P. Miskowski about Asian horror cinema, the power of grief, the relentless desire to shape the self, and so much more.

S. P. Miskowski is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, for literature and for drama. Her books have been recognized with four Shirley Jackson Award nominations and two Bram Stoker Award nominations. Her stories have appeared in many anthologies including Haunted Nights, Human Monsters, Looming Low I and II, The Madness of Dr. Caligari, Uncertainties III, October Dreams 2, The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 10, and Darker Companions: 50 Years of Ramsey Campbell, and in magazines including Identity Theory, Black Static, Vastarien, Supernatural Tales, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. Her grunge noir novel I Wish I Was Like You was named This Is Horror Novel of the Year 2017 and is available via Audible. An omnibus of her books set in the weird fictional town of Skillute, WA is forthcoming from Broken Eye Books in 2025.

Books and stories mentioned in this episode:

  • The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales – Alfred A. Knopf, pub.
  • The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 – S. A. Cosby, ed.
  • D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths – Ingrid & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
  • Go, Dog. Go! – P. D. Eastman
  • Rock Paper Scissors – Alice Feeney
  • The Haunting of Hill House; “Maybe it Was the Car”; “The Summer People”; We Have Always Lived in the Castle; “The Witch” – Shirley Jackson
  • None of This is True – Lisa Jewell
  • Audition – Ryū Murakami
  • “Bluebeard”; “Cinderella” – Charles Perrault
  • “The Black Cat”; “The Cask of Amontillado” – Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Last Party – A. R. Torre
  • The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 – Lisa Unger, ed.
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Craftwork Episode 14: Debauchery, Plotless Fiction, & the Paranoiac-Critical Method w/ Nour Abi-Nakhoul

Listen to Craftwork Episode 14: Debauchery, Plotless Fiction, & the Paranoiac-Critical Method w/ Nour Abi-Nakhoul.

In this interview, we chat with Nour Abi-Nakhoul about copy editing, creative nonfiction, feverish creations, and so much more.

Nour Abi-Nakhoul is a writer and editor based in Montreal. She is the editor-in-chief of the award-winning quarterly Maisonneuve Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in Hazlitt and The Walrus. Her debut novel, Supplication, was released by Penguin Random House in 2024.

Books mentioned in this episode:

  • Kilworthy Tanner – Jean Marc Ah-Sen
  • We Are Here to Hurt Each Other – Paula D. Ashe
  • Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
  • The Guest – Emma Cline
  • The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Autobiography of X; Pew – Catherine Lacey
  • The Apple in the Dark – Clarice Lispector
  • Fever Dream – Samanta Schweblin
  • The Adventures of Ratman – Ellen Weiss
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Craftwork S1E13: Ecstasy, Ruin, & the Talent of the Room w/ Kathe Koja

Listen to Craftwork S1E13: Ecstasy, Ruin, & the Talent of the Room w/ Kathe Koja.

In this interview, we chat with Kathe Koja about balancing simultaneous projects, resisting online distractions, raising the literary dead, and so much more.

Kathe Koja writes novels and short fiction, and creates and produces live and virtual events. Her award-winning books include The Cipher, Skin, Buddha Boy, Under The Poppy and Velocities, and she is currently at work on the Dark Factory immersive fiction project including Dark Factory, Dark Park and Dark Matter. Catherine the Ghost is her newest novel.

You can find her at kathekoja.com and on Instagram, Facebook and Threads.

Books mentioned in this episode:

  • Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
  • Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin
  • Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The Mouse and His Child; Riddley Walker – Russell Hoban
  • The Default World – Naomi Kanakia
  • Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett – James Knowlson
  • A Place of Greater Safety; Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
  • Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
  • Rimbaud: A Biography – Graham Robb
  • Frankenstein; The Last Man – Mary Shelley
  • Lost Boy Lost Girl – Peter Straub
  • The Secret Power of Music: The Transformation of Self and Society through Musical Energy – David Tame
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Craftwork S1E12: Cruel Elegance, Cosmic Pessimism, & Rust Belt Vibes w/ Paula D. Ashe

Listen to Craftwork S1E12: Cruel Elegance, Cosmic Pessimism, & Rust Belt Vibes w/ Paula D. Ashe.

In this interview, we chat with Paula D. Ashe about writer’s block, narrative movement, urban legends, and so much more.

Paula D. Ashe (she/her) is an author of dark fiction. Her debut collection We Are Here to Hurt Each Other (Nictitating Books) was a Shirley Jackson Award winner for Single Author Collection and a Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. Recently, she received the Joseph S. Pulver Sr. Weird Fiction Award at NecronomiCon Providence. Paula was also an associate editor for Vastarien: A Literary Journal. She lives in the Midwest with her family.

Books and stories mentioned in this episode:

  • Supplication – Nour Abi-Nakhoul
  • The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  • Books of Blood; The Damnation Game; The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker
  • Midnight Rooms – Donyae Coles
  • Blood from the Air – Gemma Files
  • “each thing i show you is a piece of my death” – Gemma Files & Stephen J. Barringer
  • Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke – Eric LaRocca
  • “Abed” – Elizabeth Massie
  • The Scar – China Miéville
  • Beloved; The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
  • Song of the Tyrant Worm – Hailey Piper
  • Flowers for the Sea – Zin E. Rocklyn
  • Cows – Matthew Stokoe
  • The Secret History – Donna Tartt
  • The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  • Where I End – Sophie White
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Craftwork S1E11: Collaboration, Closet Dramas, & Writing for Audio w/ McKenna James Boeckner & Carlee Calver

Listen to Craftwork S1E11: Collaboration, Closet Dramas, & Writing for Audio w/ McKenna James Boeckner & Carlee Calver.

In this interview, we chat with McKenna James Boeckner and Carlee Calver about nature writing, epistolary possibilities, elusive chicken detectives, and so much more.

McKenna James Boeckner is a Ph.D. candidate and contract lecturer at the University of New Brunswick (territory of the Wolastoqiyik people), with a specialization in long eighteenth-century British literature. As a creative writer, they slay with playwriting and have a penchant for fractured states of reality. Their most recent project is an eco-horror audio drama co-created with Carlee Calver, titled Us Soliscent Seeds. Find more of their work at memoirsofasodomite.com

Carlee Calver is a writer, playwright, and filmmaker from Bathurst, New Brunswick. She currently lives and works in Fredericton NB, where she received her M.A. in creative writing (screenwriting) from the University of New Brunswick. Her plays have been produced by Notable Acts Theatre Festival (2019) and Herbert the Cow productions (2022). She directed a FibeTV1 series called Skin and Bone (2023) that is now available online. Recently, Carlee was co-creator and producer of Us Soliscent Seeds (2023), a 4-part eco-horror audio drama set in Northern New Brunswick. All episodes are now available for streaming online.

Books mentioned in this episode:

  • We Are Here to Hurt Each Other – Paula D. Ashe
  • Carrie – Stephen King
  • Blue Ruin; Red Pill – Hari Kunzru
  • Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Maturin
  • The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  • Divergent series – Veronica Roth
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona – William Shakespeare
  • Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  • Dracula – Bram Stoker
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