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A Lot To Be Horrified About - August Book Club with Erin Nelson

Episode Summary

Wally is joined by Erin Nelson for the final installment of the summer book club series discussing The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix and My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. There's also a lot of discussion of slashers, final girls, and what the horror genre does for us.

Episode Notes

Media Mentioned:

— BOOKS

My Heart is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones

The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix

The Last Girls Standing - Jennifer Dugan

There’s No Way I’d Die First - Lisa Springer

The Black Girl Survives in This One: Stories - Edited by Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell

I Was a Teenage Slasher  - Stephen Graham Jones

The White Guy Dies First:13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power - Edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker

The Blonde Dies First - Joelle Wellington

You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight - Kalynn Bayron

Meddling Kids - Edgar Cantero

Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle

Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle

— FILMS / FRANCHISES

Scream

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Friday the 13th

Halloween

Cabin in the Woods

Tucker and Dale vs Evil 

Get Out 

Candyman 

Giallo - Italian genre/precursor to the American slasher

— TV Show

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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