Darkliy Lit Podcast

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we conclude our season on a suitably Gothic note with The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell.Next month, we'll be posting our list of the six books for next season. Join us and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email, Twitter or Discord.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we look to the ghosts of our past with A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay.Next month, we'll be reading The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email, Twitter or Discord.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we experience the bitter and the sweet of October 31st with All Hallows by Christopher Golden.Next month, we'll be reading A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email, Twitter or Discord.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we have an axe to grind with Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly.Next month, we'll be reading All Hallows by Christopher Golden. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email, Twitter or Discord.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we attempt to interpret the Darkness with Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez.Next month, we'll be reading Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email, Twitter or Discord.CONTENT WARNING: Our Share of Night contains elements and themes of child abuse, which we discuss. Listener discretion is advised.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we try in vain to pronounce the name of our home planet with Earthlings by Sayaka Murata.Next month, we'll be reading Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email, Twitter or Discord.CONTENT WARNING: Earthlings contains elements and themes of rape, incest, pedophilia, cannibalism, abuse and attempted suicide. Reader discretion is advised.

The curators of the library gather to discuss which books they've brought to the table and what to expect as we turn a new page of Darkly Lit.Join us on July 13th as we begin the season with Earthlings by Sayaka Murata. CONTENT WARNING: Earthlings contains elements and themes of rape, incest, pedophilia, cannibalism, abuse and attempted suicide. Reader discretion is advised.

A new season begins! The Pasta Shade makes an appearance to tell you all about the format of the show, and what we will be reading during the next six months. Discussions will release as follows: July - Earthlings by Sayaka Murata August - Our Share of Night by Mariana EnriquezSeptember - Theme Music by T Marie Vandelly October - All Hallows by Christopher Golden November - A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay December - The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell CONTENT WARNING: Earthlings contains elements and themes of rape, incest, pedophilia, cannibalism, abuse and attempted suicide. Reader discretion is advised.

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Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, the play's the thing with Feathers and Teeth by Charise Castro Smith.We're changing up our format starting in July, so stay until the end for more details, and look for an announcement this time next month about what other dark fiction we will be reading together

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we confront the beast within with Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline.Next month, we'll be reading the play Feathers and Teeth by Charise Castro Smith. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.Please consider supporting steps to stop the Willow Project and fight further environmental degradation. Read up on it here, and take action here.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we face our closet monsters with Dirty Heads by Aaron Dries.We're taking March off, so join us in April when we discuss Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we'll make up a song about Coraline by Neil Gaiman.Next month, we'll discuss Dirty Heads by Aaron Dries. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we witness a very deadly Christmas with The Visitor by Sergio Gomez.Next month, we'll discuss Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we become lost at sea with Sacculina by Philip Fraccassi.Next month, we'll discuss The Visitor by Segio Gomez. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we step back in time to the wonders and horrors of Chicago, 1893 with The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.Next month, we'll discuss Sacculina by Philip Fraccassi. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we get our licks in with Remina by Junji Ito.We will be taking September off, but please join us in October when we discuss The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we pull ourselves out of the black ocean with The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht.Next month, we'll discuss Remina by Junji Ito. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we extend our vacation a little too long with “The Summer People” by Shirley Jackson.Next month, we'll discuss The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we fumble through a haunted house with Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw.We're taking a one-month hiatus following this episode, but please join us in June for our next read, “The Summer People” by Shirley Jackson. Send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we reach the bitter end of Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky.Next month, we'll discuss Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we watch things really start to unravel with Part IV of Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky.Next month, we'll finish the book! Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we start a long journey into the shadowy woods with Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky.Next month… you decide what we read! Let us know with some feedback or through an upcoming Twitter poll if you'd like us to continue this novel, or take a break to read Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we are haunted by the ghosts of our past with Lacrimosa by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.Next month, we'll begin our multi-part discussion of Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky, covering the Prologue through Part 3 (up to chapter 34). Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we are what we eat with Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica.Next month, we'll discuss Lacrimosa by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we bask in the unending orange light of The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink.Next month, we'll discuss Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we relate to some serious teenage angst in Sawkill Girls by Claire Lagrand.Next month, we'll discuss The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we get a little campy raising spirits with a Fear Street book: Cheerleaders: The First Evil by R.L. Stine.Next month, we'll discuss Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrande. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we disregard the presence of the dead in The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike.Next month, we'll discuss Fear Street: The First Evil by R.L. Stine Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we take our demons to the court with The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones.Next month, we’ll discuss The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we experience our initial growing pains with the first volume of Farmhand by Rob Guillory.Next month, we’ll discuss The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we feel like a buncha dummies discussing The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett. Next month, we’ll discuss Farmhand by Rob Guillory. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we traipse through retail Hell in Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix.Next month, we’ll discuss The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we fall in love with Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas.Next month, we’ll discuss Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.This holiday season, consider giving to the Prison Book Program, and giving through independent booksellers Wellesley Books and Porter Square Books.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we get proper startled with Bongcheon-Dong Ghost by Horang.Next month, we’ll discuss Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we settle in for a horror trilogy with Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones.Next month, we’ll discuss Bongcheon-Dong Ghost by Horang. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we become engulfed in delirium and decay with Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.Next month, we’ll discuss Demon Theory by Stephen Grahm Jones. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we take a short ride on “The You Train” by N.K. Jemisin.Next month, we’ll discuss Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we see a horror beyond the cosmic in The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle.Next month, we’ll discuss “The You Train” by N.K. Jemisin. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, we deduct the truth behind “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allen PoeNext month, we’ll discuss The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month, you’re in for a scare with Goosebumps: The Horror at Camp Jellyjam by R.L. Stine.Next month, we’ll discuss a creepy classic short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allen Poe. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

(Disclaimer: Subject matter discussed in this episode may be sensitive to some listeners. Please listen to the forward for more details)Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month we finish Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist.Next month, we’ll give ourselves Goosebumps with The Horror at Camp Jellyjam by R.L. Stine. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

(Disclaimer: Subject matter discussed in this episode may be sensitive to some listeners. Please listen to the forward for more details)Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month we continue our discussion with the sthird part of Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist.Next month, we’ll wrap up with Parts 4 and 5. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

(Disclaimer: Subject matter discussed in this episode may be sensitive to some listeners. Please listen to the forward for more details)Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month we continue our discussion with the second part part of Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist.Next month, we’ll continue to Part 3. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

(Disclaimer: Subject matter discussed in this episode may be sensitive to some listeners. Please listen to the forward for more details)Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month we discuss the first part of Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist.Next month, we’ll continue our discussion of the novel. Join us in the reading and send your comments, questions or related topics to discuss to our email or Twitter.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month we discuss Five Midnights by Ann Dávila CardinalNext month, we begin a new phase as we begin a longer discussion of Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month we discuss The Quiet Boy by Nick Antosca

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month we discuss Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! This month we discuss Beautiful Darkness (Comic) by Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascoet.

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! We steer of course again to finally tackle The Electric Boner by Nathaniel Lewis. Joined by the charming and handsome, Allen Chaney!

Delve into the darkly lit world of horror literature with us! After some scheduling issues, we deviate from our original plan and go back to an author Roald Dahl. This month we discuss Lamb to The Slaughter.