Haunted Love Radio

In our first episode of Haunted Love Radio, we head to the southern-fried backwoods of Texas for a discussion of Texas Chainsaw Massacre before browsing the meat case at Zach Gristle's Butchery in a throwback E.C. Tales from the Crypt comic strip from the 1950s. Eat up, kiddos! Primary texts: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, dir. Tobe Hooper (1974) "T'aint the Meat...It's the Humanity," Tales from the Crypt #16, Al Feldstein and Jack Davis (1952) Further Reading: Chainsaw Confidential, Gunnar Hansen (2013) Men, Women and Chain Saws, Carol Clover (1993, reissue 2015) Demon Theory, Stephen Graham Jones (2006) Seduction of the Innocent, Dr. Frederic Wertham (1954) The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America, David Hajdu (2008) You can follow us on Twitter @HauntedLovePod or email us at hauntedloveradio@gmail.com. Our icon is by the lovely Sophie McMahan. You can buy her work here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DreamingOfJohnny And learn more about her art here: http://sophiemcmahan.com/home.html Intro music: "At the Devil's Ball," performed by Maurice Burkhart (1913) Transition music: "That Syncopated Boogie-Boo," performed by The Premier Quartet (1913)