A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard.

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It’s mid-October which means we are in the thick of spooky season—and we’ve got a spooky spectacular for you this week! Let Drew guide you into reading some horror—or just talking about it!

• Tune in to James Folta calling Literary Terrors Bingo live at the community center in Halloweentown

• Olivia Rutigliano drops in to talk to Drew about the strange similarities between the collapse of the publishing mid-list and the recent spate of streaming cancellations

• A conversation about reading horror and other weird books with Drew Broussard, McKayla Coyle, and Oliver Scialdone

MENTIONED:

 The Companion by E.E. Ottoman • Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval • Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield • Earthlings by Sayaka Murata • You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman • Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth • Bizarre Publishing House • Coup de Grace by Sofia Ajram • Revelator by Daryl Gregory • Curses by George Wylesol

The Lit Hub Podcast is a production of Lit Hub Radio and is available wherever you get your podcasts; music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn; Engineering and production by Stardust House