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Tananarive Due’s “Summer” (from her story collection Ghost Summer) is set in her fictional town of Gracetown, Florida, where the humid and murky swamps hide bodies and demon leeches. It’s not a place to raise a baby–or maybe it is.
Recommended in this episode: Shirley Jackson’s Sundial and Netflix’s Bridgerton
UP NEXT: Rachel Harrison’s Black Sheep
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Sisters Anna and Jennie live in a big house right on the Chicago river, where they are dealing with the grief following the aftermath of a family tragedy and the dead bodies that keep floating to the surface of the water. So join us as we discuss Cynthia Pelayo’s Forgotten Sisters, a novel that is part ghost story, part fairy tale, and part real-life Chicago history.
Recommended in this episode: Abigail
UP NEXT: Tananarive Due’s “Summer”
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Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award® winning and International Latino Book Award winning author and poet. She is the author of Children of Chicago, The Shoemaker’s Magician, Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, and Poems of My Night, all of which have been nominated for International Latino Book Awards. Poems of My Night was also nominated for an Elgin Award. Her collection of poetry, Into the Forest and All the Way Through explores true crime, that of the epidemic of missing and murdered women in the United States. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, a Master of Science in Marketing, a Master of Fine Arts in Writing, and is a Doctoral Candidate in Business Psychology. Cynthia was raised in inner city Chicago, where she lives with her husband and children.
To learn more about her visit: www.cinapelayo.com and follow her on Instagram @cynthiapelayoauthor and TikTok @cynthiapelayoauthor
UP NEXT: We discuss Pelayo’s novel Forgotten Sisters!
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If you ever thought to yourself, “I wish Beauty and the Beast had aliens in it,” then today’s story is for you. In her short story “Beauty,” Tanith Lee takes the classic fairy tale out of the castles and forests and into the stars.
Recommended in this episode: Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake
UP NEXT: Interview with author Cythia Pelayo
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The mysterious Velkwood Vicinity is an occult and paranormal marvel, occupying the interest of scientists and conspiracy theorists alike. But for three friends, Talitha, Brett, and Grace, the Velkwood Vicinity is their painful past. It’s the neighborhood they grew up in, and where their families still live–as ghosts. But now, Talitha returns, hoping for answers and maybe closure. The past is never really dead, though, and it may be more than she bargained for.
Recommended in this episode: The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
UP NEXT: Tanith Lee’s short story “Beauty”
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Join Lisa and Mel as we talk with author Gwendolyn Kiste about her newest novel, The Haunting of Velkwood.
Gwendolyn Kiste is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, Boneset & Feathers, Pretty Marys All in a Row, and The Haunting of Velkwood. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets including Lit Hub, Nightmare, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, CrimeReads, Tor Nightfire, The Lineup, and The Dark. She's a Lambda Literary Award winner, and her fiction has also received the This Is Horror award for Novel of the Year as well as nominations for the Premios Kelvin, Ignotus, and Dragon Awards. Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, their excitable calico cat, and not nearly enough ghosts. Find her online at gwendolynkiste.com
Purchase The Haunting of Velkwood here.
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This episode is a little different from our usual format, but we promise you'll love it. It's all about book recommendations and what Mel and Lisa are loving right now.
UP NEXT: An interview with author Gwendolyn Kiste!
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A rogue adventurer meets a woman with snakes for hair, and he falls under her seductive spell. Luckily, a friend gives our hero a heads up: don’t look in her eyes for that leads only to certain doom. No, we aren’t talking about the legend of Perseus and Medusa. This is a space adventure story set on Mars, and written by C L Moore.
Recommended: Starling House and Never Whistle at Night
UP NEXT: A recommendation episode!
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Kelly Link’s “Stone Animals” begins with an unspoken question, immediately throwing readers into an ambiguous but nightmarish journey as a family moves into a new home, where nothing is as it should be. Rabbits are taking over the yard. The children are eating grass and complaining of haunted items. And the husband never wants to come home. But is it really a haunted home? Or has this family made it that way by moving their own baggage into this contested domestic space?
Recommended in this ep: Carissa Orlando’s The September House; The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
UP NEXT: C.L. Moore’s “Shambleau”
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What Moves the Dead is T. Kingfisher’s retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” More than that though, it’s the tale of Alex Easton, a retired soldier, who visits their dying friend, Madeline, at her family manor. Something very sinister is going on, and it’s up to Alex, along with their newfound friends, a mycologist and a doctor, to figure it out before it’s too late.
Recommended in this episode: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno Garcia
UP NEXT: Kelly Link’s “Stone Animals”
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Louisa was raised in isolation in a cottage deep in the woods by a mysterious witch. It sounds like the start of a fairy tale, but this story takes twists and turns as Louisa leaves her home for the outside world. She’s no princess…and this is no fairy tale. This is a Gothic tale with plenty of intrigue, led by a rather unusual heroine. Join us as we discuss Tanith Lee’s “Louisa the Poisoner.”
Recommended in this episode: Deanna Raybourn’s Veronica Speedwell series
UP NEXT: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Tanith Lee tribute anthology: https://tanithleestoryteller.com/
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We made it to 100 episodes!
Join us as we look back at the writing of the book and as we look to the future of the podcast!
UP NEXT: Tanith Lee’s “Louisa the Poisoner”
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We are on hiatus for the December holidays. Please enjoy this classic episode from our archives.
We will be back in 2024 with a brand new season and a special celebration of our 100th episode.
Have a happy holiday season, from Lisa and Mel.
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Please enjoy this classic episode from our archives.
Enjoy your holiday season, and we will be back in 2024 with a brand new season and a special celebration of our 100th episode.
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A young doctor is called into the home of a wealthy man, but rather than seeing the sick patient he is expecting, he is greeted with a seemingly healthy man, who offers him a thousand pounds to attend a death bed. The doctor, who isn’t a rich man himself, reluctantly accepts the strange request. Of course, this is a ghost story, so the doctor doesn’t know exactly what he is in for…Join us as we discuss Ada Buisson’s “The Ghost’s Summons.”
Story originally published in Belgravia (January 1868); Collected in The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume One (edited by Tara Moore, 2016)
Recommended in this episode: Candy Cain Kills by Brian McAuley and the holiday episodes of Doctor Who
UP NEXT: Our next episode is our 100th episode. We want to celebrate this milestone, but since it is the holiday season, we will be taking a hiatus to be with family. We will rerun some of our favorite past holiday episodes, but we will be back in January, to kick off Season 5 and celebrate 100 episodes of Monster, She Wrote. We hope you will join us.
Have a happy holiday season, from Lisa and Mel!
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Exactly two years after she disappeared, Julie mysteriously comes back, with no memory of where she’s been. To celebrate her return, Julie’s friends get together for a girls’ weekend away at a remote hotel. Things, however, are not all wonderful–Julie doesn’t seem like herself at all. Something else, something more sinister and dangerous, is hiding beneath the surface, and it all comes out over the course of the trip.
Recommended in this episode: Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill and Patrick Stewart's autobiography Making It So
UP NEXT: Ada Buisson's "The Ghost's Summons" in The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume One
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Sarah Clayborne is a widow, living alone in an old and stately manor house called Whitegates. One Halloween, Sarah takes a walk and slips on a frozen puddle, injuring her ankle. She takes to bed in her old and lonely home. Her painful broken foot is the least of her troubles, however, as she finds herself in the center of a good old fashioned ghost story.
Recommended in this episode: Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher
UP NEXT: Rachel Harrison's The Return
We will be back in two weeks when we discuss Rachel Harrison’s The Return.
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Happy Halloween from the Monster, She Wrote podcast!
UP NEXT: "All Souls" by Edith Wharton
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Ramon left his home in Mexico a long time ago, settling first in California and then in Vancouver. But now, he worries that his past may have followed him, in the form of a homeless woman, a woman he is convinced is a La Llorona. Read the story here.
Recommended in this episode: CJ Leede’s Maeve Fly
UP NEXT: A Halloween special episode
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Today, we are doing things a little differently. Since this is our first episode in October–the best month of the year if you ask us–we thought we’d do an extended recommendations episode, all with the intent of getting you ready for spooky season.
UP NEXT: “Lacrimosa” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Read it here at Nightmare Magazine
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