Answering your book requests and recs based off classic horror stories!

Ep. #486 - On today's episode, Adam offers book recommendations from Twitter reader requests and then gets into some "Like this, read that!" style picks for all sorts of classic horror novels. There is something for everyone. Books mentioned in this episode: Based off Twitter requests: Holly Zander - Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid and When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey - Long Bright River By Liz Moore Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry   Parent Spiced Latte Pope Francis's new Encyclical letter "Fratelli Tutti" A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza   Mark Walker - A Song for A New Day, The Guest List, and Six of Crows were all good finds for me this year- There will come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool The Truants by Kate Weinberg The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi   Alicia Rhiannan - said she loved Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas and Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova Ghost Squad by Claribel Ortega The Farm by Joanne Ramos   Roxanne - Asked for recommendations like the Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones - Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones The Boatman's Daughter By Andy Davidson Like this, read that! spooky recs:    Frankenstein - The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein By Kiersten White MARY by Brea Grant   Dracula by Brom Stoker - The Historian By Elizabeth Kostova Dracula the Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker Dracul By J.D. Barker and Dacre Stoker   For fans of House of Leaves - White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi Slade House By David Mitchell   For Fans of Shirley Jackson And The Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich Wonderland by Zoje Stage Cabin at the end of the world by Paul Tremblay   Witchy Reads The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson Bunny By Mona Awad   So you want a Lovecraft story without all the disgusting feelings that come with him… The Ballad of Black Tom By Victor LaValle The Croning By Laird Barron A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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