Reading Envy 065: Creeping through the Uncanny Valley

Bryan Alexander drops by the Reading Envy pub to chat horror novels and short stories. Bryan has been exploring the question of the best 21st century horror novel for about a year, and Jenny wanted to hear about what he has discovered. Bryan also chats a bit about a near-future science fiction book club of sorts that he will be hosting on his blog. Jenny also manages to ask one of the authors we discuss some of the questions we had about his novel.

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Books discussed:

 

In Parenthesis by David Jones
The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud
Dark Entries by Robert Aickman
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen
The Fireman by Joe Hill

Other discussions:
"What are the best horror novels of the 21st century" posted by Bryan in August 2015
"Near Future" Readalong on Bryan's blog
Bram Stoker Awards
Necronomicon (the con)
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
"The Feather Pillow" by Horacio Quiroga
Birdbox by Josh Malerman
Blood Kin by Steve Rasnic Tem
Reanimated (film)
The Resurrected (film)
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert Putnam
Revolution in Higher Education by Richard A. DeMillo
New Media Consortium
Association of Professional Futurists
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Company Town by Madeleine Ashby
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Peripheral by William Gibson
This is Horror podcast
M.R. James
The Wicker Man (film)
The Ink Readers of Doi Saket by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Daniel Mills
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Yann Martel
Jonathan Safran Foer
Algernon Blackwood
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Dragon Age videogames
Kate Mulgrew
Locke & Key by Joe Hill
The Stand by Stephen King
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
On Writing by Stephen King
"Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic" by Joanna Russ
Anne Rice

Related episodes:
Episode 002 - Return of the Euthanized Book with guest Bryan Alexander
Episode 011 - People of the Book with guest Bryan Alexander
Episode 030 - Bring Back the Guillotine! with guests Bryan Alexander and Steen Hansen
Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan Ballingrud

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Bryan at his blog
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Thomas Olde Heuvelt website