Halloween draws near and the creeping shadows of October are already upon us. What better way to confront this season of mists than by reading some shivery and chill-inducing short stories?
The Phantom Galaxy welcomes author Victor Rodriguez to the show to help us come up with a list of the best fiction for the Halloween season. Victor discusses his own work in the genres of sci-fi, fantasy and horror and talks his short story collection ‘The Sound of Fear’ and various other projects, including his work in a brand new collection called ‘On Time’ from Transmundane Press.
Then Nathan, Bill and Victor traverse the weird and wonderful world of horror authors, stopping off to visit the likes of Stephen King, Clive Barker, Poe, Lovecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman with other singular and underrated voices like Thomas F. Manteleone and Robert R. McCammon.
Check out our choices, and then let us know which ones you’d choose!
Links for Victor Rodriguez:
https://vhrodriguez.wordpress.com/
The Sound of Fear: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1694373576
On Time from Transmundane Press: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KBT7YY3
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Links to some of the stories covered in this episode:
The Outsider: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/o.aspx
The Price by Neil Gaiman: http://www.bitchwick.com/amacker/bean/price.html
Fritz Leiber - Space-Time for Springers: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781625791207/9781625791207___2.htm
Strange Candy: https://www.robertmccammon.com/strange-candy-a-halloween-short-story-by-robert-mccammon/
In the Hills, the Cities by Clive Barker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMrwtnNE9Hg
Army of One (Billions Aline) by Junji Ito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHqv4ck91Mw
The Summer People by Shirley Jackson: http://indbooks.in/mirror1/?p=454
The Oblong Box: https://poestories.com/read/oblong
The Monkey’s Paw: https://americanliterature.com/author/w-w-jacobs/short-story/the-monkeys-paw
The Landlady: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/landlady_text.pdf
The Yellow Wallpaper: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf
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