138 – Rachel Eve Moulton & The Bellybutton of the Beast
Talking Scared
English - April 11, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 192 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Back to the Island this week! With Rachel Eve Moulton and The Insatiable Volt Sisters.
Rachel sophomore novel is the weirdest island story since Lost, or Brexit. It features a strange family with a stranger secret, curses, killer quarry ponds and the wearing of other people’s skin. And yet you probably still want to visit Fowler Island (I did).
We talk about working with surrealism, about writing volatile sisters and gendered monsters, and about the wonderful horror-lure of island life.
It’s worth noting, we also spend time discussing famous suicide hotspots – this seems like something you should know in advance.
Enjoy!
The Insatiable Volt Sisters was published on April 4th by FSG
Other books mentioned in this episode include:
Tinfoil Butterfly (2019), by Rachel Eve MoultonHurricane Girl (2022), by Marcy DermanskyDiary (2003), by Chuck PalahniukThe House of Dies Drear (1968), by Virginia Hamilton“The Raft”, in Skeleton Crew (1985), by Stephen KingSupport Talking Scared on Patreon
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