Two Horror Authors on the Scary Books You Should Be Reading

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Halloween is just around the corner, so we turned to two great horror authors — Joe Hill and Stephen Graham Jones — for their recommendations of books to read this season.

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0:00.0	I'm Gilbert Cruz editor of the New York Times Book Review and this is the Book Review
0:08.2	Podcast.
0:09.2	Tis the season, which is what I assume everyone says every October, I certainly do.
0:15.0	It's Halloween month, there's really no better time in my opinion.
0:18.6	And this week I talk to two authors who are experts when it comes to horror and scary stories.
0:24.6	The first is Stephen Graham Jones, the second is Joe Hill.
0:29.0	They've both written a lot, they've read even more, and they came with a bunch of recommendations for great books for you to check out
0:35.7	Let's turn to my conversation first with Stephen Graham Jones Stephen welcome to the book review podcast
0:42.3	Thrilled to be here.
0:43.0	Thanks for having me.
0:44.0	What is your relationship to Halloween or what has it been
0:48.0	before we start digging into some book recommendations?
0:51.0	My relationship to Halloween is that ever since before I was even reading and watching horror it was my favorite holiday because you get to be somebody else for the night and that was so wonderful.
1:00.0	You get to hide behind a mask, you don't have to worry about how to hold your face and that's always been a big issue for me so being able to dress up is a dream
1:07.6	Do you you're a grown-up you're a grown man now is Is it still something you've partaken?
1:13.0	It is, yeah. I've got a costume man delivered to my door momentarily and I've got so many masks
1:18.4	queued up for the season right now. That's awesome. Can I ask what you're going as?
1:23.7	My plan right now is to be a scary nun.
1:26.3	Yeah.
1:28.3	It's the year of scary nuns.
1:30.0	You got the first omen, the movie with Sydney Sweeney?
1:34.7	Immaculate, yeah.
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