Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Victor LaValle Talks About Horror and ‘Lone Women’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Outsider
The Outsider by Stephen King is a genre-blending thriller that begins as a straightforward police procedural investigating a gruesome local murder before twisting into a terrifying supernatural horror story.
Recommended“The Outsider if you haven't read it it's a very good horror crime novel and Victor's review is in part an Ode to Stephen King who's one of the Prime influences in his writing life”
Where to get it
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Lone Women
Lone Women is a historical horror novel by Victor LaValle that follows a woman escaping her past with a heavy trunk in early twentieth-century Montana.
Discussed“I'm Gilbert Cruz and I'm here with Victor Laval author of Lone women”
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The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is a celebrated classic horror novel about a haunted mansion and psychological isolation.
Recommended“really I say at heart like do you want to read a beautifully written book about a very lonely woman in a very lonely house well this is definitely a book that I can see myself reading several more times in my life”
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Danse Macabre
Danse Macabre is a non-fiction critical overview of the horror genre by Stephen King that surveys horror across literature, film, and television from the mid-twentieth century through the 1970s.
Discussed“it begins with Stephen King and his book Dan macabra which was his 80s summary of the horror field in general”
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The Shining
The Shining by Stephen King is a classic horror novel about a struggling writer and recovering alcoholic who takes a winter caretaker job at an isolated, haunted mountain hotel with his family.
Discussed“and then the other thing that she does that to me is even more rarified within the haunted house field although certainly anyone who's read The Shining will understand it”
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a chilling psychological thriller novel by Shirley Jackson, published in 1962, that follows the isolated and eccentric Blackwood family following a tragic arsenic poisoning.
Recommended“how about cuz the other the nice thing is then I might I might recommend the we have always lived in the castle”
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Other mentions in this episode (11) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he has released four books over the past 15 years or so big machine the devil and silver the ballot of black Tom and the changeling”
“he has released four books over the past 15 years or so big machine the devil and silver the ballot of black Tom and the changeling”
“he has released four books over the past 15 years or so big machine the devil and silver the ballot of black Tom and the changeling”
“he has released four books over the past 15 years or so big machine the devil and silver the ballot of black Tom and the changeling”
“and so for me I think regardless of if it's deeply historically researched like this or if it's something that might be a little bit Wilder like my novel big machine”
“I know a few years ago you worked on a graphic novel sort of modern day version correct me if I'm wrong of a Frankenstein yes it's called Destroyer”
“so my first two books were literary realism and then my third big machine was the beginning of me writing into genre”
“that book is The Haunting of Hill housee by Shirley Jackson alongside Henry James's the turn of the screw and Stephen King's The Shining”
“that book is The Haunting of Hill housee by Shirley Jackson alongside Henry James's the turn of the screw and Stephen King's The Shining”
“If you think about books that came decades later like House of leaves which is about a house that keeps mutating growing bigger on the inside”
“I've been speaking with Victor Laval about Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and about his new novel lone women”