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Spooky Season: What Makes a Monster
What actually makes a book horror? In this spooky season episode, Andrea and Elizabeth explore where horror, fantasy, science fiction, and literary fiction start to blur together. They discuss unsettling books without traditional monsters, monsters that aren't necessarily scary, and the horror of human behavior and systemic injustice. Along the way, they discover that horror can take many forms, and perhaps the genre is harder to define than they thought.
00:47 Recent Reads
07:08 What Even Is Horror?
11:34 When Fantasy Starts to Feel Like Horror
14:39 When People Become Monsters
18:00 So, Do…
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