May 15, 2018
In this episode, Mackenzie and Lisa chat with Grady Hendrix. We talk about his history with theater, bad author events, the appropriate number of cats, and his philosophy of honest writing.
Grady Hendrix has written about the confederate flag for Playboy magazine, terrible movie novelizations for Film Comment, and Jean-Claude Van Damme for Slate. He’s covered machine gun collector conventions, written award shows for Chinese television, and answered the phone for a parapsychological research organization. His novel, Horrorstör, about a haunted IKEA, has been translated into 14 languages and is currently being developed into a television series. His most recent novel, My Best Friend's Exorcism, is now out in paperback, and he’s the screenwriter of 2017’s Mohawk, a horror movie set during the War of 1812. He recently won a Stoker Award for Paperbacks from Hell, a non-fiction history of horror paperbacks in the Seventies and Eighties.
Show Notes:
Will Errickson, of Too Much Horror Fiction blog
Doogie Horner, Art Director at Quirk Books
Jason Rekulak, Quirk Books Publisher
Andie Reid, Senior Director at Quirk Books
Timothy O'Donnell
Ginger Snaps (2000)
The Howling by Gary Brandner
WE FORGOT TO MENTION Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones when talking about werewolf stories. MAJOR FAUX PAUX, Mackenzie and Lisa. Major faux faux.
Video: Russian Woman Escapes Attack From Polar Bear
Brandon Sanderson
Kim Stanley Robinson
Stephen King
Clive Barker
Shirley Jackson
Thomas Ligotti
Guy N. Smith
Find Grady: http://www.gradyhendrix.com
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Redwall by Brian Jacques
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Nancy Drew
The Boxcar Children
Stephen King favorites: