May 30, 2018
In this episode, Mackenzie and Lisa are joined by guest host
Stephen Graham
Jones to discuss Ken Greenhall's Elizabeth. This novel
is wonderfully uncomfortable and you won't want to miss our
chat.
Book Description:
"'If you were to go into your bedroom tonight – perhaps by
candlelight – and sit quietly before the large mirror, you might
see what I have seen. Sit patiently, looking neither at yourself
nor at the glass. You might notice that the image is not yours, but
that of an exceptional person who lived at some other time . .
.'
"The image in the mirror of fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Cuttner is
that of the fey and long-dead Frances, who introduces Elizabeth to
her chilling world of the supernatural. Through Frances, Elizabeth
learns what it is to wield power – power of a kind that is
malevolent and seemingly invincible. Power that begins with the
killing of her parents . . .
"First published in 1976, Ken Greenhall's debut novel Elizabeth is a lost classic of modern horror
fiction that deserves rediscovery."
About SGJ: Stephen Graham Jones is the author of sixteen novels, six story collections, and, so far, one comic book. Stephen’s been an NEA recipient, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, a Bram Stoker Award, four This is Horror Awards, and he’s been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award a few times. He’s also made Bloody Disgusting’s Top Ten Horror Novels. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Show Notes:
Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendricks
Stephen's theory of "another tradition of horror" that we could have gotten: Shirley Jackson to Ira Levin to Patricia Highsmith to Robert Marasco to Ken Greenhall
When We Were Animals by Joshua Gaylord
Classic book SGJ doesn't think he'll ever read: Wuthering Heights
"Wiki History" by Desmond Warzel
11/22/63 by Stephen King
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury