Ep. 05: Kyle Winkler and BLOB

Author Kyle Winkler joins this episode to talk about horror fiction. What's scarier: There's a Wocket in my Pocket or Goodnight Moon? We also give a close read to Kyle’s novel Tone Bone (spoiler: we like it).

Plus, we review the novel BLOB by Maggie Su, and, in the process, enjoy saying “blob” over and over again. Try it!

Kyle Winkler is the author of the novels Enter the Peerless, Tone Bone, The Nothing That Is, and the story collection Oh Pain.

BLOB by Maggie Su is out now.

Works Cited this episode:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson, illustrations by Ralph Steadman
Christine, Stephen King; cover art by Craig DeCamps
Big Trouble in Little China, dir. John Carpenter
Starman, dir. John Carpenter
Beetlejuice, dir. Tim Burton
Pumpkinhead, dir. Stan Winston
“The Ceiling,” Kevin Brockmeier
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Darkening Garden, John Clute
Scream, dir. Wes Craven
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, dir. Tobe Hooper
There’s a Wocket in my Pocket, Dr. Seuss
Runaway, dir. Michael Crichton
Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
Frog and Toad All Year, Arnold Lobel
The Monster at the End of This Book, Jon Stone
“Necropotence,” Magic the Gathering, artist Dave Kendall
“Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Three Musketeers, Alexander Dumas
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
“The Metamorphosis,” Franz Kafka
Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby, Jr.
The Blob, dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.