First broadcast on November 5 2021.
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“I’m just not feeling it.”
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 504: Libraryland Inspiration
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Supercontext: Nameless
This horror comic by Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn purports to act symbolically like our archetypes of myth. We ask whether it’s successful in getting into our subconscious and if cosmic horror and lack of meaning even scare us anymore.
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Additional Resources:
- Afterword in the collected NAMELESS
- ‘Nameless’ Was the Scariest Comic Book of 2015
- Understanding Grant Morrison’s “Nameless”
- Halloween Horror: Nameless by Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn
- Kill Yr Gods: Reconnecting with Grant Morrison Through Nameless
- Brain Teeth / Endless Nameless Part 2: Macro Meaning vs Micro Meaning
Supercontext: Shadowland by Peter Straub
This fantasy/horror novel about prep school boys and magical authority came in the middle of the genre paperback boom. We talk about Straub’s concerns when writing it and how he walked the line between horror and “literature,” while responding to the market pressures on his publisher.
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Additional Resources:
- Tattered Tomes: Peter Straub’s Shadowland, Revisited
- David S. Goyer Adapting ‘Shadowland’ Horror Novel As NBC Event Series
- Zaleski, J. (2003). The Uses of Horror. Publishers Weekly, 250(40), 45–49.
- AN INTRODUCTION: SHADOWLAND
- The Dick Cavett Show Horror Masters Stephen King, Romero, Straub, Levin 1980
- Shadowland, by Putney Tyson Ridge
- AN INTRODUCTION SHADOWLAND
- Dancing Architecture an interview with Peter Straub
- Interview: Peter Straub