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The Mikes tackle an atypical horror novel from the heyday of shiny-title horror novels and are pleasantly surprised by this complex tale of family secrets, colonial angst, and America's original sin. And snakes—squirmy, nasty snakes.
It's Cocktail time!
American Snakebite
1/2 pint of hard cider
1/2 pint of lager
1 shot of Southern Comfort
drink it with a straw!
End music: "Black Snake Blues" by Peter Cleighton
It's Cocktail time!
American Snakebite
1/2 pint of hard cider
1/2 pint of lager
1 shot of Southern Comfort
drink it with a straw!
End music: "Black Snake Blues" by Peter Cleighton
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3 comments:
Hey, you apparently made a character name list! Good for you!
Seriously, this was a great episode, and I love that you're buffing the podcast with sound efx, music, and even speaking, in the intro, your last names.
You ought to get a little fame out of all this effort, after all.
I love your absolute lack of snobbishness in light of your voracious high/low literature consumption.
Looking forward to the Exorcist. One device I loved was his recitation of atrocities in the preamble -- softening us up to believe there really must be some supernatural explanation for the extravagant cruelty humankind repeatly inflicts.
Thanks for the kind words, Emphyrio. I guess my way of looking at the high/low lit divide is that if I don't sense the author looking down on me or laughing at me from his great height (which can happen on both sides of the divide, really; I have felt patronized by Dean Koontz, lately), I tend not to look down on them.
I too am looking forward to discussing The Exorcist. Both Mikes have ideas about this classic bubbling up as we read; let's just hope they make it out of our hairy brains and into the sound file. And yes, we will be talking about evil.
Mike S.
Housekeeping note:
The audio file for Episode 38: John Farris's All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By is defunct.
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