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186 – Stephen Graham Jones & The Last Stand of the Final Girls

Category: Arts
Duration: 01:33:44
Publish Date: 2024-04-02 16:00:00
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Alas, we come to the end!

 

Stephen Graham Jones’s The Angel of Indian Lake brings the most important horror trilogy of the century to its conclusion. For one last time we return to Proofrock, Idaho – to watch Jade Daniels do battle with monsters in the wood and the demons in her head. 

 

SGJ also comes back to Talking Scared to finish our adjacent trilogy of conversations about these books. We talk about slashers and final girls for sure, but as ever with Stephen, these are windows onto something more profound – and he gives us his insight into how horror, justice, violence and luck operate in fiction.

 

This all sounds very profound. It is. But in the coolest way possible. The man is a rock star….

 

… but I STILL manage to freak him out with a ghost story.

 

Enjoy – it’s been a ride!

 

The Angel of Indian Lake was published on March 26thth by Saga Press and Titan Books

 

Other books mentioned:

 

Where the Red Fern Grows (1961), by Wilson Rawls

Marvel Superheroes Secret Wars #10 (1984), by Jim Shooter

In Cold Blood (1965), by Truman Capote

Morphology of the Folktale (1928), by Vladimir Propp

The Red Badge of Courage (1895), by Stephen Crane

The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991), by Jean Baudrillard

The Name of the Rose (1980), by Umberto Eco

The Hollow Kind (2022), by Andy Davidson

Piranesi (2021), by Susannah Clarke

A Tale of Two Cities (1859), by Charles Dickens

The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch’s ‘Lost Highway’ (2000), by Slavoj Žižek

The Warm Hands of Ghosts (2024), by Katherine Arden

The Bear and the Nightingale (2017), by Katherine Arden

The Others of Edenwell (2023), by Verity Holloway

“A Fish Story” (2002), by Gene Wolfe

 

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