“I want to kill someone but everybody’s already dead.”

Hosts John Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg sit down to discuss Tom Piccirilli’s grotesque Southern Gothic novel A Choir of Ill Children. This movie comes via a recommendation from author Stephanie Crawford, who paired it with John Farris’ All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes by on our episode about that book. It’s a deeply eerie and unsettling book, in utterly poor taste in the best possible sense. Their discussion digs into the books’ diffuse plot, the gentrification of horror/exploitation genres and what happens when the ham is in the house.

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Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"

Broadcast on:

02 Aug 2022