We’re back with another of our lockdown specials. Once again, we’re devouring books like hungry bookworms, hoping they’ll give us ideas for games.

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Things we mention in this episode include:

• Desperation by Stephen King
• The Spear by James Herbert
• Redshirts by John Scalzi

• The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• The Ninth Gate
• Imajica by Clive Barker
• The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
• Mr B Gone by Clive Barker
• Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
• Legend (1985)
• Gray Matters by William Hjortsberg
• Nevermore by William Hjortsberg
• Angel Heart (1987)
• Alan Parker
• “The Call of Cthulhu”
• Lisa Bonet
• The Cosby Show (1984)
• Esoterrorists
• Trail of Cthulhu

• Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley novels
• Parker series by Richard Star’
• Dortmunder series by Donald E Westlake
• Sweetpea by CJ Skuse
• Mystery Man by Colin Bateman
• Isiah Coleridge series (Blood Standard, Black Mountain and Worse Angels by Laird Barron
• The Imago Sequence, Occultation, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, Swift to Chase and The Croning by Laird Barron
• Philip Marlowe series by Raymond Chandler
• Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey
• The Simpsons Movie (2007)
• The Burned-Over District
• True Detective (2014)
• Fargo (1996)
• Fargo (2014)

• Doris Lessing
• The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
• Masks of Nyarlathotep
• Shikasta by Doris Lessing
• The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
• The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
• The Best of the 2010s
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• “Cool Air” by HP Lovecraft