We’re back and and we’re playing Jenga with that teetering pile of unread books, plucking out a few tomes for discussion and hoping we don’t get crushed in the attempt.

Main Topic: Media Catch-Up – Books

This episode is the latest in our ongoing series about the media we’ve been consuming recently and how they might influence our gaming lives. As ever, the selection is eclectic, taking in rats, horses, and a magical tattoo in which a horse might conceivably eat a rat for breakfast.

Links

Things we mention in this episode include:

• Backer-only lockdown specials
• James Herbert
• The Rats by James Herbert
• Lair by James Herbert
• Deadly Eyes (1982)
• The Food of the Gods (1976)
• Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
• Beasts
• “During Barty’s Party” from Beasts
• Domain by James Herbert
• Threads (1984)
• The Walking Dead comic series
• The Walking Dead
• Burlington bunker
• Wayward Pines
• When the Wind Blows (1986)
• “Demon 79” from Black Mirror

• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• Cormac McCarthy
• The Road (2009)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• No Country For Old Men (2007)
• No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• James Joyce and quotation marks
• Elmore Leonard’s rules for writing
• Gabino Iglesias on multilingual dialogue
• Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
• The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy

• Jonathan Carroll
• Mr Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll
• Neil Gaiman on Jonathan Carroll
• Jonathan Carroll’s website
• Slipstream
• Magical realism
• Robert Aickman
• The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll
• In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
• The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll
• Richard Laymon
• A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll

News

2023 Ennie Awards

We were delighted to learn that How We Roll won the silver award for Best Podcast and Rivers of London won silver for Best Rules at the 2023 Ennie Awards. Thank you very much to everyone who voted for us!

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