“I really wanted to expand things much more than I ever had before. I wanted to work on a large canvas. ‘Salem’s Lot showed me how to do this without getting lost among a lot of minor characters.” –Peter Straub on writing Ghost Story
With Danse Macabre, The Losers’ Club journeys through all the books that influenced or made an impact on Stephen King. (Essentially, as he listed in his 1981 horror manifesto Danse Macabre. Hence the name of the series.) In the past, the Losers have left King’s Dominion to flip through the pages of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Today, the gang finds themselves in Milburn, New York revisiting Peter Straub’s chilly 1979 horror novel Ghost Story. Join Losers Michael Roffman, Jenn Adams, Ana Marie Cox, and Justin Gerber as they chart the rise and fall of the literary horror wave of the ’70s, debate the MVP of the Chowder Society, point out all the literary influences, connect the dots to King, and share their own spine-tingling ghost stories.
Stream the episode below and return next week when the Losers kick off Blockbuster Month with a curious detour from King’s Dominion into Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park ahead of Jurassic World: Dominion. For further adventures, be sure to join the Club over long days and pleasant nights via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS. You can also unlock hundreds of hours of content in The Barrens (Patreon).
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