John Robertson
Halloween Special Book Shambles
In a Halloween special, comedian and author John Robertson joins Book Shambles this week to talk of his novel, The Little Town of Marrowville with Robin and Bec. Then they talk about the spooky tales of childhood books from horror anthologies to Paul Jennings and the most unsettling things in fiction… Who’s that woman standing by the window? The one without any eyes…
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Reading List
John recommends:
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
The Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake
The short stories of Kurt Vonnegut
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Bec recommends:
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
The work of Paul Jennings
The Goosebumps series by RL Stine
The Smiling Man by unknown
Robin recommends:
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The work of HP Lovecraft
The Little Town of Marrowville by John Robertson
A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
The work of HG Wells
The Hamlyn Book of Horror by Daniel Farson
The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon by Daniel Farson
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Britain’s X-Traordinary Files by David Clarke
Unexplained magazine
The Pan Book of Horror Stories edited by Herbert Van Thal
The work of Robert Aickman
The Bugalugs Bum Thief by Tim Winton
Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O’Neill
Dead Funny edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains
Dead Funny Encore by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains
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