Johnny Mains
Book Shambles EXTRA
It’s Christmas Eve, so that means ghost stories surely? Robin is joined, for a Book Shambles Extra, by Johnny Mains. Book Shambles listeners may best know Jonny as the co-editor of Dead Funny and Dead Funny Encore, but he’s also a horror historian and author. They chat about his lost collections of old ghost stories written by women, including the new anthology, Remember the Dead at Christmas, Johnny’s work in progress book on Freaks and the thrill of finding rare books in second hand book stores.
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Reading List
Johnny recommends:
The work of John Burke
Firestarter by Stephen King
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
King of the Witches: The World of Alex Sanders by June Johns
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
Inseminoid by Larry Miller
Junky by William S Burroughs
A Suggestion of Ghosts edited by JA Mains
An Obscurity of Ghosts edited by JA Mains
Remember the Dead at Halloween and Christmas edited by JA Mains
Pet Semetery by Stephen King
Frightfully Cosy and Mild Stories for Nervous Types by Johnny Mains
A Warning to the Curious by MR James
Robin recommends:
Dead Funny edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains
Dead Funny Encore edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains
The Sorcerers by John Burke
Operation Chaos by Matthew Sweet
The short stories of Robert Aickman
Tommy by Kit Power
Zona by Geoff Dyer
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy by Geoff Dyer
Death Line by Sean Hogan
The work of Guy N Smith
The House of Ruby Wogan by Norman Gear
Whale Nation by Heathcote Williams
The World of the Neverending Story
A Distasteful Horror Story by Johnny Mains
Raspberry Jam by Angus Wilson
Lest You Should Suffer Nightmares edited by JA Mains
The Mask and Other Stories by Herbert van Thal
The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology by Rossell Hope Robbins
An Odour of Decay by Martin Jenson
Love Machine by Douglas Dee
Twisted Clay by Frank Walford
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