Matt, Dave and Jason rise from the dead once again to vivisect Josh Malerman's 2014 horror novel "Bird Box", with some bonus discussion of "Middlesex", Alan Moore's novels, and Cormac McCarthy. Thanks for listening! INTRO/OUTRO: "Nosferatu Man"/Bookhouse Boy intro mash-up by Slint & Matt Howell INTERMISSION: "Good Morning, Captain" by Slint…

Hey, all. We're back to talk about David James Duncan's acclaimed novel about family, religion, forgiveness and baseball, "The Brothers K". Thanks for listening! OUTRO: "Things Happen" by Dawes Talk to us over at: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/18211793-let-s-read-a-book#comment_number_5

Oooooooh, creepy. It's Halloween again, and that means one thing. Going to a lame haunted house. Okay, two things. You also need to run out and buy a big bag of lollipops for the trick-or-treaters, and not the Snickers you wanted because you waited until the last second again. Okay, three things: going to your neighbor's lame party you tried to get…

There are only a few literary events of sufficient gravity to lure the Bookhouse Boys out of retirement: dinosaur romance....a new Twilight novel...or a new novel from infamously reticent one shot wonder Harper Lee. Join us as we boldly lay bare our childhood heroes, strip the rose-colored gauze from our eyes, and decide whether GSAW can stand prou…

Boo! The Bookhouse Boys reconvene for one more Samhain ritual, dragging along poor guest Scott to be our sacrificial victim. We discuss Book 1 of the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation, and then chat about other random topics both macabre and mundane. Join us...if YOU DARE!...and you probably should, cause it isn't scary at all…

A good friend of ours once said, "Don't tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." So just listen. OUTRO: "Setting Sun" by The Lower 48

Lawrence Rosales, friend, writer, and host of the New Worlds Podcast, joins us on our 3rd annual Halloween show to talk about Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan, Lawrence's stories and inspirations ("The Ice Pick Cure," "Gumdrop," "The Boys," the Goosebumps books by R.L. Stine, Stephen King), The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All" by pirate Laird B…

Avid reader, podcast listener, and book podcast connoisseur Emily joins us in a voyage into the darkness and light in the hearts of men in a rousing tale of storm tossed seas, angry whales, deserted isles, cannibalism, and survival called In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick. OUTRO: "You Were My Fiji" b…