Sisters Are Reading

READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara talk through Stephen Graham-Jones' mind-expanding novel The Only Good Indians . In this book, four friends are hunted by a vengeful elk spirit. And it's BONKERS — think Hamlet meets Kill Bill meets I Know What You Did Last Summer .

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Ira Levin's lame and confusing sequel, Son of Rosemary . Featuring: Gratuitous incest vibes! Unexplained anagrams! Demonic marijuana! Genocide! Missing: Any kind of emotional connection or payoff.

READ THIS BOOK. Heads up: More talk about rape in this episode – but not as heavy? Hear Lindsay and Barbara rave about Grady Hendrix's demonic 1980s confection My Best Friend's Exorcism . From roller rink parties to permed hair, Christian weightlifters to magical coke cans, this book is righteous.

Warning: Discussion of suicide and rape. Lindsay and Barbara dig into the darkness and surprising comedy of Ira Levin's 1967 classic Rosemary's Baby . Hail Satan! Hail Rosemary!

Warning: This episode is a bummer.  Lindsay and Barbara talk about Paul Tremblay's disturbing novel A Head Full of Ghosts – as well as the anxieties and personal traumas evoked by the book's portrayal of schizophrenia.

Lindsay and Barbara dig into Thomas Harris' 1988 classic The Silence of the Lambs – grappling with the book's transphobia, recalling oodles of unnecessary details ( what was with that origami chicken?) , and confusing Ed Norton with Michael Keaton.

Lindsay and Barbara chat about the lure and logic of incestuous mushroom cults, bad dreams, and whether damp fungi could possibly be as flammable as Silvia Moreno-Garcia's book would have you think.

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Shirley Jackson's iconic 1959 novel  The Haunting of Hill House . Learn why their mom wouldn't last 15 minutes in this place (spoiler alert: it's the architecture).

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Neil Gaiman's 2002 children's novella  Coraline.  Scary doors! Other mothers! Buttons for eyes! And the tragic comedy of Victorian ghost children.