• Episode 4: A Haunted House

  • Oct 31 2020
  • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
  • Podcast

Episode 4: A Haunted House

  • Summary

  • Just in time for Halloween - we're off to a haunted house with our first aid kit packed with books to keep us sane while things go bump in the night. Will our books keep us safe from ghouls and poltergeists? There's only one way to find out...


    Note - this episode was recorded when it was (briefly!) legal for two members of different households to mix indoors.


    Angela's first aid kit:


    The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

    The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire by Arthur Conan Doyle (you can read it online here)


    Nicola's first aid kit:


    The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

    The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

    Dracula by Bram Stoker


    Other resources/books we mention:


    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

    Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward

    A Rather Haunted Life: Guardian review

    The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

    The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilmour

    Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

    Bram Stoker Claimed That Parts of Dracula Were Real. Here's What We Know About the Story Behind the Novel (Time)


    Find us on Twitter @firstaidlit and share your thoughts - what would you pack in your first aid kit? Let us know.



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