296 – Deena Helm & Horror Says Free Palestine

This week’s episode shows what a good haunted house can do.

 

Deena Helm is a mixed American-Palestinian author, who’s

debut novel, Our Cut of Salt, puts all the power of the Gothic to use in

framing the occupation and oppression of Palestine. It takes place before the ongoing genocide, but offer a chance to consider how horror fiction can play its part in framing that obscenity.

 

That all sounds heavy, and it rightfully is – but this book also has a frightening, tragic and murderous house at its core… so there’s (our kind) of fun to be had as well.

 

This is an important episode for the show. I hope you listen and enjoy.

 

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