127 – Grady Hendrix and the Radical Puppet Collective

When it comes to stress, they say selling a house is up there with divorce and death. Now imagine that house is haunted… by demonic puppets. 

Yeah – that’s the premise of Grady Hendrix’s brand-new horror novel, How to Sell a Haunted House. It combines Grady’s trademark humour, genre-knowledge and playfulness, with a genuinely frightening story about homes, and all the things they contain, both comforting and downright nasty.

Grady and I dive into the economics of haunting, the value of earnestness in a world of irony, and we discover the difference between marionettes and hand puppets … which is more frightening that you would expect.

It’s a fun conversation, about a joyfully creepy book.  

Enjoy!

How To Sell A Haunted House was published by Berkley on Jan 17th 2003. 

Other books mentioned in this episode: 

• The Final Girl Support Group (2020), by Grady Hendrix
• Horrorstör (2014), by Grady Hendrix
• We Sold Our Souls (2018), by Grady Hendrix
• My Heart is a Chainsaw (2020), by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Pallbearer’s Club (2022), by Paul Tremblay
• Moth Manor (1978), by Martha Sherman Bacon

To donate to the fundraiser for Laird Barron, visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/laird-barron-hospital-costs-medication-costs, and thanks SO much.

Support Talking Scared on Patreon

Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com