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Oct 2018
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Ep. 54.5 | Crossover with Deviant Women ...

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We’ve teamed up with Lauren and Alicia from the Deviant Women podcast to bring you a very special Halloween episode all about the queen of horror: Shirley Jackson. Lauren and Alicia tell us a little bit about Jackson’s background, we discuss Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” and we chat about the new The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix.

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Books Mentioned

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Stayed in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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We are Alicia and Lauren, the hosts of Deviant Women. Every fortnight we discuss a different ‘deviant’ woman from history, fiction, mythology and the contemporary world: those who aren’t afraid to break the rules, to subvert the system, to explore, to seek and to challenge the status quo.

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