The Final Girls

BLOODY BOOK CLUB • Daisy Johnson (The Hotel)

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Episode notes

Bloody Book Club, our monthly series of interviews with horror authors, welcomes Daisy Johnson, author of the short story collection The Hotel 

We talk about the process of writing Deliver Me, getting inspiration from headlines, the Ozarks, writing about pregnancy and motherhood and so much more.  Johnson, who has been called “the demon offspring of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King," Johnson is the author of short story collection Fen and the novels Everything Under, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Sisters, which was recently adapted into the film SEPTEMBER SAYS, which is screening at the BFI London Film Festival this month. Her new book is a collection of interconnected short stories swirling around a haunted hotel in the Fens, a place of mythos, rumours and secrets. 

The Hotel is out on October 17th. You can also listen to it on Radio 4. 

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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

Artwork by Ewa Ferdynus

Music: "Time to Leave" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.

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