About this episode
If you read Dracula and thought: “I like the ancient shapeshifting nemesis and the homoerotic subtext, but I don’t like how subtle the sexual and national anxieties are,” you’re in luck! Editor, reviewer, and scholar Marisa Mercurio is here to talk about not-so-subtle horrors in Richard Marsh’s 1897 novel The Beetle.
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Guest: Marisa Mercurio
Title: The Beetle by Richard Marsh
Host:Jake Casella Brookins
Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia
Artwork byRob Patterson
Opening poem by Bhart?hari, translated by John Brough
Chopin's "Minute Waltz" performed by Alfred Cortot
Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Artur Rodzinski
References:
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr
Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca & Don't Look Now
Alex Woodroe's The Night Ship
Tenebrous Press
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot
E.R. Eddison's Zimianvian trilogy
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes
Kate Beaton’s “The Horror Of The New Woman”
H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau
Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis
The Fly films (Kur
