226: the carmel-by-the-sea artists’ cult

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Marko is sick AF, so our pal Bookseller Ryan from the Laydown Podcast is here to listen to a story about a culty group of early 20th century writers and talk new horror reads!

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Ryan about the early 20th century Carmel-by-the-Sea artist community and its weird suicide pact
[41:57] Catchin’ up; Ryan met Joe Hill!
[ 51:00] What we watched: Sinners, Thunderbolts, The Ugly Stepsister, Fight or Flight, A Minecraft Movie, Heart Eyes, The Rule of Jenny Pen
[01:13:42] Ryan’s Recs!
– It Will Only Hurt for A Moment by Delilah S. Dawson
– Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wending
– When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
– Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
– The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
– The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim
– Strange Pictures by Uketsu
– We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
– Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell
– Shiny Happy People by Clay McLeod Chapman
– Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
– Spread Me by Sarah Gailey

Stuff we referenced:

• Tainted Marshmallows and Murder in Carmel
• Strychnine Found in Food of Writer
• JAPANESE SLAYER OF CARMEL ARTIST HELD George Kodani, Confessed Murderer, Has Day in Court
• FIND NEW YORK GIRL STRANGLED ON BEACH; Searchers Accuse Japanese of Killing Helena Wood Smith in Monterey, Cal. BURIED IN SAND FOR 12 DAYS
• Bohemian Tragedy
• The 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake
• Rebuilding San Francisco After the 1906 Quake
• Divorced Wife of Geo. Sterling, Cal. Poet, Ends Her Life
• 20 lost years of Carmel’s literary past reveal cyanide suicides, poisonings and a Bohemian legacy
• Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology
• Carmel’s Cautionary Tale for Post-Roe America