297 – Kyle Winkler & Roll For Your “F**K You” Stats
Shownotes
Leaning into absolute high geekery this week – with Kyle Winkler’s novel of how family game night can go badly wrong!
The Ship of Death is about a cursed (and I mean CURSED!) tabletop role-playing game and the unlucky couple who choose to play it. Or, as Kyle describes it “Dark Jumanji.”
It prompts a conversation about games in life and fiction. Epistolary structure and found-fiction. We discuss his relationship with the bizarre, his love for mysteries without answers, we consider who is really responsible for the world-building in a story, and we pay a lot of respect to cosmic horror influences beyond Lovecraft.
It’s was a delight to record. Hope you enjoy listening.
Other books mentioned:
- Grasshands (2024), by Kyle Winkler
- Boris Says the Words (2022), by Kyle Winkler
- The Nothing That Is (2020), by Kyle Winkler
- Borne (2017), by Jeff VanderMeer
- Zothique (1970), by Clarke Ashton Smith
- The Dying Earth (1950), by Jack Vance
- Enduring Love (1997), by Ian McEwan
- Negative Space (2020), by B.R. Yeager
- True Crime (2020), by Samantha Kolesnik
- The House Next Door (1978), by Anne River Siddons
- My Dark Places (1996), by James Ellroy
- Penpal (2012), by Dathan Auerbach
- Mockingbird (1980), by Paul Tevis
- The Blacktongue Thief (2021), by Christopher Buehlman
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