Some stories just boggle your mind and boil your imagination.

 

Such are the ideas in Annie Neugebauer’s You Have to Let Them Bleed, and her logic-shattering novella The Extra. The Uncanny Valley, obsessional thoughts, dangerous knowledge, mothers who aren’t mothers and a camping group that destroys the workings of math and memory… these are just some of the inexplicabilities we discuss in this week’s episode.

 

If this episode gives you an existential crisis, ontological collapse, or just plain migraine nightmares – well, I can’t and won’t be held responsible. You’re all adults.

 

Enjoy!

 

Other books mentioned:

• “If Those Ragged Feet Won’t Run” (2018), by Annie Neugebauer
• Things We Say in the Dark (2019), by Kirsty Logan
• Silent Nightmares: Haunting Stories to Be Told on the Longest Night of the Year (2026), edited by Chuck Palahniuk and Michael C. Bailey
• There is No Antimemetics Division (2025), by qntm
• House of Leaves (2000), by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Delbert Judd (2014), by Dan Hammond Jr.
• Incidents Around the House (2024), by Josh Malerman

 

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