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Credits:

• Guest: Juan Martinez
• Title: Gilded Needles by Michael McDowell
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Juan’s collection Best Worst American & horror novel Extended Stay
• Jackleg Press
• StoryStudio
• Tananarive Due's The Reformatory
• Eden Robins’ Remember You Will Die
• Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
• Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Told the Devil
• Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room
• T.E.D. Klein’s The Ceremonies
• Peter Straub
• Beetlejuice, directed by Timothy Burton
• Tales from the Crypt & Tales from the Darkside
• The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Henry Selick
• McDowell's The Elementals
• "A little bit like Edith Wharton with more murder"
• Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg
• Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame & Les Misérables
• Triangle of Sadness, directed by Ruben Östlund
• Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes, directed by Robert Fuest
• They Might Be Giants
• Lydia Lunch
• Robert Mapplethorpe
• Patti Smith
• Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus & Julie Taymor’s film adaptation
• Thomas Ligotti, Bruno Schulz, & Franz Kafka
• McDowell's Death Collection
• Stephen King, Philip K. Dick, & C.J. Cherryh
• Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird
• The Ghosts of Where We Are From
• Juan’s DNC protest coverage at the Believer, parts one & two
• Follow Juan on Instagram & Threads for the good doodle content