282 – CJ Leede & Peeling Back the Skin of the World

Horror’s reigning Queen of Extreme returns to the show!

CJ Leede is the author of Maeve Fly and American Rapture, and if you’re abreast of contemporary horror you’ve heard of her twisted take on Americana.

She’s back to talk about her third novel, Headlights, in which people are waking up from fugue-like states, to find themselves draped in the flayed skins of other people. What’s going on? Who’s doing it? Is it human or supernatural? Does it have anything at all to do with Stephen King’s The Shining? And where does the songwriting magic of John Denver come into things?

CJ answers these and many other similarly weird questions. There’s so much to cover, we barely even talk about the act of skinning someone alive.

Enjoy.

Other books mentioned:

• The Shining (1977), by Stephen King
• Doctor Sleep (2013), by Stephen King
• How to Disappear Completely (2027), by Liz Kerin

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