Grab a shovel and get ready to dig into episode three of the Books Are Scary podcast! This episode, Emmy and Allie get down and dirty with the horror short story, "Caring for Plants" by Hye-young Pyun. This eerie story follows Oghi, a man who is left severely injured after a car wreck that killed his wife. But what really happened? What's the deal with that mother-in-law? What's the real horror in losing control? How many times can we name-drop Kathy Bates in one episode? Emm and Al get to the bottom of all of these pressing questions while also talking about the unreliable narrator, moral justice, slow-burns, and misogyny, of course. 

Stay tuned for our next episode, where we will be covering Edgar Allen Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death," which can be found here: The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (poestories.com) 

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Links for this episode:

Caring for Plants | The New Yorker

This Week in Fiction: Hye-young Pyun on the Role of Suspense in Storytelling | The New Yorker