In our first episode of Haunted Love Radio, we head to the southern-fried backwoods of Texas for a discussion of Texas Chainsaw Massacre before browsing the meat case at Zach Gristle's Butchery in a throwback E.C. Tales from the Crypt comic strip from the 1950s. Eat up, kiddos! Primary texts: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, dir. Tobe Hooper (1974) "T'aint the Meat...It's the Humanity," Tales from the Crypt #16, Al Feldstein and Jack Davis (1952) Further Reading: Chainsaw Confidential, Gunnar Hansen (2013) Men, Women and Chain Saws, Carol Clover (1993, reissue 2015)Demon Theory, Stephen Graham Jones (2006) Seduction of the Innocent, Dr. Frederic Wertham (1954) The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America, David Hajdu (2008)You can follow us on Twitter @HauntedLovePod or email us at [email protected] icon is by the lovely Sophie McMahan. You can buy her work here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DreamingOfJohnnyAnd learn more about her art here: http://sophiemcmahan.com/home.htmlIntro music: "At the Devil's Ball," performed by Maurice Burkhart (1913) Transition music: "That Syncopated Boogie-Boo," performed by The Premier Quartet (1913)