This week is full of muck and murk and mushrooms. We flit amongst the trees, we bed on moss, we howl at the moon.

Daisy Pearce is entering her bog witch era!

The author takes us to her native Cornwall, for a story of haunting and imprisonment, small town baggage and creepy houses in the woods. We talk about the oppressive landscape and the mythical texture of the place. We ask whether anyone in a small town can ever really leave high school behind… and we really look at the fine art of trepanation AKA – having a hole drilled in your head (and what it would feel like!)

Enjoy!

Other books mentioned:

Something in the Walls (2025), by Daisy Pearce
Water Shall Refuse Them (2019), by Lucy McKnight Hardy
A Head Full of Ghosts (2015), by Paul Tremblay
Itch (2025), by Gemma Amor
The Man From the Train : The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery (2017), by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
A Simple Plan (1993), by Scott Smith
From Hell (1999), by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

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