Ep. 226: the carmel-by-the-sea artists' cult [w/ Ryan Clark]

Marko is sick AF, so our pal Bookseller Ryan from the Laydown Podcast is here to listen to a story about a culty group of early 20th century writers and talk new horror reads!

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Ryan about the early 20th century Carmel-by-the-Sea artist community and its weird suicide pact
[41:57] Catchin' up; Ryan met Joe Hill!
[ 51:00] What we watched: Sinners, Thunderbolts, The Ugly Stepsister, Fight or Flight, A Minecraft Movie, Heart Eyes, The Rule of Jenny Pen
[01:13:42] Ryan's Recs!
- It Will Only Hurt for A Moment by Delilah S. Dawson
- Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wending
- When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
- Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
- The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
- The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim
- Strange Pictures by Uketsu
- We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
- Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell
- Shiny Happy People by Clay McLeod Chapman
- Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
- Spread Me by Sarah Gailey

Stuff we referenced:

• Tainted Marshmallows and Murder in Carmel



• Strychnine Found in Food of Writer



• JAPANESE SLAYER OF CARMEL ARTIST HELD George Kodani, Confessed Murderer, Has Day in Court



• FIND NEW YORK GIRL STRANGLED ON BEACH; Searchers Accuse Japanese of Killing Helena Wood Smith in Monterey, Cal. BURIED IN SAND FOR 12 DAYS



• Bohemian Tragedy



• The 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake



• Rebuilding San Francisco After the 1906 Quake



• Divorced Wife of Geo. Sterling, Cal. Poet, Ends Her Life



• 20 lost years of Carmel’s literary past reveal cyanide suicides, poisonings and a Bohemian legacy



• Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology



• Carmel’s Cautionary Tale for Post-Roe America