Season 9, Episode 194 Momma Trauma with guest Katrina Monroe

Carrie happened upon the audiobook Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe on Libby and was riveted by how the horror novel explored the postpartum period while also bringing in supernatural elements. It totally sucked her back into the early weeks after delivering her first child and left her with that same sense of shellshock, and she thought, “OF COURSE having a baby is a horror story.”

We reached out to Katrina to see if she would be interested in chatting with us, and we’re so glad she was. We talk with her about Graveyard of Lost Children and her first novel They Drown Our Daughters and about why motherhood and the mother-daughter relationship are perfect topics to write about because they are steeped in fear and confusion, and inspire terror at times.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

2- They Drown our Daughters by Katrina Monroe

3- Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe

4- Goosebumps series by RL Stine

5- The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

6- Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

7- The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

8- The Changeling by Victor Lavalle

9- The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine

10- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

11- Under an Outlaw Moon by Dietrich Kalteis

12-Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister

13- Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

14- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Jen @bookedupgirl - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Movies/Shows mentioned--

1- The Woman in Black (2012)

2- The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix - 2023)

3- Midnight Mass (Netflix - 2021)

4- The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix - 2018)

5- Goosebumps TV series (1995)

6- Goosebumps (Netflix - 2023)

7- The Changeling (Apple + - 2023)

8- Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

9- A Monster Calls (2016)