"Sefira" by John Langan

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04/02/20 • 78 min

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This week, hosts Scott Kemper, Michael Patrick Hicks, and Matt Brandenburg review the 2020 edition of The Grudge, Mark Matthews's latest anthology of addiction horror, Lullabies for Suffering, Laird Barron's Black Mountain, the 2011 film Kill List, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Then, they have a spoiler-filled, heart touching discussion about John Langan's novella, Sefira, the betrayal of marital infidelity, and confronting a succubus.

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The theme music, "Insidious," was created by Purple Planet Music and is used here under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.

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Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intostaring

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The theme music, "Insidious," was created by Purple Planet Music and is used here under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.

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