5 Non-Fiction Books to Keep You Up at Night

What do you find scary? The threat of a cyber attack or dangling by a wire from one of the world’s tallest structures? What if you discovered that the person you see and know to be real is actually a hallucination? Perhaps you’d prefer to curl up with a collection of folk tales from a state rich with cultural history. What if you went to bed, unaware of a deadly leviathan silently approaching your community?

I break the rule today by creeping past the 10-minute mark (just) to bring you five recommendations that I hope are mostly new to you!

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Intro music: Fairy G, by Dan O’Grady, https://www.patreon.com/danogrady

Book titles and authors recommended in this episode:

Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana by Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer, and Robert Tallant

The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami, Lindsey MacIntyre

Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks

This is How They Tell Me the World Ends, By Nicole Perlroth

Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear by Margee Kerr

Glendalynn Dixon

Glendalynn is an organizational change management & communications facilitator and senior consultant. As a writer, she combines humor with reflective storytelling at Reflections by G and Reflections on Horror.

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