E387 - Haunted Houses and the Horrors of Domestic Motherhood: Aimee Pokwatka's Accumulation

This week, I talk with Aimee Poktwatka about her hew horror book Accumulation!

Listen to hear about:

Aimee's unconventional path to becoming an author—from anthropology and veterinary work to creative writing—and how curiosity has shaped her storytelling.
  How Accumulation was inspired by Aimee’s real 18th-century home, a creepy doll her husband found in the yard, and her fascination with haunted house stories as metaphors for domestic life.
  How the novel blends haunted house horror, psychological suspense, and social commentary to examine motherhood, invisible labor, and the slow erosion of self.
  Aimee's “...