Suffer the Little Children with Clay McLeod Chapman
Episode 144, Sep 21, 2022, 08:00 AM
The Kingcast boys are joined by celebrated novelist and screenwriter Clay McLeod Chapman (Ghost Eaters, The Boy and Henry Selick's upcoming Wendell & Wild) to break down this particularly dark and nasty short story, especially how much more impactful it is in today's world of regular school violence. Is the lead character in this story crazy or is there some demonic force taking over all the children? That and so much more is up for discussion in this episode.
Originally published in Cavalier magazine in 1972, Suffer the Little Children is a bleak, twisty short story of a stern teacher who begins to suspect her third grade students are turning into evil creatures and takes... well, desperate measures.