Suffer the Little Children with Gaspare Randazzo
Episode 261, Dec 11, 09:00 AM
Today's guest is the very funny standup comedian Gaspare Randazzo, who you may have seen on Netflix's reality show The Trust. Gaspare is also a teacher and since he wasn't very well-read on Stephen King he was assigned a personal favorite King short story called Suffer the Little Children. Fitting, considering the teacher connection and all that.
We talk about growing up with King movies, Gaspare is shocked to learn how many of his favorites were actually based on King stories, what it's like being a teacher these days, and try to figure out if the horror of this story is supernatural or psychological.
Originally published by Cavalier in 1972 and re-published in King's 1993 short story collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Suffer the Little Children is one of his nastier tales about an old schoolmarm who is becoming convinced her 3rd grade class is slowly being taken over by mischievous dopplegangers.