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Novelist and short story writer Michel Faber talks to Janice Forsyth about 'The Book Of Strange New Things' which was published this month.

And Edinburgh singer songwriter Beattie performs live.

Plus to mark the beginning of Hallowe'en week we look at two 'spooky' Radio Scotland productions. 'Moyamensing' written by Marty Ross charts the last days in the life of Edgar Allan Poe and 'The Walking Dead' in which novelist AL Kennedy investigates revenants, Scotland's medieval equivalent of the zombie. Plus we take a look at the current landscape of gothic fiction with the help of gothic lit fan Ellie Wixon.