The Dead Weight (2021), Jo Salazar | Horror Book Club Review | S01E18

Hosts Samantha and Jeffy riff on holiday leftovers, sleep struggles, and memoir-style tangents before diving into Jo Salazar’s The Dead Weight. The episode explores the book’s zombie outbreak set in a residential treatment center and the moral questions it raises—who becomes the “dead weight” in survival, how trauma shapes choices, and whether community or immediate survival should prevail. They also discuss the author’s background, the book’s standalone story (with sequels), and how the novel reframes familiar horror tropes through character-driven drama.