Are you hungry?
If so we have a chewy, salty, deeply flavoured feast for you this week. Ally Wilkes returns to Talking Scared to discuss the icebound horrors of her new novel, Where the Dead Wait. It’s a tale of Arctic exploration gone very wrong, complete with haunting, human suffering and the morbid fascination of cannibalism!
Don’t pretend that hasn’t whet your appetite.
Ally and I get into the raw details of consuming human meat, we talk about queerness in historical horror fiction, we discuss the nature of haunting and how a historical horror novel can have links to a sci-fi horror classic, and we talk reminisce about the time Ally nearly died on a Himalaya in an appalling coat.
Jolly good fun wot wot!
Enjoy!
Other books mentioned:
- All the White Spaces (2022), by Ally Wilke
- The Shining (1977), by Stephen King
- What Cares the Sea (1960), by Kenneth Cooke
- The Secret Sharer (1910), by Joseph Conrad
- Frankenstein (1818), by Mary Shelley
- Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin’s Lost Polar Expedition (2000), by Scott Cookman
- Sundial (2022), by Catriona Ward
- Dead Silence (2022), by S.A. Barnes
- Ghost Station (2024), by S.A. Barnes
- Indianapolis: The True Story of the Greatest Naval Disaster in US History (2018), by Lynn Vincent and Sarah Vladic
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