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135 – Victor LaValle & The Weird, Weird West
Wagons West with Victor Lavalle. We talk about his weird western: Lone Women. Homesteading, monsters, tears and fear.
Wagons West with Victor Lavalle. We talk about his weird western: Lone Women. Homesteading, monsters, tears and fear.
Breathe! Our guest is Margaret Atwood. We talk dystopias, the Canadian wilderness, men who turn into bears, horror and slapstick, and her own haunted house.
Jacqueline and I talk about horror imposter-syndrome, New England vampire lore, the terror of living forever, and the joy of being a ‘dark weirdo.’
I take a road trip with Matt Ruff, through Lovecraft Country, talking racism, cosmic horror and writing Black stories from a white perspective.
Johnny Compton’s The Spite House delivers more ghosts than you think you could fit into 250-pages … and none of them are anything less than furious!
It’s a Valentine’s day episode and what better to celebrate today than a conversation about cruelty, brutal folklore, political terror and black magic? Don’t tell me I don’t understand my
Stephen Graham Jones AKA Professor Slasher, returns to Talking Scared to discuss Don’t Fear the Reaper, the sequel to his zeitgeist-blasting slasher-ode, My Heart is a Chainsaw.
The Drift, takes C.J. Tudor from her crime chillers into a whole other world of horror. We talk failed novels, TV adaptation and pandemic grief.
They say selling a house is up there with divorce and death. Now imagine that house is haunted… by demonic puppets. That’s the premise of Grady Hendrix’s new horror novel.
This IS a scary one! Stephen Markley; has written a 900-page beast of ecological and societal disintegration. The best book I have read in decades.
The year is almost over. What is left to do except offer you my last-minute ranking of the best books I’ve read and enjoyed in 2022.
2022 has been a helluva year for horror. Far too much for one man to cover. I’ve drafted in some highly qualified friends – Emily Hughes and Janelle Janson.
It’s the Christmas Special and with the obligatory requirement to do something different – we’re turning the tables. I’m the one being interviewed this week.
Are you ready for some learnin’? I thought we’d have a little look at … y’know … the entire friggin’ history of Horror and Gothic across the centuries.
I’ve swapped books for movies this week – with the man who makes our nightmares. Craig Engler, GM of Shudder is in the house!!
Philip Fracassi’s new novel broke my heart. It’s an all-timer, and we talk about writing compelling children, villains and monsters.
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