Episodes – Talking Scared Podcast

170 – Luke Dumas & The Ghosts That Time Forgot

Sometimes two words can make a jaded horror reader sit up straight. Ghost. Dinosaur. Have you ever heard a more beautiful combination, a sweeter symphony of syllables?

169 – Tyler Jones & Journeys Without Maps

Horror is about finding light in darkness. And that’s never been truer than in this week’s episode.

168 – Tananarive Due & Locked in With the Monsters

Ghosts are injustice persevering.

So many horror stories hinge on that idea, but for Tananarive Due it’s more personal.

167 – Nat Cassidy & A New York State of Death

Nat Cassidy returns to guide us through the haunted hallways and avenues of his New York, vamp-adjacent novel, Nestlings.

166 – Sam Rebelein & You Had Me At Tongue-Monster!

Sam Rebelein’s Edenville is a LOT of story. Scary academia, a cosmic framework, and enough monsters to fill Guillermo del Toro’s minibus.

165 – Josh Malerman, Ronald Malfi & The Rock ‘n’ Roll Rhythm of the Novella

I’m joined by Josh Malerman and Ronald Malfi for a freewheeling masterclass in writing an effective novella.

164 – Out There Screaming Roundtable, with Nnedi Okorafor, Lesley Nneka Arimah & Maurice Broaddus

This week is a special roundtable episode. An exciting, challenging and very thought-provoking tour of contemporary Black horror.

163 – Liz Hand & Visiting the Thing That Walks Alone

We’re heading back to the most haunted house of all. Shirley Jackson’s Hill House. For a sequel!

162 – Chuck Wendig & American as Evil Apple Pie

Chuck’s new novel, Black River Orchard is all about apples. Tasty, evil, corruptive. And great fun!

161 – Clay McLeod Chapman & The Chesapeake Softshell Shuffle

Clay McLeod Chapman returns to answer questions, about What Kind of Mother, the first being what the f**k Clay?!

160 – Isabel Cañas & Many Types of Bloodsucker

Isabel Cañas returns to the show to talk about her second novel, Vampires of El Norte – a sweeping historical love-story… with bloodsuckers.

159 – Alexander James & An Encounter in the Woods

Alexander James loves the woods. Who knows why? Nothing good ever happens there, as his debut, The Woodkin, makes clear.

158 – Catriona Ward & Rewriting American Gothic (Like, Literally)

If you thought The Last House on Needless Street was tricksy, just wait until you hear about Looking Glass Sound. It’s a destined Gothic classic that takes the genre, crumples

157 – Josh Winning & The World Through Blood-Tinted Glasses

Josh Winning has parlayed years of writing about film sets into a horror novel full of 90s retro slasher love.

156 – Sadie Hartmann & The Books of Our Horrid Hearts

Sadie Hartmann, AKA Mother Horror to the likes of us. She knows a thing or two about this haunted library we love to browse.

155 – Stephen King & Writing From the Nerve Endings

The architect of modern horror. The creative North Star of my life, and probably yours. Here’s here to talk about a life lived in books.

154 – Alex Woodroe & The Sweet Science of Folk Horror

Alex is a Romanian writer of dark fictions. Her debut, Whisperwood, is full of Transylvanian myth and legend without a vampire in sight.

153 – Chuck Tingle & Riding the Lonesome Train

This week we’re joined by the man, the myth, the mystery that is Chuck Tingle. Who knows the truth of this enigmatic figure? Puzzles abound.

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