Episodes
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163 – Liz Hand & Visiting the Thing That Walks Alone
We’re heading back to the most haunted house of all. Hill House. Shirley Jackson’s classic bad place. And we’re going in the company of Elizabeth

162 – Chuck Wendig & American as Evil Apple Pie
Chuck’s new novel, Black River Orchard is all about apples. Tasty, evil, corruptive. The book grows from the fertile soil of American small-town horror.

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 set against a backdrop

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

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.

152 – Andrew Michael Hurley & Our Green, Unpleasant Land
This week I’m recording very close to home with Andrew Michael Hurley – about his reissued folk-horror nightmare, Starve Acre.