I bite off a lot this week, in a five-way conversation with editors and contributors to the ever-so-of-the-moment anthology The Black Girl Survives in This One.
Scarlett Thomas is one of my favourite writers. Her new novel, The Sleepwalkers, is a darkly playful tale of a vacation–and a marriage–gone horribly wrong.
Carrie White turns 50. Step up Nat Cassidy and Ally Malinenko – who understand King and that bitter, brutal world between childhood and adulthood.
Stephen Graham Jones brings the most important horror trilogy of the century to its conclusion. For one last time we return to Proofrock, Idaho – and Jade Daniels.
We’re heading to the midwestern metropolis this week, for a conversation with Cina Pelayo – all about murder, mystery, history and strange things in the water.
Joshua Hull is here to talk about his obsession with dangerous, weird holes. Now he’s given a hole a whole personality in his debut novella, Mouth.
Gwendolyn Kiste returns for another high-concept twist on the Gothic. In The Haunting of Velkwood an entire street turns ghostly overnight. Trauma and laughter ensues.
Tim Lebbon writes riotously good adventure-horror novels. He also likes running outrageous distances up big hills. What a pleasure it was to speak to him.
Finally, i’m ready to delve into the greatest haunted house of them all! Shirley Jackson’s Hill House. The place where the scary things walk alone.
Chuck Palahniuk – a writer who helped shape the nihilism and extremity of contemporary fiction. Who makes people faint with his short stories. He’s here.
Ally Wilkes returns to Talking Scared to discuss the icebound horrors of Where the Dead Wait. It’s a tale of Arctic exploration gone wrong, haunting, human suffering and plenty of
This Wretched Valley brings the famous Dyatlov Pass Mystery to the Kentucky woods. We talk about wilderness, adventure, brutality and bookshops!
In this special episode, we talk at length about The Fisherman – about the classic books and legends that inspired the building of a whole new mythos.
Another year over. The only thing left is to run through my very favourite books of the year. The Best Horror Novels of 2023, as chosen by me.
We celebrate this Christmas Eve with a Ghost Story – Peter Straub’s classic novel of the supernatural. And I bring friends to help…
And so we come to the end of another year. Time to look back at the best that 2023 offered, as determined by three of the best in the business.
We’re going up in the world this week – longitudinally and latitudinally, with the GOAT of adventure Gothic, Michelle Paver.
The Folly is a coastal tale of haunting and cursed architecture. Cornwall’s answer to The Shining. We talk possession, Covid and awkward families.
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