Episodes – Page 4 – Talking Scared Podcast

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.

151 – Verity Holloway & The Onion Skin of Trauma

War, what is it good for? Absolutely noth…. well actually, it is quite good for horror stories, as Verity Holloway shows us.

150 – Danielle Trussoni & Puzzling All Over the World

Danielle Trussoni’s The Puzzle Master crams in a whole Discovery Channel series’ worth of conspiracy, mysticism and esoteric history.

149 – Clowns at Midnight – The Big IT Deep-Dive (Part Two), with Ally Malinenko & Nat Cassidy

In this second part of the dive into Stephen King’s IT, things are getting weird. We’re delving into Pennywise.

148 – Feral Childhoods – The Big IT Deep-Dive (Part One), with Ally Malinenko & Nat Cassidy

Yes, finally we’re off to Derry, to do battle with that goddamn clown. In this first part we talk Losers and why we love them so much.

147 – Mike Flanagan & Lighting Up the Darkness

We’re joined this week by Mike Flanagan, our most literary horror director, to talk haunted houses and Dark Towers.

146 – Paula. D. Ashe & A Bizarre & Bitter Reprieve

The Empress of Excess is here to talk about extreme horror, horrendous crimes and the thorny problem of readers’ feelings.

145 – Sarah Gailey & The Scariest Place in the House

What if the house that shaped you was a broken, haunted place? Sarah Gailey’s Just Like Home asks this very question.

144 – Nicholas Binge & the Spookiest of Entanglements

Nicholas Binge is the author the horror-sci-fi, Ascension. It’s about a very weird mountain that lures the unwary. Nothing good occurs, of course.

143 – Alice Slater & Bookish Murder Vibes

Alice Slater’s Death of a Bookseller pull back the veil on this industry we love… and finds monsters.

142 – Katrina Monroe & Birthing the Ultimate Body Horror

Parenting horror has seen a lot of great titles in recent years, but Katrina’s novel may be my favourite. Ghosts and chafing!

141 – Justin Cronin & Telling the Goat Joke

You know Justin Cronin for the landmark The Passage. Now he’s swapping vampire plagues for something subtler … but no less terrifying.

140 – Andrew F. Sullivan & The Cutest Mould in Fungus City

What if the world ended, not with a bang, but a slow squelch? That’s the premise of The Marigold, the brand-new dystopia from Andrew F. Sullivan.

139 – Ai Jiang & Home is Where the Haunt Is

This week we’re dissecting spectres and excavating the haunted house in Ai Jiang’s word-of-mouth smash, Linghun.

138 – Rachel Eve Moulton & The Bellybutton of the Beast

The Insatiable Volt Sisters is the weirdest island story since Lost, or Brexit. Curses, killer quarries and the wearing of other people’s skin.

137 – Kelly Link & Once Upon a Time in a Ghost Story

Kelly Link knows a thing or two about the darkness inside fairy tales. White Cat, Black Dog twists them into new shapes.

136 – Max Booth III & Stories With Teeth

Terrible times and awful words await us this week.Max Booth III is here to talk about his new collection of uber-dark stories, Abnormal Statistics.

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