Episodes – Page 5 – Talking Scared Podcast

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.

134 – Margaret Atwood & Hope in the Dystopia

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.

133 – Jacqueline Holland & At Last! Vampires!

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.’

132 – Matt Ruff & A Hostile Universe Here on Earth

I take a road trip with Matt Ruff, through Lovecraft Country, talking racism, cosmic horror and writing Black stories from a white perspective.

131 – Johnny Compton & A Pyroclastic Flow of Negative Energy

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!

130 – Mariana Enriquez & This Cruelty is Justified

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

129 – Stephen Graham Jones & Slashers Can Save the World

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.

128 – C.J. Tudor & Locked Rooms at the End of the World

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.

127 – Grady Hendrix and the Radical Puppet Collective

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.

126 – Stephen Markley & A Guided Tour To Our Future Hell

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.

124 – State of the Horror Nation 2022, with Emily Hughes & Janelle Janson

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.

123 – Rachel Harrison, Josh Malerman & A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Self-Indulgence

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.

122 – An Entire History of Gothic Horror, with Professor Roger Luckhurst

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.

121 – Craig Engler & What Makes a Shudder Movie?

I’ve swapped books for movies this week – with the man who makes our nightmares. Craig Engler, GM of Shudder is in the house!!

120 – Philip Fracassi & A Screaming Inferno of Chaos and Emotion

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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