Talking Scared

189 – The Black Girl Survives in This One, with Saraciea J. Fennell, Desiree S. Evans, Monica Brashears & Eden

I bite off a lot this week, in a five-way conversation with editors and contributors to the...

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188 – Scarlett Thomas & Hot Gothic

I’m in literary hero territory again … at least this time it’s sunny!   My guest is Scarlett...

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187 – The Carrie 50th Anniversary Deep Dive, with Nat Cassidy & Ally Malinenko

Carrie White turns 50 years old today!   April 5th, 1974 – the day King’s debut came out, and...

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186 – Stephen Graham Jones & The Last Stand of the Final Girls

Alas, we come to the end!   Stephen Graham Jones’s The Angel of Indian Lake brings the most...

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• 17 días

185 – Cynthia Pelayo & A Mermaid in the Windy City

Chi-Town!!   We’re heading to the midwestern metropolis this week, for a conversation with Cina...

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• 24 días

183 – Joshua Hull & It’s a Whole Hole Thing

Never mind the floor is lava. This week the ground has teeth.   Joshua Hull is our guest, to...

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183 – Gwendolyn Kiste & Working Through Your Ghosts

Time to get liminal and haunted.    Gwendolyn Kiste comes back to Talking Scared for another...

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182 – Tim Lebbon & Running Towards What Scares You

Sometimes you meet someone who just gets you.   Like Tim Lebbon. A man who writes riotously...

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181 – Haunting Hill House, with Catriona Ward, Johnny Compton & Paul Tremblay

Back from a too-short break, but ready to delve into the greatest haunted house of them all!...

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180 – Chuck Palahniuk & What Kind of Sex Do You Want?

Yes I put sex in the title to make you download it. Did it work?   It shouldn’t be necessary,...

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Episode 179 – Ally Wilkes & The Ethics of Eating Your Friends

Are you hungry?    If so we have a chewy, salty, deeply flavoured feast for you this week. Ally...

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178 – Jenny Kiefer & A Solid Foothold in Horror

The first new book coverage of 2024 – and it starts us off on suitably horrific footing....

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177 – John Langan & Fishing For Mythologies

To kick off a new year of Talking Scared, I’ve gone and hooked us a big guest, with a whopper of...

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176 – The Best Horror Novels of 2023

Another year done. We squeaked through without another plague or a nuclear apocalypse (don’t...

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175 – The Ghost Story Deep Dive, with Alan Baxter, Lauren Bolger & John Langan

Dickens said that Christmas Eve was a time for ghost stories, and who am I to argue?   It is my...

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174 – State of the Horror Nation 2023, with Emily Hughes, Victor Lavalle & C.J. Leede

And so we come to the end of another year in horror. Time to look back at the best that 2023 has...

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173 – Michelle Paver & Long Nights of the Body & Soul

We’re going up in the world this week – longitudinally and latitudinally, with the GOAT of...

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172 – Gemma Amor & The Haunted Penis-Replacement Structure

Last time Gemma Amor came on the show we had a good ol’ chinwag about our haunted brains. This...

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171 – C.S. Humble & Come For the Horror, Stay for the Horses

We’ve had Cowboys versus Aliens but have you ever considered a threeway fight between...

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170 – Luke Dumas & The Ghosts That Time Forgot

Sometimes two words can make a jaded horror reader sit up straight.    Ghost is one, Dinosaur...

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