Talking Scared
By Neil McRobert
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Episodes: 218
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Conversations with the biggest names in horror fiction. A podcast for horror readers who want to know where their favourite stories came from . . . and what frightens the people who wrote them.
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Off Book #4 – Kate Siegel
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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214 – Lora Senf & The Infinite, Child-Friendly Void
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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213 – Johnny Compton & Angels, Demons & Xenomorphs
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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212 – Keith Rosson & Punk Rock Death Songs
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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211 – Laird Barron & Cosmic Background Radiation
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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210 – Emily Hughes & The Lover’s Guide to Better Horror
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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209 – Anna Bogutskaya & A Deep Fear of Things Sincere
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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208 – Adam Cesare & Making Scary Clowns Great Again
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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207 – Lena Valencia & What Can Lurk Where There Are No Shadows?
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Off Book #3 – Trevor Henderson
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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206 – Gabino Iglesias & Doing Really Bad Things for All the Right Reasons
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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205 – Jonathan Janz & The Bittersweet Magic of Sixteen
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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204 – Adam Nevill & Watch For the Freak Wave
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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203 – Constant Readers & Celebrating Stephen King’s Short Stories (Part Two)
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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202 – Constant Readers & Celebrating Stephen King’s Short Stories (Part One)
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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201 – Stephen King & Touching Other Worlds
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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200 – Every-Damn-One and Their Scariest Story
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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199 – Josh Malerman & The Most Frightening Love Story
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Off Book #2 – National Park After Dark
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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198 – Paul Tremblay & The Book is Better
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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197 – Elle Nash & Insects in the Ozarks
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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196 – Todd Keisling & The Eras Tour: Horror Version
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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195 – Emil Ferris & The Patron Saints of our Imperfection
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May 28, 2024 |
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Off Book #1 – Phil Nobile Jr. & Fangoria
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May 24, 2024 |
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194 – Alan Baxter & The Flavour of Vintage Blood
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May 21, 2024 |
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193 – L.P. Hernandez & Kudos On the Cruelty
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May 14, 2024 |
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192 – Robert Ottone & Raising Kids in Langan Country
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May 06, 2024 |
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191 – Chris Panatier & The Goo of Human Nature
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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190 – Kaaron Warren & The Un-Cosy House
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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189 – The Black Girl Survives in This One, with Saraciea J. Fennell, Desiree S. Evans, Monica Brashears & Eden Royce
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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188 – Scarlett Thomas & Hot Gothic
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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187 – The Carrie 50th Anniversary Deep Dive, with Nat Cassidy & Ally Malinenko
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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186 – Stephen Graham Jones & The Last Stand of the Final Girls
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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185 – Cynthia Pelayo & A Mermaid in the Windy City
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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184 – Joshua Hull & It’s a Whole Hole Thing
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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183 – Gwendolyn Kiste & Working Through Your Ghosts
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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182 – Tim Lebbon & Running Towards What Scares You
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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181 – Haunting Hill House, with Catriona Ward, Johnny Compton & Paul Tremblay
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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180 – Chuck Palahniuk & What Kind of Sex Do You Want?
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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179 – Ally Wilkes & The Ethics of Eating Your Friends
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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178 – Jenny Kiefer & A Solid Foothold in Horror
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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177 – John Langan & Fishing For Mythologies
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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176 – The Best Horror Novels of 2023
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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175 – The Ghost Story Deep Dive, with Alan Baxter, Lauren Bolger & John Langan
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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174 – State of the Horror Nation 2023, with Emily Hughes, Victor Lavalle & C.J. Leede
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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173 – Michelle Paver & Long Nights of the Body & Soul
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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172 – Gemma Amor & The Haunted Penis-Replacement Structure
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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171 – C.S. Humble & Come For the Horror, Stay for the Horses
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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170 – Luke Dumas & The Ghosts That Time Forgot
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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169 – Tyler Jones & Journeys Without Maps
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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168 – Tananarive Due & Locked in With the Monsters
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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167 – Nat Cassidy & A New York State of Death
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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166 – Sam Rebelein & You Had Me At “Tongue-Monster!”
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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165 – Josh Malerman & Ronald Malfi & The Rock N Roll Rhythm of the Novella
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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164 – Out There Screaming Roundtable, with Nnedi Okorafor, Lesley Nneka Arimah & Maurice Broaddus
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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163 – Liz Hand & Visiting the Thing That Walks Alone
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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162 – Chuck Wendig & American as Evil Apple Pie
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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161 – Clay McLeod Chapman & The Chesapeake Softshell Shuffle
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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160 – Isabel Cañas & Many Types of Bloodsucker
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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159 – Alexander James & An Encounter in the Woods
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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158 – Catriona Ward & Rewriting the American Gothic (Like, Literally)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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157 – Josh Winning & The World Through Blood-Tinted Glasses
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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156 – Sadie Hartmann & The Books of Our Horrid Hearts
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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155 – Stephen King & Writing From the Nerve Endings
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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154 – Alex Woodroe & The Sweet Science of Folk Horror
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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153 – Chuck Tingle & Riding the Lonesome Train
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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152 – Andrew Michael Hurley & Our Green, Unpleasant Land
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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151 – Verity Holloway & The Onion Skin of Trauma
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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150 – Danielle Trussoni & Puzzling All Over the World
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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149 – Clowns at Midnight – The Big IT Deep-Dive (Part Two), with Ally Malinenko & Nat Cassidy
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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148 – Feral Childhoods – The Big IT Deep-Dive (Part One), with Ally Malinenko & Nat Cassidy
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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147 – Mike Flanagan & Lighting Up the Darkness
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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146 – Paula. D. Ashe & A Bizarre & Bitter Reprieve
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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145 – Sarah Gailey & The Scariest Place in the House
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May 30, 2023 |
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144 – Nicholas Binge & the Spookiest of Entanglements
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May 23, 2023 |
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143 – Alice Slater & Bookish Murder Vibes
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May 16, 2023 |
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142 – Katrina Monroe & Birthing the Ultimate Body Horror
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May 09, 2023 |
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141 – Justin Cronin & Telling the Goat Joke
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May 02, 2023 |
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140 – Andrew F. Sullivan & The Cutest Mould in Fungus City
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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139 – Ai Jiang & Home is Where the Haunt Is
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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138 – Rachel Eve Moulton & The Bellybutton of the Beast
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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137 – Kelly Link & Once Upon a Time in a Ghost Story
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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136 – Max Booth III & Stories With Teeth
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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135 – Victor LaValle & The Weird, Weird West
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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134 – Margaret Atwood & Hope in the Dystopia
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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133 – Jacqueline Holland & At Last! Vampires!
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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132 – Matt Ruff & A Hostile Universe Here on Earth
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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131 – Johnny Compton & A Pyroclastic Flow of Negative Energy
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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130 – Mariana Enriquez & This Cruelty is Justified
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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129 – Stephen Graham Jones & Slashers Can Save the World
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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128 – C.J. Tudor & Locked Rooms at the End of the World
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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127 – Grady Hendrix and the Radical Puppet Collective
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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126 – Stephen Markley & A Guided Tour To Our Future Hell
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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125 – The Best Horror Books of 2022
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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124 – State of the Horror Nation 2022, with Emily Hughes & Janelle Janson
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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123 – Rachel Harrison, Josh Malerman & A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Self-Indulgence
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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122 – A History of Gothic Horror, with Professor Roger Luckhurst
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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121 – Craig Engler & What Makes a Shudder Movie?
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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120 – Philip Fracassi & A Screaming Inferno of Chaos and Emotion
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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119 – Charlotte Northedge & Houses Full of Haunted People
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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118 – Fiona Barnett & If You Go Down to the Woods Today
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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117 – Erika T. Wurth & Bigfoot in Your Dreams
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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116 – Brian McAuley & The Delights of Human Evisceration
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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115 – Andy Davidson & Ornate Maps of Hell
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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114 – Erin E. Adams & Monsters in the Rust Belt
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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113 – Rachel Harrison & Teeth, Needles & Gnomes
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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112 – Jamie Flanagan & Stories as Companions for Loneliness
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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111 – Alexis Henderson and Hot Marxist Bloodletting
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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110 – Clay McLeod Chapman and Unhealthy Obsession with Clear Plastic Tarps
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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109 – Gemma Amor and The Big Mental Health in Horror Bonanza
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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108 – Hailey Piper and Ambulatory Brain Monsters
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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107 – Zin E. Rocklyn and the Commonality of Pain
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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106 – Gwendolyn Kiste and the Madwomen Bite Back
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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105 – Agatha Andrews and Danger-Bangs in Haunted Houses
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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104 – Michael J. Seidlinger and Strange Footsteps at Midnight
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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103 – Giving Kids Swords: A Middle Grade Special w/ with Ally Malinenko, Dan Poblocki & Lora Senf
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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102 – Nina Nesseth and How the Gross-Out Can Save Your Life
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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101 – Nat Cassidy and Who Asked for a Body Anyway?
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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100 – Paul Tremblay and the First-Person Asshole Narrator
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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99 – T. Kingfisher and the Fungus-Punk Epidemic
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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98 – Tim McGregor and Blaming the Danish
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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97 – A Monstrous Roundtable, with Ellen Datlow, Nathan Ballingrud, Chikodili Emelumadu & Joe R. Lansdale
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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96 – Stephen Lloyd and Cutting the Treacle
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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95 – J.M. Miro and Throwing Your Arms Around the Monsters
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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94 – Scott Hawkins and a Dog-Eat-Lion World
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May 31, 2022 |
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93 – Kiersten White and Freedom from the Hope of Youth
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May 24, 2022 |
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92 – Anne Heltzel and a Big Pile of Dead Baby Dolls
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May 17, 2022 |
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91 – Jason Rekulak and Pencil Crayon Jump Scares
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May 10, 2022 |
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90 – Isabel Cañas and Running Barefoot Through Books
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May 03, 2022 |
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89 – Alma Katsu and the Hatred that Never Seems to Die
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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88 – V. L. Valentine and The Difficult Second Ghost Story
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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87 – Malcolm Devlin and the Brexit Zombie Story
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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86 – Alan Baxter and a Stranger in a Strange Town
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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85 – Emma Stonex and the Light That Never Goes Out
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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84 – Dark Stars Roundtable, with John F.D. Taff, Livia Llewellyn & Josh Malerman
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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83 – Simone St. James and Good Time, True Crime
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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82 – Mike Meginnis and Things You Should Do Before You Die
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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81 – Tyler Jones and Old Eyes in Young Faces
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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80 – Gretchen Felker-Martin and Bustin’ Everyone’s Balls
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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79 – Leon Craig and the Queerness at the Bottom of the Well
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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78 – Thomas Olde Heuvelt and the Mountains of (My) Madness
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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77 – S.A. Barnes and Every Direction is Down
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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76 – Ally Wilkes and Good Reasons to be Afraid of the Dark
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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75 – Kristi DeMeester and Misogynistic Little Paper Cuts
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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74 – John Connolly and the Many Faces of Metaphysical Mystery
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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73 – The Best Horror-ish Books of 2021
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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72 – State of the Horror Nation II, with Emily Hughes and Sadie Hartmann
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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71 – A.J. West and Paranormal Foreplay
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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70 – Ross Jeffery and Disturbing the Comfortable
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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69 – Wendy N. Wagner and Nasty Shenanigans
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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68 – Josh Malerman and Putting the Awe in Awful Things
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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67 – Richard Maclean Smith and the Ledge of Reason
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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66 – Ellen Datlow and What Does ‘Scared’ Mean Anyhow?
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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65 – Mark Stay and Cosy Pagan Dread
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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64 – Kim Newman and Truly Universal Monsters
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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63 – Mark Kermode and Angels, Demons and White Eyed Kids (AKA, the Hallowe’en Special)
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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62 – Catherynne M. Valente and the Homeowners Association from Hell
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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61 – Cassandra Khaw and Stories to Tell Death
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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60 – Caitlin Starling and Emotional Torture Porn
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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59 – James Han Mattson and the Fear Fetish Facepalm
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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58 – Lee Mandelo & Playing Out with the Boys
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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57 – Tina Baker and the Working-Class Chips on Our Shoulders
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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56 – Aliya Whiteley and Strange Growths
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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55 – Daniel Kraus and a Bag of Squishy Organs in an Elastic Hide
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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54 – Stephen Graham Jones and Dancing with the Slasher
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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53 – Zoje Stage and What if You're Not a Good Person?
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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52 – Richard Chizmar and the Truth Inside the Lie
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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51 – Brian Evenson and Little Potted Nightmares
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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50 - Sara Flannery Murphy and the Witches They Couldn't Burn
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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49 – Ronald Malfi and Can Death Do Us Part?
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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48 – Chuck Wendig and the Comforting Embrace of Horror
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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47 – Grady Hendrix and Final Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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46 – The State of the Horror Nation, with Sadie Hartmann and Emily Hughes
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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45 – Carmen Maria Machado and Literary Kidney Stones
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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44 – Eric LaRocca and Abominable Things You Probably Shouldn’t Be Reading
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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43 – Joe R. Lansdale and Writing Like Everyone You Know is Dead
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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42 - V. Castro and F**K Your Box
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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41 – Max Brooks and Harry Eats the Hendersons
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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40 – Zakiya Dalila Harris and the Fear of Not Being Black Enough
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May 25, 2021 |
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39 – Josh Malerman and a Local Town for Local People
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May 18, 2021 |
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38 – Tananarive Due and Black Girls Doing Magical Things
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May 11, 2021 |
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37 – A.J. Gnuse and the People Under Your Sink
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May 04, 2021 |
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36 - Jeff VanderMeer and Our First On-Air Murder
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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35 – Christina Henry and the Monsters of the Subconscious
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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34 - Danielle Trussoni and the Spectrum of Human Difference
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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33 - Jennifer McMahon and the Green Mountain State of Fear
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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32 - Clay McLeod Chapman and the Clenching Fist of Satan!
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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31 – V.L. Valentine and Graphic Descriptions of Medical Maladies
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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30 – Catriona Ward and the All-Consuming Spoiler Warning
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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29 – Angela Slatter and Kelpies not Selkies!!
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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28 – Bethany Clift and Judging an Apocalypse by its Cover
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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27 - Julia Fine and the Postmodern Postpartum
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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26 - Sarah Pearse and the Hills are Alive with the Sound of Murder
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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25 - Gemma Files and the Witch in Her True Ornaments
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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24 - Courtney Summers and Writing for Spite
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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23 - Laura Purcell and the Art of Darkness
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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22 – C.J. Tudor and the Lure of the Oddball Loners
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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21 - Will Dean & The Horror of the Fens
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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20 - The Big 2021 Horror Preview AKA Another Annus Horribilis
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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19 - Michael Marshall Smith and Goodbye to 2020
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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18 - Gabriel Bergmoser and It's Only a Joke Mate!
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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17 - Rachel Harrison and Knowing Who Your Friends Are
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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16 – Christopher Golden and Extreme Social Distancing
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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15 - Sam J. Miller and a Hometown Hot Mess
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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14 - Jonathan Sims and the Haunted High-Rise
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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13 - Craig DiLouie and the Cult of the Shredder
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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12 - Rumaan Alam and the Apocalyptic Rorschach Test
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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11 - Andrew Pyper and the Demon in the White House
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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10 - Colin Dickey and the Obligatory Halloween Special AKA Why We Believe in Monsters
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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09 - T. Kingfisher and Does the Dog Die in This One?
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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08 – Emily Danforth and “The Blair Witch X Lesbians”
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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07 - Kate Summerscale and the Shoplifting Poltergeist
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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06 - Stuart Turton and How To Plot a Very Clever Murder
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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05 – Jeremy Robert Johnson and Where Did That Octopus Come From?
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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04 - Jo Kaplan and What Makes a Great Haunted House?
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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03 - Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Mexican Gothic, NOT Romance
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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02 - John Langan and Writing Under "The Influence"
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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01 - Paul Tremblay and Why It's Not the End of the World
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Sep 01, 2020 |