Talking Scared
By Neil McRobert
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True Crime Nana
Dec 18, 2024
Neil exhibits a mix of confident knowledge and self-deprecating humility, resulting in an astute interviewer who takes the discussions in unique and enlightening directions. His love, and respect, for the art of storytelling is obvious.
Dec 28, 2023
Dec 18, 2023
Rui Baptista
Jun 2, 2023
Description
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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219 – State of the Horror Nation 2024, with Emily Hughes, Stephanie Gagnon & Anna Dupre
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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[From the Vault] Catriona Ward & The All-Consuming Spoiler Warning
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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[From the Vault] Zakiya Dalila Harris & The Fear of Not Being Black Enough
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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[From the Vault] Laura Purcell & The Art of Darkness
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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[From the Vault] Gemma Amor & The Start of a Horrific Friendship AKA The Mental Health in Horror Episode
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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[From the Vault] T. Kingfisher & A Bit of Laughter in the Dark
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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[From the Vault] – Michael Marshall Smith & Goodbye to a Bad Year
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Off Book #5 – Halloween Special – Kaelyn Moore & Heart Starts Pounding
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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218 – Rachel Harrison & Vampirism is What You Make It
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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217 – Del Sandeen & Giving Southern Gothic Ick!
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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216 – CJ Leede & The Shame of the Human Animal
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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215 – Sofia Ajram & The Architecture of Despair
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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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 |