176 – The Best Horror Novels of 2023
Another year over. The only thing left is to run through my very favourite books of the year. The Best Horror Novels of 2023, as chosen by me.
View Article177 – John Langan & Fishing For Mythologies
In this special episode, we talk at length about The Fisherman – about the classic books and legends that inspired the building of a whole new mythos.
View Article178 – Jenny Kiefer & A Solid Foothold in Horror
This Wretched Valley brings the famous Dyatlov Pass Mystery to the Kentucky woods. We talk about wilderness, adventure, brutality and bookshops!
View Article179 – Ally Wilkes & The Ethics of Eating Your Friends
Ally Wilkes returns to Talking Scared to discuss the icebound horrors of Where the Dead Wait. It’s a tale of Arctic exploration gone wrong, haunting, human suffering and plenty of cannibalism!
View Article180 – Chuck Palahniuk & What Kind of Sex Do You Want?
Chuck Palahniuk – a writer who helped shape the nihilism and extremity of contemporary fiction. Who makes people faint with his short stories. He’s here.
View Article181 – Haunting Hill House, with Catriona Ward, Johnny Compton & Paul Tremblay
Finally, i'm ready to delve into the greatest haunted house of them all! Shirley Jackson’s Hill House. The place where the scary things walk alone.
View Article182 – Tim Lebbon & Running Towards What Scares You
Tim Lebbon writes riotously good adventure-horror novels. He also likes running outrageous distances up big hills. What a pleasure it was to speak to him.
View Article183 – Gwendolyn Kiste & Working Through Your Ghosts
Gwendolyn Kiste returns for another high-concept twist on the Gothic. In The Haunting of Velkwood an entire street turns ghostly overnight. Trauma and laughter ensues.
View Article184 – Joshua Hull & It’s a Whole Hole Thing
Joshua Hull is here to talk about his obsession with dangerous, weird holes. Now he’s given a hole a whole personality in his debut novella, Mouth.
View Article185 – Cynthia Pelayo & A Mermaid in the Windy City
We’re heading to the midwestern metropolis this week, for a conversation with Cina Pelayo – all about murder, mystery, history and strange things in the water.
View Article186 – Stephen Graham Jones & The Last Stand of the Final Girls
Stephen Graham Jones brings the most important horror trilogy of the century to its conclusion. For one last time we return to Proofrock, Idaho – and Jade Daniels.
View Article187 – The Carrie 50th Anniversary Deep Dive, with Nat Cassidy & Ally Malinenko
Carrie White turns 50. Step up Nat Cassidy and Ally Malinenko – who understand King and that bitter, brutal world between childhood and adulthood.
View Article188 – Scarlett Thomas & Hot Gothic
Scarlett Thomas is one of my favourite writers. Her new novel, The Sleepwalkers, is a darkly playful tale of a vacation–and a marriage–gone horribly wrong.
View Article189 – The Black Girl Survives in This One, with Saraciea J. Fennell, Desiree...
I bite off a lot this week, in a five-way conversation with editors and contributors to the ever-so-of-the-moment anthology The Black Girl Survives in This One.
View Article190 – Kaaron Warren & The Un-Cosy House
We all love a good spooky house. And most of us enjoy a terrifying home-invasion ordeal. What happens when you put them together? Kaaron Warren’s The Underhistory is the answer.
View Article191 – Chris Panatier & The Goo of Human Nature
The asylum. A classic horror location, but problematic in the wrong hands. Thankfully Chris Panatier has exactly the right hands for this conversation.
View Article192 – Robert Ottone & Raising Kids in Langan Country
Robert Ottone joins me for a conversation about his parenting horror, The Vile Thing We Created. We don't hold back on our opinions.
View Article193 – L.P. Hernandez & Kudos On the Cruelty
L.P. Hernandez talks about the multiple books he's released this year – from weird Canadian wilds, to brutal family annihilation, and all points in between.
View Article194 – Alan Baxter & The Flavour of Vintage Blood
Alan Baxter’s Blood Covenant is a violent, thrilling story of a threeway battle between an innocent family, a nasty criminal gang, and an otherworldly force that's even worse! Think, what if The...
View ArticleOff Book #1 – Phil Nobile Jr. & Fangoria
This first Off Book episode features Phil Nobile Jr. Editor-in-Chief of Fangoria, and a man with his finger on the bloody pulse of the genre.
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