142 – Katrina Monroe & Birthing the Ultimate Body Horror
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142 – Katrina Monroe & Birthing the Ultimate Body Horror

Send us a text No book has ever made me so painfully aware of my nipples as Katrina Monroe’s The Graveyard of Lost Children. And I won’t ever have to breastfeed. Katrina’s novel is a full-treatment of the horrors involved in motherhood. Yes there is love, but there is also social pressure, paranoia, loneliness and chafing! And that’s before we even get to the spectral Black-Haired Woman who haunts the unlucky mothers of Katrina’s second novel. Parenting horror has seen a lot of great titles in recent years, but this may be my favourite. In this episode we talk about changeling lore, about asylums, about the motif and metaphor of wells, and the creepiest mental health condition i’ve ever heard of. And I guarantee this is the only horror lit podcast of the week to feature the phrase “stool sample.” Enjoy! The Graveyard of Lost Children was published on May 9th by Poison Pen Press Link to The Burning of Bridget Cleary Other books mentioned in this episode include: They Drown our Daughters (2022), by Katrina Monroe If We Were Villains (2017), by M. L. Rio Such a Pretty Smile (2022), by Kristi DeMeester The Good People (2016), by Hannah Kent Last to Leave the Room (forthcoming 2023), by Caitlin Starling Support Talking Scared on Patreon Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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291 – Natasha Pulley & No Priests Were Harmed in the Making of this Podcast

291 – Natasha Pulley & No Priests Were Harmed in the Making of this Podcast

No one let the Pope listen to this week’s episode. Our guest is Natasha Pulley, genre-defying author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, The Bedlam Stacks, The Kingdoms, and now, in the The Salt...

18 Elo 1h 29min

Off Book #23 – Are We Doomed? A Cheerful Guide to Apocalypse, with Ben Bradford

Off Book #23 – Are We Doomed? A Cheerful Guide to Apocalypse, with Ben Bradford

Happy Friday! Let’s talk about the end of the world. Our guest is Ben Bradford, creator and host of Are We Doomed? – the new hit podcast examining the existential risks facing humanity. “Dammit...

14 Elo 1h 15min

290 – Liam Higginson & Awful Things in Lonely Farmhouses

290 – Liam Higginson & Awful Things in Lonely Farmhouses

Finally, we dare venture to the darkest land of all. Wales! After years of avoiding the terror of the Valleys, Liam Higginson takes us to The Hill in the Dark Grove – his debut novel of isolation, fo...

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289 – Annie Jacobsen & Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid

289 – Annie Jacobsen & Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid

This may be my scariest episode ever! We’ve covered non-fiction before, but rarely is the truth more frightening than the stories we tell. This week it just might be… cos Annie Jacobsen is here wi...

4 Elo 1h 14min

Let Us Palaver #10 – Wolves of the Calla Debrief

Let Us Palaver #10 – Wolves of the Calla Debrief

In our main Wolves of the Calla Deep Dive, we came within touching distance of the Dark Tower’s biggest secret yet. Chris doesn’t know what to think, which is just where Nat and I want him. So we st...

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The Dark Tower Deep Dive #10 – Wolves of the Calla

The Dark Tower Deep Dive #10 – Wolves of the Calla

Hallelujah, come commala, we’re back together! Finally, after stopping for side missions with Jack Sawyer, and a pair of stories of Roland’s younger days, we’re back in Midworld’s here-and-now to ...

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288 – Danielle Giles & A Spoonful of Skulldust (Makes the Medicine Go Down)

288 – Danielle Giles & A Spoonful of Skulldust (Makes the Medicine Go Down)

Time for a horrid history lesson. Daniell Giles is the author of medieval gothic Mere (2025), and the brand-new Restoration horror-show, Gentle Things. In this episode she talks about the nightmar...

21 Heinä 1h 11min

287 – Megan Bontrager & The Cave of Cosmic Narcissism

287 – Megan Bontrager & The Cave of Cosmic Narcissism

I hope you have your headtorch this week – cos we’re going to some deep, dark places. Megan Bontrager’s debut novel, The Sea Hides its Dead, is a story of a mysterious cave, an unprepared expediti...

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