224 – Susan Barker & The Denial of Death
Tyranny is the key this week on Talking Scared this week. How fitting. Susan Barker’s Old Soul is a globe-trotting, decade-spanning supernatural tour of autocracies, from behind the Iron Curtain to ...
21 Tammi 20251h 7min
223 – Kate van der Borgh & A Different Class of Magic
It’s a collegial week on Talking Scared. ‘Cos I’m talking dark, occult academia with someone very local to me. Kate van der Borgh’s debut, And He Shall Appear is basically a sinister version of my o...
14 Tammi 20251h 19min
222 – Clay McLeod Chapman & Oh My God, What Have I Done?
Welcome back and Happy New Year. 2025 looms ahead. Frightening. Uncertain. Crazy!! Our first guest of the year has written the book that best captures this mad future we’re living in. Clay McLeod Ch...
7 Tammi 20251h 20min
221 – The Best Scary Books of 2024
Send us a text How else to end 2024 than with an entirely subjective list of the best things I’ve read over the year? How many of you will guess the number one spot? I bet none of you will guess the...
31 Joulu 20241h 8min
220 – Grief and Monsters: The From a Buick 8 Deep Dive
Send us a text It’s that time of year again. When I celebrate the winter solstice by getting some horror authors to come and talk in deep, emotional detail about a scary book that we like. This time...
23 Joulu 20242h 1min
219 – State of the Horror Nation 2024, with Emily Hughes, Stephanie Gagnon & Anna Dupre
Send us a text … and we’re back! Just in time for this seasonal tradition. The State of the Horror Nation 2024 – our expert-led review of the best that the year had to offer in terms of horror writing...
17 Joulu 20242h 20min
[From the Vault] Catriona Ward & The All-Consuming Spoiler Warning
Send us a text This is the last way-back episode before the show returns with a scream next week. But this is an episode worth remembering – my first ever conversation with Catriona Ward, about her ...
10 Joulu 202454min
[From the Vault] Zakiya Dalila Harris & The Fear of Not Being Black Enough
Send us a text A chance to revisit one of my favourite books and favourite ever conversations this week. Zakiya Dalila Harris’s The Other Black Girl came out in early 2021, and for once I was ahead ...
3 Joulu 202457min
