99 – T. Kingfisher and the Fungus-Punk Epidemic
Send us a text It’s been a rough couple of weeks. So, let’s have a laugh: Poe-style! Our guest is T. Kingfisher. She’s an expert in taking dry, dark horror classics and investing them with newfound li...
5 Heinä 20221h 9min
98 – Tim McGregor and Blaming the Danish
Send us a text Things are a bit fishy this week, as I’m joined by long-time friend-of-the-show Tim McGregor (@TimMcGregor1) to talk about the long history of fish-tailed women and why we find them so ...
28 Kesä 20221h 12min
97 – A Monstrous Roundtable, with Ellen Datlow, Nathan Ballingrud, Chikodili Emelumadu & Joe R. Lansdale
Send us a text This week on Talking Scared it’s monsters all day, every day. To celebrate the release of Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, we gather around the campfire w...
21 Kesä 20221h 14min
96 – Stephen Lloyd and Cutting the Treacle
Send us a text We’re closing out our (very) loose trilogy of episodes devoted to sinister schools and magical children. This week it involves pentagrams and witch-burnings, which are always a good tim...
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95 – J.M. Miro and Throwing Your Arms Around the Monsters
Send us a text This week we go to magic school, but there isn’t a f***ing owl or a talking hat in sight. Instead, it’s a much more macabre affair, as J. M. Miro begins his trilogy of dark sorcery with...
7 Kesä 20221h 19min
94 – Scott Hawkins and a Dog-Eat-Lion World
Send us a text This week we go behind the curtain to look at the inner workings of a bona-fide modern classic. Our guest is Scott Hawkins, whose debut novel, The Library At Mount Char delighted genre...
31 Touko 20221h 4min
93 – Kiersten White and Freedom from the Hope of Youth
Send us a text Here I come, ready or not! Our guest this week is Kiersten White. She’s the award-winning author of numerous macabre YA fictions, but now she’s making her debut in adult fiction (not th...
24 Touko 20221h 10min
92 – Anne Heltzel and a Big Pile of Dead Baby Dolls
Send us a text This week’s episode couldn’t have come at a more pertinent time. As women’s reproductive rights come under assault in the US, as Roe V Wade gets rolled back and fat, sweaty men in suits...
17 Touko 20221h 10min
