Off Book #18 – Hokum, with Damian McCarthy
This week we host one of the most exciting horror filmmakers of the decade – Damian McCarthy, the twisted mind behind Caveat, Oddity and now, Hokum. It’s the biggest film in Damian’s career so far...
1 Mai 54min
277 – Marcus Kliewer & Rules Help Control the Fun
Cognitohazards abound this week, as Marcus Kliewer joins me for a conversation about the reality-shredding We Used to Live Here and his new novel of obsessional rules, The Caretaker. In both books...
28 Apr 1h 19min
276 – Kylie Lee Baker & Swords Make Everything Worse
A conversation about codes of honour and the rules of haunting in this week’s episode – as I’m joined by Kylie Lee Baker, author of 2025’s incredible Bat Eater, and the brand-new Japanese Gothic. ...
21 Apr 1h 8min
275 – Caroline Bicks & The Stuff Too Dark for Even Stephen King
When Stephen King tells you to have a guest on your podcast – you listen! That’s how I came to meet Caroline Bicks, the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair at the University of Maine, and author of th...
14 Apr 1h 34min
Off Book #17 – Undertone, with Ian Tuason and Nina Kiri
Listen at your own peril this week. I spoke with Ian Tuason and Nina Kiri, the director and star of Undertone – billed as “the scariest movie you’ll ever hear!” It’s the story of an isolated...
10 Apr 51min
274 – Carter Keane & Working Ourselves to Death!!
Corporate culture is a nightmare, but getting out of the office brings its own problems in Carter Keane’s debut novella – Morsel. It’s a story about monsters and eldritch beings, about killer cul...
7 Apr 1h 22min
Let Us Palaver #8 – The Black House Debrief
Nat and I stick around in the shadowed recesses of Black House for another half hour, to discuss all the things that Chris got right and wrong – and to make some entirely unfounded claims of our own. ...
3 Apr 33min
