Talking Scared

Send us a text I’m feeling Gothic this week. Must be the weather.  In lieu of a new episode, I searched the vault and found this cracker from January 2021, in which Laura Purcell — doyenne of the cont...

26 Nov 202449min

Send us a text This From the Vault episode is not quite so dusty. Gemma and I recorded this in 2022, but it’s more pertinent than ever. One because Gemma’s great uncanny novella The Folly is being rei...

19 Nov 20241h 52min

Send us a text Still on a break – still releasing episodes “From the Vault.”   But this week’s was carefully chosen. In a time of darkness and doom-laden days, laughter is the best thing I can lace yo...

12 Nov 202455min

Send us a text I’m on a break – but couldn’t resist releasing something.    Especially on today of all days, when lovers of democracy require audio sustenance whilst they wait in line to preserve Amer...

5 Nov 20241h

Send us a text Halloween has finally arrived. I’m marking it in grim, macabre style.   For this Off Book Samhain Special, I’m joined by Kaelyn Moore, host and creator of Heart Starts Pounding – a podc...

31 Okt 20241h 31min

Send us a text Things are heating up as we approach Halloween.   I’m joined by a good friend of Talking Scared – Rachel Harrison – to talk about the hot kind of immortality   Her new novel, So Thirsty...

28 Okt 20241h 10min

Send us a text As we gear up for Halloween, we get all gussied up in Gothic.   Del Sandeen joins me to talk about the curses, colorism, and all the many influences in her Southern Gothic debut This Cu...

22 Okt 20241h 8min

Send us a text Things get disinhibited on Talking Scared this week, when CJ Leede joins us for a conversation about her new novel, American Rapture.   The novel plunges middle America into a torrid ap...

15 Okt 20241h 14min