Talking Scared

Send us a text I started Off Book so that I could speak to some of the brightest dark stars in the wider universe of horror.   This week that plan comes to absolute fruition – ‘cos Kate Siegel is Talk...

5 Okt 202452min

Send us a text Release your inner child!    …I mean through reading, not by letting it burst out of your stomach like some horrible sugar-coated xenomorph.   Lora Senf can help. Her Blight Harbor Tril...

1 Okt 20241h 11min

Send us a text More devilish fun on Talking Scared this week when an old friend returns to talk about god, angels, demons and other things out there in the cold reaches of the universe.   Johnny Compt...

24 Sep 20241h 8min

Send us a text Keith Rosson is our first guest to be personally recommended by Stephen King!    And the praise doesn’t stop there. Keith’s Fever House was one of the biggest hits of 2023, and now he’s...

17 Sep 20241h 11min

Send us a text Laird Barron is on the podcast. This feels like cause for celebration.    Not only is Laird Barron a phenomenal writer. Not only is it wonderful that he’s back to writing and talking ab...

9 Sep 20241h 12min

Send us a text Are you a Weenie? Don’t be offended. I am.    Weenies are the curious-but-nervous. Those of us who love horror, but who never feel safe from its power to ruin our sleep (and a week of o...

3 Sep 20241h 8min

Send us a text Anna Bogutskaya is one of the UK’s most prominent film critics, with a penchant for horror. She knows her scary onions. And in her new book, Feeding the Monster, she asks an important q...

27 Aug 20241h 27min

Send us a text Send in the clowns. Tell them not to forget their crossbows and chainsaws.   This week our guest is Adam Cesare, who’s Clown in a Cornfield trilogy reaches a climax (I won’t say end) in...

20 Aug 20241h 16min