179 – Ally Wilkes & The Ethics of Eating Your Friends
Send us a text Are you hungry? If so we have a chewy, salty, deeply flavoured feast for you this week. Ally Wilkes returns to Talking Scared to discuss the icebound horrors of her new novel, Where ...
23 Jan 20241h 17min
178 – Jenny Kiefer & A Solid Foothold in Horror
Send us a text The first new book coverage of 2024 – and it starts us off on suitably horrific footing. Jenny Kiefer’s debut novel, This Wretched Valley, has been getting a huge amount of early buzz...
16 Jan 20241h 3min
177 – John Langan & Fishing For Mythologies
Send us a text To kick off a new year of Talking Scared, I’ve gone and hooked us a big guest, with a whopper of a story. John Langan is the author of The Fisherman. It’s one of the great works of su...
9 Jan 20241h 47min
176 – The Best Horror Novels of 2023
Send us a text Another year done. We squeaked through without another plague or a nuclear apocalypse (don’t tempt fate Neil!!) and along the way, oh the stories we read! The only thing left to do a...
30 Des 202357min
175 – The Ghost Story Deep Dive, with Alan Baxter, Lauren Bolger & John Langan
Send us a text Dickens said that Christmas Eve was a time for ghost stories, and who am I to argue? It is my show though, so I get to pick the ghost story – and I picked Peter Straub’s classic novel...
24 Des 20231h 43min
174 – State of the Horror Nation 2023, with Emily Hughes, Victor Lavalle & C.J. Leede
Send us a text And so we come to the end of another year in horror. Time to look back at the best that 2023 has had to offer, as determined by three of the best in the business. My trusted horror cha...
19 Des 20232h 1min
173 – Michelle Paver & Long Nights of the Body & Soul
Send us a text We’re going up in the world this week – longitudinally and latitudinally, with the GOAT of endurance, adventure Gothic, Michelle Paver. Michelle joins me for a big conversation about ...
12 Des 20231h 30min
172 – Gemma Amor & The Haunted Penis-Replacement Structure
Send us a text Last time Gemma Amor came on the show we had a good ol’ chinwag about our haunted brains. This time around we get to some other ghosts, in her new novel, The Folly. It’s a sharp slice...
5 Des 20231h 20min
