Off Book #16 – Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, with Haley Z. Boston
After seeing an early screener of Something Very Bad is Going to Happen I immediately thought it was going to be huge! So I leapt ahead of the curve and invited writer and showrunner, Haley Z Bosto...
27 Mar 55min
Episode 273 – Tamika Thompson & The Shadow of the Gun
Tamika Thompson talks me through the great American curseof the 21st Century on this week’s episode. No, not Tangerine Cthulhu … but the plague of gun deaths that is coring out the country. That’s...
24 Mar 1h 19min
272 – Annie Neugebauer & The Colour of a Terrible Thought
Some stories just boggle your mind and boil your imagination. Such are the ideas in Annie Neugebauer’s You Have to Let Them Bleed, and her logic-shattering novella The Extra. The Uncanny Valley, o...
17 Mar 1h 15min
271 – Avery Curran & The Naughtiest Ghosts in School
Time for sex and seances this week on Talking Scared. Our guest is Avery Curran and her debut novel Spoiled Milk. It’s a story of spiritualism and sapphic desire, set in a 1920s boarding school wh...
10 Mar 1h 30min
Off Book #15 – Dolly, with Rod Blackhurst
This Off Book episode is a trip into the deep dark woods, for a very special playdate! Our guest is Rod Blackhurst, director and co-writer of the new retro horror movie, Dolly. It’s a film about a...
6 Mar 55min
270 – Christopher Buehlman & One Seriously Epic Road Trip
This week we’re sharpening our swords and checking our armpits for boils! Christopher Buehlman is the guest, author the hugely-acclaimed 2012 medieval horror fantasy, Between Two Fires – now being...
3 Mar 1h 9min
269 – Catriona Ward & Where Children Fear to Tread
Clap your hands twice if you believe in Catriona Ward! Cat is back on the show this week, to talk Nowhere Burning – a horror novel informed by everything from Peter Pan (it has its own Tinkerbell)...
24 Feb 1h 11min
268 – Brennan LaFaro & The Darkness on the Edge of Town
When is a zombie not a zombie? I don’t have a punchline to that joke. But something…something … revenant! Brennan LaFaro’s The Denizens is about a small southern town with a very unusual relat...
17 Feb 1h 12min
