98 – Tim McGregor and Blaming the Danish
Send us a text Things are a bit fishy this week, as I’m joined by long-time friend-of-the-show Tim McGregor (@TimMcGregor1) to talk about the long history of fish-tailed women and why we find them so ...
28 Jun 20221h 12min
97 – A Monstrous Roundtable, with Ellen Datlow, Nathan Ballingrud, Chikodili Emelumadu & Joe R. Lansdale
Send us a text This week on Talking Scared it’s monsters all day, every day. To celebrate the release of Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, we gather around the campfire w...
21 Jun 20221h 14min
96 – Stephen Lloyd and Cutting the Treacle
Send us a text We’re closing out our (very) loose trilogy of episodes devoted to sinister schools and magical children. This week it involves pentagrams and witch-burnings, which are always a good tim...
14 Jun 20221h
95 – J.M. Miro and Throwing Your Arms Around the Monsters
Send us a text This week we go to magic school, but there isn’t a f***ing owl or a talking hat in sight. Instead, it’s a much more macabre affair, as J. M. Miro begins his trilogy of dark sorcery with...
7 Jun 20221h 19min
94 – Scott Hawkins and a Dog-Eat-Lion World
Send us a text This week we go behind the curtain to look at the inner workings of a bona-fide modern classic. Our guest is Scott Hawkins, whose debut novel, The Library At Mount Char delighted genre...
31 Mai 20221h 4min
93 – Kiersten White and Freedom from the Hope of Youth
Send us a text Here I come, ready or not! Our guest this week is Kiersten White. She’s the award-winning author of numerous macabre YA fictions, but now she’s making her debut in adult fiction (not th...
24 Mai 20221h 10min
92 – Anne Heltzel and a Big Pile of Dead Baby Dolls
Send us a text This week’s episode couldn’t have come at a more pertinent time. As women’s reproductive rights come under assault in the US, as Roe V Wade gets rolled back and fat, sweaty men in suits...
17 Mai 20221h 10min
91 – Jason Rekulak and Pencil Crayon Jump Scares
Send us a text Do think kids’ drawings are creepy? They are, right? All big smiles and suns with eyes and weird flowers the size of people… and the dead girls in the background. Right? Our guest this...
10 Mai 20221h 2min
