34 - Danielle Trussoni and the Spectrum of Human Difference
Send us a text When was the last time a story took you completely by surprise? Danielle Trussoni’s The Ancestor ambushed me into loving it. What seems a standard Gothic fiction turns into something wh...
13 Apr 20211h 6min
33 - Jennifer McMahon and the Green Mountain State of Fear
Send us a text Welcome to the Green Mountain State, lovely, liberal . . . haunted!! Our guest is to ghost-stories what Ben and Jerry are to ice cream – Vermont’s resident ghost-writer-in-chief, Jennif...
6 Apr 20211h 11min
32 - Clay McLeod Chapman and the Clenching Fist of Satan!
Send us a text Does your child draw pentagrams? Have you noticed the neighbours hanging their robes over the washing line? Worst of all, have they started listening to …. HEAVY METAL?? You may be expe...
30 Mar 20211h 4min
31 – V.L. Valentine and Graphic Descriptions of Medical Maladies
Send us a text We’ve covered our share of plagues on this show during our all-too-real year of sitting indoors and waiting for the pandemic to sod off. Do you have the guts for one more? You should, b...
24 Mar 20211h 5min
30 – Catriona Ward and the All-Consuming Spoiler Warning
Send us a text This is a big one. The Last House on Needless Street may be the best pure horror novel I’ve read this decade. Okay, the decade is only 3 months old, but check back with me in 9 years a...
17 Mar 20211h
29 – Angela Slatter and Kelpies not Selkies!!
Send us a text Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there was a young woman, bad men, and some homicidal mermaids. It’s fairy tale time. Our guest is Angela Slatter, who’s new novel All the Murmu...
10 Mar 202158min
28 – Bethany Clift and Judging an Apocalypse by its Cover
Send us a text Isolation is a bitch, but it could be worse! Our guest is Bethany Clift and her debut novel is Last One at the Party – a pandemic novel that reminds you that at least we have Netflix, ...
3 Mar 20211h 4min
27 - Julia Fine and the Postmodern Postpartum
Send us a text If you’ve been homeschooling, in labour, or generally responsible for the life of a small human during lockdown, then this episode is for you. There are people out there, writers with g...
24 Feb 202158min
