256 – Northern Weird (Part One), with Gemma Fairclough, Katherine Clements & Ariell Cacciola
It’s grim up North. But thankfully, it’s also weird. Deliciously, darkly, disturbingly weird! This week we are celebrating the Northern Weird Project – six novellas published by Wild Hunt Boo...
7 Okt 20251h 20min
255 – Michael Wehunt & What If A Horror Film Broke Into Your House?
What’s even real anymore? Some of the best horror writer’s ask that question. Some, like Michael Wehunt, live in the spaces in between. Michael’s new novel, The October Film Haunt bends realit...
30 Sep 20251h 17min
254 – Philip Fracassi & The Fresh Young Heart of Old-School Horror
This week brings a bumper episode, cos Philip Fracassi never stops. Since he and I last spoke, in 2022, he’s published a wealth of amazing, terrifying, heartfelt horror, emerging as a major voice, ...
23 Sep 20252h 7min
253 – Keith Rosson & The Real V-Word
Do you like your vampires slick and suave or rugged and raging? If it’s the latter, you’ll very much enjoy KeithRosson’s Coffin Moon. It’s a 70s-set bareknuckle revenge road trip of a book, with som...
16 Sep 20251h 6min
Off Book #11 – JT Mollner & The Long Walk
It’s walk or die this week on Talking Scared, as we’re joined by the screenwriter of The Long Walk. JT wrote and directed 2024’s cult-hit Strange Darling, and now he’s brought his pen to bear, in...
12 Sep 20251h 4min
252 – John Langan & Water, Water Everywhere
School is back in session. Professor Langan is here! No-one gives good literary conversation like John Langan – and this week he returns to Talking Scared to discuss the watery influences, metafic...
9 Sep 20251h 29min
251 – Kailee Pedersen and The Silence of the Foxes
Ready for some rough rural Gothic? Kailee Pederson’s Sacrifical Animals was one of my top horror novels of 2024. I missed Kailee first time round, but now the book is out in paperback, I jumped at...
2 Sep 20251h 15min
250 – The End of the World As We Know It: Further Tales of The Stand (Part Two)
And so this infected Summer of the Stand comes to an end. With Part Two of The End of the World As We Know It – more conversations between contributors to this epic anthology, each expanding King’s OG...
26 Aug 20252h 14min
