234 – Katherine Arden & The Devil’s Train Timetable
In the week that the world changed, we’re talking about the last time things got this crazy. Katherine Arden is the author of The Warm Hands of Ghosts — a novel set in the trenches of the First Worl...
15 Apr 20251h 18min
233 – Tariq Ashkanani & Bloodstained Hands Across the Ocean
This week we go from Edinburgh, Scotland to Nashville, Tennessee, in the company of crime author Tariq Ashkanani. Tariq’s The Midnight King is a tricky, quasi-metafictional murder mystery about curs...
8 Apr 20251h 14min
232 – Punk Goes Horror, with William Sterling, Wendy Dalrymple & Brian McAauley
Time to throw ourselves around. We’re covering Punk Goes Horror. The anthology of stories inspired by punk and alternative rock songs came out just a few weeks back. It brings together a mosh-pit fu...
1 Apr 20251h 4min
Let Us Palaver #2 — The Drawing of the Three Debrief
The second Let Us Palaver minisode – in which Nat Cassidy dig into the things we couldn't say about The Drawing of the Three, and give MAJOR SPOILERS about whole Dark Tower series. We're really sta...
28 Mars 202531min
The Dark Tower Deep Dive #2 – The Drawing of the Three
The Ka-tet picks up exactly where we left off: on the beaches of Midworld, with Roland Deschain. (If none of that makes any sense to you, go listen to episode one of the Dark Tower Deep Dive immediate...
25 Mars 20252h 13min
231 – Stephen Graham Jones & Rewilding the Vampire
It’s always great when Stephen Graham Jones comes to Talk Scared with us – but for once we aren’t talking about slashers! No, this time, we’re talking vampires! Or are we? Stephen’s new novel, The...
18 Mars 20251h 15min
230 – Alex Grecian & Weirdos in the West
Saddle up for a weird west week on Talking Scared. The start of a loose trilogy of sorts. This first instalment features Alex Grecian, talking about his fantastical vision of the Old West (and East)...
11 Mars 20251h 8min
229 – Agustina Bazterrica & The Wicked Nuns of Oz
No one is doing dystopia right now like Agustina Bazterrica. After Tender is the Flesh made us all consider vegetarianism, now she’s back for a long hard look at patriarchy, religion and populism in...
5 Mars 20251h 10min
