186 – Stephen Graham Jones & The Last Stand of the Final Girls
Send us a text Alas, we come to the end! Stephen Graham Jones’s The Angel of Indian Lake brings the most important horror trilogy of the century to its conclusion. For one last time we return to Pro...
2 Apr 20241h 35min
185 – Cynthia Pelayo & A Mermaid in the Windy City
Send us a text Chi-Town!! We’re heading to the midwestern metropolis this week, for a conversation with Cina Pelayo – all about murder, mystery, history and strange things in the water. Her new no...
26 Mars 20241h 9min
184 – Joshua Hull & It’s a Whole Hole Thing
Send us a text Never mind the floor is lava. This week the ground has teeth. Joshua Hull is our guest, to talk about his obsession with dangerous, weird holes. He wrote one into his hilarious, grisl...
19 Mars 20241h 3min
183 – Gwendolyn Kiste & Working Through Your Ghosts
Send us a text Time to get liminal and haunted. Gwendolyn Kiste comes back to Talking Scared for another high-concept twist on the Gothic. In The Haunting of Velkwood, and entire street turns ghost...
12 Mars 20241h 5min
182 – Tim Lebbon & Running Towards What Scares You
Send us a text Sometimes you meet someone who just gets you. Like Tim Lebbon. A man who writes riotously good adventure-horror novels, and also likes running outrageous distances up big hills. What ...
5 Mars 20241h 17min
181 – Haunting Hill House, with Catriona Ward, Johnny Compton & Paul Tremblay
Send us a text Back from a too-short break, but ready to delve into the greatest haunted house of them all! Shirley Jackson’s Hill House. The place where the scary things walk alone. Thankfully, I a...
27 Feb 20241h 35min
180 – Chuck Palahniuk & What Kind of Sex Do You Want?
Send us a text Yes I put sex in the title to make you download it. Did it work? It shouldn’t be necessary, ‘cos this week’s guest is an absolute literary icon. Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club,...
30 Jan 20241h 24min
179 – Ally Wilkes & The Ethics of Eating Your Friends
Send us a text Are you hungry? If so we have a chewy, salty, deeply flavoured feast for you this week. Ally Wilkes returns to Talking Scared to discuss the icebound horrors of her new novel, Where ...
23 Jan 20241h 17min
