139 – Ai Jiang & Home is Where the Haunt Is
Send us a text This week we’re dissecting spectres and excavating the haunted house in Ai Jiang’s word-of-mouth smash, Linghun. Ai’s novella is a blast. A read-in-one-sitting tale of grief and greed a...
18 Apr 20231h 3min
138 – Rachel Eve Moulton & The Bellybutton of the Beast
Send us a text Back to the Island this week! With Rachel Eve Moulton and The Insatiable Volt Sisters. Rachel sophomore novel is the weirdest island story since Lost, or Brexit. It features a strange f...
11 Apr 20231h 8min
137 – Kelly Link & Once Upon a Time in a Ghost Story
Send us a text Fairy tales are the first horror stories, right? Kids being eaten by witches, narcissistic imps who steal your babies. That’s the good stuff. Kelly Link knows a thing or two about the ...
4 Apr 20231h 8min
136 – Max Booth III & Stories With Teeth
Send us a text Terrible times and awful words await us this week. Thankfully, on this show that’s a good thing! Our guest is Max Booth III, the wizard behind Ghoulish Books and the author of bathroom-...
28 Mars 20231h 10min
135 – Victor LaValle & The Weird, Weird West
Send us a text Wagons West this week, with a guest I’ve been trying to get on the show since the early days. It’s Victor Lavalle. I had always wanted to speak to him about The Ballad of Black Tom in t...
21 Mars 20231h 20min
134 – Margaret Atwood & Hope in the Dystopia
Send us a text There is no cool and collected way to introduce this week’s episode. Our guest is Margaret Atwood. Yes, that Margaret Atwood. The author of The Handmaid’s Tale. One of the few writer’s ...
14 Mars 20231h 20min
133 – Jacqueline Holland & At Last! Vampires!
Send us a text Vampires, finally! After years of recording a horror podcast, I’ve finally recorded a conversation about the first thing you all probably think of if I said “horror monster.” Actually, ...
7 Mars 20231h 10min
132 – Matt Ruff & A Hostile Universe Here on Earth
Send us a text This week I take a road trip with Matt Ruff, into the more monstrous corners of the universe. Sure, some of them are alien planets… but some are here on earth, with the racists! Matt i...
28 Feb 20231h 13min
