154 – Alex Woodroe & The Sweet Science of Folk Horror
Send us a text We’re off on a Goth pilgrimage this week folks, to the motherland, Transylvania, to talk folk-horror and more with Alex Woodroe. Alex is a Romanian writer of dark fictions, the Editor i...
1 Aug 20231h 14min
153 – Chuck Tingle & Riding the Lonesome Train
Send us a text This week we’re joined by the man, the myth, the mystery that is Chuck Tingle. Who knows the truth of this enigmatic figure? What visage lies beneath the pink bag that forever encases ...
25 Juli 20231h 28min
152 – Andrew Michael Hurley & Our Green, Unpleasant Land
Send us a text This week I’m recording very close to home with Andrew Michael Hurley. Andrew burst onto the folk-horror scene with subtle aplomb (can one burst subtly?) back in 2014, with The Loney. ...
18 Juli 20231h 14min
151 – Verity Holloway & The Onion Skin of Trauma
Send us a text War, what is it good for? Absolutely noth…. well actually, it is quite good for horror stories. Our guest this week doesn’t plumb the usual horrors-of-war route, though. Verity Holloway...
11 Juli 20231h 10min
150 – Danielle Trussoni & Puzzling All Over the World
Send us a text This week Danielle Trussoni arrives at Talking Scared in a rush. She has a meeting to get to, and we have LOTS of things to talk about in less than an hour. Her new novel, The Puzzle Ma...
4 Juli 20231h 2min
149 – Clowns at Midnight – The Big IT Deep-Dive (Part Two), with Ally Malinenko & Nat Cassidy
Send us a text Thrust your fists against the post and still insist you see the… …oh hello. You came back. Thank Gan. We have a monster to defeat this week. Yes, this is the second part of the Talkin...
30 Juni 20231h 36min
148 – Feral Childhoods – The Big IT Deep-Dive (Part One), with Ally Malinenko & Nat Cassidy
Send us a text Come get a balloon, bring your slingshot, let’s float…it’s here!!! Yes, finally we’re off to Derry, to do battle with that goddamn clown. But as everyone knows, we can’t fight Pennywise...
26 Juni 20231h 34min
147 – Mike Flanagan & Lighting Up the Darkness
Send us a text I’ve rarely been more excited about an episode – for you to hear it or, indeed, about its very contents. We’re joined this week by Mike Flanagan. Yes, that Mike Flanagan. The genius loc...
13 Juni 20231h 18min
