27 - Julia Fine and the Postmodern Postpartum
Send us a text If you’ve been homeschooling, in labour, or generally responsible for the life of a small human during lockdown, then this episode is for you. There are people out there, writers with g...
24 Feb 202158min
26 - Sarah Pearse and the Hills are Alive with the Sound of Murder
Send us a text Hands up who wants a holiday! Sarah Pearse’s The Sanatorium could be just the thing to purge your lockdown travel desires. It will either transport you to the ice-white peaks of the Sw...
17 Feb 20211h
25 - Gemma Files and the Witch in Her True Ornaments
Send us a text Have you ever had a book scare you so much that part of you wishes you hadn’t read it? That’s the experience I had reading Gemma Files’ latest collection, In That Endlessness, Our End. ...
10 Feb 20211h 10min
24 - Courtney Summers and Writing for Spite
Send us a text When your guest calls herself the “Master of the Bitch” you do wonder what you’re getting into. Courtney Summers, by her own admission, wants to upset people. Yet she’s a delight! To k...
3 Feb 20211h
23 - Laura Purcell and the Art of Darkness
Send us a text Let’s get Gothic! Our guest this week is Laura Purcell, doyenne of the dark, heiress of historical fiction (and other alliterative titles). Laura blew away the cobwebs wrapped around sp...
27 Jan 202156min
22 – C.J. Tudor and the Lure of the Oddball Loners
Send us a text In a week in which the White House becomes a little less orange, it’s hard to dwell on the nasty side of life. But this is Talking Scared and we can find the grim and creepy on even the...
20 Jan 20211h 4min
21 - Will Dean & The Horror of the Fens
Send us a text Ready for the first GREAT book you’ll read this year? Our guest this week is Will Dean, calling all the way from the middle of a Scandinavian forest to talk about his new novel, The Las...
13 Jan 20211h 1min
20 - The Big 2021 Horror Preview AKA Another Annus Horribilis
Send us a text I like this year better than last year already. Ok, we may be plunged back into lockdown 3.0 and it may be cold, and the cinemas may still be shut. But we have a vaccine, Trump looks li...
6 Jan 202129min
