
Episode 273 – Tamika Thompson & The Shadow of the Gun
Tamika Thompson talks me through the great American curseof the 21st Century on this week’s episode. No, not Tangerine Cthulhu … but the plague of gun deaths that is coring out the country. That’s...
24 Mars 1h 19min

272 – Annie Neugebauer & The Colour of a Terrible Thought
Some stories just boggle your mind and boil your imagination. Such are the ideas in Annie Neugebauer’s You Have to Let Them Bleed, and her logic-shattering novella The Extra. The Uncanny Valley, o...
17 Mars 1h 15min

271 – Avery Curran & The Naughtiest Ghosts in School
Time for sex and seances this week on Talking Scared. Our guest is Avery Curran and her debut novel Spoiled Milk. It’s a story of spiritualism and sapphic desire, set in a 1920s boarding school wh...
10 Mars 1h 30min

Off Book #15 – Dolly, with Rod Blackhurst
This Off Book episode is a trip into the deep dark woods, for a very special playdate! Our guest is Rod Blackhurst, director and co-writer of the new retro horror movie, Dolly. It’s a film about a...
6 Mars 55min

270 – Christopher Buehlman & One Seriously Epic Road Trip
This week we’re sharpening our swords and checking our armpits for boils! Christopher Buehlman is the guest, author the hugely-acclaimed 2012 medieval horror fantasy, Between Two Fires – now being...
3 Mars 1h 9min

269 – Catriona Ward & Where Children Fear to Tread
Clap your hands twice if you believe in Catriona Ward! Cat is back on the show this week, to talk Nowhere Burning – a horror novel informed by everything from Peter Pan (it has its own Tinkerbell)...
24 Feb 1h 11min

268 – Brennan LaFaro & The Darkness on the Edge of Town
When is a zombie not a zombie? I don’t have a punchline to that joke. But something…something … revenant! Brennan LaFaro’s The Denizens is about a small southern town with a very unusual relat...
17 Feb 1h 12min

267 – Wuthering Heights, with Agatha Andrews (from She Wore Black)
This Valentine’s week, come for a walk up on t’moors with me and Agatha Andrews. I’ve invited Agatha, my friend and sister-in-Gothic, host of She Wore Black podcast, for a conversation about Wuth...
10 Feb 1h 34min



















