In The Seats With...Philip Gelatt and 'The First Word on Horror'

Well somebody has to have it.... On this episode we dive head first into a fascinating 15 part doc series all the episodes which are now available on Substack.  It's "First Word on Horror'. First Word on Horror is a fifteen-part documentary series that profiles five of the finest horror writers working today.    Across multiple episodes, each author discusses their life, their inspirations, their philosophies, and their writing techniques while reading one of their short stories. As fact and fiction blend, secrets are revealed and the delicate alchemy that turns human experience into creative expression begins to emerge.    The series is a love letter to writers of all ilk, to the primacy of the human experience, and to the simple act of reading a damned good story.    The authors profiled are New York Times bestsellers, multi-award winners, and cult favorites. In this first season, they are Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Elizabeth Hand, Laird Barron, and Mariana Enriquez.    Through the authors’ lives the series takes viewers from a harrowing Iditarod dogsled race in Alaska to the lurking terror of growing up under the Argentinian dictatorship; from the unbridled energy of the early DC punk scene to an ill-fated hunting expedition on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana.    We talked with director and creator of the series Philip Gelatt about the genesis of this project and so very much more...