Talking Scared

Send us a text This From the Vault episode is not quite so dusty. Gemma and I recorded this in 2022, but it’s more pertinent than ever. One because Gemma’s great uncanny novella The Folly is being reissued this week, and two, because the world is a mad place right now, and we all need to take care of our minds.   This

Send us a text Still on a break – still releasing episodes “From the Vault.”   But this week’s was carefully chosen. In a time of darkness and doom-laden days, laughter is the best thing I can lace your horror with. And thankfully T. Kingfisher exists in the world.   The funniest horror writer I know. We spoke WAAAAY b

Send us a text I’m on a break – but couldn’t resist releasing something.    Especially on today of all days, when lovers of democracy require audio sustenance whilst they wait in line to preserve America.   For the first From the Vault episode, I’ve gone back to December of 2020, for an interview with Michael Marshall

Send us a text Halloween has finally arrived. I’m marking it in grim, macabre style.   For this Off Book Samhain Special, I’m joined by Kaelyn Moore, host and creator of Heart Starts Pounding – a podcast for the darkly curious, which offers up a new true-story of horror, hauntings and mystery every week.   Kaelyn is a

Send us a text Things are heating up as we approach Halloween.   I’m joined by a good friend of Talking Scared – Rachel Harrison – to talk about the hot kind of immortality   Her new novel, So Thirsty, does much more than that though. It weighs the weaponization of beauty culture, it asks how women can navigate a world

Send us a text As we gear up for Halloween, we get all gussied up in Gothic.   Del Sandeen joins me to talk about the curses, colorism, and all the many influences in her Southern Gothic debut This Cursed House. It’s a novel that twists the sub-genre’s typical reliance on race, for a more subtle, pernicious form of pre