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Conversations with the biggest names in horror fiction. A podcast for horror readers who want to know where their favourite stories came from . . . and what frightens the people who wrote th...
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This week is full of muck and murk and mushrooms. We flit amongst the trees, we bed on moss, we howl at the moon. Daisy Pearce is entering h...
This week we host one of the most exciting horror filmmakers of the decade – Damian McCarthy, the twisted mind behind Caveat, Oddity and now...
Cognitohazards abound this week, as Marcus Kliewer joins me for a conversation about the reality-shredding We Used to Live Here and his new...
A conversation about codes of honour and the rules of haunting in this week’s episode – as I’m joined by Kylie Lee Baker, author of 2025’s i...
When Stephen King tells you to have a guest on your podcast – you listen! That’s how I came to meet Caroline Bicks, the inaugural Stephen E....
Listen at your own peril this week. I spoke with Ian Tuason and Nina Kiri, the director and star of Undertone – billed as “the scariest movi...
Corporate culture is a nightmare, but getting out of the office brings its own problems in Carter Keane’s debut novella – Morsel. It’s a sto...
Nat and I stick around in the shadowed recesses of Black House for another half hour, to discuss all the things that Chris got right and wro...
Time to whet our appetites for the Dark Tower again – this time with an extra serving of ass cheek! After three months away, we’re picking u...
After seeing an early screener of Something Very Bad is Going to Happen I immediately thought it was going to be huge! So I leapt ahead of t...
Tamika Thompson talks me through the great American curseof the 21st Century on this week’s episode. No, not Tangerine Cthulhu … but the pla...
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 l...
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 spirituali...
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 o...
This week we’re sharpening our swords and checking our armpits for boils! Christopher Buehlman is the guest, author the hugely-acclaimed 201...
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...
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 a...
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 o...
A bit of chaos on the show for the weekend. We start with one guest and end with two. And there’s a dude with an alligator’s head running am...
We’re tiptoeing towards the sci-fi end of things this week, with Justin C. Key and The Hospital at the End of the World. This is a techn-oth...
After our loose, freeform chat about the high strangeness of The Talisman, Nat stuck around to Palaver a little more behind Chris’ innocent...
We’re on the road again with our Dark Tower journey, running through adjacent worlds, lighting out for the Territories. Our latest side-ques...
We're Southbound for monster-loving this week on Talking Scared. Georgia writer, Yah Yah Schofield comes to discuss her Southern Gothic debu...
Imagine you’re back in high school – but worse! The shuffling idiots actually want to EAT you! That’s the premise of Courtney Summers’ This...
The year may have started with more real-world horrors from old white dudes, but here on Talking Scared they get their comeuppance – in the...
No need for a big intro this week. You know what this is about. The year is over, and it’s time to offer my thoughts on the best books that...
In our sixth Let Us Palaver, Nat and I try to clean things up a bit after the dirty deep dive into Wizard & Glass. We get spoilery, so this...
After a summer of diversion and detour, we’re back with the main Ka-Tet for Christmas. What better time for a tale of heartbreak, lost love,...
It: Welcome to Derry has just reached its Season One conclusion and the theories are flying as to where the show will go next. I have someth...
Welcome to the now sixth annual State of the Horror Nation. This is the mega-episode, in which I gather a darkly-inclined supergroup of horr...
It’s all about memory this week. Remember that time literary superstar Carmen Maria Machado came on the show? No? Well here’s your chance to...
Jeff VanderMeer and I did not fall out!! This is a myth that has arisen since Jeff came on the show back in 2021, to discuss his eco-espiona...
Revisiting a true highlight this week! Will Dean’s The Last Thing to Burn is one of very few 10/10 books i've ever featured on this podcast....
This flashback episode takes us to early 2021, when I was joined by Courtney Summers – the boundary-pushing author of dark YA fictions for a...
Time for a classic haunted house. I’m on a short break from the show, to recoup, read without pressure and generally try not to implode. So...
Here be dragons! I’m celebrating Halloween week on Talking Scared with the very cream of the bucket list. Joe Hill is finally on the show! T...
In our fifth Let Us Palaver, Nat and I dally a little longer in ‘Salem’s Lot to hunt down a few more vamps and follow up some threads mentio...
‘Salem’s Lot is FIFTY years old this month. Hellfire, how did that happen? We’re gonna celebrate the bloodsucking and small town shenanigans...
Joe Lansdale is here to give us all a smack upside the head. We are talking about The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale – his brand new ca...
Mine isn’t the only Good Boy released into the world this week. You may have heard of a little film that shares my books name. I joke – Ben...
Ah the arrogance of writers. Now I am one, officially, I thought I’d better do something fitting. So I set up a whole episode of my podcast...
Another day, another episode about the weird-arse end of nowhere! We remain in the North of England for this second part of a weeklong celeb...
It’s grim up North. But thankfully, it’s also weird. Deliciously, darkly, disturbingly weird! This week we are celebrating the Northern Weir...
What’s even real anymore? Some of the best horror writer’s ask that question. Some, like Michael Wehunt, live in the spaces in between. Mich...
This week brings a bumper episode, cos Philip Fracassi never stops. Since he and I last spoke, in 2022, he’s published a wealth of amazing,...
Do you like your vampires slick and suave or rugged and raging? If it’s the latter, you’ll very much enjoy KeithRosson’s Coffin Moon. It’s a...
It’s walk or die this week on Talking Scared, as we’re joined by the screenwriter of The Long Walk. JT wrote and directed 2024’s cult-hit St...
School is back in session. Professor Langan is here! No-one gives good literary conversation like John Langan – and this week he returns to...
Ready for some rough rural Gothic? Kailee Pederson’s Sacrifical Animals was one of my top horror novels of 2024. I missed Kailee first time...
And so this infected Summer of the Stand comes to an end. With Part Two of The End of the World As We Know It – more conversations between c...
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