289 – Annie Jacobsen & Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid
This may be my scariest episode ever! We’ve covered non-fiction before, but rarely is the truth more frightening than the stories we tell. T...
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Let Us Palaver #10 – Wolves of the Calla Debrief
In our main Wolves of the Calla Deep Dive, we came within touching distance of the Dark Tower’s biggest secret yet. Chris doesn’t know what...
The Dark Tower Deep Dive #10 – Wolves of the Calla
Hallelujah, come commala, we’re back together! Finally, after stopping for side missions with Jack Sawyer, and a pair of stories of Roland’s...
288 – Danielle Giles & A Spoonful of Skulldust (Makes the Medicine Go Down)
Time for a horrid history lesson. Daniell Giles is the author of medieval gothic Mere (2025), and the brand-new Restoration horror-show, Gen...
287 – Megan Bontrager & The Cave of Cosmic Narcissism
I hope you have your headtorch this week – cos we’re going to some deep, dark places. Megan Bontrager’s debut novel, The Sea Hides its Dead,...
286 – Chuck Tingle & Kill the Vegan Rockstars
Love is very very real on this week’s episode. The man, the myth, Chuck Tingle returns for a conversation about his latest novel, Fabulous B...
285 – Paul Tremblay & Eternity at Bernie’s
This week we’re putting the boot right into the ribs of the AI Industry, but doing it in horrific style, with Paul Tremblay and Dead But Dre...
Off Book #22 – Scaredy Boys & The Coward’s Guide to Horror Movies (Part 2)
Part Two of my Scaredy Boy special, in which I quiz my friends in fear, Damo, Sean and To—AKA the Scaredy Boys themselves—about what they’ve...
284 – Tom Lin & Who Wants to Live Forever?
Would you rather die or live on and on and on and on… That’s one of the questions at the heart of Tom Lin’s Babylon, South Dakota. It’s a no...
Off Book #21 – Scaredy Boys & The Coward’s Guide to Horror Movies (Part 1)
The first of a two-part special with the Scaredy Boys, my brothers-in-cowardice from Down Under. Damo, Tom and Sean are famously and unasham...
283 – Naomi Kritzer & It Could Happen Anywhere
I dunno if this week’s episode is a dystopian nightmare or just a realist thriller. Naomi Krtizer, multi-award winning author of sci-fi and...
282 – CJ Leede & Peeling Back the Skin of the World
Horror’s reigning Queen of Extreme returns to the show! CJ Leede is the author of Maeve Fly and American Rapture, and if you’re abreast of c...
281 – Melissa Albert & The Howling Strangeness
Melissa Albert’s novel may be called The Children, but it’s certainly not for kids. This is a story about the dark creativity behind bright...
Off Book #20 – Petrified, with Peter Dunne
Off to Old Dublin Town to have creepy tales pumped direct into our earholes this week. I’m joined by Peter Dunne, the writer and director of...
280 – Neena Viel & Go Heinous or Go Home
Disgust, despair and belly laughs on the show this week – with Neena Viel and her new novel, I’ll Watch Your Baby. It’s a dense, troubling t...
Let Us Palaver #9 – The Wind Through the Keyhole Debrief
A little more chat as the last of the starkblast fades. In this bonus Palaver episode, Nat and I stick around to dissect Chris’s disproporti...
The Dark Tower Deep Dive #9 – The Wind Through the Keyhole
Whilst the wind and world howls outside, we can all hunker indoors for the latest Dark Tower Deep Dive into King’s 2012 novel-of-stories, Th...
279 – Sarah Langan & The Mask Eats the Face
Trad wives are taking over horror in 2026 – but I predict none will be more frightening and more gorgeously WEIRD than Sarah Langan’s novel....
Off Book #19 – Dark Documentaries, with Kaelyn from Heart Starts Pounding
Kaelyn Moore returns to talk scared, straight from the helm of Heart Starts Pounding – her mega podcast of mysteries, murder and the macabre...
278 – Daisy Pearce & Bog Witches of the World Unite!
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...