Sley House Presents
Episodes
Episode 31: SA Barnes Interview
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Just in time for StokerCon 2022, we interview SA Barnes about her new novel, Dead Silence. We talk about the importance of literacy, and how to engage...
Episode 30: Dialogue Code-switching and the Maltese Falcon
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are few things that are truly American. Blues, Jazz, McCarthyism, and the hard-boiled detective novel define 20th Century America, all born and ...
Episode 29: Fairies, Mummies, and Ghosts: The Weird Fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, the guys take on Doyle's weird fiction. Best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle frequently dabbled in the supernatu...
Ep 28: A Look at Ray Bradbury
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the guys are joined by KM West as they discuss Ray Bradbury. A science fiction and horror author, Bradbury was an influential author in the...
Ep 27: Interview with K.M. West
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jeremy, Trevor, and Curtis meet with artist and author K.M. West to discuss her latest novel, Wild Things Will Roam. Hosted on Acast....
Ep 26: Interview with Alma Katsu
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the guys have the pleasure of sitting down with best-selling and award-winning novelist Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger, The Deep, Red Wid...
Episode 25 Winter 2021/2022 Movie Review
03 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this review of the 21/22 movie season, the guys talk about everything from the Foo Fighters to meta slashers to the Prosperity Gospel, they try out...
Episode 24: Interview with Rich Handley
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Trevor, Jeremy, and Curtis interview comics historian, writer and editor Rich Handley. Handley is the editor of Eaglemoss's Star Trek Graph...
Season Two Premier: Episode 23 -- 20th Century’s Goya For Ghouls: Charles Addams and the Addams Family
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
They're creepy and they're spooky, and they and their creator are the subject of our season two premier. Come learn about the man who created the cree...
Episode 22: Vampire Wrap Up -- Part Five of our Stoker Dracula Series
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the first season finale of Sley House Publishing Presents Lit Bits, the guys bring it all home in their discussion of the lasting legacy of Stoker'...
Episode 21: You’re Going to Stick that Where?! The Life and Times of Vlad Dracula
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger Warning: This episode contains graphic depictions of people being put to death in gruesome ways. If this kind of thing bothers you, please do ...
Episode 20: The Lyceum, Death Masks, Strokes, and Syphilis -- The Life of Bram Stoker Part Two
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the boys finish up the life of Bram Stoker, from the publication of his novel Dracula to the sale of the Lyceum, the deaths of some importa...
Episode Nineteen: The Petty Clerk on the Flying Trapeze: Part One of the Life of Bram Stoker
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the boys continue their deep dive into vampires and the novel, Dracula, by starting their examination of Bram Stoker's life. Here they cove...
Episode 18: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Part One. Vampires Everywhere!
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Part One of our multi-episode season finale, the boys, in beginning their discussion on one of the most influential horror authors, take a look at ...
Episode Seventeen: 2021 Year in Review
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, the guys take a moment to reflect on their first year as a publisher and a podcast, talk about...
Episode Sixteen: It’s a Sley House Christmas 2021
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the boy's celebrate the season by taking a look at Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and talk about what Christmas means to them. Join Je...
Episode Fifteen: Interview with K.A. Hough
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
K. A. Hough is an editor and author. This week, Jeremy, Trevor, and Curtis talk with her about her science fiction novel, Ground Control, published by...
Episode Fourteen: Fall 2021 Movie Review
12 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the guys discuss the best and worst movies they've seen the last few months. Continuing the tradition of delivering bad puns, they break do...
Episode Thirteen: Star Wars Update: 1995!
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered what Lando Calrissian was up to after before Cloud City? Have you ever pondered what it would be like to go skiing on a distant...
Happy Thankskilling! 2021
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this season of giving thanks, you should be thankful that we here at Sley House watched the modern classics, Thankskilling and Thankskilling 3 so y...
Episode Eleven: What Happens When a Popular and Influential Author Just Doesn‘t Do It For You?
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's happened to everyone. You hear all the hype about a book and you decide to pick it up and try it for yourself. Or you have heard for a while how ...
Episode Ten: I‘ll Stick with a Rubik‘s Cube, Thank You: A Look at Clive Barker‘s Hellbound Heart
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's the Hellraiser episode, y'all! This week, the boys talk about Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart and the movie franchise that spun off from the ...
Episode Nine: Halloween Kills Movie Review
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN has been a staple horror film for decades, and with the release of HALLOWEEN KILLS this season, the boys are given an oppor...
Episode Eight: Halloween 2021
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's Halloween time! The most wonderful time of the year. In today's very special and very long episode, the guys talk about horror anthologies. From ...
Episode Seven: Horacio Quiroga‘s Short Story ”The Feather Pillow”
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Few writers have been more influential than Horacio Quiroga. Responsible for bringing Edgar Allan Poe to South America and laying the foundations that...
Episode Six: A Look (Heh heh) at Edith Wharton‘s ”The Eyes”
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, our hosts try to "keep up with the Joneses" as they take a quick look at a classic short story by a well-respected literary author. While k...
Episode Five: A Look at How Genre and the Literary Can Work Together
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Graham Jones is a prolific author (and, as the boys learn, NOT the editor for the Best New Horror) whose work has garnered awards and praise f...
Summer 2021 Movie Review
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this first ever extra long episode, the guys discuss recent movie releases, including the good, the bad, and the ugly (movie quality, that is, not ...
Everybody Wants to Get Stoned when Talking About Shirley Jackson‘s Famous Short Story
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, the boy's take a run at Shirley Jackson's famous short story, "The Lottery," try out some piss-poor accents, and try their han...
Episode Two: Joe Hill's 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the boys go off script (thankfully) as they talk about Joe Hill's short story collection and make some obvious comparisons to his more famo...
LitBits00: Review of M. Night Shyamalan's OLD
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this pilot episode of LitBits, Trevor and Jeremy review the new movie, OLD, by M. Night Shyamalan. They also introduce Sley House Publishing to the...