Talking Scared
Episodes
18 - Gabriel Bergmoser and It's Only a Joke Mate!
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text Merry Christmas and/or time-off-work-week! For all of you currently freezing your asses off in cold climes, this week’s episode may m...
17 - Rachel Harrison and Knowing Who Your Friends Are
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text This late into 2020 we are all craving a) a holiday and b) time with friends. Our guest this week may cast a slightly different perspec...
16 – Christopher Golden and Extreme Social Distancing
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text Stand back! Our Guest this week is Christopher Golden, author of all manner of horror, adventure and generally freaky fiction. His late...
15 - Sam J. Miller and a Hometown Hot Mess
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text This week our guest is Sam J. Miller, author of The Blade Between - a novel for anyone who loves or loathes their hometown. It’s ...
14 - Jonathan Sims and the Haunted High-Rise
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text If you’re a fan of podcasts and horror (and of course you are!) then chances are you’ll recognise our guest. Jonathan Sims is the a...
13 - Craig DiLouie and the Cult of the Shredder
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text Things get a little cultish this week on Talking Scared. Our guest is Craig DiLouie, author of the brand-spanking-new creepy commune no...
12 - Rumaan Alam and the Apocalyptic Rorschach Test
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text This week Rumaan Alam presents us with a wholly ambiguous end of the world. Rumaan’s new novel, Leave the World Behind has taken the ...
11 - Andrew Pyper and the Demon in the White House
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text If you are feeling nervous today, or just want something to distract you from the doomscrolling, then welcome to our Election Day speci...
10 - Colin Dickey and the Obligatory Halloween Special AKA Why We Believe in Monsters
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text It’s Halloween and in lieu of any trick and/or treating this plague year, I offer you a conversation with Colin Dickey, mystery-maest...
09 - T. Kingfisher and Does the Dog Die in This One?
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text Where do you stand on horror and comedy? Can a book be too funny to be scary, or too terrifying to raise a chuckle? Our guest this week...
08 – Emily Danforth and “The Blair Witch X Lesbians”
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text This week Emily Danforth takes us back to school. Her new novel, Plain Bad Heroines has a lot to say about the history of queer women, ...
07 - Kate Summerscale and the Shoplifting Poltergeist
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text Kate Summerscale is our first guest working in the realms of non-fiction. Her back-catalogue proves that the real world is every bit as...
06 - Stuart Turton and How To Plot a Very Clever Murder
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text Ahoy mateys! My guest this week is the locked-room-murder-maestro himself, Stuart Turton. In 2018 Stu burst onto the scene with his gen...
05 – Jeremy Robert Johnson and Where Did That Octopus Come From?
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text This week we get visceral – with the extreme body horror of Robert Jeremy Johnson and his new novel THE LOOP. Jeremy speaks to us f...
04 - Jo Kaplan and What Makes a Great Haunted House?
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text This week’s guest is up-and-coming horror extraordinaire, Jo Kaplan. Jo’s new haunted house novel, It Will Just Be Us is a tour-de-...
03 - Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Mexican Gothic, NOT Romance
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text This week we’re in conversation with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the author of Mexican Gothic - 2020's twisted publishing phenomenon. We di...
02 - John Langan and Writing Under "The Influence"
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text In the second episode i'm in conversation with John Langan, contemporary literary horror superstar and all round scholar of the genre. ...
01 - Paul Tremblay and Why It's Not the End of the World
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text In the first ever episode of Talking Scared we speak to horror megastar Paul Tremblay, author of the modern classic, A Head Full of Gho...