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Alright, the witches are wrapping it up with discussing Orlok's mesmerizing seal, his wicked ways, Lily Rose Depp's incredible performance and lore around her character, some super weird stuff at the end, and MORE! Blackbird and Scarlet could probably do yet another episode, but there's something to be said for too much of a good (or goth) thing. Hex Rated is here for you IN EXCESS! Rip open your bodice, become apoplectic, and use your one precious and glorious mortal life to listen!
Your witches have a LOT OF INFO and takes on Robert Eggers' recent masterpiece, Nosferatu! If you have not seen it, you might want to before listening to this epic three (plus) hour tour, of which this is the first! Do you like vampires? Do you like attention to detail? Do you like old scary haunted-looking stuff? Welcome to the beautiful and terrifying world that Eggers has gone to great lengths to deliver. Scarlet has a criminal amount of knowledge re: Gawth Literature Timez, and has done a vast amount of research for this cinematic tour de force of the classic retelling of the most famous of the vampire tales. Don't be "plagued" (ha!) by your desire for more knowledge and hot takes - give this 3-parter a listen!
In this episode of the Disrupt Education podcast, hosts Alli and Peter engage with Dr. T.J. Vari. Dr. Vari, a seasoned educator and co-founder of TheSchoolHouse302, shares his insights on creating viable post-secondary plans for students, emphasizing the importance of career exploration and the role of school leadership in fostering innovative educational environments. He advocates for personalized learning experiences, such as specialized English courses like Gothic Literature, and partnerships with universities to offer students college credits. Dr. Vari also discusses the significance of having a concrete plan after high school, whether it involves higher education, vocational training, or other pathways, to ensure long-term success and avoid socioeconomic pitfalls. Connect with Dr. T.J. Vari C: 608 347 6954 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-t-j-vari/www.theschoolhouse302.com Connect with Alli and Peter Peter Hostrawser LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterhostrawser/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/peterhostrawser/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/disrupteducation1/ X: x.com/PeterHostrawser Website: https://www.peterhostrawser.com Alli Dahl LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allidahl/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theallidahl/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theallidahl
Sara Hillis and Jacob Shymanski review The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, a slow-burn story weaving together a rich tapestry of characters, over a decade of time. Part mystery, part thriller, part family drama—we unpack the eerie summer camp setting, the tangled secrets of the Van Laar family, and the masterful narration by Saskia Maarleveld. AMI Audiobook Review is broadcast on AMI-audio in Canada and publishes three new podcast episodes a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.Follow AMI Audiobook Review on YouTube & Instagram!We want your feedback!Be that comments, suggestions, hot-takes, audiobook recommendations or reviews of your own… hit us up! Our email address is: audiobookreview@ami.caAbout AMIAMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca.Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+Learn more at AMI.caConnect with Accessible Media Inc. online:X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaInc
In this episode, we dive into Romani representation in Robert Eggers' Nosferatu with Madeline Potter, Romani scholar of 19th century Gothic literature! We also get into vampire lore, Romani folklore, mulo, strigoi, and Romani tropes in Gothic literature and media. Madeline Potter is a research and teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh, in the literature of the long 19th century (Romanticism to Victorianism). At Edinburgh, she teaches on a range of courses, including one on vampire literature in the long 19th century, which she has designed. Her work primarily looks at Gothic literature and theology: her first academic book is called Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic and will be published by University of Wales Press. Her first trade book is called The Roma: A Travelling History and will be launched later this year, published by The Bodley Head in the UK and Harper Collins in the USA. Follow her work on madeline-potter.com and on X and Instagram .This episode's Romani crush in Katarina Taikon. Our festival, Welcome to Romanistan, is taking place March 28-30, 2025 in New Orleans! Please visit https://www.romanistanpodcast.com/romanistan-festival-neworleans for tickets, and spread the word! Thank you for listening to Romanistan podcast.You can find us on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook @romanistanpodcast, and on Twitter @romanistanpod. To support us, Join our Patreon for extra content or donate to Ko-fi.com/romanistan, and please rate, review, and subscribe. It helps us so much. Follow Jez on Instagram @jezmina.vonthiele & Paulina @romaniholistic. You can get our book Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling, online or wherever books are sold. Visit romanistanpodcast.com for events, educational resources, merch, and more. Please support our book tour fundraiser if you can. Email us at romanistanpodcast@gmail.com for inquiries. Romanistan is hosted by Jezmina Von Thiele and Paulina StevensConceived of by Paulina StevensEdited by Viktor PachasWith Music by Viktor PachasAnd Artwork by Elijah Vardo
Send us a textThis is the last way-back episode before the show returns with a scream next week. But this is an episode worth remembering – my first ever conversation with Catriona Ward, about her game-changing The Last House on Needless Street too! This was a big ask for a novice interviewer. How the hell do you talk about a book that hinges on such a huge secret. Somehow we managed to walk that tightrope, whilst also talking about cats (feline) serial killers, and the haunted bedroom of Cat's (author) girlhood. It's fun to retread this grim path. Enjoy! Other books mentioned: Rawblood (2015), by Catriona WardLittle Eve (2018), by Catriona WardThe Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (2019), by Hallie RubenholdSpider (1990), by Patrick McGrath Support Talking Scared on Patreon Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
Send us a textA chance to revisit one of my favourite books and favourite ever conversations this week. Zakiya Dalila Harris's The Other Black Girl came out in early 2021, and for once I was ahead of the curve! Right from the start, I adored this novel of workplace micro-aggression and satirical horror in the publishing industry – and I'm glad to see the world has since agreed. It's a high-concept thriller that blends the paranoia of Rosemary's Baby with the bite of Get Out – and for once it's a story that deserves those comparisons. Zakiya talks about her own background in publishing and how it informed this nightmare. We talk about discussing racism in fiction, and (in a slightly meta way) we discuss how interviews LIKE THIS ONE may actually perpetuate a degree of othering. In short, I tie myself in white millennial knots, but Zakiya is wonderfully generous. God I love this book. Some may say it's not horror. I'd disagree so much that I stuck it on my list of best horror novels ever. Let's see what you think. Enjoy! Other books mentioned: All Her Little Secrets (2021), by Wanda M. MorrisRosemary's Baby (1967), by Ira Levin Support Talking Scared on Patreon Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
Send us a textI'm feeling Gothic this week. Must be the weather. In lieu of a new episode, I searched the vault and found this cracker from January 2021, in which Laura Purcell — doyenne of the contemporary British Gothic — talked me through her Victorian spookshow of mesmerism and haunted silhouettes, The Shape of Darkness. We also get into the social nightmare of Victorian England – when life was even more gothic than it is now, believe it or not! Enjoy! Other books mentioned: The Residence (2020), by Andrew Pyper The Haunting of Alma Fielding (2020), by Andrew Pyper Shadowland, or Light From the Other Side (1897), by Elizabeth d'Esperance “The Blue Lenses,” in The Breaking Point (1959), by Daphne du Maurier “The Mezzotint”, “A View From A Hill” and “Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You My Lad”, found in The Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James Support Talking Scared on PatreonCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
Send us a textStill 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 back in October 2020, in episode 9, when The Hollow Places had just come out. Yes Ursula and I talk about that book, and The Twisted Ones (2019) and how they twist Weird classics into fascinating new shapes. But we also cover building your own Golem, the homicidal value of pig farmers, and the anxiety of being a frog biologist. I dunno guys… just liste! Hope it makes you smile. Enjoy! Other books mentioned: “The White People” in The House of Souls (1906), by Arthur Machen“The Willows”, in The Listener and Other Stories (2007), by Algernon BlackwoodIt Will Just Be Us (2002), by Jo KaplanFrom a Buick Eight (2002), by Stephen KingThe Graveyard Book, by Neil GaimanCoraline, by Neil GaimanFirefly Rain (2008), by Richard Dansky Support Talking Scared on Patreon Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
Send us a textI'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 Smith. We talk about his 30 years of writing horror, fantasy, science fiction and assorted dark imaginings – captured in his career-spanning Best Of collection. Michael gives us all the good stuff about where ideas came from, why he writes the way he does, and all those details that literary voyeurs like us, want to know. It's also a trip back into the weirdness of the pandemic, and the dying days of the Trump presidency. Have your trauma shields up just in case. Support the show
We look at scares throughout the ages, ‘Blair Witch' producer Gregg Hale joins us … plus Blaine Krauss from ‘Hamilton' tells what it's like to play the big man and our weekly Top 10 Colorado Headliners In this jam-packed episode of the OnStage Colorado Podcast, hosts Alex Miller and Toni Tresca look at all the spooky happenings going on this month on Colorado stages and take a deep dive into the origins of people scaring people. From stories from ancient Romans to Get Out, what's behind the appeal to be scared? For this discussion we also have a special guest: Gregg Hale, the producer of 1999's bonkers-scary Blair Witch Project. Gregg offers some insight into what made the film resonate so strongly and how it came into being. Later in the podcast, Alex catches up with Blaine Krauss, who can be seen on stage at the Denver Center in the touring production of Hamilton. After understudying both Hamilton and Aaron Burr, Krauss is in the big man's shoes, and he talks about how he got here and how he views the relationship between the two historic figures. And as usual we run down our Top 10 Colorado Headliners — shows or events we think you should keep an eye out for if you have a chance to see them. This week's Headliners: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert, Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver Performing Arts Complex, Oct. 25-26 Mindgame, Wheat Ridge Theatre Company, Oct. 25-Nov. 10 A Twilight Zone Parody: Serling Centennial, Oct. 25-Nov. 10 Matt & Ben, UnLeashed Theatre Company, Oct. 25-Nov. 30 Cannibal the Musical, Town Hall Arts Center, Littleton, Oct. 25-Nov. 3 Monopoly Lifesized Travel Edition, DCPA Off Center, Broadway Park Denver, Oct. 22-Jan. 5 Nunsense, Parker Arts Pace Center, Oct. 25-Nov. 7 Hadestown, Fort Collins Lincoln Center, Oct. 25-27 Ghostlight, Thunder River Theatre Company, Carbondale, Oct. 25-31 Why Theatre Matters Today with David Hyde Pierce, Mizel Center, Denver, Oct. 26 at 4 Links: John Moore's story about David Hyde Pierce in the Denver Gazette Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction to the Podcast and Upcoming Shows 02:05 - Diving into Hamilton: A Cultural Phenomenon 05:53 - Exploring Dance: Wonderbound's Devil's Crush 09:56 - Frankenstein: An Immersive Experience 14:11 - Million Dollar Quartet: A Musical Journey 18:05 - Political Satire: The Ballet of Paula Aguilar 22:05 - Ghost Stories and Haunted Tours in Colorado 25:54 - The Evolution of Scary Stories 29:55 - Monsters Through the Ages: Vampires and Revenants 33:55 - Gothic Literature and Its Impact on Horror 34:52 - Native American Folklore and Horror 37:15 - The Evolution of Horror Films 40:30 - Iconic Horror Films and Their Impact 46:38 - The Rise of Slasher Films 49:25 - Modern Classics featuring Gregg Hale, producer of ‘The Blair Witch Project' 53:01- Social Commentary in Contemporary Horror 56:43 - Upcoming Horror Events and Cultural Reflections 1:19:30 - Interview with Blaine Krauss from ‘Hamilton' Broadway touring production
In this episode from the BFHP vaults, the tables are turned, and Neil is the guest on his own podcast, interviewed about his new book Before Mrs Beeton, Elizabeth Raffald, England's Most Influential Housekeeper, about c18th cook and Manchester legend Elizabeth Raffald, which won the Best Food Book at the Guild of Food Writers Awards 2024.In the interviewer's chair is previous guest and friend of the show Alessandra Pino. Alessandra is co-author of A Gothic Cookbook which is an illustrated cookbook inspired by classic and contemporary Gothic texts. She is also co-host of Fear Feasts which is a podcast about food and horror in books and the films based on those books. She is also the co-host of A is for Apple: An Encyclopaedia of Food & Drink alongside Neil Buttery and Sam Bilton.They talked about how I discovered Elizabeth, her great achievements, the problem of Mrs Beeton, her recipes, my recipe section of updated Raffald recipes, "Rabbits Surprised", comparisons with modern chefs like Heston Blumenthal, why there's no statue of her, the time she exorcised a house from an evil spirit and much, much more.Pre-order Neil's new book Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England's Most Influential Housekeeper at you favourite bookshop, or from the publisher Pen & Sword History: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Before-Mrs-Beeton-Hardback/p/22437 Things mentioned in today's episode:The Experienced English Housekeeper by Elizabeth Raffald (1769): https://archive.org/details/experiencedengl01raffgoog/page/n9/mode/2up Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (1880 edition): https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Book_of_Household_Management/otoAAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse (1780 edition): https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/fe8HAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPiaaExKz9AhUMQ8AKHazyCXkQre8FegQIHRAJ Previous podcast episode 18th Century Dining with Ivan Day: https://open.spotify.com/episode/22BHsKHncyk2i6UXEzcIY2?si=3afcd447af0b4eb9 Previous Podcast episode Food in Gothic Literature with Alessandra Pino: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Nt55uQLXp6vrqH6MZsdPY?si=7b342ca391514232Alessandra links:A Gothic Cookbook: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63143496-a-gothic-cookbook Find her on Instagram @sasacharlie and twitter @foodforfloNeil's book A Dark History of Sugar is available now from all bookshops as well as from the publisher Pen & Sword: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/A-Dark-History-of-Sugar-Hardback/p/20481 Don't forget there will be another postbag episode at the end of the season. If you have any questions or queries about today's episode,...
It's the end of season seven, so it is time for the traditional special postbag edition of the podcast. Much is covered: feminist dining tables, 17th-century household books, regional gingerbreads, musk-flavoured sweeties and much more.Thanks to everyone who wrote in with a question, comment or query.The podcast will return in August.Support the podcast and blogs by becoming, if you can, a £3 monthly subscriber, and unlock lots of premium content, or treat me to a one-off virtual pint or coffee: click here.Previous podcast episodes mentioned in today's episode:Spices with Ian AndersonChristmas Special 2023: Mince PiesThe Philosophy of Chocolate with Sam BiltonHistorical Cookery with Jay ReifelOrmskirk Gingerbread with Anouska Lewis18th Century Tavern Cooking with Marc Meltonville18th Century Dining with Ivan DayRecreating 16th Century Beer with Susan Flavin & Marc MeltonvilleElizabeth Raffald with Alessandra Pino & Neil ButteryFood in Gothic Literature with Alessandra PinoTraditional Food of Lincolnshire with Rachel GreenBlog posts mentioned in today's episode:Quick & Easy Puff or Rough Puff PastryWhat's in a Name?: Buttery#446 Lincolnshire Chine#174 Grasmere Gingerbread I#244 Grasmere Gingerbread IIBooks mentioned in today's episode:The Accomplish't Cook by Robert MayGood Things in England by Florence WhiteFood in England by Dorothy HartleyLost Country Practices by Dorothy HartleyOther things mentioned in today's episode:
Summary: Today Holly is joined by a special guest - Sara Hildreth, the creator behind FictionMatters - a literary Instagram account, newsletter, and book club focused on putting thought-provoking books into the hands of adventurous readers. Sara also co-hosts Novel Pairings, a podcast dedicated to making the classics readable, relevant, and fun. As a former English teacher, Sara's literary knowledge and thoughtfulness has greatly enriched the reading lives of thousands, including Holly's. Keep an eye out for Sara's Paperback Summer Reading Guide 2024 and the Novel Pairings summer readalong of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo! Topics Discussed: Genre Fiction (2:03): For Sara, Genre Fiction signals to the reader that it will be following certain templates, patterns, and tropes. There are expectations set through the genre, which is why some genre fiction is the most disappointing for readers because of those expectations. No genre or designation is mutually exclusive - romances and mysteries can also be literary. Sara underlines that a lot of genre designations are more about marketing the books than they are about the actual content. Genre fiction is important; to be a good reader of literary fiction you should know a lot about genre fiction. Genre fiction is a playground for tropes and knowing and understanding them can help readers recognize when authors are doing things with those tropes. Dark Literature (15:37): When Sara thinks of “Dark Literature,” she thinks of darker themes that explore those aspects of human nature and relationships. It can also describe the atmosphere of a book - think dark academia, for example. However, for Sara this remains loosely defined and really targets the “vibe” more than a hard definition. Sara divides books in her mind between Light and Dark and Cold and Warm. Less of a fan of Light books, Sara does appreciate Warm and Cold books that have more or less heart and emotional depth. There can be aesthetic darkness without being psychologically bleak, and a lot of readers are drawn to subgenres like “cozy horror” that fit in different places in the quadrants. Gothic Literature is often hallmarked by a heroine in a creepy house as she explores her own psychology. Sara extends the definition to books that play with the interior vs. exterior trust and reliability of a protagonist and macabre settings with a sprinkling of horror tropes to explore human motivation and psychology. Classic + Modern Dark/Literary Books (24:49): Classic: Beloved by Toni Morrison The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Frankenstein by Mary Shelly Modern: Never Let Me Go by Kazu Ishiguro Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward The Keep by Jennifer Egan Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Hot on the Shelf (41:51): Sara: This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud What's Making Our Hearts Race (44:21): Sara: Top Chef on Bravo Instagram: @heartsanddaggerspod Website: www.heartsanddaggerspod.com If you like what you hear, please tell your friends and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so that we can find our perfect audience.
On this episode, Valeria Sobol of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaigne talks with us about her 2000 book "Haunted Empire." Dr. Sobol guides us through the tapestries of Imperial Russia, where crumbling estates and eerie figures cast long shadows over the pages of history. Drawing on her meticulous research and profound insights, she unveils the intricate interplay between Gothic motifs and the imperial legacy, offering a captivating exploration of power, trauma, and the uncanny in Russian literature. ABOUT THE GUEST Valeria Sobol is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Febris Erotica and a coeditor of Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe. Check out her book Haunted Empire on the Cornell Press website: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501770104/haunted-empire/#bookTabs=2. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on December 15, 2023 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! PRODUCTION CREDITS Host/Assistant Producer: Eliza Fisher Host/Editorial Director: Sam Parrish Assistant EP: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Associate Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Taylor Helmcamp Assistant Producer/Videographer: Basil Fedun Social Media Manager: Faith VanVleet Supervising Producer: Nicholas Pierce Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Audiorezout, Beat Mekanik, Damiano Baldoni, Alex Productions) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Valeria Sobol.
History is haunted. Ghosts are injustice persevering. So many horror stories hinge on that idea, but for Tananarive Due it's more personal than that. Her new novel, The Reformatory, is borne from the ghosts hidden in her own family history. The story takes place in a hideously cruel juvenile correction facility, in a racist town, in the 1950s. As you can imagine, very few good things happen to her child protagonist. We talk about the link between horror and history, about writing from her family tree, about the very real reformatories that persisted into the modern era, and about looking cruelty full in the face and wrestling it into story. This conversation is the perfect context for a near-perfect novel. Enjoy! The Reformatory was published October 31st by Saga and Titan Books Books mentioned: The Only Good Indians (2020), by Stephen Graham JonesThe Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (2012), by Gilbert KingKindred (1979), by Octavia E. Butler Support Talking Scared on Patreon Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
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Some stories are just too big for one podcast. Some stories should be too big for one book. Sam Rebelein's Edenville is one such story. This 300-something page novel has more crammed into it than your average fantasy trilogy. There is backstory upon backstory, a cosmic framework, and enough different monsters to fill Guillermo del Toro's minibus. Yet somehow Sam corrals it all into a whimsical horror romp – a well-organised riot. We talk about ideas… about thinking them up, letting them evolve and, most crucially, getting them on paper. We talk narcissistic writers, the power of dreams, the unique eeriness of the Hudson River Valley and the questionable nature of curses. This conversation is a call to arms for writers. It's a weary acceptance that maybe, just maybe, sitting your arse in the chair is the most important thing you can do all day. Enjoy! Edenville was published October 3rd by Titan Books and HarperCollins Books mentioned: Echo (2022), by Thomas Olde HeuveltCamp Damascus (2023), by Chuck TingleHannibal (1999), by Thomas Harris Support Talking Scared on Patreon Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
How dark literature can help first-year university students find their path Guest: Caron Gentry, Professor Vice-Chancellor of Design and Social Sciences at Northumbria University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why do we keep heading back to the woods? WHY?? Nothing good ever happens there.Alexander James would argue otherwise, but he's clearly made of sterner stuff than me. In his debut novel, The Woodkin, Alex parlays his love of the wild outdoors into a story that heads toward a familiar backwoods nightmares, before veering far off the beaten trail into something stranger and even scarier. In this episode we talk about his love for the woods of the Pacific Northwest (and yes! I ask him about Bigfoot of course). We cover the controversy surrounding an earlier title choice, the influence of D&D on his writing and the trick to realistically depicting fear in fiction.It's a happy hike into darkness. EnjoyThe Woodkin was published August 22nd by CamCat BooksOther books mentioned in this episode include:Dark Mountain (1992), by Richard LaymonOffseason (1980), by Jack KetchumMexican Gothic (2020), by Silvia Moreno-GarciaThe Hacienda (2022), by Isabel CañasI'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I Have Some Stories to TellCritStupid Podcast (Alex's D&D podcast)Support Talking Scared on PatreonCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
This week I'm recording very close to home with Andrew Michael Hurley. Andrew burst onto the folk-horror scene with subtle aplomb (can one burst subtly?) back in 2014, with The Loney. That slice of weirdness was set in the very town in which I spent my wet, dismal childhood holidays. It conjured shivers in more ways than one. Now he is here to talk about the reissue of his 2019 novel, Starve Acre. It's a bleak, bitter, wintery tale of isolation, grief and ritual, set in the Yorkshire Dales. Where I also spent some holidays – does Andrew know something I don't? Hmmmm?We talk about his relationship with folk horror, and how it helps us express our communal British angst. We make comparisons to some unexpected movies, discuss authorial freedom, and talk about deep knowledge, invented lore and horror as replacement for spirituality. It's all a good excuse to yell about the government. Enjoy!Starve Acre was re-issued by Penguin on July 4th.Other books mentioned in this episode include:The Loney (2014), by Andrew Michael HurleyElmet (2017), by Fiona MozleyThe Gallows Pole (2017), by Benjamin MyersWaterland (1983), by Graham SwiftCold Hand in Mine (1975), by Robert AickmanSupport Talking Scared on Patreon Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
Thrust your fists against the post and still insist you see the… …oh hello. You came back. Thank Gan. We have a monster to defeat this week. Yes, this is the second part of the Talking Scared dive into Stephen King's IT. This time we are getting weird. Joined by stalwart friends, Ally Malinenko (Ghost Girl, This Appearing House) and Nat Cassidy (Mary: An Awakening of Terror), I'm delving below ground and into the cosmic tangle that underpins all of King's fiction. We're asking what is Pennywise? Where did he come from? What does he want and what the hell is that giant turtle doing? It has been a labour of love, talking for hours with friends about my favourite book. Thank you so much for listening, and remember… we're stronger together. Enjoy!Support Talking Scared on PatreonCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
It's our first all "Existential Question of the Week" episode, featuring the stars of 1CW Wrestling! It was in 1993 that the man, the myth, the Meat Loaf launched a mystery of modern music that would haunt a generation via his legendary power ballad: "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I won't Do That)" But what? What won't he do? Where is the line drawn? What is the one deed, the one act, the one step too far that not even this love, this operatic melodramatic, sexy piano laden love can justify? We may never know. Except to look inside ourselves and ask that very question - you would do anything for love. But you won't do that. What. Is That? A number brave souls are going to look deep inside the limits of their heart and answer that very question for you today. Strap in. Lets learn something about the human condition. Along the way we have Superman slander, deep cut Gothic Literature rerommendations, advice on how to protect yourself from being slandered, and Myles Millennium tries to give Jason an aneurism. FEATURING: DOUG WILDER "THE DON" CHAZ EVANS RED DAWG MIKE FRESH DUSTIN TARR MYLES MILLENNIUM ALAN CLAYBALL JB ANDERSON JASON ANDREWS COLLECTED POSSIBILITIES E-Mail: collectedpossibilities@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collectedpossibilities/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/collectedpossibilities DOUG WILDER Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doug_wilder/ BETTER TOGETHER MEDIA GROUP Website: https://www.bettertogethermediagroup.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bettertogethermediagroup/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bettertogethermediagroup CHAZ EVANS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chaz_thedon/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DonChaZEvans EPISODE 58: ROUND 1 w/ "THE DON" CHAZ EVANS RED DAWG Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_reddawg85/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetTheKO YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RedDawg85 EPISODE 27: MAIN EVENT w/ RED DAWG THE 3 COUNT PODCAST Listen Here: https://anchor.fm/the3count Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/3countpod/ MIKE FRESH LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/mikefreshtwi EPISODE 57: MUSEUM OF ILLUSIONS w/ MIKE FRESH DUSTIN TARR Twitter: https://twitter.com/TARRtweets Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tarrpix Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1812865791 MYLES MILLENNIUM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mylesmaaaaan/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MylesMillennium ALAN CLAYBALL Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlanClayball Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alanclayball JB ANDERSON Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/violentbreedjba/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/violentbreedjba Twitter: https://twitter.com/ViolentBreedJBA EPISODE 54: GAMEON BAR + ARCADE w/ JB ANDERSON JASON ANDREWS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejason_andrews Twitter: https://twitter.com/thejason_andrew 1CW PRO WRESTLING Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1CWPRO YouTube: 1CW Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/@1cwprowrestling291
Today the tables are turned, and Neil is the guest on his own podcast and is interviewed about his new book Before Mrs Beeton, Elizabeth Raffald, England's Most Influential Housekeeper, about c18th cook and Manchester legend Elizabeth Raffald, published on 28 February.In the interviewer's chair is previous guest and friend of the show Alessandra Pino. Alessandra is co-author of A Gothic Cookbook which is an illustrated cookbook inspired by classic and contemporary Gothic texts. She is also co-host of Fear Feasts which is a podcast about food and horror in books and the films based on those books. Like Neil, she is also interested in the history of sugar and has a chapter coming out soon in The Palgrave Companion to Memory and Literature about memory, sugar and Cuba.They talked about how I discovered Elizabeth, her great achievements, the problem of Mrs Beeton, her recipes, my recipe section of updated Raffald recipes, "Rabbits Surprized", comparisons with modern chefs like Heston Blumenthal, why there's no statue of her, the time she exorcized a house from an evil spirit and much, much more.Pre-order Neil's new book Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England's Most Influential Housekeeper at you favourite bookshop, or from the publisher Pen & Sword History: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Before-Mrs-Beeton-Hardback/p/22437 Things mentioned in today's episode:The Experienced English Housekeeper by Elizabeth Raffald (1769): https://archive.org/details/experiencedengl01raffgoog/page/n9/mode/2up Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (1880 edition): https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Book_of_Household_Management/otoAAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse (1780 edition): https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/fe8HAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPiaaExKz9AhUMQ8AKHazyCXkQre8FegQIHRAJ Previous podcast episode 18th Century Dining with Ivan Day: https://open.spotify.com/episode/22BHsKHncyk2i6UXEzcIY2?si=3afcd447af0b4eb9 Previous Podcast episode Food in Gothic Literature with Alessandra Pino: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Nt55uQLXp6vrqH6MZsdPY?si=7b342ca391514232Alessandra links:A Gothic Cookbook: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63143496-a-gothic-cookbook Fear Feasts podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5IV7dms3DLxrVF81zj6ZRY?si=deac902534cd442d Find her on Instagram @sasacharlie and twitter @foodforfloNeil's book A Dark History of Sugar is available now from all bookshops as well as from the publisher Pen & Sword:
On this episode Ygraine chat with podcast regular Elaine Pascale about movie adaptations of gothic works of literature. They discuss The Monk (2011) and Rebecca (1940). Theme: Afraid of Me by Cadaver Club
Just in time for Halloween, we're back with our guest Natasha Junor (who you may remember from our Clueless episode!) to discuss Gothic literature and the ways it intersects with Austen's world and works. Tash is an Australian academic and Jane Austen scholar who is doing a deep dive into this topic in preparation for a possible dissertation on the subject, and she's stopping by to share her expertise with us! Join us for a fascinating exploration of how Gothic literature was received in Regency-era England, how it allowed women of that era to explore otherwise forbidden topics, and how Austen interpreted the Gothic in her novel Northanger Abbey. And I promise to finally release Ep 6 of our P&P commentary very soon! I know I said it was coming next! But I lied! -K
This week we celebrate the 175th Anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre! In this episode, Gothic Literature specialist Kirstin Mills is joined by Master of Research candidate Rachel Baldacchino to explore what makes this Victorian novel and its many adaptations so enduringly popular.
Marissa chats with Lyndall Clipstone about her gothic romance duology - LAKESEDGE and FORESTFALL - as well as how the desire to prove oneself can be an excellent motivator; using special rituals in order to separate yourself from the "real world" and immerse yourself in the setting and feel of your novel; reconceptualizing a stand-alone book into a duology by expanding on existing plotlines, while making each book fundamentally different in some way; using oracle cards to set your writing intentions and clue yourself into your own personal needs (they might even inspire some new ideas!); using social media not just to engage with readers, but also as a creative outlet; and some great advice from a former editor - including how to guard your unique writing voice, and why you shouldn't save your best ideas for later. Books discussed in this episode can be purchased from your local independent bookstore or buy them online from the Happy Writer bookshop.org store (that benefits indie bookstores) at https://bookshop.org/shop/marissameyer
Get your bell bottoms, your peace sign, your tie dye and your … crucifix!This week's guest is Gwendolyn Kiste and her new novel, Reluctant Immortals, transports us to San Francisco in 1968, the summer after the Summer of Love, when the sun is setting on the hippie movement. Into this chaos comes a quarter of iconic Gothic characters, ready to fight it out all over again.Like the book, the surface of this conversation belies its inner darkness. Yes we talk hippies. Yes we talk Haunted Hollywood. Yes we talk cheesy movies. But we also get into the horrific implications of vampires for sexual consent, the true hideous power of the patriarchy, and how women are weaponised against women.There is substantial conversation about domestic and sexual abuse in the second half of the conversation. Just a warning in case this is a problem for you. It's a tough conversation, but a good one.Enjoy!Reluctant Immortals is released in North America on August 23rd by and in the UK on November 22nd by Titan.Other books discussed in this episode include:Something Borrowed, Something Blood-soaked (2018), by Christa CarmenTo Be Devoured (2019), by Sarah TantlingerThe Rust Maidens (2018), by Gwendolyn Kiste“The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra's Diary)”, by Gwendolyn Kiste, Nightmare Magazine, issue 86, (2019)“The Woman Out of the Attic, by Gwendolyn Kiste, in Haunted House Short Stories (2019)Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (1998), by Peter BiskindSupport Talking Scared on PatreonCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
This week we're crossing the podcast streams again – and broadening our reading at the same time.Agatha Andrews is the host of She Wore Black, a Texas-based podcast of Gothic, Mystery and Horror. She's also my horror-podcasting buddy, the romantic yin to my dark, depraved yang. And she knows a thing or two about Gothic Romance.It turns out it's not all virgins in nightgowns (though they do make an appearance). Agatha talks me through the complex, overlapping relationships between Romance, Gothic, horror and erotica. We talk about how love combines with fear, why happy endings are an ironclad rule and the joy of the Danger-Bang. She also helps me navigate some recent twitter beef that had me utterly confused.This is a little diversion for the show, a ramble down a different path for this week. But hey, give love a chance!(plus, we also talk about House of Leaves)Episodes of She Wore Black are released weekly and you can find Agatha at @sheworeblackpodOther books discussed in this episode include:The Haunting of Maddy Clare (2012), by Simone St. JamesMexican Gothic (2020), by Silvia Moreno GarciaThe Hacienda (2022), by Isabel CañasGoddess of Filth (2021) by V. Castro Support Talking Scared on PatreonCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
Are your doors and windows locked? Good. ‘Cos this one is going to scare you!This week I'm joined by Michael J. Seidlinger, author of the new home-invasion nightmare, Anybody Home. You've read this scenario before – invasion, torture, death and suffering – but never like this. We talk about why home invasion is so singularly frightening, about the role of movies and lenses in our hyper-surveillant culture, we disagree on the current state of experimental fiction, and Michael gives perhaps the most startling answer yet to the question of where did the idea for this book come from… All that, plus my rantings on the morality of torture porn, some really geeky video game chat, heavy metal metaphors, and an afterword containing some important questions for the future of this show. Enjoy! Anybody Home is published August 16th by CLASH booksOther books discussed in this episode include:The Shards (2023), by Bret Easton EllisHoarders (2021), by Kate DurbinFrank (2002), by R. M. Berry“The Death of the Author” (1967), by John Barthes – read here Support Talking Scared on Patreon Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
What scared you as a kid? Monsters? Ghosts? The thing in your closet? The perilous state of the environment and the terrible carbon footprint of children's toys?If it's any of the former then you're in good company. (If it's the latter then boy did we need you in 1987!) This week's guests understand the fear that makes the childlike mind tick and tock, they know how to get under young skin, and they know how to inject a little hope into the horror. Ally Malinenko, Dan Poblocki and Lora Senf are three of the finest middle-grade authors around. Their books, This Appearing House, Tales to Keep You Up at Night and The Clackity present three very different kinds of nightmares to challenge, inspire and slightly terrify readers age 8-12.In this middle-grade special we dive deep into each of their book, to examine how horror works for younger readers. When does a lot become too much? And what can we say to the gatekeepers and politicians who would rather these precious children not read such awful things. It's an important question, cos, after all, kids are the ones who are going to have to both survive and save this world – so let's at least prepare them with some horrors they can conquer in the here and now.This is a longer episode, and a slightly left-turn. But it's also a lot of fun and surprisingly dark. Enjoy!The Clackity is published June 28th by AtheneumThis Appearing House is published August 16th by Katherine Tegen BooksTales to Keep You Up at Night is published August 16th by Penguin WorkshopOther books discussed in this episode include:Hoodoo (2015), by Ronald L. SmithHide and Don't Seek, and Other Very Scary Stories (20212), by Anica Mrose RissiGhost Love (2020), by Dennis MahoneyThe Nest (2015), by Kenneth OppellIt Looks Like Us (2022), by Alison AmesLiars Room (2021), by Dan PoblockiThe House With a Clock in Its Walls (1973), by John BellairsWait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story (1986), by Mary Downing Hahn“The Raft”, in Skeleton Crew (1985), by Stephen King The Haunted Book (2012), by Jeremy DysonTo find out more about my friend Amy Sarthou and her Portable Magic project to increase inclusive school reading – you can follow her on instagram at PortableMagic_reads_booksSupport Talking Scared on PatreonCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
We're heading into largely uncharted horror waters this week with our guest Nat Cassidy. Nat's debut horror novel, Mary: An Awakening of Terror dares to confront one of the last true taboos of horror fiction. No, it's not cannibalism, or necrophilia, or the bowel movements of Tucker Carlson … no… it's the menopause. That's right. Female physiology. The horror, the terror, think of the children!!!Nat and I talk about why horror shies away from the topic of middle age and menopause, and why he was inspired to tell this story when he was just thirteen years old. We talk about Stephen King and Carrie and their lasting influence. And we look back at the worse year of Nat's life, and how it helped fuel the writing of Mary.We also promise (and fail) to talk about Bruce Springsteen, our shared north star. Watch this space for more on that in the future.Enjoy!Mary: An Awakening of Terror is published on July 19thth by Tor NightfireOther books discussed in this episode include:We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families (1998), by Philip GourevitchCarrie (1974), by Stephen KingParasite (1980), by Ramsey CampbellSupport Talking Scared on PatreonCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
DUM DUM DUM!!! 100 episodes!! We did it. We reached an utterly abstract threshold together guys and we are DELIGHTED to be here. I'm also delighted to welcome Paul Tremblay back to the show for a neat bit of circularity (as he was the one to kick things off way back in episode 1). Paul's new novel, The Pallbearer's Club came out just at the right time to make him the 100th guest. I'm convinced he planned it that way.It's a tale of weird adolescence, New England folklore, Punk Rock and loneliness. Sounds typically bleak right? Well it is, but it also has jokes, a heartwarming friendship and argumentative notes in the margins – so it's both a homecoming and a departure for Paul.We talk about his early desire to be a musician, his obsessions with misinformation, the art of fictionalising the truth, and the fear that inspires his uniquely uncanny set-pieces.Oh, and we also mention a certain film adaptation that may be in the works.Enjoy!The Pallbearers Club was published on July 5th by William Morrow and Titan BooksOther books discussed in this episode include: The Bus on Thursday (2018), by Shirley BarrettLunar Park (2005), by Bret Easton EllisA Confederacy of Dunces (1980), by John Kennedy TooleHouse of Leaves (2000), by Mark Z. DanielewskiOur Share of Night (2023), by Mariana EnriquezSupport Talking Scared on PatreonCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show
This week we go behind the curtain to look at the inner workings of a bona-fide modern classic. Our guest is Scott Hawkins, whose debut novel, The Library At Mount Char delighted genre fans back in 2015. Now, to commemorate its first UK publication, Scott joins me for a conversation about its many madcap secrets.We talk about everything from cosmic ethics to kidney stone – he gives us a little until-now-unknown backstory on some of the most mysterious characters, and I take umbrage at how awfully he treats the poor, poor pooches that guard his goddamned library!!This is a lovely conversation about the loveliest book you've ever read … that contains scenes of children being roasted alive.Enjoy!The Library At Mount Char was published in the UK on 10th May, by Titan BooksOther books mentioned in this episode include:We Are All Completely Fine (2014), by Daryl GregoryThe Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition (1990), by Stephen KingTitus Groan: Book One of the Gormenghast Trilogy (1946), by Mervyn PeakeSharp Teeth (2007), by Toby BarlowRed Dragon (1981), by Thomas Harris. The Mote in God's Eye (1974), by Jerry Pournelle and Larry NivenThe Hunger (2018), by Alma KatsuIndifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party (2009), by Daniel James BrownSupport Talking Scared on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPodCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, and TikTok or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.Support the show
Here I come, ready or not!Our guest this week is Kiersten White. She's the award-winning author of numerous macabre YA fictions, but now she's making her debut in adult fiction (not that kind!) with Hide – a tale of life-or-death hide-and-seek.It's a fantastic premise to begin with. Think The Hunger Games meets Squid Game, or any other kind of game but nastier and with more socio-political heft.Yeah, that's right. Once again on Talking Scared the guest and I deconstruct society, in particular the capitalist nightmare that is at the core of Kiersten's novel. We talk about economic inequality horror, American fairytales, the conflict between boomers and millennials, and the difference between mazes and labyrinths. I even ask some good questions about craft.We laugh a lot, but be warned, there is a burning rage behind this book.Enjoy!Hide is published on May 24th by Penguin and Del ReySupport Talking Scared on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPod Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, and TikTok or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.Support the show
It's a week of deep-dives, haunted-houses and academic horror-stories this week on Talking Scared.Our guest is Isabel Cañas. And she's having the busiest week known to (wo)mankind. Not only is she defending her doctoral thesis on Medieval Turkish Poetry, she also has the small matter of her debut novel – a sweetly sinister piece of Latin Gothic called The Hacienda We talk about everything that could possibly have influenced the novel. From the creepy house she once lived in, to her worldwide travels and her academic studies. It also plays a part – but nothing more so than a childhood spent reading. As well as diving deep into what made Isabel who she is, we also talk about Latinx horror generally, about mixing Catholicism with something even stranger, how she will never be frightened by the same things as Stephen King, and why it's so important to keep the literary door ajar once you've kicked it open. It was a pleasure to speak to Isabel. I can't believe she found the time. Enjoy The Hacienda is published on May 3rd by Berkley Other books mentioned in this episode include:Mexican Gothic (2020), by Silvia Moreno Garcia (episode 3)This Strange Way of Dying (2013), by Silvia Moreno GarciaThe House of Hunger (2022), by Alexis Henderson Support Talking Scared on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPodCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, and TikTok or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.Support the show
I promise this week isn't a pandemic novel. I know … we all need a break.No, Malcolm Devlin's And Then I Woke Up IS about a disease, but not one that makes you cough, vomit or melt. Instead it's a disease (drum roll), OF THE MIND!! But even then, it's not what you think – no rage monsters here. Well, not really.Instead, this novella is a perfect allegory of how narratives can infect, distort and corrupt. How reality is contingent, and how the truth is more elusive by the day. All that, with zombies (sorta) Malcolm is a very polite man. So polite that he lets me use his book as a jumping-off point for all manner of cracked pseudo-philosophical theories. I basically forget the first rule of podcasting – DON'T talk more than the guest.Sorry.But when I give Malcolm chance to speak, he says great things. We talk about everything from the power of story and culture, to the problems with zombie narratives and how, in times of horror, Left and Right wing doesn't necessarily mean what you think. Plus, we reminisce about the blue/gold dress illusion, the Bath Salts Cannibal, and other great noughties memes. Enjoy! And Then I Woke Up is published on April 12th, by Tor.Other books mentioned in this episode include:Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land (2021), by Malcolm DevlinThe Wake (2013), by Elizabeth Knox“The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”, by Ted Chiang – found in Exhalation (2019) Support Talking Scared on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPodCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, and TikTok or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/talkingscaredpod)
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 2 of our recap of “Carpe Jugulum”. Eyeballs in places they shouldn't be!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Dictionary of Superstitions - Oxford ReferenceThe Count Censored - YouTubeLeo Breebaart's comment - alt.fan.pratchettLara Croft Handstand - YoutubeChristabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry FoundationYou're Dead To Me - Vampires in Gothic Literature - BBC SoundsIn Our Time, Polidori's The Vampyre - BBC Radio 4Trial By Content - The Greatest Vampire Sire - The RingerComment on the Stone Witch - alt.fan.pratchettWookey Hole Caves - WikipediaMusic: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
Alan Baxter is the Lord of Weird Australia. I said it before, he liked it, so I'll say it again. Alan Baxter is the Lord of Weird Australia.Perhaps nothing he has written is as weird, or as Australian as the stories set in and around the town of Gulpepper. He took us there in The Gulp and now he's taking us back in The Fall, the second collection of linked novellas outlining the town and its weird inhabitants.Bear in mind, when I say nothing he's written is as weird or as Australian – this is a man who wrote a book about a homicidal kangaroo!So yeah, The Gulp and The Fall are weird. Weird as hell. Weirdness on toast (with or without vegemite). We talk about that weirdness, about how to make it work and when to reign it in or let it ride. We talk the beauty and threat of Australian wilderness and the monstrous potential of the ocean. We talk winging it when it comes to mythology and how even Alan isn't sure where Gulpepper goes next.We talk about all sorts of things. It's a blast. Enjoy! The Fall: Tales from the Gulp 2 is published on April 12th.Other books mentioned in this episode include:The Gulp (2021), by Alan BaxterThe Roo (2020), by Alan BaxterThe Fisherman (2016), by John LanganThe Great and Secret Show (1989), by Clive BarkerThe Grief Hole (2016), by Kaaron WarrenSupport Talking Scared on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPodCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, and TikTok or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/talkingscaredpod)
Imagine it's just you and two other people stuck in a single building for weeks on end. Everyone's bad habits on display. How long would it take you to turn murderous?That's just one of the possible questions asked in Emma Stonex's The Lamplighters. Inspired by the real-world vanishing of the Flannan Isle Lighthouse keepers, but full of incident and weirdness all it's own, The Lamplighters is equally poetic and paranoid, gentle and cruel, haunting and horrifying. It may be the best thing I've read this year.It will either make you want to move to a lighthouse immediately, or never again set foot anywhere but dry land. Emma and I talk about the sea, about bad places and lonely buildings, and we come back again and again to the inexhaustible metaphor of the lighthouse.It all gets very lyrical, but we do also use the word “bonkbuster” at one point, to puncture the profundity.This is a truly fantastic book, and a great conversation with someone who shares our love for the windswept, memory-stained places of the world. Enjoy! The Lamplighters is published in paperback on March 1st in the US and March 31st in the UK.Support Talking Scared on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPod Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, and TikTok or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/talkingscaredpod)
This week is an orgy of horror. There are four of us. That makes it an orgy right? (I've never been to one – never got the invitation).Ahem … sorry. I'll start again.This week I am joined by not one, but THREE guests. John F. D. Taff, Livia Llewellyn, and of course, Josh Malerman. We could call them stars from the firmament of horror. Dark Stars perhaps.That would be fitting, considering that's what they are here to discuss (amongst many, many things). Dark Stars is a benchmark spook fest. An anthology of fiction that attempts to set the tone for where we are in our collective horror moment. John is the editor, Josh and Livia are contributors – amongst nine other names from the very forefront of the genre. Each story is different, with few tropes, little tradition and zero constricting theme. It's just a collection of darkness, depravity and delight.John, Livia and Josh are old friends, old battle-companions from the horror vanguard. As such I'm essentially redundant this week. I just turned the show over to them and got out of the way. I make an attempt at order and structure – we talk about making horror weird as hell, about drawing fiction from life, about how we use and abuse tropes in this new horror landscape, but mostly it's about community, friendship and weird, perverse joy in being creepy together.Oh, and Josh and I talk bad drug experiences, whilst Livia joins my fight to put sex back in horror!Enjoy!Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror is published on May 10th by Tor Nightfire in the US and Titan in the UK.Other books mentioned in this episode include:Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror (1980), ed. Kirby McCauleyThe House Next Door (1978), by Anne Rivers SiddonsRooster (2021), by John C. FosterDark Factory (2022), by Kathe KojeEvery Dead Thing (1999), by John ConnollyGhoul ‘n' the Cape (2021), by Josh MalermanSupport Talking Scared on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPodCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, and TikTok or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/talkingscaredpod)
In this episode I'm joined by Laura Demaude, who is currently finishing her MA dissertation on gaslighting and the Gothic. We discuss how gaslighting is represented in Victorian and Neo-Victorian texts written by female authors (such as Bronte's Jane Eyre). We also note how physical gaslighting was used to influence this effect, especially in the film Gaslight. Our discussion also focuses on the importance of discussing literary representations of gaslighting, especially in the light of the #metoo movement.About my guest: Laura is an MA research student at the University of Lincoln, focusing on how gaslighting and physical lighting work together to oppress women and ‘make' them into freaks in Gothic literature. She is fascinated by crowd psychology and the ways in which literature can, and does, influence the way we think, as well as in how these influences include and precede the Victorian era.For more information on Laura's work, check out the details below:Twitter: @lattepoweredEmail: ldemaude@lincoln.ac.ukCheck out Laura's suggestions:Sarah Waters' worksLaura Purcell - The Silent CompanionsThe Alienist (TV series) Episode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com
In this episode I'm joined by Dr Jen Baker, where we discuss her interest in the spectral child and representations of the child in death. We talk about how the legacy of these representations in the nineteenth century linger to this day, through angelic suggestions in Facebook memorials, to the horrific representations of the demonic child in horror films. We discuss her upcoming monograph which will look into these ideas in more detail. ,About my guest: Dr Jen Baker is a permanent Teaching Fellow in C19th and C20th Literature at the University of Warwick and an Early Career Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath. She is currently working on her first monograph, Spectral Embodiments of Child Death in the Long Nineteenth Century, which is under contract with Edinburgh University Press. She is also Guest Editor of the latest edition of Gothic Studies - a special issue on "Gothic and the Short Form" and has published on a range of material relating to “the child” figure, childhood, and the Gothic, Most recently, a chapter on pronouns and the spectral child in Victorian ghost stories and an article on guardianship of the ghost child forthcoming in a special issue of Women's Writing. For more information on Jen's work, check out the links and details below:https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/people/drjenbaker/Check out Jen's recommended sources, which she mentioned in our episode:Sarah Waters - The Little StrangerNick Murphy - The AwakeningJen Baker (editor) - Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth Episode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com
Today Neil chats with Alessandra Pino, co-author of ‘A Gothic Cookbook', about food in gothic literature. They talk about the inspiration behind the book, the function of food (or the lack of it) in gothic fiction and how crowdfunding platform Unbound has helped with the project. They look at Frankenstein's monster and his vegetarianism and delve a bit deeper into Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Subscribers: don't forget to check out the Easter Egg tab on the website to listen to a couple of extras from this episode: http://britishfoodhistory.com/easter-eggs/ (http://britishfoodhistory.com/easter-eggs/) Visit Alessandra and Ella's page on Unbound here to see page samples and Lee Henry's wonderful illustrations: https://unbound.com/books/a-gothic-cookbook/ (https://unbound.com/books/a-gothic-cookbook/) To receive 10% off your pledge use the code GOTHICPOD10 Follow A Gothic Cookbook on Twitter and Insta @AGothicCookbook Links to things mentioned in this episode: Wikipedia entry for Jane Eyre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre) Neil's Hot Toddy blog post: http://britishfoodhistory.com/2021/12/24/a-hot-toddy/ (http://britishfoodhistory.com/2021/12/24/a-hot-toddy/) Neil's Christmas Pye posts: https://neilcooksgrigson.com/2021/12/18/445-to-make-a-yorkshire-christmas-pye-part-1/ (https://neilcooksgrigson.com/2021/12/18/445-to-make-a-yorkshire-christmas-pye-part-1/) Also, don't forget if you have any questions or queries about today's episode, or indeed any episode, or have a question about the history of British food please email me at neil@britishfoodhistory.com, or find me on twitter @neilbuttery, or Instagram dr_neil_buttery. If you like my blog posts and podcast episodes, please consider a monthly subscription or buying me a virtual coffee or a pint? Go to https://britishfoodhistory.com/support-the-blog-podcast/ (https://britishfoodhistory.com/support-the-blog-podcast/) for more details. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
The season one finale is here and it's all about The Twilight Saga. From Wuthering Heights to Twilight, Bethany and Mary ponder: How did we get here? Where do we go from here? What is the fate of Gothic Literature?
In the pilot episode for the Sad Girl Syllabus podcast, Bethany and Mary begin their exploration of the "Wuthering Heights to Twilight Pipeline" with a deep dive into early Gothic Literature. Topics covered are ICYMI: Wuthering Heights, notable film adaptations, #gothlitvibes, and salacious Brontë family gossip.
This week, we are joined by Kate Cherrell of Burials and Beyond. Kate is a British enthusiast of cemeteries, death history, miserable victorians, and the paranormal. With a newly acquired Phd in Gothic Literature, She is the perfect person to talk to about life, death, and the weird bits in-between. Join us for a conversation about life, death, hope, the macabre, and more.
This week, we are joined by Kate Cherrell of Burials and Beyond. Kate is a British enthusiast of cemeteries, death history, miserable victorians, and the paranormal. With a newly acquired Phd in Gothic Literature, She is the perfect person to talk to about life, death, and the weird bits in-between. Join us for a conversation about life, death, hope, the macabre, and more.
This week Zig discusses the Southern Gothic Literature Genre while Geoffrey tells the story of an incredibly creepy stalker. Also, Will tells a story...no not really.For your 30 day free Audible Trial go to: Audibletrial.com/nerderyandmurderyFor 10% off with BetterHelp go to: betterhelp.com/nerderyandmurderySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/nerdandmurd)
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