Podcast appearances and mentions of Kathe Koja

Lindsay and Barbara talk about Kathe Koja's “punk existentialist horror novel” about a mysterious hole and the people obsessed with it. Featuring: Exploding mouse skulls, scary porn, art weirdo cult followers, goo cocoon, and an antidote to happiness.

Please join Trish Wilson and Marsha Casper Cook on Wednesday May 3 at  11AM EST 10AM CST 9MT 8AM PST when their guests will be Josh Malerman and John Skipp for a terrific off the cuff discussion. Josh Malerman is an American novelist, short story writer, film producer, and one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung. He is best known for writing horror and his post-apocalyptic novel, Bird Box, which was the inspiration of the Netflix film Bird Box. In 2020, he founded the production company Spin a Black Yarn with manager Ryan Lewis; their first film, We Need to Do Something, was shot in secret during the COVID-19 pandemic. John Skipp is a New York Times bestselling author, editor, film director, zombie godfather, compulsive collaborator, black-humored optimist, and all-around Renaissance mutant. John Skipp is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor, as well as a songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He collaborated with Craig Spector on multiple novels and has also collaborated with Marc Levinthal and Cody Goodfellow. Trish Wilson writes horror, romance, erotica, and fantasy. She sometimes writes as Elizabeth Black and E. A. Black. As the Media Director for The Horror Zine, she has written fiction and interviewed authors including Ramsey Campbell, Kathe Koja, Brent Monahan, John Skipp, and Josh Malerman. She won a Best Short Story mention on The Solstice List@ 2017: The Best Of Horror for Invisible, which appears in Zippered Flesh 3.         https://www.thehorrorzine.com/

Please join Marsha Casper Cook on April 6th at 11EST 10CST 9 MT 8 AM PST and her guests Trish Wilson, Elizabeth Black, and Brent Monahan it's going to be a great show.   Brent Monahan is the author of half a dozen novels, including An American Haunting and Nevermore. He also wrote dialogue for the daytime TV shows One Life To Live and All My Children. Trish Wilson writes horror, romance, erotica, and fantasy. She sometimes writes as Elizabeth Black and E. A. Black. As the Media Director for The Horror Zine, she has written fiction and interviewed authors including Ramsey Campbell, Kathe Koja, Brent Monahan, John Skipp, and Josh Malerman. She won a Best Short Story mention on The Solstice List@ 2017: The Best Of Horror for Invisible, which appears in Zippered Flesh 3. https://www.brentmonahan.com/ https://www.thehorrorzine.com/ For more info on Marsha and Michigan Avenue Media  http://www.marshacaspercook.com    

Twenty-two of this year's Virtual Memories Show guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2022 and the books they hope to get to in 2023! Guests include Jonathan Ames, Richard Butner, Howard Chaykin, Joe Ciardiello, Darryl Cunningham, Eva Hagberg, Kathe Koja, Ken Krimstein, Glenn Kurtz, W. David Marx, Dave McKean, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, Jim Ottaviani, Celia Paul, Nicole Rudick, Jerry Saltz, Dmitry Samarov, David Sax, Ruth Scurr, Sebastian Smee, Peter Stothard, and Marina Warner (+ me)! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

We messed up on The Lighthouse recording, so join us for just the book club session instead! Pierce read probably one of the weirdest books he's ever read in Kathe Koja's "The Cipher" and Justin read some elevated horror that he didn't quite love in Grady Hendrix's "Horrorstör" - Follow us on Twitter: @NotJustAnyPod - Check out our Goodreads page to see what we're reading!

FIVE-HUNDRED EPISODES of The Virtual Memories Show?! Let's celebrate this milestone episode with tributes, remembrances, jokes, congrats, non-sequiturs, and a couple of songs (!) from nearly 100 of my past guests, including Maria Alexander, Jonathan Ames, Glen Baxter, Jonathan Baylis, Zoe Beloff, Walter Bernard, Sven Birkerts, Charles Blackstone, RO Blechman, Phlip Boehm, MK Brown, Dan Cafaro, David Carr, Kyle Cassidy, Howard Chaykin, Joe Ciardiello, Gary Clark, John Crowley, Ellen Datlow, Paul Di Filippo, Joan Marans Dim, Liza Donnelly, Bob Eckstein, Scott Edelman, Barbara Epler, Glynnis Fawkes, Aaron Finkelstein, Mary Fleener, Shary Flenniken, Josh Alan Friedman, Kipp Friedman, Michael Gerber, Mort Gerberg, ES Glenn, Sophia Glock, Paul Gravett, Tom Hart, Dean Haspiel, Jennifer Hayden, Glenn Head, Ron Hogan, Kevin Huizenga, Jonathan Hyman, Andrew Jamieson, Ian Kelley, Jonah Kinigstein, Kathe Koja, Ken Krimstein, Anita Kunz, Peter Kuper, Glenn Kurtz, Kate Lacour, Roger Langridge, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, John Leland, David Leopold, Sara Lippmann, David Lloyd, Whitney Matheson, Patrick McDonnell, Dave McKean, Scott Meslow, Barbara Nessim, Jeff Nunokawa, Jim Ottaviani, Celia Paul, Woodrow Phoenix, Darryl Pinckney, Weng Pixin, Eddy Portnoy, Virginia Postrel, Bram Presser, AL Price, Dawn Raffel, Boaz Roth, Hugh Ryan, Dmitry Samarov, Frank Santoro, JJ Sedelmaier, Nadine Sergejeff, Michael Shaw, R Sikoryak, Jen Silverman, Posy Simmonds, Vanessa Sinclair, David Small, Sebastian Smee, Ed Sorel, James Sturm, Mike Tisserand, Tom Tomorrow, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, Kriota Willberg, Warren Woodfin, Jim Woodring, and Claudia Young. Plus, we look at back with segments from the guests we've lost over the years: Anthea Bell, Harold Bloom, Bruce Jay Friedman, Milton Glaser, Clive James, JD McClatchy, DG Myers, Tom Spurgeon, and Ed Ward. Here's to the next 500 shows! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

⚡️ A podcast on cosmic horror, weird fiction, genre topics, Lovecraftian fiction... and more!   ⚡️ Did I say "podcast"? Sure! But it's more like joining friends to chat about your favorite horror movies and books, about cosmic horror, weird fiction, and other geeky topics!  

Kathe Koja is the author of Dark Factory. A novel as well as an immersive project. Want to co-host Drinks with Tony? Or receive a shout out at the top […]

Kathe Koja rejoins the show to celebrate the launch of her new project, Dark Factory (Meerkat Press)! We talk about how Dark Factory combines a novel with immersive fiction elements to create a new world, and how — no matter what the innovation — it all begins with character. We get into her history of building immersive events and watching what the attendees do with the environment, how the process of writing this book differed from her past ones, the way readers bring their own resonances, what it means to have an immersive experience in the pandemic era, the resonance of Alexander McQueen's Inferno show, and more! Follow Kathe on Twitter and Instagram and follow Dark Factory on Twitter and Instagram • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

Lindsay Lerman is a writer and translator. Her new novel, WHAT ARE YOU (CLASH Books) is out now. Her first book I'm From Nowhere was published in 2019. Her essays, short stories, and poetry have been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Entropy, Hobart, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She is currently adapting her short story Real Love—which first appeared in NY Tyrant Magazine—for the screen. She is represented by Abby Walters at CAA. In the intro David and I talk about Pascal Laugier's MARTYRS (2008). The interview with Lindsay starts at 27:42. In this conversation we get into: locating and living through the cusp of our time, the interconnection between nuance and chaos, dissolution, the unspoken rules of commodification, giving into the productivity of terror, giving yourself up to the universe, barfing into the void, celebrating the irrational, and the importance of play in the face of utility. We also talk about Bataille's philosophy around expenditure and waste as a way to explore Lindsey's outlook and work as an author. WHAT ARE YOU: Hypnotic, dreamlike, lyrical essays tell the story of a woman trapped in a destructive love affair with the universe. Her understanding of power, desire, and complicity must be transformed again and again. Addressed to an amorphous you, Lerman wrestles with the forces of birth and death, creation and destruction—going deep into the subterranean strata of consciousness and back. PRAISE: “An incantatory and hypnotic work of voice, What Are You exists at the apex of creation and destruction, desire and shame, innocence and experience, violence and tenderness, rapture and suffering, hunger and the denial of flesh. To read it is to feel the terror of falling from a great height—but wanting to; maybe even choosing to jump.” - SARAH GERARD, AUTHOR OF SUNSHINE STATE AND TRUE LOVE "Passionate, dispassionate, hypnotic, deadpan, ecstatic, Lindsay Lerman's What Are You, read it now. Now." - KATHE KOJA, AUTHOR OF THE CIPHER SOCIAL: Twitter: @WakeIslandPod Instagram: @wakeislandpod David's Twitter: @raviddice Lindsay's Twitter: @lindsaylerman Lindsay's Instagram: @lindsay.lerman --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/support

We visited Apport Books in Emmaus PA and I brought home a stack of wonderful horror books! With one book from Second and Charles too... I've listed a few books you can find on the shelves that may be of interest to horror fans, Follow Apport Books on IG for certain! https://www.instagram.com/apportusedbooks They post new books regularly and have been a virtual store long before opening last summer, they are no stranger to online orders! Books Mentioned: Dark Gods by TED Klien Let's Go Play at the Addams' by Mendel W. Johnson 666 by Jay Anson in hardcover Some really great pulp crime and all sorts of oddities like little blue books and classics in occultism, philosophy, sci-fi and of course horror. Books I picked up: Dark Hollow by Brian Keene https://amzn.to/39gNDwU Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene https://amzn.to/3vbqlkq She Wakes by Jack Ketchum https://amzn.to/3MsnglR Population Zero by Wrath James White https://amzn.to/3Lag3GS Slither by Edward Lee https://amzn.to/38le97Z Children of No One by Nicole Cushing https://amzn.to/3OAlnFO Slice by Rex Miller Chaingang by Rex Miller Bad Brains by Kathe Koja https://amzn.to/3kaf0uE Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell https://amzn.to/3EIyMa2 Small Horrors by Darcy Coates https://amzn.to/3rOd67c The Unicorn by Hans Holzer https://amzn.to/3Lgmt7u The Science of Vampires by Katherine Ramsland https://amzn.to/3xPCSM6 Grimscribe: His Lives and Works by Thomas Ligotti https://amzn.to/3Kfwro6 00:00 - In the bookstore and books you may want 05:08 - The horror books I bought at Apport Used Books ✮✮✮✮✮✮ Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows! Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories. If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer's perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast. Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com. Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com music used by permission of the artist --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/typicalbooks/message

"Whistling past the graveyard" may be our new favorite phrase!

Kathe Koja has made a career out of embracing immersive fiction. Her new novel, Dark Factory, is perhaps her greatest achievement with the concept. On today's GHOULISH, we talked at length about immersive fiction, Dark Factory, indie publishing, and why creativity should be fun. Visit https://darkfactory.club/ Use discount code KOJA10 when signing up for her new LitReactor class: https://litreactor.com/classes/immersive-fiction-making-it-real-with-kathe-koja Join The Ghoulish Times: https://theghoulishtimes.substack.com/ Join Dog Ears, a writing & publishing newsletter: https://dogears.substack.com/  Browse the books on our webstore: http://perpetualpublishing.com/shop/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pmmpublishing Theme song by Heathenish Kid

Sean M. Thompson returns to talk about Kathe Koja's 1991 novel The Cipher. We discuss Koja's talent at capturing the malaise of being in your 20s and underemployed, urban blight and the perfect conditions for a funhole to sprout on its own. Check out The Cipher: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008LDFLMU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect Check out Sean's press: https://www.facebook.com/Nictitating/ (Outro music is Funhole by Uglyhead)

Kathe Koja is an American author. Her latest book is Velocities: Stories.

Author and Nictitating Books publisher Sean M. Thompson joins us in the Abyss to discuss fast food, tie-in fiction, Twitter tagging etiquette, and Kathe Koja's short story, "Velocity," from her collection, Velocities. We also talk about the animated dark fantasy film The Spine of Night, Bryan Asman's Man, F--- This House, B.R. Yeager's Negative Space, and Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. (Recorded Nov. 6, 2021) Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intostaring Follow Sean M. Thompson on Twitter: @SpookySeanT

Conversation with author of THE CIPHER, BAD BRAINS, VELOCITIES, DARK FACTORY, and more Kathe Koja! CONNECT WITH KATHE HERE: Buy Her Books: https://www.amazon.com/Kathe-Koja/e/B... Twitter: https://twitter.com/KatheKoja Website: https://kathekoja.com/ Dark Factory: https://darkfactory.club/

In which Carla continues to explore the Navidson Record of House of Leaves. This is the third episode; to begin, start with episode 68: Bone-Chimes and Primitive Spiders: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcas-520320/episodes/bone-chimes-and-primitive-spid-85959021 then listen to episode 70: Ergodic: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcas-520320/episodes/ergodic-house-of-leaves-70-94954631https://www.markzdanielewski.comHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780375703768The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780375714412The Cipher by Kathe Koja https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781946154330The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Illustrated Edition https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9798653366215Slade House by David Mitchell https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780812988079Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781907523892Alice Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781909621572The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781416553441Locke and Key vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781600103841The Haunting of Hill House https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780143039983The Haunting of Hill House Audible, narrated by Bernadette Dunne https://amzn.to/3jrA2VRWe Have Always Lived in the Castle Audible, narrated by Bernadette Dunne https://amzn.to/3GgBm7QReferenced works, sources, and recommended reading:Dante's Inferno https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780141195872Rainer Maria Rilke: https://ronnowpoetry.com/contents/rilke/Orpheus.htmlVirgil's The Aeneid https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780143105138M. C. Escher https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9783836529846Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Rudyard Kipling https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781786750488Being and Time by Martin Heidegger https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781438432762The Never-Ending Story by Michael Ende https://amzn.to/3jFl2Uchttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeshttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Orpheus-Greek-mythologyTheme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permissionHow to Support Cupcakes:Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004RCare/Of Vitamins: https://takecareof.com/invites/chr4bwPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/theremightbecupcakesand please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes.Where to Find Cupcakes:Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theremightbecupcakesFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theremightbecupcakesTwitter: @mightbecupcakesInstagram: @theremightbecupcakes and @carlahauntedReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theremightbecupcakes r/theremightbecupcakesGoodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/804047-there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast-groupContact: carla@theremightbecupcakes.comComplete list of ways to listen to the podcast on the sidebar at http://theremightbecupcakes.com

We are delight to return as the official podcast for 2021 Summer Scares! This episode is our first installment of a series covering the 2021 Summer Scares library summer reading program. The Horror Writers’ Association has partnered with Book Riot and Library Journal to curate the Summer Scares reading list, which includes three books each in the Adult, YA, and Middle Grade categories. In 2019, we chatted with the liaisons from each category in LOTF 32, LOTF 34, and LOTF 36. In 2020, we had roundtable-style panel conversations with the authors from each category. You can find these here : LOTF 56, LOTF 57, and LOTF 58. And this year, we're shaking things up yet again! This first episode is extra special, because we begin with a conversation with author Silvia Moreno Garcia, this year's Summer Scares author spokesperson. She is the bestselling author of the novels Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Certain Dark Things, and Untamed Shore, among others. She has also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows (a.k.a. Cthulhu's Daughters). Gods of Jade and Shadow was the 2020 American Library Association Reading List winner in the Fantasy category, appeared on many year's best lists, and won the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Silvia is also the publisher of Innsmouth Free Press, a columnist for The Washington Post, and a book reviewer for NPR. You can follow her on Twitter at @silviamg. In the first half of the episode, we talk to Silvia about her writing and reading history, her previous experience with libraries, her passion projects with her small press Innsmouth Free Press, and her involvement with Summer Scares 2021. Find Silvia: Twitter | Website | Innsmouth Free Press In the second half of the show, Mackenzie and Lisa discuss the three adult books for Summer Scares 2021. The adult picks for the 2021 Summer Scares program are: The Hunger by Alma Katsu (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018) The Cipher by Kathe Koja (originally published 1991 by Dell but reissued Meerkat Press, 2020) Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, Translator Jonathan Wright (Penguin Books, 2018) To discover more regarding the Summer Scares program (including excellent resources!), check out the Summer Scares information website. And for an in-depth resource, here is the Summer Scares Programming Guide.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://forthenovellovers.wordpress.com/2021/05/24/the-cipher-by-kathe-koja/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Kathe Koja is an American writer and producer. Her latest book is Velocities            

This week, we're excited to have the opportunity to welcome Mike Thorn to the show to celebrate the release of his latest novel, Shelter for the Damned, which is out now through JournalStone Publishing! Looking for a secluded place to hang out and smoke cigarettes, teenagers Mark, Adam, and Scott stumble across a mysterious shack in a suburban field. The friends had been through this area countless times, but this is the first time they remember seeing the shack. Adam and Scott aren't all that impressed, but the first time Mark enters The Shack, it feels like the perfect escape and he already feels the pull of The Shacks energy. Over time, Mark realizes there is an intelligence residing in The Shack, one that expects things from Mark in exchange for the refuge it provides from his life. As Mark grows more dependent on The Shack, his life starts changing in ways he could've never imagined. Shelter for the Damned is loaded with nightmarish scenes and if the idea of a dark coming-of-age story meeting Kathe Koja's The Cipher intrigues you, this is definitely the book for you. Throughout the course of the episode, we talked about Shelter for the Damned, his influences, coming of age narratives, toxic masculinity, suburban horror, Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, possession films and so much more. We had a lot of fun recording this episode and hanging out with Mike. We hope you guys enjoy the conversation as much as we did!

(For the full notes with links, visit booklistonline.com/shelf-care) On this episode of Booklist’s Shelf Care: The Podcast, Susan gets real scared…Summer Scare(d), that is! Ha ha ha ha ha, good one. Hear from author Silvia Moreno-Garcia and librarian horror expert Becky Spratford, librarians Konrad Stump and Evelyn Gathu, and Booklist’s own Julia Smith about this year’s Summer Scares program, from how the books are selected to that one author in the UP who can only be reached if you call the gas station in town. Here’s what we talked about: Summer Scares 2021 list: The Hunger, by Alma Katsu (2018) The Cipher, by Kathe Koja (reissued by Meerkat Press, 2020) Frankenstein in Baghdad, by Ahmed Saadawi, translated by Jonathan Wright (2018) Undead Girl Gang, by Lily Anderson (2018) The Diviners, by Libba Bray (2012) The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline (2017) Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, by Hal Johnson and illustrated by Tom Mead (2015) Ollie’s Odyssey, written and illustrated by William Joyce (2016) Whichwood, by Tahereh Mafi (2017) RA for All: Horror Women in Horror month Horror Writers Association Summer Scares 2020 Program Guide (2021 guide is coming soon…) UP Notable Books 2020 Yoopernatural Haunts: Upper Peninsula Paranormal Research Society Case Files, by Brad Blair, Tim Ellis, and Steve LaPlaunt The Ballad of Black Tom, by Victor LaValle Case File 13: Zombie Kid, by J. Scott Savage In the Valley of the Sun, by Andy Davidson Goosebumps series, by R. L. Stine Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen Gammell

Back in March, Kathe Koja was on the verge of leading a live reading/performance right here in the library, featuring a story from her latest book, Velocities. Koja is an award-winning author lauded for her ability to blend genres and manifest themes of transcendence amidst some of the most unlikely and unconventional characters and narrative circumstances. We spoke with her about how writers can  maintain motivation, heading into 2021.    Music by Chad Stocker.  https://kathekoja.com/   

"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves," said George Orwell, but he died at 47, so what does he know? To celebrate turning 50, I use an obscure Woody Allen movie to talk about why I can't take stock of my life. Then the good part: I ask nearly 40 guests of the podcast one question, "What do you wish you'd done before the pandemic?" (You can skip right to that at 18:45.) Participants include Witold Rybczynski, Kathe Koja, John Holl, Emily Flake, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, Ian Kelley, David Townsend, John Bertagnolli, Jennifer Hayden, Richard Kadrey, Joan Marans Dim, Liniers, Sven Birkerts, Barbara Nessim, David Leopold, Tess Lewis, Ken Krimstein, Michael Shaw, Dmitry Samarov, Maria Alexander, Paul C. Tumey, Kyle Cassidy, Henry Wessells, Warren Woodfin, ES Glenn, Philip Boehm, Woodrow Phoenix, Rian Hughes, Alta L. Price, Derf Backderf, Frank Santoro, Boaz Roth, Carol Tyler, David Mikics, Michael Gerber, Walter Bernard, Whitney Matheson and Dean Haspiel! Follow me on Twitter and Instagram • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

It's the 8th annual Guest List episode! Thirty of this year's Virtual Memories Show guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2020 and the books they hope to get to in 2021! Guests include Derf Backderf, Philip Boehm, Ruben Bolling, Betsy Bonner, Henri Cole, Joan Marans Dim, Emily Flake, Jonathan W. Gray, Tom Hart, Arthur Hoyle, Rian Hughes, Richard Kadrey, Ben Katchor, Kathe Koja, Tess Lewis, Ellen Lindner, Margot Mifflin, David Mikics, Otto Penzler, Woodrow Phoenix, Darryl Pinckney, Alta Price, Steve Ronin, Dmitry Samarov, Michael Shaw, Stoya, Benjamin Taylor, Jeff Trexler, John Vercher, and Sheila Williams! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

For the next few weeks, "A Little Too Quiet" becomes "A Little Too Spooky."   We'll feature three local authors reading short stories that uniquely conjure eerie, scary, or just downright spooky ambiance.    This week, Kathe Koja reads a story from her recently released collection, 'Velocities.'  https://kathekoja.com/     Theme music provided by  Steve Greene - https://stevegreene.bandcamp.com/ Additional background music by John Duffy of Pato Y Pato - https://patoypato.bandcamp.com/ 

Welcome BACK to Haunting Season, a weekly storytelling podcast about life and the afterlife, hosted by Joshua Sterling Bragg and Cody Dugan. New episodes every Friday! Subscribe In Episode 1 of the Haunting Season Podcast, we sat down with author Kathe Koja to discuss her novel The Cipher, religion, and our personal relationships to death. Throughout our conversation, we stumble upon topics including how different religions and cultures view death, along with our personal fears, beliefs, and comforts on the subject. Follow for more updates on the Haunting Season Podcast: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hauntingseason/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/haunting_season Original music “Spiritual Machines” by North Innsbruck made exclusively for Haunting Season. Available on Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/north-innsbruck/1446317322 "#HauntingSeason #HorrorPodcast #TheCipher"

This week, hosts Scott Kemper (aka Richard Gerlach), Matt Brandenburg, and author Michael Patrick Hicks discuss the Netflix movie Da 5 Bloods, the crime noir novel Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby, Death Head Press's second splatter-western book Hunger on the Chisholm Trail by M. Ennenbach, and Stephen Graham Jones's latest horror novel, The Only Good Indians. Then, we take a deep, spoiler-filled dive into Kathe Koja's recently re-issued polarizing classic, The Cipher! The theme music, "Insidious," was created by Purple Planet Music and is used here under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0. Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intostaring 

This week we're reviewing the Shudder original film, SPIRAL. Our staff picks this episode are Martin, The Fly (1986), Blood Vessel, Don't Torture a Duckling, Hoax, The Amityville Horror, Amityville II: The Possession, Umbrella Academy, Critters: A New Binge, The Barn, Lovecraft Country, The Plumbers by Terry M West, and The Cipher by Kathe Koja.

Kathe Koja (author of Velocities, The Cipher, and Dark Factory) and I talk about immersive fiction, the nature of evil, and how artists can push the boundaries of their craft. The first half of this discussion is spoiler free, and the second half is a spoiler-full discussion of her story "At Eventide" from her collection Velocities.

Discussing the horror legacies of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein & Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House with living legend Kathe Koja, author of The Cypher, with re-release coming in November 2020 from Meerkat Press. 

This week, we're excited to welcome Kathe Koja to the show to celebrate the release of her new collection Velocities and the upcoming re-release of The Cipher, both on Meerkat Press. This was a truly special conversation as Kathe's work has had a huge impact on all three of us as Horror fans and she is truly a master of the genre. Her works have a legendary reputation among genre fans, and for good reason. Her prose has a darkly poetic quality and is infused with a raw, unfiltered energy that crackles on every page and consumes readers, keeping them immersed in the unique worlds and the lives of her characters until the very last page. This was an engaging conversation with one of our favorite authors and we're excited to be able to share it with you. We had a great time and learned so much from Kathe, we look forward to having her on the show again in the future. If you have yet to read Kathe's work, a good place to start would be Velocities. It 's a perfect showcase of the many different styles she writes in. During the course of the episode, we discuss The Dark Factory, immersive narratives, collaborating with other artists, bringing your experiences to books as a reader, social isolation, how horror can tackle different emotions, the history of The Cipher at Dell Abyss, handling stories that get shelved, battling your craft, Velocities and the story selection process, working with Meerkat, discussing Dr. Seuss, a plan for a Velocities live event, options, humor in horror and so much more.

On this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, discuss Skin by Kathe Koja [5:30] and The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill [38:25]. If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:14:00 for brief final remarks. Next month, the two books up on the slab will be: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver The Overstory by Richard Powers Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!

Writer, performer, director and producer Kathe Koja rejoins the show to talk about her new story collection, VELOCITIES (Meerkat Press). We talk how she's coping with the pandemic, the importance of having a good working relationship with chaos, and why Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker is more apropos than ever. She gets into her work in immersive theater and how it needs to be reimagined in this era of social distancing, while teasing out details of her new project, Dark Factory. We also get into the upcoming reissue of her cult novel The Cipher this September, why she's bingeing on Babylon Berlin, the one thing she hoarded when things went sideways, why it's important to be open to the messages the world sends us, and what to do when you find a pill lying on the floor in a hospital cafeteria. • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

Kathe Koja är författaren till kultförklarde skräckboken The cipher. Kathe berättar om sitt livslånga författarskap, kreativitet och konst.

We're chatting with Detroit-based author Kathe Koja about the immersive qualities of her writing - not only in the way in which she creates vivid descriptions and dynamic characters through her words but also through her own theatre company. Koja has a new book of short stories, Velocities, coming out in April. She is currently working on a conceptual "book" that will utterly defy the boundaries of sequential pages between two covers, (it's called "Dark Factory.") Koja has been honored with the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award - she writes short fiction, young adult fiction. She is consistently redefining the genre we would conventionally call "horror."  Referenced in this episode: Tyke The Little Mutt: https://www.abebooks.com/signed-first-edition/TYKE-Little-Mutt-wDJ-author-signed/383430028/bd Also, images of her 1990 novel, Cipher, and her upcoming release, Velocites: Also: A Dead Man in Deptford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dead_Man_in_Deptford Green Velvet - Destination Unknownhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gseTQGX6rY  & more news from Kathe Koja: https://kathekoja.com/news-1/2019/5/15/dark-factory-and-patreon 

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who's downloaded or listened to our first batch of episodes! We're looking forward to the rest of Season 1 of "A Little Too Quiet," where we'll have more conversations that look at the ways in which libraries have evolved over the last quarter-century. Featured interview guests include author Kathe Koja (scheduled for a Book Launch Party & Immersive Theatre Performance here at the library on April 25), and musician/producer Nadir Omowale (a Ferndale resident, recently featured in our Summer Concert Series, who was raised with a great appreciation for libraries and community engagement). We're also looking forward to talking to Joe Grimm (Detroit Free Press Reporter, and author of The Faygo Book), visual artist Dalia Reyes (exhibiting here on June 21), and singer/songwriter & poet Carolyn Striho. 

The Decade of Horror II: https://soundcloud.com/user-564624820/the-decade-of-horror-ii The Decade of Horror III: https://soundcloud.com/user-564624820/the-decade-of-horror-iii What are your favorite horror films from the last 10 years? Hosts Christopher Funderburg & John Cribbs are joined by S.A. Bradley, host of Hellbent for Horror and author of the Rondo Award-nominated Screaming for Pleasure, to examine the Best Horror of the Decade by each sharing his respective list of 5 exceptional horror movies released between 2010 and 2019. As a bonus, the Pink Smoke reached out to writers, producers and experts of the genre to contribute their own Top 5 favorites. In Part One of this three-part series they discuss trends in the decade in horror, reveal the first of their own picks and dig into the selections of guest contributors such as legendary horror author Kathe Koja, filmmaker Mattie Do, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Grady Hendrix and iconic horror star Tristan Risk. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.

In this podcast we chat with Adam Nevill about self-publishing, Joe R. Lansdale about genre-hopping, Josh Malerman about the impact of Bird Box‘s film adaptation, Alma Katsu on historical research, Damien Angelica Walters on self-editing fiction, Stephen Graham Jones about language and word choice, Jon Padgett on mental health and parenthood, Kathe Koja on performative … Continue reading

This podcast features two award-winning speculative fiction authors reading to a live audience at Windsor’s Phog Lounge. Coming to us from London Ontario, Timothy S. Johnston is an award-winning writer of futuristic and contemporary mystery/thrillers. He has won multiple awards including the CYGNUS, the CLUE , and the Science Fiction Epic Award. In this episode, he reads from his lates award-winning novel, The War Beneath. Next is the Detroit-based author of over a dozen novels and countless short stories, Kathe Koja. She has been a major voice in genre fiction for many years. Her stories frequently concern characters who have been in some way marginalized by society. She has also won many awards, including the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award for her first novel, The Cipher, and the Deathrealm Award for Strange Angels. Kathe has since branched off into other genres, including young adult and multi-media projects, and she shares some of her work with our ChiZine Series audience at the Phog. Find out more about these authors:https://timothysjohnston.com/https://kathekoja.com/blog/

Kathe Koja writes novels and short fiction, and creates, directs and produces immersive performances and events with a rotating ensemble of artists. VELOCITIES, her second short fiction collection, is forthcoming in 2020, along with a reprint of her Bram Stoker Award winning debut novel, THE CIPHER. DARK FACTORY is her newest fiction and performance project. We talked books, artistic inspirations, her neverending obsession with Wuthering Heights, the cathartic medicine that is horror, real life ghost encounters & the power of story. Find her on Twitter & IG @KatheKoja & find her on Patreon creating her latest multimedia experience, DARK FACTORY.

Hash it out with award-winning writer Kathe Koja as we discuss her love of immersive theater (and dissect her previous night's performance at StokerCon), why her groundbreaking debut novel The Cipher will always be The Funhole in her heart, what caused her to move into the YA world after her dark adult novels and why it's harder to write for a younger audience, how she accidentally wrote her Under the Poppy trilogy, the allure of writing historical novels, how being in the presence of Kate Wilhelm at Clarion changed her life, what she got out of her many collaborations with Barry Malzberg and others, plus much, much more.

Hello! Welcome to our second episode, where we have our first Chocolate Frog Card interview with Isa, or as you may know her - Chromat1cs. Don't forget to send us your thoughts and Opinions via email or Tumblr! Here's everything we mentioned this episode: Check Out by confundedgryffindor Author Sirius drabble by confundedgryffindor A Kiss Won’t Mean Goodbye by FivePips Gongshow by FivePips Self Defense by Cate-32 It’s Not the Cold that Seeps into his Bones by YouBlitheringIdiot The Creator by thediariesofastoriagreengrass Are You Gonna Be My Girl by softsiriusblack and scamandergenes Hey Drunk, I’m Tonks by asktheboywholived, sirussly and siriussly-serious Tarot Card ficlets by January3693 Seeds of Blood by Purplechimera HP Daddyfest HP Drizzle fest Wolfstar Games Wolfstar Big Bang Chromat1cs on AO3 Chromat1cs on tumblr The Moon Man by flora_tyronelle Let Nothing You Dismay by montparnasse Deaf/Blind fic recs from wolfstarhq Forever is a State of Mind (orphaned) Isa’s favourite published authors are Madeleine Miller, Kathe Koja, Mark Z. Danielewski Chapter 2 of Underglass by Chromat1cs (published since we recorded) Peregrinitos by Chromat1cs Theme Music by Isabella Ness

This episode features "KIT: Some Assembly Required" written by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2016. Reprinted in the April 2018 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine. Read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/koja-scholz_04_18_reprint Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld

This episode features "KIT: Some Assembly Required" written by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2016. Reprinted in the April 2018 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine. Read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/koja-scholz_04_18_reprint Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld

In this podcast Kathe Koja talks about The Cipher, Christopher Marlowe, the strangest story she’s ever written, and much more. About Kathe Koja Kathe Koja is a writer, performer, director and independent producer. Her work crosses and combines genres, from historical to contemporary to YA to horror. Her novels including The Cipher, Skin, Buddha Boy, Talk, and the … Continue reading

Although perhaps best known to BBfBP listeners as an author who helped redefine the horror genre in the early 1990s, Kathe Koja has written novels that span numerous genres. Her 2011 novel Under the Poppy is a romance set against the backdrop of the Franco-Prussian War, featuring a band of demimonde survivors whose activities and intrigues influence goings-on at the highest levels of society. When is a hooker with a heart of gold character more than just a hooker with a heart of gold? What are some of the interesting things contemporary writers can do with a historical setting? Does this book contain the secret XXX origin story for Bojack Horseman? Find out in this month's episode of Bad Books for Bad People. Find us at BadBooksBadPeople.com, on Twitter @badbooksbadppl, Instagram @badbooksbadpeople and on Facebook. You can discover where to get all the books featured on Bad Books for Bad People on our reading list.

Kathe Koja’s award-winning work spans multiple genres, from historical to horror to YA novels to immersive performance events, including  the UNDER THE POPPY trilogy and the seminal horror classics THE CIPHER and SKIN, and has been called “powerful” (The New York Times), “riveting” (Publishers Weekly), and “hardcore” (The Village Voice). She lives in the Detroit area. http:Visit Tamara and Alistair at their websites. Alistair’s novel, THE ANGEL ALEJANDRO is available! Sign up HERE for Thorne & Cross book updates, special deals, upcoming guests on Haunted Nights LIVE! and more. This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned solely by the Authors on the Air Global Radio

We talk with Kathe Koja, author of THE CIPHER (which won the Bram Stoker Award) and other novels. Kathe is also an immersive playwright; her play DRACULA just had a sold-out run. With panelists Pete Rawlik, Joe Pulver, Matthew Carpenter, Salome Jones, Rick Lai, and me, Mike Davis.

More than 30 of the year's Virtual Memories Show guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2015 and the books they hope to get to in 2016! Guests include Derf Backderf, Anthea Bell, John Clute, Michael Dirda, Matt Farber, Jonathan Galassi, Brad Gooch, Langdon Hammer, Liz Hand, Jennifer Hayden, Ron Hogan, Dylan Horrocks, David Jaher, Kathe Koja, Jonathan Kranz, Peter Kuper, Lorenzo Mattotti, JD McClatchy, Scott McCloud, Michael Meyer, Dan Perkins (a.k.a Tom Tomorrow), Summer Pierre, Witold Rybczynski, Dmitry Samarov, Elizabeth Samet, Liesl Schillinger, Posy Simmonds, Levi Stahl, Rupert Thomson, Irvine Welsh, Warren Woodfin, Jim Woodring, Claudia Young, and me, Gil Roth! Check out their selections at our site!

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on November 18th, 2015 with guests Kathe Koja & Robert Levy Kathe Koja Kathe Koja’s 16 books include the Under the Poppy trilogy – Under the Poppy, The Mercury Waltz, and The Bastards’ Paradise – as well as The Cipher, Skin, and Kink; her young […]

Novelist and immersive theater director Kathe Koja joins the show to talk about her new novel, The Bastards' Paradise, the arc of her career from splatterpunk (hey, it was the '90s) to YA to the 19th C. romance of her Poppy trilogy, the meaning of Detroit, her life-changing experience at a staging of Sleep No More, the joys (and perils) of defying genre conventions, and more! Then John Clute returns to the show to talk about establishing the Clute Science Fiction Library @ Telluride! Also, he uses the word "haecceity" in conversation, which is a Virtual Memories first!

This month on The Writer and the Critic, your valiant hosts, Ian Mond and Kirstyn McDermott, venture forth to the home of their special guest: Galactic Suburbian, Alex Pierce. Having been rewarded with red wine and orange cake, they discuss the origins of Galactic Suburbia as well as the future of its brand new sister podcast, Galactic Chat, then proceed to paddle about in the murky waters of genre and gender. Alex admits a literary crush on Alastair Reynolds. Ian confesses mild paranoia about his reading habits. Kirstyn warns that her inner feminist is pretty much permanently on the loose now. Oh, and Happy Birthday, Galactic Suburbia! Alex has chosen Bold As Love by Gwyneth Jones as her book for this month and so begins a rollicking roundtable on rock stars, romance and revolution. For those wishing to avoid spoilers -- and there are quite a few -- the discussion of this novel begins at 22:30 of the podcast and ends around 45:30. The official podcast books for March are My Name is Will by Jess Winfield, which Ian has recommended (but has a little trouble remembering), and Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja, which Kirstyn has chosen (and may or may not squee about). For your convenience once again, the starting points are 45:30 for My Name is Will and 01:00:00 for Under the Poppy. For a final wrap-up and preview of future podcasting goodness, tune back in by 01:31:30. For next month's podcast, Ian has chosen The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz and Kirstyn has picked Liar by Justine Larbalestier. Plus, there will be a third, listener-recommended title: Above/Below by Stephanie Campisi and Ben Peek. And finally, a heads-up for May when Ian and Kirstyn will be discussing the Black Out / All Clear duology by Connie Willis, as recommended by another listener. With over a thousand pages between the two books, your thoughtful hosts decided to let you know well in advance. See, they really are lovely people! *** Just a reminder that The Writer and the Critic adopts a book club approach to its discussion and will assume its listeners have either read the books in question or don't care if they find out that the plucky and generously endowed heroine comes to the realisation that she is simply an avatar trapped within a highly complex but ultimately futile online multi-player gaming system. There will almost certainly be spoilers, so you are encouraged to read the chosen titles ahead of time. It'll be much more fun that way and Ian and Kirstyn won't get near as many death threats! ***

This month's episode of The Writer and the Critic sees your intrepid hosts, Ian Mond and Kirstyn McDermott, pack up their gear and travel to the gothic Victorian mansionette of their special guest: Melbourne horror writer, Felicity Dowker. The three of them discuss the recent controversy surrounding Bitch Media's list of 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader and the problematic removal of three books from said list. Ian mentions a blog post Kirstyn previously wrote about the issue. Talk of censorship, feminism and the complicated nature of list-making enues. Ian and Kirstyn then chat with Felicity about her own work, the flavour of horror that she writes, and why, before launching into a review of her chosen book for the month -- Death Most Definite by Brisbane author, Trent Jamieson. For those wishing to avoid spoilers -- and there are many -- the discussion of this novel begins at minute 28:00 of the podcast and ends around 49:00. You're welcome. The official podcast books for March are Last Days by Brian Evenson (recommended by Ian) and White Cat by Holly Black (Kirstyn's pick). For your convenience once again, the starting points are 49:00 for White Cat and 01:08:00 for Last Days. For a final wrap-up and some tasteless, non-book related jokes from Ian, make sure you've tuned back in by the 01:32:30 point. Note to selves: it is possibly not the best idea to imbibe wine while podcasting. Next month, The Writer and the Critic hits the road again to meet with another special guest: Alexandra Pierce from Galactic Suburbia. Alex has chosen Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones as her recommended read. Ian has recommended My Name is Will by Jess Winfield, while Kirstyn has chosen Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja. Just a reminder that The Writer and the Critic has now adopted more of a book club approach to its discussion and will assume its listeners have either read the books in question or don't care if they find out that the protagonist falls in love with a hairless ferret only to discover in a shocking last page revelation that said ferret is actually a killer whale in disguise. There will almost certainly be spoilers, so you are encouraged to read the chosen titles ahead of time. It'll be much more fun that way and Ian and Kirstyn won't get near as many death threats!