Podcasts about weirdbook

Join Justin as he chats with author John R. Fultz about his Scaleborn series, collecting comics, crafting narratives from characters, the nostalgia of the early 90's, and more!John R. Fultz bio:“I am an author of fantasy and weird horror.My latest novel is WE LAUGH AT DEATH. It takes place in the "Scaleborn" universe, but these books can be read in any order. IMMACULATE SCOUNDRELS (2024) was the first book in the series, and TIMES NEVER CHANGE (2024), was the second. My "Shaper Trilogy" series includes the novels SEVEN PRINCES, SEVEN KINGS, and SEVEN SORCERERS from Orbit/Hachette (2012/2013). WORLDS BEYOND WORLDS (2021) is an acclaimed collection of dark fantasy tales from DMR Books. DARKER THAN WEIRD (2023) from Jackanapes Press collects ten years' worth of weird horror tales. THE REVELATIONS OF ZANG (2013) collects twelve interlinked stories of dark fantasy set in the magical World of Zang.My short fiction has appeared in YEAR'S BEST WEIRD FICTION, WEIRD TALES, SHATTERED SHIELDS, WAY OF THE WIZARD, BOOK OF BLADES, NEITHER BEG NOR YIELD, CTHULHU'S REIGN, THE BOOK OF CTHULHU II, THAT IS NOT DEAD, WEIRDBOOK, BLACK GATE, LIGHTSPEED, SPACE & TIME, THE AUDIENT VOID, and other places both wonderful and strange.”Intro and outro theme created by Wyrm. Support Wyrm by visiting the Serpents Sword Records bandcamp page (linked below):https://serpentsswordrecords.bandcamp.com/Monsters, Madness and Magic Official Website. Monsters, Madness and Magic on Linktree.Monsters, Madness and Magic on Instagram.Monsters, Madness and Magic on Facebook.Monsters, Madness and Magic on Twitter.Monsters, Madness and Magic on YouTube

Rotting in the BRIG this week, we have another returning guest, Paul R. McNamee! Paul is a talented author and lover of all things pulp… who's short stories have appeared in multiple anthologies and magazines including STORYHACK, WEIRDBOOK, and BLOOD ON THE BLADE. And in 2021, he released the superhero novel Hour of the Robot!. His brand new collection, HEROES AMONG SHADOWS, was just released last month from Frizzen Flash Press and we're gonna talk all about it! ----------------------------------------Retro Ridoctopus is:• Parasite Steve (read)• 8-Bit Alchemy (listen) • Coopster Gold (join) • Nintenjoe (subscribe)----------------------------------------All original heavy metal music by Enchanted Exile Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/retro-ridoctopus/490f6e7f-8868-4d93-81bd-da6904cbc010

Pro tip: if you see bones surrounding a place you are trying to get to- you don't want to get to that place!Garden of the Gods - a recent publication in a collection of stories called "Strange Lands"Ed Burkley - a PhD in social psychology and has published other horror stories in Weirdbook, Year's Best Body Horror Anthology and Spooky Isles Book of Horror VIInstagram - @marleys-ghostsTwitter - @GhostsMarleyemail - marleysghostspodcast@gmail.com (cut and paste please, link doesn't work)Sleep Well!

Captain Carthy's Bride by K.G. Anderson. Narrated by Rebecca Stern. Hosted by J.S. Arquin. #fantasy #ireland #selkie    Footsteps coming down the cliffside trail. A rattle and clank from the pathway suggested that someone had set down a fishing rod and a bucket of bait. The young sea captain, for sure! Sheila imagined him raising the admiralty binoculars he wore on a leather strap around his neck. Sheila was ready. She lay naked, her flame-red hair spread out like a corona. She lay with delicate ankles crossed, pale arms flung wide, and small breasts bared to the sun's heat. Behind her on the rocks a sealskin lay where she'd placed it earlier, glistening in the sun. A selkie's coat.   Author  K.G. Anderson writes short fiction as if it were fact. (Maybe, somewhere, it is.) Her stories include urban fantasy, space opera, horror, alternate history, Weird West tales, science fiction, and mystery. They appear in anthologies including The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories and More Alternative Truths and in magazines such as Weirdbook and Galaxy's Edge. She's done narration for StarShipSofa. K.G. lives in Seattle with her partner, bookseller Tom Whitmore. Find her on Twitter @writerway and online at writerway.com/fiction    Narrator Rebecca Stern has a voice that has been described as expressive, articulate, song-like, and evocative of warm bourbon and milk…if you like that kind of thing.  Her forty plus years as a professional violinist has instilled in her a deep appreciation for music of all kinds, including the music of language.  She loves nothing more than exploring the rhythm and flow of a script…from short narrations and poetry to novels…and sharing that with the listener. Find her on Twitter and Facebooks @VerySternWord and at www.verysternword.com   Please help support The Overcast. Become a Patron Today! Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or Spotify so you never miss an episode. While you're there, don't forget to leave a review!      

Welcome to episode #746 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #746 - Host: Mitch Joel. Have you ever felt like an outsider? Like you don't belong? Like the things that you like, don't seem to be the things that everybody else likes? Growing up as a Russian immigrant in West Texas, Olga Khazan always felt that there was something different about her. This feeling permeated her life, and as she embarked on a science writing career, she realized there were psychological connections between this feeling of being an outsider and both her struggles and successes later in life. She decided to reach out to other people who were unique in their environments to see if they had experienced similar feelings of alienation, and if so, how they overcame them. This brings us to her new book, Weird - The power of being an outsider in an insider world. Olga is a staff writer for The Atlantic, covering health, gender, and science. Prior to that, she was The Atlantic’s Global editor. She has also written for a myriad of other publications. Weird is her first book. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 49:39. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Olga Khazan/ Weird - The power of being an outsider in an insider world. The Atlantic. Follow Olga on Instagram. Follow Olga on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

"My life changed when I read Dracula at age 10 and then again when I saw Star Wars at 13. Telling true stories came much later, but to me, it’s all interconnected.  My latest book, Tales for the Camp Fire: A Charity Anthology Benefiting Wildfire Relief, came out in May 2019. Northern California’s horror writers came together to raise money for survivors of last year’s devastating wildfire. Contributors include Nancy Etchemendy, Dana Fredsti, Ross Lockwood, Erika Mailman, Gene O’Neill, and more. It was my honor to serve as editor for the project. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die guidebook to cemeteries around the world, came out in a gloriously illustrated full-color hardcover from Black Dog & Leventhal Books in October 2017. The UK edition was published in paperback by Sphere Books. Part cemetery history, part travel memoir Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel collects my essays from Gothic.Net, Morbid Outlook, Eleven Eleven, and Morbid Curiosity magazine, alongside pieces written specifically for the book. The revised second edition was published by Automatism Press in July 2017.  My space opera trilogy In The Wake of the Templars — The Dangerous Type, Kill By Numbers, and No More Heroes — were published by Night Shade Books in 2015. Publishers Weekly said the trilogy brought grimdark to space opera.  Lost Angels, the first book in the As Above, So Below series, is the story of the succubus Lorelei, who pursues the angel Azaziel, only to find herself possessed by a mortal girl’s ghost. That first novel, co-written with Brian Thomas, was originally published by Black Bed Sheet Books under the title As Above, So Below. A revised second edition came out in April 2016 as Lost Angels, published by Automatism Press. A sequel called Angelus Rose is in the works.  Between 1996 and 2006, I edited the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. I still believe curiosity is a radical, transformative trait. Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox, and Unusual a collection of some of my favorite essays drawn from the magazine was published by Scribner in 2009.  My travel essays have appeared on Mental Floss, The Daily Beast, GothicBeauty.com, as well as darkening the pages of Search magazine, two Traveler’s Tales books, and the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person (edited by Clint Catalyst and Michelle Tea). I explore graveyards as travel destinations regularly at CemeteryTravel dot com.  My short fiction has been anthologized in Best New Horror #27, Strange California, The Haunted Mansion Project: Year One, Sins of the Sirens: 14 Tales of Dark Desire, and nEvermore!: Tales of Murder, Mystery, and the Macabre.  My stories have appeared most recently in the magazines Occult Detective Quarterly, Space & Time, and Weirdbook.

AD Free StarShipSofa No 596 K.G. AndersonStarShipSofa No 596 K.G. Anderson.mp3Main Fiction: "Rowboat"Originally published in Metamorphosis K.G. Anderson is a Seattle-based writer, gardener, dancer, and cat-herder. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines and anthologies ranging from Galaxy's Edge and Weirdbook to the B Cubed Press Alternative Truths series, and are online at Factor Four Magazine, Ares Magazine and Far-Fetched Fables. She narrated StarShipSofa No 530, "The Stone Age Gap." K.G. is a graduate of the Viable Paradise and Taos Toolbox workshops. Find her online at writerway.com/fiction or on twitter @writerway.Narrated by: Farah Naz RishiFarah Naz Rishi is a Pakistani-American Muslim writer and voice actor, but in another life, she’s worked stints as a lawyer, a video game journalist, and an editorial assistant. She received her B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College, her J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School, and her love of weaving stories from the Odyssey Writing Workshop. When she’s not writing, she’s probably hanging out with video game characters. You can find her at home in Philadelphia, or on Twitter at @far_ah_way. Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H Sturgis See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're back & we're talking Yithians again, because like DEVO and the Yithians we must repeat.Wait, are the members of DEVO Yithians?   This episode is brought to you by Found Item Clothing dot com and bunny slippers dot com Subscribe to PGttCM with DB Spitzer and Sara Fee wherever you subscribe to podcasts, we use podbean and applepodcasts   Check out our new website over at WWW.PGttCM.com! Check out new PGttCM merch over at PGttCM.threadless.com Follow on twitter, facebook, and instagram at PGttCM and youtube at “People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos” Written and Edited by Daniel Spitzer Audio by Sara Fee and Daniel Spitzer Music by Kevin McLeod The Chamber, Oppressive Gloom, The Sky of our Ancestors   Help the show by sharing/rating/liking or 5 star giving wherever you listen to or rate podcasts Buy a cool shirt from pgttcm.threadless.com. PGTTCM is part of the dark myths collective. Learn more at Dark Myths.ORG   Music:Lost Time Decine Oppressive Gloom The Chamber   Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/    Help support the show by going to PayPal.me/pgttcm and donate a buck or 5, or pgttcm.podbean.com and become a patron. And check out weirdbook-magazine.com

  A new system of booking guests has led to this week's new guest, author Paul Lubaczewski! Paul is the smartest comedian I know, combining literary fiction with horror comedy to create something different from everything else. Paul has spent a lot of time crafting short stories that have been published in a multitude of literary magazines and now he's setting his sights on longer forms of fiction. Mr. Frank starts the show not knowing a great deal about Paul and by the end of the show they he is prepared to propose marriage. Listen to the evolution of love on this week's episode of Bizzone!   #GiveUsTheGong

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Zombieland is a super fun movie, but does it have something more to say about the way we see our society?  Today on the Horror Pod Class we are going to take a look at Zombieland and some other post-apocalyptic movies and books to see what they have to say about wish to just "burn it all down."  02:00- Tyler is reading tons and tons of academic literature to get ready for his summer teaching gig, Truman State University's Zombie Scholars Academy.  One paper in particular that we are going to talk more about today is "Zombieland and the Inversion of the Subaltern Zombie"  by David Christopher from the University of Victoria.  Click on the link to read it or just bust out your copy of Intellect Horror Studies, Volume 7 Number 1 (April 2016).  Tyler is also watching Rain on Netflix, which he says is pretty darn good. 03:30- Mike is reading We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill.  So far, it is an excellent collection of short horror fiction, if you are interested just click the link and head over to Amazon to read more and preorder. 05:00- You can support the Horror Pod Class by heading on over to Signal Horizon's Patreon page. It helps us to keep the lights on and we would love to provide some really cool Patreon perks, like the ability for you to ask questions of our really cool guests.  We recently had an excellent interview with Weirdbook editor Douglas Draa, it was Horror Pod Class extra credit episode #4. 06:15-  Looking for some free horror fiction around the internet?  You can sign up for Kindle Unlimited for free, but it is kind of hard to navigate and not all of the content is good.  In fact, in can be a downright pain to get to the good stuff, but check out this article where we discuss 6 horror books on Kindle Unlimited that really do make signing up worth it. 09:30-  Lets call class to session, ring a bell, and shoot a zombie.  Twice. 26:00-  Two books that we talk about are On the Beach by Nevil Shute and Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank.  Two totally different takes on nuclear apocalypse, but both worth a read.  Click on the links to head on over to Amazon and pick up a copy, either new, used, or eBook.  On the Beach was also made into a film in 1959.  Don't forget to hit up the Horror Pod Class Facebook group, let us know what you think of the podcast and what films, books, and topics you think we should discuss next.  You can follow Mike on Goodreads and Tyler on Twitter.  Make sure you also check out Signal Horizon for the latest horror news, reviews, and analysis.  Until then, class dismissed!  

Class is back in session with an extra special and enlightening interview with the editor of Weirdbook, Douglas Draa.  Doug and I talk about the magazine, where he wants to take it in the future, how he handles the mountains of submissions he gets, and much more! Want to know more about Weirdbook Magazine?  You can head on over to Signal Horizon where we have deep dive reviews of the latest two issues, Weirdbook #37 and Weirdbook #38. Click here to visit Weirdbook's website or you can head on over to Wildside press to check out some of the great books they publish. Weirdbook has a Facebook page too!  Head on over, like and follow Weirdbook to keep up with all the latest news from Doug and the crew. Doug recently had a short story, "Fishin 'Boots" published in Turn to Ash volume 3.  Find out more about the Turn to Ash weird fiction series on their website. This fall, Doug has an anthology of short fiction that he has edited from multiple authors named "What October Brings" set to be published by Celaeno Press.  Mark your calendars, it is due out this October.

This episode we talk about an ancient city and ask, "Hey, how did the moonbeasts conquer the Men of Leng? Also we talk about whitches a few episodes too late, and Zac A Fugeson talks about the Mythos & more...Written by DBSAudio by DBS & LWS Music by Kevin McLeodEdited and Produced by DBSPGttCM is a member of the Dark Myths Colectivedarkmyths.org Sponsored byFoundItemClothing.combunnyslippers.com

Flash Fiction: “The Banshee Behind Beamon's Bakery” by Khalidaah Muhammad-Ali (Originally published in Diabolical Plots #21.) Most nights the alley behind Beamon’s Bakery is just an alley. The street lamp bleeds piss yellow light, casting jagged shadows around the overflowing dumpster and discarded boxes. The walls are tagged with gang signs, claiming territory that was never theirs, yardage, bodies, souls, rights. Some nights a transient clears away the broken glass, the random detritus, to squat for the night. Setting up camp here has its own rewards. The warmth that seeps through the bakery walls and through brick facing chases away the chill, but not the ghosts. This is the drawback, you see. The alley is never as vacant as it may seem at first, never as lonely as one may wish. The price of physical warmth is the chilling of your soul. Khalidaah Muhammad-Ali lives in Houston, Texas, with her family. By day she works as a breast oncology nurse. At all other times, she juggles, none too successfully, the multiple other facets of her very busy life. Khaalidah has been published at or has publications upcoming in Strange Horizons, Fiyah Magazine, Diabolical Plots, and others. You can also hear her narrations at any of the four Escape Artists podcasts, Far Fetched Fables, and Strange Horizons. Khaalidah is also co-editor at PodCastle audio magazine, where she is on a mission to encourage more women and POC to submit fantasy stories. Of her alter ego, K from the planet Vega, it is rumored that she owns a time machine and knows the secret to immortality. She can be found online at khaalidah.com and on Twitter as @khaalidah. Author's note: The unjust violent death of Michael Brown at the hands of a police officer was the specific impetus for this story. I tried to imagine what his mother must’ve been feeling upon learning about her son’s death. This wasn’t difficult because I have a son as well. I tried to impart the feeling of rage and horror I, any mother, would feel upon learning that her son was taken away in such a violent horrific way. Main Story: “Gust of Wind Made by a Swinging Blade” by Molly N. Moss (Originally published in Weirdbook #32.) Again, Kinnori strained against the ropes binding him, his muscles already throbbing from exertion. Once again, the cords sliced his flesh and yielded not at all. It was dark in the hold of the guard-ship Murakumo, and a gathering chill numbed his fingers. Rolling waves conspired with exhaustion to make Kinnori's eyelids grow heavy. He shook himself and growled, “Escape or die, Shoji Kinnori.” Molly N. Moss is the pen name of a tuxedo housecat named Marlene who lives in Athens, Georgia. When Marlene got bored with being left alone all day every day, she taught herself to read fiction as a hobby. After a while she decided to try writing fiction of her own. Marlene's fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Weird Tales, Bards & Sages Quarterly, and the anthology Dark Magic: Witches, Hackers, & Robots. About the Narrator: "The Banshee" is read by the author; see bio above. Eric Luke is the screenwriter of the Joe Dante film Explorers, which is currently in development as a remake; has written for the comic books Ghost and Wonder Woman; and wrote and directed the Not Quite Human films for Disney TV.  His current project, Interference (a meta horror audiobook about an audiobook... that kills), is a bestseller on Audible.com. His website for creative projects is Quillhammer.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.