Talking Scared

Neil McRobert
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Talking Scared

Conversations with the biggest names in horror fiction. A podcast for horror readers who want to know where their favourite stories came from . . . and what frightens the people who wrote them.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    [From the Vault] Laura Purcell & The Art of Darkness

    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! Enjo...

    48 min

  2. 19 NOV

    [From the Vault] Gemma Amor & The Start of a Horrific Friendship AKA The Mental Health in Horror Episode

    Send us a textThis From the Vault episode is not quite so dusty. Gemma and I recorded this in 2022, but it’s more pertinent than ever. One because Gemma’s great uncanny novella The Folly is being reissued this week, and two, because the world is a mad place right now, and we all need to take care of our minds. This conversation is all about that. An epic conversation about the issue of mental health as creators and consumers of dark stories. We dig DEEP into our own neuroses, and talk ab...

    1h 51m

  3. 12 NOV

    [From the Vault] T. Kingfisher & A Bit of Laughter in the Dark

    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 twis...

    54 min

  4. 5 NOV

    [From the Vault] – Michael Marshall Smith & Goodbye to a Bad Year

    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. M...

    59 min
  5. Off Book #5 – Halloween Special – Kaelyn Moore & Heart Starts Pounding

    31 OCT

    Off Book #5 – Halloween Special – Kaelyn Moore & Heart Starts Pounding

    Send us a textHalloween has finally arrived. I’m marking it in grim, macabre style. For this Off Book Samhain Special, I’m joined by Kaelyn Moore, host and creator of Heart Starts Pounding – a podcast for the darkly curious, which offers up a new true-story of horror, hauntings and mystery every week. Kaelyn is a treasure trove of haunted anecdote and freaky facts. We only touch the tip of her knowledge in this conversation, but still manage to cover the grimmest deaths at Disneylan...

    1h 30m

  6. 28 OCT

    218 – Rachel Harrison & Vampirism is What You Make It

    Send us a textThings are heating up as we approach Halloween. I’m joined by a good friend of Talking Scared – Rachel Harrison – to talk about the hot kind of immortality Her new novel, So Thirsty, does much more than that though. It weighs the weaponization of beauty culture, it asks how women can navigate a world in which youth seems to be everything, and it illustrates the sheer social awkwardness of immortality. Plus – it prompts a frank reckoning with just how badly I would...

    1h 9m

  7. 22 OCT

    217 – Del Sandeen & Giving Southern Gothic Ick!

    Send us a textAs we gear up for Halloween, we get all gussied up in Gothic. Del Sandeen joins me to talk about the curses, colorism, and all the many influences in her Southern Gothic debut This Cursed House. It’s a novel that twists the sub-genre’s typical reliance on race, for a more subtle, pernicious form of prejudice. But it’s also chock full of all the haunted house–cursed family–secret rooms–and weird incest that you could want from a truly Gothic novel. It’s a damn goo...

    1h 7m

  8. 15 OCT

    216 – CJ Leede & The Shame of the Human Animal

    Send us a textThings get disinhibited on Talking Scared this week, when CJ Leede joins us for a conversation about her new novel, American Rapture. The novel plunges middle America into a torrid apocalypse, as a sexual plague spreads across the nation, creating “lust hell on earth.” In this framework, C.J crafts a story of sexual awakening, sacrifice, found family, hypocrisy and cruelty. It’s a book that is both extreme and comforting in equal measure. We talk about that crazy...

    1h 13m
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About

Conversations with the biggest names in horror fiction. A podcast for horror readers who want to know where their favourite stories came from . . . and what frightens the people who wrote them.

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  • Creator
    Neil McRobert
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    227
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Talking Scared
  • Show Website
    Talking Scared

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