Staring Into the Abyss: A Podcast Richard Gerlach

Author Patrick Barb joins us to discuss John Langan's story, "The Communion of Saints," from the recently released collection, Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies. 

Our Week in Horror segments includes discussions of Gina Ranalli's All Men Are Trash, One Tough Bastard by Adam Howe, Brian Asman's Jailbroke, and the finale of Disney+ Marvel Studios series, WandaVision. (Recorded March 7, 2021)

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This week, we're talking about depression, drug abuse, suicide, and poo sticks as we take a deep dive into our Story of the Week with B.R. Yeager's cosmic horror novel, Negative Space! First, though, we explore our Week in Horror with the Shudder premiere of The Dark and the Wicked, Alex White's Alien: Into Charybdis, Pimp My Airship by Maurice Broaddus, Shūzō Oshimi's manga series Blood on the Tracks, and the penultimate episode of WandaVision. (Recorded Feb. 28, 2021)

Comic book writer John Lees (Sink, Mountainhead, Hotell) joins us in the Abyss to discuss Emily Carroll's graphic novel of short stories, Through the Woods.
Our Week in Horror round-up includes reviews of Stephen King's Later, A24's latest horror flim, Saint Maud, Llamagedon, The Stand remake, Naoki Urasawa's manga series, Pluto, and episode seven of WandaVision! (Recorded Feb. 21, 2021)
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This week, we chat about the horror film Fingers, Cassandra Khaw's forthcoming release, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Marvel's WandaVision, Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago, and find out what Matt blames The Ghost Writers Podcast for. Then, it's on to our spoiler-filled discussion of the week as we explore Zin E. Rocklyn's Tor.com Original story, The Night Sun! (Recorded Feb. 14, 2021) | Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

This week, we're talking about Bloody Hell, Gwendolyn Kiste's Boneset & Feathers, the indie RPG video game Oromi, and John Carpenter's latest album, Lost Themes III. Then, we travel to Santa Fe to investigate a case of Killer Flies for our in-depth, spoiler-filled discussion of Mark Kendall's 1983 horror novel, recently reissued by Encyclopocalypse Publications! (Recorded Feb. 7, 2021) | Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Hunky boys Richard Gerlach and Matt Brandenburg discuss the recently released horror flick, PG: Psycho Goreman, while Michael Patrick Hicks reviews Rio Youers's crime caper novel, Lola on Fire. Then, they step out of the Abyss to venture into Thomas Ligotti's vermin-ridden "The Bungalow House" for this week's spoiler-filled chat and the possible inspirations and influences Ligotti's dark horrors have had on... Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse? (Recorded Jan. 31, 2021) | Music: https://www.purple-plane.com