The Wrath of the iOtians

Jake and Ron
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Jake and Ron are two Gen X friends who discuss fantasy, horror and science-fiction books, movies and streaming shows with their unique insight and quirky sense of humor. They also interview amazing authors such as World Fantasy Award and Locus Award winner Fonda Lee,  Bram Stoker Award winners Jonathan Maberry, Christopher Golden and Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestseller Jason Pargin, JS Dewes, Sylvain Neuvel, Edward Ashton, Juliette Wade, Marina Lostetter and many more! Subscribe and join the hundreds of other listeners from around the world. Jake and Ron have known each other since their college days in Boston. Jake is a lifelong fantasy, horror, and science-fiction fan and has an extensive background working in independent bookstores and publishing in the Boston area. Ron grew up loving comic books, Star Trek, Star Wars and RPG. He is currently a project manager in technology in the Seattle area. Both are big fans of Dune and Twin Peaks. Subscribe on all major podcast platforms. Twitter: @OfiOtians, Instagram: @thewrathoftheiotians, Email: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.com

  1. 03/05/2024

    Interview with Catriona Ward (August Derleth, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy Award Winner) Author of Looking Glass Sound

    Jake and Ron are honored and thrilled to have author Catriona Ward on the podcast! Her latest novel is Looking Glass Sound published by Tor Nightfire. https://tornightfire.com/catalog/looking-glass-sound-catriona-ward/ https://us.macmillan.com/author/catrionaward I recently caught Catriona Ward at the Brookline Booksmith in Massachusetts, where she sat on a panel with former Wrath of the iOtians guest Christopher Golden and the inimitable Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt. And it's obvious that Catriona's fan base is large and adoring, and rightly so. She has a generosity of spirit that's immediately palpable. Look no further than her willingness to talk with us in the midst of an exhausting cross country book tour.  Catriona's work is influenced by her globetrotting youth. She was born in Washington, D. C., but grew up, well, all over, with stops in Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, England, and Morocco. Catriona earned her undergraduate degree in English Literature at Oxford, and a Master's in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. In 2015, she brought her experience, education, and energy to bear on Rawblood. Published as The Girl from Rawblood in the U. S. in 2016,  the book signaled the arrival of a major new talent in horror fiction and won an August Derleth Award at the British Fantasy Awards to boot.  Catriona followed up in 2019 with Little Eve, which also won a Derleth and a Shirley Jackson Award. In 2022, Catriona blew readers, critics, and no less an authority than Stephen King himself away with The Last House on Needless Street, a mind bender of a novel that I hope every iOtian listener has already enjoyed.  The book won an amazing third Derleth Award for Catriona. And was also shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award, the British Book Award, and a Red Tentacle Kitschie, which, for those not in the know, is a juried prize awarded for elevating the tone of genre literature. 2023 brought us Sundial, which was nominated for the Bram Stoker and Locus Awards. Of its author, Danielle Trussoni of the New York Times remarked, “Ward is willing to go places so dark, so dismal, that it borders on sadism.” In our line of work, that's high praise.  Elevated horror indeed.   Catriona combines elements of the psychological thriller, the gothic, and a hallucinatory high strangeness to create a voice that is uniquely hers. No one else could have written Looking Glass Sound, her other 2023 release with Tor Nightfire. Which I might add continues to publish the best of the best of contemporary horror. Catriona spoke with us about this book from a hotel room in the Twilight Zone, en route to her next speaking gig. We were thrilled! The Wrath of the iOtians Email: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.com Instagram: thewrathoftheiotians Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wrathoftheiotianspodcast Website: https://thewrathoftheiotians.buzzsprout.com/ Music Land Of The Me-me by Aleksandar Dimitrijevic (TONO) Licensed under the NEO Sounds Music License Agreement

    36 min

  2. 02/08/2024

    Interview with C.S. Humble Author of The Light of a Black Star (The Light Sublime Book 3)

    We are so happy to have author C.S Humble kick off Season 4! C. S. Humble is on a mission. He wants to help us be better people.  The author of the now completed The Light Sublime Trilogy, two of a projected five books in the Blackwell series, and Minotaur, a collection of short stories, this award winning horror writer has a flair for placing morally complex characters in harrowing situations to demonstrate the best and worst people can be. He claims he's long winded, but we found he just had a lot to say about the human condition, the pleasures and perils of book publishing, and his beloved Texas. He spoke with us from a plushly appointed study in his home outside Houston about the newly published third book in the weird western The Light Sublime series, The Light of a Black Star, which follows the Massacre at Yellow Hill and A Red Winter in the West. C.S. Humble https://cshumble.wordpress.com/ X/Twitter: @cshumble Instagram: cshumble Substack: https://cshumble.substack.com/ The Wrath of the iOtians Email: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.com Instagram: thewrathoftheiotians Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wrathoftheiotianspodcast Website: https://thewrathoftheiotians.buzzsprout.com/ Music Land Of The Me-me by Aleksandar Dimitrijevic (TONO) Licensed under the NEO Sounds Music License Agreement

    53 min

  3. 12/18/2023

    Interview with Scott Kirkwood Co-Producer of A Disturbance in the Force (Documentary of the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special)

    Happy holidays everyone! Or should we say Happy Life Day! :) For Generation X the 1978 Star Wars Holiday special is remembered as something that "just wasn't Star Wars". Delving into the creation of this unique event is the new documentary, A Disturbance in the Force. Directed by Jeremy Coon and Steve Kozak the documentary offers fresh insights. Your perspective might shift after immersing yourself in its narrative. During SIFF 2023 we had the pleasure of chatting with Scott Kirkwood, the Co-Producer of A Disturbance in the Force. Beyond his role in the film, he serves as the Site Curator for https://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/news/ and has been a featured speaker at numerous Star Wars panels, including Lucasfilm's Star Wars Celebration. A Disturbance in the Force is now available on digital download, DVD and Blu-ray and available on Amazon. You can also download it on AppleTV. Additionally, the book A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why The Star Wars Special Happened by Director Steven Kozak is now available. Check out the A Disturbance in the Force web site for more info: https://geni.us/adisturbanceintheforce A Disturbance in the Force (2023) directed by Jeremy Coon and Steve Kozak https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13021790/ The Wrath of the iOtians Email: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.com Instagram: thewrathoftheiotians Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wrathoftheiotianspodcast Website: https://thewrathoftheiotians.buzzsprout.com/

    1h 14m

  4. 10/24/2023

    The 2023 Halloween Special: Interview with Nat Segaloff Author of The Exorcist Legacy 50 Years of Fear

    Jake and Ron celebrate Halloween 2023 by chatting with Nat Segaloff about his remarkable new book The Exorcist Legacy 50 Years Of Fear! It was too much fun listening to Nat and all of his stories. And Nat is an authority of The Exorcist; He was friends with both William Peter Blatty and William Friedkin! If you are a true fan of The Exorcist you're going to love The Exorcist Legacy 50 Years Of Fear! It's been half a century since "The Exorcist" possessed the world's imaginations, and Nat Segaloff was on board from the day before the film opened in 1973. Here is a minute look at not only William Friedkin's monumental motion picture but at all the sequels, prequels, and TV series that spun off of it. Nat is Friedkin's biographer and brings his insights into what has been called the scariest movie of all time. This book hit #1 on Amazon's ranking of horror movie books. The Exorcist Legacy 50 Years Of Fear https://amzn.to/45V81Mp Los Angeles Times article https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-07-24/50-years-on-the-exorcist-still-makes-your-head-spin Vanity Fair article https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/07/the-exorcist-legacy-book Nat Segaloff Web Site http://www.natsegaloff.com/ The Exorcist Directed by William Friedkin (1973) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 William Peter Blatty https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0087861/ William Friedkin https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001243/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_6_nm_1_q_william%2520Friedkin The Exorcist: Believer https://www.theexorcistbeliever.movie/ The Wrath of the iOtians Email: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.com Instagram: thewrathoftheiotians Twitter:  @OfiOtians Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wrathoftheiotianspodcast Website: https://thewrathoftheiotians.buzzsprout.com/

    58 min

  5. 10/17/2023

    Happy Halloween! Interview with 2-Time Bram Stoker Award Winner Christopher Golden Author of All Hallows (Replay from Jan 2023)

    Happy Halloween from the iOtians! We're celebrating by replaying our most downloaded episode ever! All Hallows takes place on Halloween Night in 1984. Do yourself a favor and read this book after all the trick-or-treaters are done taking your precious candy! Jake and Ron chat with the New York Times bestseller and two-time Bram Stoker Award winner about his latest novel, All Hallows! The book is set in 1984 in Massachusetts. Since Jake and Christopher both live near the Boston area, they end up talking not only about All Hallows, but about common experiences they had as horror fans growing up in the New England eighties. At 55, Christopher Golden has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award, the Eisner Award, and multiple Shirley Jackson Awards. He's been nominated for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award 10 times in eight different categories. He's won twice--once for Cut, his excellent edited collection of horror writers on horror film, and more recently for Ararat, his opening salvo in the riveting Ben Walker series. It's likely as not he'll win again--because, like his former podcast co-host Jonathan Maberry, his imagination is seemingly inexhaustible. Jake first encountered Golden's work in 1997, when his Hellboy novel, The Lost Army, was released by Dark Horse. He immediately recognized that there was at least one writer other than Mike Mignola who really knew how to write one of the great characters in comics. Dark Horse apparently realized it, too, and went on to publish two more of Golden's Hellboy novels. Golden and Mignola together expanded Hellboy's "Otherverse," introducing readers to Joe Golem and the Baltimores. A complete accounting of Golden's other work would require more time than we have. It would include a stint as a writer for Marvel's Punisher, a series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer tie-Ins, The Body of Evidence series, several series for young adult readers, and a slew of terrific standalone novels, including one of our favorites from last year, The Road of Bones (which you should run out and buy right now ... or after you listen to this interview). This year's All Hallows is set in the same fictional New England town as Golden's 2014 novel Snow Blind. We sat down to talk with Golden about All Hallows, which is releasing on January 24th. All Hallows by Christopher Golden https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250280299/allhallows Christopher Golden Web Site https://www.christophergolden.com/ The Wrath of the iOtians Email: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.com Instagram: thewrathoftheiotians Twitter:  @OfiOtians Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wrathoftheiotianspodcast Website: https://thewrathoftheiotians.buzzsprout.com/ Music A Spooky Night by Material Gurl Licensed under the Soundstripe Music License Agreement Land Of The Me-me by Aleksandar Dimitrijevic (TONO) Licensed under the NEO Sounds Music License Agreement

    48 min

  6. 10/02/2023

    Interview with Bram Stoker Award Winner Cassandra Khaw and New York Times Bestseller Richard Kadrey Authors of The Dead Take The A Train

    Ron and Jake welcome Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey to the podcast! They chat about their collaboration, the urban horror novel, The Dead Take The A Train. You'd be hard-pressed to find a more impressive horror co-writing team than Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey. A British Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, and Locus Award finalist, Cassandra won a Stoker last year for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection for Breakable Things. Widely published, their short fiction may be found in such venues as Fantasy Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Tor. com, and Nature. Cassandra is also a game writer, with credits on She Remembered Caterpillars, Wasteland 3, and Falcon Age, and projects for Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, World of Darkness, and Warhammer 40k. Richard Kadrey is the author of the acclaimed New York Times best-selling Sandman Slim series, the first volume of which William Gibson called "a dirty ass masterpiece," and which Amazon included in its 100 science fiction and fantasy books to read in a lifetime. Kadrey's other books include King Bullet, The Grand Dark, and Butcher Bird. Richard and Cassandra joined us to discuss their first collaboration, the urban fantasy horror novel The Dead Take the A Train, part of the Carrion City duology published by Tor Nightfire. For fans of Hellblazer, Angel, The Magicians, and yes, Sandman Slim, this is a must-read. The Dead Take The A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey (Tor Nightfire) https://tornightfire.com/catalog/the-dead-take-the-a-train-cassandra-khaw-richard-kadrey/ Cassandra Khaw https://casskhaw.carrd.co/ Richard Kadey https://www.richardkadrey.me/ The Wrath of the iOtians Email: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.com Instagram: thewrathoftheiotians Twitter:  @OfiOtians Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wrathoftheiotianspodcast Website: https://thewrathoftheiotians.buzzsprout.com/

    40 min

  7. 09/19/2023

    SIFF 2023 Interview with Peter Collins Campbell Director of Variations On A Theme

    The 2023 Seattle International Film Festival was held on May 11-21. Ron was able to receive press credentials and had the opportunity to check out several short films and a few features.  Ron met with Director Peter Collins Campbell to chat about his extraordinary short horror film Variations On A Theme. Peter cites David Lynch and David Cronenberg as influences. September 2023 updates from Peter: He's still looking for funding for the Variations On A Theme feature film.   The delivery guy script is now called GRIND. Peter Collins Campbell https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5232266/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 https://vimeo.com/ Search for Peter Collins Campbell Director Seattle International Film Festival https://www.siff.net/ Variations On A Theme will be showing at BeyondFest October 7, 2023 Los Angeles, CA NEON Theater at Los Feliz 3 https://beyondfest.com/2023-films/ Brooklyn Horror Film Festival October 12-19, 2023 https://brooklynhorrorfest.com/2023-lineup/ Chicago International Film Festival October 11-22, 2023 Check web site for showtimes: https://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/festival/all-films-list/ Dimland  Directed by Peter Collins Campbell (2021) IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13983486/ Available on Paramount+ and VOD After Hours Directed by Martin Scorsese https://www.imdb.com/find/?q=after%20hours&ref_=nv_sr_sm The Wrath of the iOtians Email: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.com Instagram: thewrathoftheiotians Twitter:  @OfiOtians Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wrathoftheiotianspodcast Website: https://thewrathoftheiotians.buzzsprout.com/

    18 min

  8. 09/05/2023

    Interview with Scott Leeds Author of Schrader's Chord

    Ron chats with author Scott Leeds about his remarkable debut novel, Schrader's Chord! It's a visceral story about cursed vinyl records that open a gateway to the land of the dead. After his estranged father’s mysterious death, Charlie Remick returns to Seattle to help with the funeral. There, he discovers his father left him two parting gifts: the keys to the family record store and a strange black case containing four ancient records that, according to legend, can open a gate to the land of the dead. When Charlie, his sister, and their two friends play the records, they unwittingly open a floodgate of unspeakable horror. As the darkness descends, they are stalked by a relentless, malevolent force and see the dead everywhere they turn. With time running out, the only person who can help them is Charlie’s resurrected father, who knows firsthand the awesome power the records have unleashed. But can they close the gate and silence Schrader’s Chord before it’s too late? Schrader's Chord by Scott Leeds (Tor Nightfire) https://tornightfire.com/catalog/schraders-chord-scott-leeds/ Schrader's Chord Song List Apple: https://apple.co/480GomA Spotify:Go to https://linktr.ee/scottleeds and select Spotify The Cuckoo's Nest Merch! https://www.teepublic.com/user/scottleeds The Wrath of the iOtians Email: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.com Instagram: thewrathoftheiotians Twitter:  @OfiOtians Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wrathoftheiotianspodcast Website: https://thewrathoftheiotians.buzzsprout.com/

    53 min
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Jake and Ron are two Gen X friends who discuss fantasy, horror and science-fiction books, movies and streaming shows with their unique insight and quirky sense of humor. They also interview amazing authors such as World Fantasy Award and Locus Award winner Fonda Lee,  Bram Stoker Award winners Jonathan Maberry, Christopher Golden and Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestseller Jason Pargin, JS Dewes, Sylvain Neuvel, Edward Ashton, Juliette Wade, Marina Lostetter and many more! Subscribe and join the hundreds of other listeners from around the world. Jake and Ron have known each other since their college days in Boston. Jake is a lifelong fantasy, horror, and science-fiction fan and has an extensive background working in independent bookstores and publishing in the Boston area. Ron grew up loving comic books, Star Trek, Star Wars and RPG. He is currently a project manager in technology in the Seattle area. Both are big fans of Dune and Twin Peaks. Subscribe on all major podcast platforms. Twitter: @OfiOtians, Instagram: @thewrathoftheiotians, Email: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.com

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  • Creator
    Jake and Ron
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    90
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    Clean
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