Stories From The Fire By cover art

Stories From The Fire

By: Micah Haley
Listen for free

  • Summary

  • When your night is dark and full of terrors, gather round the campfire for a guided tour through murky depths even the best horror podcasts won't touch. Horror veteran Micah Haley is your ferryman through the dark and labyrinthine halls of the world’s horror: from scary movies and horror novel classics to the terrifying bits hidden away in family movies. All will be told in Stories From The Fire.
    Copyright Micah Haley
    Show more Show less
Episodes
  • Immortal Romances I - BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (Guest: Greg J. Anderson)

    Immortal Romances I - BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (Guest: Greg J. Anderson)
    Feb 1 2021
    All it takes is a tinge of darkness to turn a blessed romance into something damned: an immortal romance. Micah is joined by fellow horror aficionado Greg J. Anderson to discuss three films of his choosing, starting with BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA, a horror film directed by none other than Francis Ford Coppola.

    SHOW NOTES

    0:01 - Intro
    0:20 - Revising books from my childhood
    3:35 - Michael Crichton’s novel THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
    4:17 - The storyline
    7:20 - Does the book still work today?
    10:27 - The Odd-Man Hypothesis
    13:05 - The relevance of Crichton’s novel to the COVID19 pandemic
    13:40 - Film & TV adaptations
    14:00 - A brief update on film production in the U.S.

    Follow Greg on:
    Twitter: Twitter - @elbandito_manco
    Letterboxd - GAnderson19

    Follow Micah on:
    Instagram - @itsMicahHaley
    Tiktok - @itsMicahHaley
    Twitter - @MicahHaley
    Facebook - facebook.com/micahhaley
Letterboxd - MicahHaley

    And more at MicahHaley.com.

    This episode includes the following music:
    “My hobby, destroy the universe, why” by Komiku

    Komiku_-_10_-_My_hobby_destroy_the_universe_why__Evil_characters_theme

    Komiku on FMA: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Komiku
    Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/legalcode
No changes were made.
    Show more Show less
    32 mins
  • Revisiting Michael Crichton’s THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN

    Revisiting Michael Crichton’s THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
    Aug 13 2020
    Before Steven Spielberg adapted his novel JURASSIC PARK for the screen, author Michael Crichton became a best seller in 1969 with THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, a novel about a deadly extraterrestrial disease that threatens humanity. Micah talks about re-reading the techno-thriller for the first time since childhood, how to relates to the pandemic and gives a brief update on the return to film production in the U.S.

    0:01 - Intro
    0:20 - Revising books from my childhood
    3:35 - Michael Crichton’s novel THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
    4:17 - The storyline
    7:20 - Does the book still work today?
    10:27 - The Odd-Man Hypothesis
    13:05 - The relevance of Crichton’s novel to the COVID19 pandemic
    13:40 - Film & TV adaptations
    14:00 - A brief update on film production in the U.S.

    Follow Micah on:
    Instagram - @itsMicahHaley
    Tiktok - @itsMicahHaley
    Twitter - @itsMicahHaley
    Facebook - facebook.com/micahhaley

    And more at MicahHaley.com.
    Show more Show less
    16 mins
  • William Friedkin's SORCERER and the Terror of the Unknown

    William Friedkin's SORCERER and the Terror of the Unknown
    May 26 2020
    After making the horror masterpiece THE EXORCIST, William Friedkin was at the height of his power in Hollywood. He used that clout to make SORCERER, a movie about the terror of the unknown and the cruel hand of fate. Micah talks about seeing SORCERER for the first time, the many troubles Friedkin and his crew had making the film in South America, and how the COVID19 pandemic is making it difficult to resume film production.

    0:21 - Intro
    1:52 - William Friedkin, the director of “Sorcerer”
    10:08 - “The evil wizard is Fate.”
    11:31 - Pandemics and the feeling of fate
    16:33 - My initial doubts about the COVID19 pandemic
    18:53 - Trouble on the set of Sorcerer, Safety issues in 2020
    24:32 - Did Friedkin return from the jungle?
    25:47 - How can we shoot without crews getting COVID19?
    28:49 - Crew members have been getting sick for a long time.
    29:33 - My predictions
    30:16 - Why Sorcerer flopped

    Follow Micah on:
    Instagram - @itsMicahHaley
    Tiktok - @itsMicahHaley
    Twitter - @itsMicahHaley
    Facebook - facebook.com/micahhaley

    And more at MicahHaley.com.
    Show more Show less
    32 mins
Biographies & Memoirs Social Sciences
Show more Show less

What listeners say about Stories From The Fire

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com reviews

Amazon reviews
No Reviews are Available