Talking Scared

De: Neil McRobert
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  • 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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  • 236 – Brian Keene & Living in the Splatter

    236 – Brian Keene & Living in the Splatter
    Apr 29 2025
    Brian Keene has written so many damn books! …and I had never read any of them. This absolute horror faux-pas (and my embarrassment) is the reason that it’s taken so long to get Brian on the show. But I set a week aside and read as many Keene books as I could and here we are… on a leisurely stroll through Brian’s life and career,both of which he has devoted to stories of really nasty s*** happening to undeserving people. We talk abouthis bleak coming-of-age novel, Ghoul, his story of a homicidal nightfrom hell, The Complex, and his sombre study of mortality and writing inthe 21st century, The End of the Road. And between all that we cover hope and nihilism, we ask if horror could help shore up the failing centre, and Brian talks me through all the great writers I missed when I wasn’t paying enough attention to horror. Enjoy! Other books mentioned: The Rising (2003), by Brian Keene Entombed (2011), by Brian Keene Ghoul (2007), by Brian Keene End of the Road (2020), by Brian Keene The Cellar (1980), by Richard Laymon The Beast House (1986), by Richard Laymon The Island (1995), by Richard Laymon A Writer’s Tale (1998), by Richard Laymon The Girl Next Door (1989), by Jack Ketchum Survivor (2002), by J.F. Gonzalez A Choir of Ill Children (2007) by Tom Piccirilli “Sticks” (1974), by Karl Edward Wagner “West Of Matamoros, South of Hell” (2017), by Brian Hodge (in Best Horror of the Year, Volume 10, edited by Ellen Datlow) The Day of the Door (2024), by Laurel Hightower The Better To Eat You With (2024), by Wesley Southard Support Talking Scared on Patreon Check out the Talking Scared Merch line – at VoidMerch Come talk books on Bluesky @talkscaredpod.bsky.social on Instagram/Threads, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 19 m
  • 235 – Nat Cassidy & Emotional Doomsday Prepping

    235 – Nat Cassidy & Emotional Doomsday Prepping
    Apr 22 2025
    I’ve been looking forward to releasing this one… Nat Cassidy comes to Talk Scared about When the Wolf Comes Home, his new novel that I –and people like me – are already calling out as one of the Best Books of the Year™. It’s a shaggy, undisciplined, sprinting beast of a book that obeys no rules. You may think it’s a werewolf novel, and you may be right... but also very wrong. It’s a book about transformations of many kinds, about fatherhood and the very nature of fear itself. But it’s also funny, scary and sad as hell. You’ll love the damn thing, and this conversation. Enjoy! Other books mentioned: Mary: An Awakening of Terror (2022), by Nat Cassidy Nestlings (2023), by Nat Cassidy Play Nice (forthcoming, 2025), by Rachel Harrison Support Talking Scared on Patreon Check out the Talking Scared Merch line – at VoidMerch Come talk books on Bluesky @talkscaredpod.bsky.social on Instagram/Threads, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Off Book #8 – Kyle McConaghy & Dead Mail

    Off Book #8 – Kyle McConaghy & Dead Mail
    Apr 18 2025
    Back to the 80s this week for one of the most singular horror movies of the year – now streaming on Shudder. Dead Mail is an ode to the era, but there are no neon fonts or leg warmers (or Olivia Newton Johns) here. Instead we’re in the drear of the decade, for a story about a synth-obsessed man who keeps his business partner captive in his flock-wallpapered bathroom. The poor victim’s only hope is the investigative ‘Dead Mail’ department of his local post office. If that sounds mad… well, it is. And I’m joined by Kyle McConaghy, one half of the writing/directing duo behind the movie. We talk about scripting the crazy, about the hands-on reality of low-budget filmmaking, replicating 80s aesthetics, and a big bucket full of rubber rats. Enjoy! Dead Mail is streaming on Shudder from Friday 18th April Support Talking Scared on Patreon Check out the Talking Scared Merch line – at VoidMerch Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The best horror podcast I've found

An excellent podcast interviewing horror writers, plus some horror book reviews. Neil McRobert does a stellar job of both selecting authors to interview and interviewing them. I've gotten so many excellent book recommendations from this podcast, often by authors I'd never even heard of before.

Neil is great at sticking to the point. If you're sick of bloated podcasts with hosts going on and on about stuff that has nothing to do with the subject matter, Talking Scared will be a real treat for you.

If you want to sample it, I particularly enjoyed episode 168 (Tananarive Due & Locked in with the Monsters, on her book set in a haunted juvenile reformatory in the 1950s), 147 (Mike Flanagan & Lighting Up the Darkness, mostly on his Stephen King adaptations), 127 (Grady Hendrix and the Radical Puppet Collective, in which he reveals that he actually belonged to one), 54 (Stephen Graham Jones & Dancing with the Slasher, about My Heart is a Chainsaw), and 40 (Zakiya Dalila Harris & the Fear of not being Black Enough, about her book best read totally unspoiled, The Other Black Girl.)

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Great overview of 2022!

Loved the suggested titles! Neil, Janelle and Emily expertly go through key horror books and authors in 2022 and beyond. So many great books, so little time!

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Great Horror Podcast

I found "Talking Scared" podcast wholly by accident, but wow, what a find! In each installment host Neil McRobert has an author on as a guest and they discuss their latest work. I was late to the show, and have started working my way backwards as well as listening to each new episode that drops. McRobert has opened my eyes to some authors that I had not previously read as well as their recommendations, many of which are added to my ever-growing TBR list!

McRobert has had authors on such as Stephen King, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, Chuck Palahniuk, Tananarive Due, and many, many more authors. He hosts others as well such as Mike Flanagan.

If you're a fan of horror fiction or even just being scared I think you'll enjoy listening to McRobert ask fascinating questions of some of the current great writers of horror fiction.

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