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Talking Scared

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.© 2024 Talking Scared Arte Ciencias Sociales Historia y Crítica Literaria
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  • Let Us Palaver #8 – The Black House Debrief

    Let Us Palaver #8 – The Black House Debrief
    Apr 3 2026
    Nat and I stick around in the shadowed recesses of Black House for another half hour, to discuss all the things that Chris got right and wrong – and to make some entirely unfounded claims of our own. It’s overflowing with spoilers for the whole Dark Tower series, so don’t listen if you’re a newbie. We start to ask who is the Crimson King? Would Roland and Jack have gotten along? And we get very grumpy about certain wolves in a certain town further down the road. Enjoy. 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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    34 m
  • The Dark Tower Deep Dive #8 – Black House

    The Dark Tower Deep Dive #8 – Black House
    Mar 31 2026
    Time to whet our appetites for the Dark Tower again – this time with an extra serving of ass cheek! After three months away, we’re picking up with travellin’ Jack Sawyer after we left him in The Talisman. We find him in a sleepy Wisconsin town, where the dimension-hopping, child-eating Fisherman is plying his awful trade. Yep… it’s time for Black House. The book in which King’s universes collide. Nat, Chris and I argue – about where we see the spirit of King and Peter Straub in this story, about the believability of characters and the RIGHT amount to mourn a fallen hero. But we also agree about the beauty of theprose, the sublime depiction of the deepest horrors, and the sheer joy of one of the Dark Tower’s nastiest villains. It’s as much fun as you can have with a book about so many dead kids. 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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    2 h y 29 m
  • Off Book #16 – Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, with Haley Z. Boston

    Off Book #16 – Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, with Haley Z. Boston
    Mar 27 2026
    After seeing an early screener of Something Very Bad is Going to Happen I immediately thought it was going to be huge! So I leapt ahead of the curve and invited writer and showrunner, Haley Z Boston to come talk scared about weddings, soulmates, David Lynch and Danish horror, and what it’s like to work with the Duffer Brothers. This show has been my whole personality for two weeks. Ihope you watch, listen to this interview, and love it all. Enjoy Support Talking Scared on Patreon Check out the Talking Scared Merch line – at VoidMerch Come talk books on Threads, Bluesky, and Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    55 m
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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.)

The best horror podcast I've found

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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!

Great overview of 2022!

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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.

Great Horror Podcast

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