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284 – Tom Lin & Who Wants to Live Forever?
Jun 23, 2026
1h 25m 19s
Off Book #21 – Scaredy Boys & The Coward’s Guide to Horror Movies (Part 1)
Jun 19, 2026
1h 20m 11s
283 – Naomi Kritzer & It Could Happen Anywhere
Jun 16, 2026
1h 05m 23s
282 – CJ Leede & Peeling Back the Skin of the World
Jun 9, 2026
1h 19m 37s
281 – Melissa Albert & The Howling Strangeness
Jun 2, 2026
1h 16m 25s
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| 6/23/26 | 284 – Tom Lin & Who Wants to Live Forever? | Would you rather die or live on and on and on and on… That’s one of the questions at the heart of Tom Lin’s Babylon, South Dakota. It’s a novel about a Chinese family who inherit an American farm, and whose lives are forever changed when the US military build strange missile silos on their land. It’s weird, inexplicable, deep, epic, sad and joyful and all the other things that make a good book. But it’s also dark. It prompts questions that might keep you awake in the warm depths of the summer night. And Tom and I talk about all of it. Enjoy. Other books mentioned: The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu (2021), by Tom Lin “On Exactitude in Science” (1947), by Jorge Luis Borges “The Library of Babel,” (1941), by Jorge Luis Borges Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (1990), by James Tiptree Jr. End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse and the Unmaking of America (2026), by Chris Jennings 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 | 1h 25m 19s | ||||||
| 6/19/26 |  Off Book #21 – Scaredy Boys & The Coward’s Guide to Horror Movies (Part 1) | The first of a two-part special with the Scaredy Boys, my brothers-in-cowardice from Down Under. Damo, Tom and Sean are famously and unashamedly terrified of horror movies, and started a podcast to face their fears. Since 2020 they’ve been watching and analysing a horror movie every week – so now they’ve probably seen more than most of us. I got them onto Talking Scared to discuss their insane project, their changing attitudes to horror, and ask them some specific questions about what they’ve learned to love and fear along the way. Episode Two is out next Friday, or available right now for Patreon subscribers Enjoy! 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 | 1h 20m 11s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | 283 – Naomi Kritzer & It Could Happen Anywhere | I dunno if this week’s episode is a dystopian nightmare or just a realist thriller. Naomi Krtizer, multi-award winning author of sci-fi and horror, join me for a conversation about her new novella, Obstetrix. It follows the struggles of doctor, kidnapped by a cult to work as their in-house OBGYN. What follows is a balance between personal survival and the obligation to the women in her care. Naomi and I talk about the state of healthcare and reproductive rights in America, which is never not a serious conversation. But we try to lighten the mood with some chat about the respite of reading (and re-reading), and the working definition of cults. Enjoy. Other books mentioned: “Monster” (2020), by Naomi Kritzer American War (2017), Omar El Akkad The Midnight Shift (2025), by Cheon Seon-Ran Nestlings (2023), by Nat Cassidy The God of Endings (2023), by Jacqueline Holland 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 | 1h 05m 23s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | 282 – CJ Leede & Peeling Back the Skin of the World✨ | horror literaturecontemporary horror+3 | CJ Leede | Maeve FlyAmerican Rapture+4 | — | CJ LeedeHeadlights+5 | — | 1h 19m 37s | |
| 6/2/26 | 281 – Melissa Albert & The Howling Strangeness✨ | dark creativityfantasy fiction+3 | Melissa Albert | The ChildrenMisery+6 | — | Melissa AlbertThe Children+3 | — | 1h 16m 25s | |
| 5/29/26 |  Off Book #20 – Petrified, with Peter Dunne✨ | horror podcastIrish humor+4 | Peter Dunne | Talking ScaredPetrified | Old Dublin Town | Petrifiedhorror+6 | — | 1h 10m 28s | |
| 5/26/26 | 280 – Neena Viel & Go Heinous or Go Home✨ | child theftsocial horror+3 | Neena Viel | Talking ScaredI’ll Watch Your Baby+4 | — | Neena VielI’ll Watch Your Baby+3 | — | 1h 16m 10s | |
| 5/22/26 |  Let Us Palaver #9 – The Wind Through the Keyhole Debrief✨ | The Wind Through the KeyholeStephen King+4 | Nat | The Wind Through the KeyholeDark Tower | — | The Wind Through the KeyholeStephen King+5 | — | 36m 46s | |
| 5/19/26 |  The Dark Tower Deep Dive #9 – The Wind Through the Keyhole✨ | Stephen KingThe Dark Tower+3 | — | The Wind Through the Keyhole | — | Dark TowerStephen King+3 | — | 2h 19m 30s | |
| 5/12/26 | 279 – Sarah Langan & The Mask Eats the Face✨ | horror literaturetrad wives+3 | Sarah Langan | The Mask Eats the FacePet Sematary+8 | — | Sarah Langantrad wives+3 | — | 1h 17m 03s | |
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| 5/8/26 |  Off Book #19 – Dark Documentaries, with Kaelyn from Heart Starts Pounding✨ | dark documentariesserial killers+3 | Kaelyn Moore | Heart Starts Pounding | — | dark documentariesmurder+3 | — | 1h 35m 08s | |
| 5/5/26 | 278 – Daisy Pearce & Bog Witches of the World Unite!✨ | bog witcheshaunting+4 | Daisy Pearce | Something in the WallsWater Shall Refuse Them+5 | — | Daisy Pearcebog witches+5 | — | 1h 19m 06s | |
| 5/1/26 |  Off Book #18 – Hokum, with Damian McCarthy✨ | horror filmmakinginterview+3 | Damian McCarthy | CaveatOddity+1 | Irelandcreaky old hotel | horrorfilmmaking+5 | — | 54m 31s | |
| 4/28/26 | 277 – Marcus Kliewer & Rules Help Control the Fun✨ | cognitohazardsneurodivergence+4 | Marcus Kliewer | We Used to Live HereThe Caretaker+5 | — | cognitohazardsneurodivergence+6 | — | 1h 19m 38s | |
| 4/21/26 | 276 – Kylie Lee Baker & Swords Make Everything Worse✨ | hauntingGothic literature+4 | Kylie Lee Baker | Bat EaterMexican Gothic+3 | — | Kylie Lee BakerGothic+5 | — | 1h 08m 16s | |
| 4/14/26 | 275 – Caroline Bicks & The Stuff Too Dark for Even Stephen King✨ | Stephen Kingliterary analysis+3 | Caroline Bicks | University of MaineMonsters in the Archive+8 | — | Stephen KingCaroline Bicks+5 | — | 1h 34m 27s | |
| 4/10/26 |  Off Book #17 – Undertone, with Ian Tuason and Nina Kiri✨ | horror filmpodcasting+3 | Ian TuasonNina Kiri | Talking ScaredVoidMerch+2 | — | horrorpodcast+3 | — | 51m 33s | |
| 4/7/26 | 274 – Carter Keane & Working Ourselves to Death!!✨ | corporate culturecapitalism+4 | Carter Keane | MorselThe Ritual+9 | — | Carter KeaneMorsel+6 | — | 1h 22m 16s | |
| 4/3/26 |  Let Us Palaver #8 – The Black House Debrief✨ | Dark Tower seriescharacter analysis+3 | Nat | Dark Tower series | Black Housecertain town | Dark TowerCrimson King+5 | — | 33m 50s | |
| 3/31/26 |  The Dark Tower Deep Dive #8 – Black House✨ | Dark Tower seriesStephen King+4 | NatChris | The Dark TowerThe Talisman+1 | — | Dark TowerBlack House+6 | — | 2h 29m 26s | |
| 3/27/26 |  Off Book #16 – Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, with Haley Z. Boston✨ | weddingssoulmates+4 | Haley Z. Boston | Something Very Bad is Going to Happen | Danish | Something Very Bad is Going to HappenHaley Z. Boston+5 | — | 55m 15s | |
| 3/24/26 | Episode 273 – Tamika Thompson & The Shadow of the Gun | Tamika Thompson talks me through the great American curseof the 21st Century on this week’s episode. No, not Tangerine Cthulhu … but the plague of gun deaths that is coring out the country. That’s the focus of her new novel, The Curse of Hester Gardens, which asks whether the deaths gunning for the young men of an inner-city housing project are criminal, or something much weirder! Yeah, that’s right. Listen to a cossetted little English guy try and keep up in an conversation about gun crimes and street life. Enjoy! Other books mentioned: The Rats (1974), by James Herbert The Ghosts of Sleath (1994),by James Herbert Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century (2022), by Kim Fu Mystery Lights (2024), by Lena Valencia “How to Do Diversity When You’re Lazy, Ignorant and/or Malicious” (2018), by Tamika Thompson – Link HERE 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 | 1h 19m 52s | ||||||
| 3/17/26 | 272 – Annie Neugebauer & The Colour of a Terrible Thought | Some stories just boggle your mind and boil your imagination. Such are the ideas in Annie Neugebauer’s You Have to Let Them Bleed, and her logic-shattering novella The Extra. The Uncanny Valley, obsessional thoughts, dangerous knowledge, mothers who aren’t mothers and a camping group that destroys the workings of math and memory… these are just some of the inexplicabilities we discuss in this week’s episode. If this episode gives you an existential crisis, ontological collapse, or just plain migraine nightmares – well, I can’t and won’t be held responsible. You’re all adults. Enjoy! Other books mentioned: “If Those Ragged Feet Won’t Run” (2018), by Annie Neugebauer Things We Say in the Dark (2019), by Kirsty Logan Silent Nightmares: Haunting Stories to Be Told on the Longest Night of the Year (2026), edited by Chuck Palahniuk and Michael C. Bailey There is No Antimemetics Division (2025), by qntm House of Leaves (2000), by Mark Z. Danielewski Delbert Judd (2014), by Dan Hammond Jr. Incidents Around the House (2024), by Josh Malerman 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 | 1h 15m 45s | ||||||
| 3/10/26 | 271 – Avery Curran & The Naughtiest Ghosts in School | Time for sex and seances this week on Talking Scared. Our guest is Avery Curran and her debut novel Spoiled Milk. It’s a story of spiritualism and sapphic desire, set in a 1920s boarding school where death, rot, haunting and much worse things (patriarchy!) runs rampant. Avery is a specialist in the history of spiritualism (with a brand new PhD to her name) and this conversation is a deep and deeply enjoyable route through all of her books haunted classrooms. It’s one of those episodes when we ALL learn something, listeners. Enjoy! Other books mentioned: The Wells of Loneliness (1928), by Radclyffe Hall “The Female World of Love and Ritual” (2006,) by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985), by Eve Kososfky-Sedgewick IT (1986), by Stephen King The Haunting of Alma Fielding (2021), by Kate Summerscale Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower (2020), by Tamsyn Muir A Canticle for Liebowitz (1959), by Walter M. Miller Jr 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 | 1h 30m 18s | ||||||
| 3/6/26 |  Off Book #15 – Dolly, with Rod Blackhurst | This Off Book episode is a trip into the deep dark woods, for a very special playdate! Our guest is Rod Blackhurst, director and co-writer of the new retro horror movie, Dolly. It’s a film about a very scary house in the woods and the even scarier person who lives inside…and who wants nothing so much as a new toy of her own. Rod and I talk about the tone, gore and influences behind the movie – from 16mm classics to New French Extremity. We discuss the pathos of a truly great horror monster, and the physical performance that brings Dolly to terrifying life. I’m really cheering for this movie. It was so much more than I expected. 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 | 55m 31s | ||||||
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7 placements across 6 markets.
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7 placements across 6 markets.