Talking Scared Podcast
@talkscaredpod.bsky.social
A podcast of conversations with the biggest names in horror writing. Find out where your favourite scary stories came from.
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You can reach me at [email protected]
https://pod.link/1530064310
You can reach me at [email protected]
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Lots of people asking for the schedule for the DARK TOWER Deep Dive series.
Here's what i've got planned for 2025 (approx dates)
March 25th – Drawing of the Three
June 6th – The Waste Lands
August 12th – The Stand
October 14th - 'Salem's Lot
Christmas – Wizard & Glass
Read accordingly 'slingers
Here's what i've got planned for 2025 (approx dates)
March 25th – Drawing of the Three
June 6th – The Waste Lands
August 12th – The Stand
October 14th - 'Salem's Lot
Christmas – Wizard & Glass
Read accordingly 'slingers
To the vaults with @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social - who gave me his time and expertise in Weird fiction back in 2021.
We talked about his work as a whole, but specifically his eco-crisis pre-apocalyptic novel HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER.
And we caught real murder live on audio!!
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We talked about his work as a whole, but specifically his eco-crisis pre-apocalyptic novel HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER.
And we caught real murder live on audio!!
All podcast platforms.
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
To the vaults with @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social - who gave me his time and expertise in Weird fiction back in 2021.
We talked about his work as a whole, but specifically his eco-crisis pre-apocalyptic novel HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER.
And we caught real murder live on audio!!
All podcast platforms.
We talked about his work as a whole, but specifically his eco-crisis pre-apocalyptic novel HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER.
And we caught real murder live on audio!!
All podcast platforms.
The latest Hushed Tones is out for Patreon listeners.
My honest review of the books I read in September - includes my long, impassioned intro the work of Joe Abercrombie, and my thoughts on a novel that has polarised my discord community.
Subscribe – enjoy – support
My honest review of the books I read in September - includes my long, impassioned intro the work of Joe Abercrombie, and my thoughts on a novel that has polarised my discord community.
Subscribe – enjoy – support
Hushed Tones 23 – September | Talking Scared
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November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The latest Hushed Tones is out for Patreon listeners.
My honest review of the books I read in September - includes my long, impassioned intro the work of Joe Abercrombie, and my thoughts on a novel that has polarised my discord community.
Subscribe – enjoy – support
My honest review of the books I read in September - includes my long, impassioned intro the work of Joe Abercrombie, and my thoughts on a novel that has polarised my discord community.
Subscribe – enjoy – support
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Awesome bookmail @talkscaredpod.bsky.social Can't wait to read.
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Awesome bookmail @talkscaredpod.bsky.social Can't wait to read.
It's horrible and wet outside, so i'm staying in with old friends.
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It's horrible and wet outside, so i'm staying in with old friends.
Top 5 Film Genres:
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
Top 5 Film Genres
Fuckup Arrogant Male Saved By Smarter Woman, Again
This Guy Isn't The Hero, It's That Guy Over There!
It's All Meat Really, Why Aren't You Horny?
Really Good At Our Jobs, Then Shit Goes Wrong
Why Oh Why Did You Bring A Catholic Priest To Exorcise A Pre-Christian Entity?
Fuckup Arrogant Male Saved By Smarter Woman, Again
This Guy Isn't The Hero, It's That Guy Over There!
It's All Meat Really, Why Aren't You Horny?
Really Good At Our Jobs, Then Shit Goes Wrong
Why Oh Why Did You Bring A Catholic Priest To Exorcise A Pre-Christian Entity?
Top 5 Film Genres:
Fuckups Buckle Down In The Third Act To Save “The Community Center”
DOOMED HEROES
Spoopy Castle Dweller
Joseph Campbell Jamboree
Wizard Shit
Fuckups Buckle Down In The Third Act To Save “The Community Center”
DOOMED HEROES
Spoopy Castle Dweller
Joseph Campbell Jamboree
Wizard Shit
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Top 5 Film Genres:
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
If you want to hear a Gothicist's geeky-ass response to @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN, I uploaded a 30-minute immediate-response to Patreon.
Subscribe / enjoy / support the show.
Subscribe / enjoy / support the show.
WTF Did I Just Watch? – Frankenstein (2025) | Talking Scared
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November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
If you want to hear a Gothicist's geeky-ass response to @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN, I uploaded a 30-minute immediate-response to Patreon.
Subscribe / enjoy / support the show.
Subscribe / enjoy / support the show.
I’ve got 200 pages of @joeabercrombie.com’s WISDOM OF CROWDS to go.
And then I leave The Circle of the World for the last time.
Gutted! What a saga.
And then I leave The Circle of the World for the last time.
Gutted! What a saga.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I’ve got 200 pages of @joeabercrombie.com’s WISDOM OF CROWDS to go.
And then I leave The Circle of the World for the last time.
Gutted! What a saga.
And then I leave The Circle of the World for the last time.
Gutted! What a saga.
Back to 2021 for this conversation with Courtney Summers.
We talk cults, dark charisma and radicalised youth in her boundary-pushing YA novel, THE PROJECT.
It's only gotten more pertinent in the years since we recorded it.
All podcast platforms.
We talk cults, dark charisma and radicalised youth in her boundary-pushing YA novel, THE PROJECT.
It's only gotten more pertinent in the years since we recorded it.
All podcast platforms.
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Back to 2021 for this conversation with Courtney Summers.
We talk cults, dark charisma and radicalised youth in her boundary-pushing YA novel, THE PROJECT.
It's only gotten more pertinent in the years since we recorded it.
All podcast platforms.
We talk cults, dark charisma and radicalised youth in her boundary-pushing YA novel, THE PROJECT.
It's only gotten more pertinent in the years since we recorded it.
All podcast platforms.
10k into the next book and it's messy but moving along.
There are no good boys in sight. Only very bad people.
There are no good boys in sight. Only very bad people.
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
10k into the next book and it's messy but moving along.
There are no good boys in sight. Only very bad people.
There are no good boys in sight. Only very bad people.
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My staff picks are up on the website!! The northern weird Project by @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social
includes books by @talkscaredpod.bsky.social
and @jodierobins.bsky.social
was my favorite thing in publishing this year, and @rachelharrison.bsky.social
Play Nice is in my top five of the year!
includes books by @talkscaredpod.bsky.social
and @jodierobins.bsky.social
was my favorite thing in publishing this year, and @rachelharrison.bsky.social
Play Nice is in my top five of the year!
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My staff picks are up on the website!! The northern weird Project by @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social
includes books by @talkscaredpod.bsky.social
and @jodierobins.bsky.social
was my favorite thing in publishing this year, and @rachelharrison.bsky.social
Play Nice is in my top five of the year!
includes books by @talkscaredpod.bsky.social
and @jodierobins.bsky.social
was my favorite thing in publishing this year, and @rachelharrison.bsky.social
Play Nice is in my top five of the year!
Have you listened to the latest episode with @joe-hill.bsky.social?
We talk all thing KING SORROW, including dragons, tulpas, tech-bores, links to King and the almighty influence of Tabitha!
All podcast platforms
We talk all thing KING SORROW, including dragons, tulpas, tech-bores, links to King and the almighty influence of Tabitha!
All podcast platforms
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Have you listened to the latest episode with @joe-hill.bsky.social?
We talk all thing KING SORROW, including dragons, tulpas, tech-bores, links to King and the almighty influence of Tabitha!
All podcast platforms
We talk all thing KING SORROW, including dragons, tulpas, tech-bores, links to King and the almighty influence of Tabitha!
All podcast platforms
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I finished Good Boy by Neil McRobert @talkscaredpod.bsky.social Sunday at 4:30 am. Here is the book sitting on my lap while I sobbed. This is a surprisingly heartwarming and equally creepy tale about companionship, love, and overcoming evil at great personal expense. I loved it. 🖤📚⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#horrorbooks
#horrorbooks
October 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I finished Good Boy by Neil McRobert @talkscaredpod.bsky.social Sunday at 4:30 am. Here is the book sitting on my lap while I sobbed. This is a surprisingly heartwarming and equally creepy tale about companionship, love, and overcoming evil at great personal expense. I loved it. 🖤📚⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#horrorbooks
#horrorbooks
Hey! I finally got to speak to @joe-hill.bsky.social. We talked dragons, deadly deals, decades of friendship, and the role of a damn good spouse in a creative life.
It was a blast. KING SORROW is a masterpiece.
Listen wherever you get podcasts.
It was a blast. KING SORROW is a masterpiece.
Listen wherever you get podcasts.
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Hey! I finally got to speak to @joe-hill.bsky.social. We talked dragons, deadly deals, decades of friendship, and the role of a damn good spouse in a creative life.
It was a blast. KING SORROW is a masterpiece.
Listen wherever you get podcasts.
It was a blast. KING SORROW is a masterpiece.
Listen wherever you get podcasts.
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My #BookReview this week is one of my favourite things I've read all year, the *excellent* debut novella from @talkscaredpod.bsky.social Good Boy!
Here are my spoiler-free thoughts 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYK...
Here are my spoiler-free thoughts 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYK...
Spoiler-free book review: Neil McRobert - Good Boy (2025) Dave's Book Club📚
YouTube video by Dave Reads King (Dave Musson)
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
My #BookReview this week is one of my favourite things I've read all year, the *excellent* debut novella from @talkscaredpod.bsky.social Good Boy!
Here are my spoiler-free thoughts 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYK...
Here are my spoiler-free thoughts 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYK...
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Hey, if you're looking for "Salem's Lot" chat, @talkscaredpod.bsky.social just did an episode on it in a "Dark Tower" context (No DT spoilers in the main ep)
October 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Hey, if you're looking for "Salem's Lot" chat, @talkscaredpod.bsky.social just did an episode on it in a "Dark Tower" context (No DT spoilers in the main ep)
Thanks Tim - means so much!
I loved this very moving, very scary novella from Neil McRobert of @talkscaredpod.bsky.social . Check it out!
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Thanks Tim - means so much!
I’ll take that!! The Duke of Aussie Darkness speaks.
I just read Neil McRobert's (yes, @talkscaredpod.bsky.social ) novella, Good Boy. A fantastic debut. I think Neil has invented a new niche of Northern Cosmic Folklore. Heartfelt and wonderfully written, it's dark, frightening and beautiful.
October 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I’ll take that!! The Duke of Aussie Darkness speaks.
My favourite photo anyone has ever taken of me.
October 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
My favourite photo anyone has ever taken of me.
Went to Asbury Park with Nat and Rachel. Getting my Boss on.
October 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Went to Asbury Park with Nat and Rachel. Getting my Boss on.
Hanging out with CJ Leede/Eye of Sauron at her Halloween bash.
T’was a grand old time.
T’was a grand old time.
October 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Hanging out with CJ Leede/Eye of Sauron at her Halloween bash.
T’was a grand old time.
T’was a grand old time.
Hanging out in NYC with my Ka-brother @natcassidy.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Hanging out in NYC with my Ka-brother @natcassidy.bsky.social
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I’m halfway through @talkscaredpod.bsky.social’s GOOD BOY and it’s freaking great. I knew it would be but wow. Dogs man, they are the best of us. #BookSky
October 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I’m halfway through @talkscaredpod.bsky.social’s GOOD BOY and it’s freaking great. I knew it would be but wow. Dogs man, they are the best of us. #BookSky
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This book is enthralling — “Good Boy” by Neil McRobert, aka @talkscaredpod.bsky.social
Eerie story of a man & his dog—and a stretch of ancient land with weird secrets.
Dog parents will enjoy it especially. It captures that bond so beautifully.
What “It” was to friendship, “Good Boy” is to pets.
Eerie story of a man & his dog—and a stretch of ancient land with weird secrets.
Dog parents will enjoy it especially. It captures that bond so beautifully.
What “It” was to friendship, “Good Boy” is to pets.
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This book is enthralling — “Good Boy” by Neil McRobert, aka @talkscaredpod.bsky.social
Eerie story of a man & his dog—and a stretch of ancient land with weird secrets.
Dog parents will enjoy it especially. It captures that bond so beautifully.
What “It” was to friendship, “Good Boy” is to pets.
Eerie story of a man & his dog—and a stretch of ancient land with weird secrets.
Dog parents will enjoy it especially. It captures that bond so beautifully.
What “It” was to friendship, “Good Boy” is to pets.
Our journey to @stephenking.bsky.social’s Dark Tower involves a quick stop in Salem’s Lot - to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a genuine American horror classic
Vamps, villainy, the annoyance of Ben Mears - and links to the Tower. We discuss it all!
All pod platforms.
Vamps, villainy, the annoyance of Ben Mears - and links to the Tower. We discuss it all!
All pod platforms.
October 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Our journey to @stephenking.bsky.social’s Dark Tower involves a quick stop in Salem’s Lot - to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a genuine American horror classic
Vamps, villainy, the annoyance of Ben Mears - and links to the Tower. We discuss it all!
All pod platforms.
Vamps, villainy, the annoyance of Ben Mears - and links to the Tower. We discuss it all!
All pod platforms.
Happy Sasquatch Awareness Day folks.
Patrons get a special hour of conversation about our big hairy forest brother - with myself and @giano.bsky.social (author of American Mythology).
Legends, lore, mad theories, giants in caves and hints in The Bible.
Subscribe and support Talking Scared
Patrons get a special hour of conversation about our big hairy forest brother - with myself and @giano.bsky.social (author of American Mythology).
Legends, lore, mad theories, giants in caves and hints in The Bible.
Subscribe and support Talking Scared
THE WEIRDZ – Celebrating National Sasquatch Awareness Day, with Giano Cromley | Talking Scared
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October 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Happy Sasquatch Awareness Day folks.
Patrons get a special hour of conversation about our big hairy forest brother - with myself and @giano.bsky.social (author of American Mythology).
Legends, lore, mad theories, giants in caves and hints in The Bible.
Subscribe and support Talking Scared
Patrons get a special hour of conversation about our big hairy forest brother - with myself and @giano.bsky.social (author of American Mythology).
Legends, lore, mad theories, giants in caves and hints in The Bible.
Subscribe and support Talking Scared