books
I've been an admirer of Becky Spratford's work for some time, so I was thrilled when she agreed to join the podcast for a discussion centered on her new book of essays, Why I Love Horror. It's a great collection of arguments for and
books
Keith Rosson is one of the most exciting horror novelists working right now. I was blown away by his book Fever House and its sequel, The Devil By Name, so I was thrilled to learn he had a vampire novel out this year. And Coffin Moon absolutely delivers, attaching Keith&
Free to All
For all our collective focus on its transgressive setpieces and graphic violence of all kinds, this is a movie made with intention, with an artistic vision, and even if all the lines crossed within the narrative were stripped away and merely implied, it would work as a harrowing human drama.
books
I'm thrilled to have Rachel Harrison, author of horror bangers like So Thirsty, The Return, and Black Sheep, back on the podcast this week. She was one of our very first guests in one of my favorite episodes, and her return was everything I hoped for and more.
Free to All
Here's a roundup of what I wrote for the week of September 1, including lots of horror book stuff.
podcasts
Listen to John Langan on the latest episode of The Scares That Shaped Us!
reviews
Valkyrie Loughcrewe is one of the most exciting voices in indie horror publishing right now, and I wrote a little about why.
This is the first of what I hope will be a weekly series of link roundups collecting all of my horror-centric work from around the web. It's Sunday as I write this, and the end of an insane week in which I turned in a bunch of stuff,
podcasts
The latest episode of The Scares That Shaped Us, featuring Clay McLeod Chapman, is live.
Essays
If you write horror, write about horror, or even just count yourself among the legions constantly walking around in John Carpenter t-shirts and posting Hereditary memes, someone has asked you a version of the question. "What's the scariest thing you've ever seen?"
News
My name's Matthew, and I'll be your host. I'm a journalist, a critic, a member of the Horror Writers Association, a fiction writer, a cinephile, a sicko, a sometime film scholar, and yet another one of those lunatics launching a newsletter. If you'