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Turns out when you commit to a massive essay project that consumes your entire brain for the month of October you have a little trouble keeping up with other things. You might have noticed November was a slow month around here, because I was tuckered out and the holidays were
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I'm a little behind in posting the podcast to the newsletter because, well, my brain just basically gave out after 31 straight Halloween essays. Let's play a little catch-up, shall we? First, on Halloween week, we had writer and monster-maker Trevor Henderson on the show to
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I met Bob Pastorella, a fellow Texan horror lover, podcaster, and writer, at Ghoulish Book Fest this past spring. He pitched his novel The Small Hours to me, and we talked about vampire movies, and almost immediately Let's Scare Jessica To Death was the thing that bonded us.
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C. Robert Cargill and I have run in some of the same Austin film spaces for some time now, but we didn't actually meet until Fantastic Fest earlier this year. He was gracious enough to agree to come on the podcast, and as luck would have it, his
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I've been a fan of Talking Scared, Neil McRobert's author interview podcast, for years. To my mind it's the best show of its kind, and Neil is the best interviewer in the game at the moment. So I was thrilled, as both a listener
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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
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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&
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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.
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Listen to John Langan on the latest episode of The Scares That Shaped Us!
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The latest episode of The Scares That Shaped Us, featuring Clay McLeod Chapman, is live.