We all love a good spooky house. And most of us enjoy a terrifying home-invasion ordeal (or at least, I... more

I bite off a lot this week, in a five-way conversation with editors and contributors to the ever-so-of-the-moment anthology The... more

I’m in literary hero territory again … at least this time it’s sunny! My guest is Scarlett Thomas, the groundbreaking writer... more

Carrie White turns 50 years old today! April 5th, 1974 – the day King’s debut came out, and the world of... more

Alas, we come to the end! Stephen Graham Jones’s The Angel of Indian Lake brings the most important horror trilogy of... more

Chi-Town!! We’re heading to the midwestern metropolis this week, for a conversation with Cina Pelayo – all about murder, mystery, history... more

Never mind the floor is lava. This week the ground has teeth. Joshua Hull is our guest, to talk about his... more

Time to get liminal and haunted.  Gwendolyn Kiste comes back to Talking Scared for another high-concept twist on the Gothic. In... more

Sometimes you meet someone who just gets you. Like Tim Lebbon. A man who writes riotously good adventure-horror novels, and also... more

Back from a too-short break, but ready to delve into the greatest haunted house of them all! Shirley Jackson’s Hill... more

Yes I put sex in the title to make you download it. Did it work? It shouldn’t be necessary, ‘cos this... more

Are you hungry?  If so we have a chewy, salty, deeply flavoured feast for you this week. Ally Wilkes returns to... more

The first new book coverage of 2024 – and it starts us off on suitably horrific footing. Jenny Kiefer’s debut novel,... more

To kick off a new year of Talking Scared, I’ve gone and hooked us a big guest, with a whopper... more

Another year done. We squeaked through without another plague or a nuclear apocalypse (don’t tempt fate Neil!!) and along the... more

Dickens said that Christmas Eve was a time for ghost stories, and who am I to argue? It is my show... more

And so we come to the end of another year in horror. Time to look back at the best that... more

We’re going up in the world this week – longitudinally and latitudinally, with the GOAT of endurance, adventure Gothic, Michelle... more

Last time Gemma Amor came on the show we had a good ol’ chinwag about our haunted brains. This time... more

We’ve had Cowboys versus Aliens but have you ever considered a threeway fight between gunslingers, vampires and weird cosmic cultists... more

Sometimes two words can make a jaded horror reader sit up straight.  Ghost is one, Dinosaur is another. Ghost. Dinosaur. Have you ever... more

Horror is about finding light in darkness. That’s the mission statement of this podcast, at least. And it’s never been truer... more

History is haunted. Ghosts are injustice persevering. So many horror stories hinge on that idea, but for Tananarive Due it’s more... more

Sometimes when you’re doing something scary good company can be a blessing.  Nat Cassidy is good company. And this week he... more

Some stories are just too big for one podcast. Some stories should be too big for one book.  Sam Rebelein’s Edenville... more

Some stories are too short, some are too long, but some stories are just right. It’s the Goldilocks zone: the... more

This week is a special roundtable episode. An exciting, challenging and very very thought-provoking tour of contemporary Black horror, in... more

Come home!! We have to come home!! The House is calling us. Yep, this week we are going back to the... more

This week on Talking Scared we are joining hands with Chuck Wendig to take the fight to Big Fruit. They... more

Clay McLeod Chapman returns to Talking Scared to answer some serious questions, the first being what the holy f**k Clay?! Clay... more