Alex Grass: From Mortuary School to Weird Fiction

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONAuthor Alex Grass joins The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror, a collection held together by an intuitive cadence and a recurring uncertainty about what is real.Grass examines the unexpected connections between vanity, hunger, greed, corporate power, bodily transformation, and monstrous behavior.The conversation explores The Golden Mile, in which a resurrected dog drives Philadelphia toward collective madness, and Ever Shall They Feed, a story shaped by Grass’s familiarity with funeral homes and mortuary work.Grass also discusses the polarizing use of untranslated German, the difference between flash fiction and longer stories, and the challenge of controlling surreal imagery during revision.He explains how the collection’s illustrations were created from modified public-domain images and why he refuses to use artificial intelligence for that work.The episode also covers independent publishing, creative control, the discomfort of revisiting older work, and the decision to leave law school for writing.Grass concludes with a reading from A Woman of Distinction, featuring a five-hundred-year-old killer who considers good manners a matter of life and death.GUEST LINKSOfficial Infernal Tramps Websitehttps://www.infernaltramps.com/Dickinson Publishing Grouphttps://www.dickinsonpublishinggroup.com/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/infernaltramps/Dickinson Publishing Group on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dickinson-publishing-group-61a894425/Amazon Author Pagehttps://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B08KPKTV9RGoodreads Author Pagehttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20768021.Alex_GrassGoodreads Book Pagehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249709542-infernal-trampsAllAuthor Profilehttps://allauthor.com/author/alexgrass/Piker Press Author Pagehttps://www.pikerpress.com/author/774/alex-grassAmazon Kindle and Kindle Unlimitedhttps://www.amazon.com/Infernal-Tramps-Tales-Weird-Terror-ebook/dp/B0GSN4BX4YAmazon Paperbackhttps://www.amazon.com/Infernal-Tramps-Tales-Weird-Terror/dp/B0H3QQ2J9QBarnes and Noble Paperbackhttps://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/9781735888569Target Paperbackhttps://www.target.com/p/infernal-tramps-by-alex-grass-paperback/-/A-1012836556Stream Odd Egg on Weekly Spookyhttps://www.weeklyspooky.com/alex-grass/Stream Odd Egg on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrsdXjlnpsMStream Night of the Living Bedsheet on Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/night-of-the-living-bedsheet-by-alex-grass/id1581361592?i=1000766437331Support The Dark Mind Podcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedarkmindpodcast