Crafting Emotional Horror with Christina Henry

In this episode, Sabrina Thatcher interviews horror and dark-fantasy author Christina Henry about her newest novel The Place Where They Buried Your Heart. Henry unpacks the book’s haunting premise—a sentient house that literally consumes children—and explores themes of grief, guilt, motherhood, community, and the evolution of a girl who carries a childhood mistake for the rest of her life. She discusses her intuitive, image-driven writing process, her long-distance-walker drafting ritual, the emotional backbone beneath horror, and the importance of reading widely. The conversation also dives into zombies, body horror, gentrification, found family, creativity, and the realities of writing in today’s publishing landscape.