The Mad Ghoul Sessions 001 - Justin Beahm

Welcome to the very first installment of The Mad Ghoul Sessions, a new Mad Ghoul Radio series featuring long-form conversations with the filmmakers, musicians, writers, collectors, haunters and creative minds who shape the horror community and preserve its history.In this first installment, I sit down with filmmaker, journalist, author, podcaster and Phantom Lightkeeper musician Justin Beahm.Justin has spent his career digging beneath the surface of the films we love—preserving the voices of actors, filmmakers, effects artists and craftspeople through his work with Reverend Entertainment. We talk horror history, physical media, collecting, disappearing roadside attractions, Roadside Memories, and the responsibility that comes with documenting stories before they vanish.Then the conversation moves somewhere much more personal.Justin takes us inside the making of the new Phantom Lightkeeper album, Four Days at the Precipice. The record began during four isolated days at a remote cabin while he was experiencing a serious health condition. After returning home, undergoing emergency surgery and facing his own mortality, Justin went back to those recordings and finished one of the most personal works of his career.The episode also opens with “Francesca Woodman’s Camera,” my favorite track from the new Phantom Lightkeeper album, Four Days at the Precipice—a haunted, slow-burning piece filled with atmosphere, distortion and more than a few textures that sent my Nine Inch Nails–obsessed brain into overdrive.And don't worry, this isn’t a standard press interview. It’s two friends talking about horror, music, art, grief, survival, memory and the strange need some of us have to save the things we love before they disappear.Turn down the lights.Welcome to The Mad Ghoul Sessions.